Phase 4 gets a lot of hate but honestly, I feel like folks don’t remember Phase I or II. Like the idea MoM is worse than TtDW or IM2 is kinda hilarious. 

I dunno. I’ve enjoyed Phase IV because it reminds me of the Bronze Age comics that got me into Marvel. No apparent masterplan, just a lot of shambolic weirdness mixed with nostalgia for older days.

I think it was genuinely just them striking gold with Iron Man and then just grinning and bearing it through the middling films until Avengers stuck the landing.

Really beginning to think that the MCU’s phenomenal success, like that of Star Wars in the ‘70s and ‘80s, is a fluke that cannot be repeated by any other studio, no matter how hard they try, and that any such efforts are doomed to failure or at the very least a very distant second-place status. 

james cameron never moralizes about guns unless it’s in interviews, and i’m critical of that contradiction. that’s all this story is. i don’t ever give my opinion on avatar at all. i don’t say whether or not i like it. this is a blog about james cameron’s artistic vision vs what he said. that’s it.

that is my point here. he said ‘i don’t like nukes’ and then made a movie where nukes are bad. he followed through. 

stanley kubrick never said, with his whole chest ‘i don’t like guns, really’ and then made a movie where the good guys get all the guns to kill the other guys with the guns

we’re not frazzled, just tired. why would a big budget movie making big bucks frazzle us?? that’s literally a wednesday around here.

if you’re prone to these, ANYTHING can set them off. Friend of mine dislocates his shoulder regularly and did it once...throwing a dart. Which barely even moves the shoulder at all, but it was the thing that did it, and pop, out it went. 

Well yeah of course there are gonna be tensions between Spiddermen and The Joke, they’re mortal enemies!

I hear spitting in your hand helps with that

mmm, friction.

Weird, the GOP has been telling me for years that the wealthy are virtuous and benevolent.

If I hear one more person say “don’t bet against James Cameron”...

The comedy is either just as good as, or exponentially greater than, the cryptocomedies that preceded this one. And the next one will be just as great, or even funnier than this one. Cryptocrashes will never not be funny, it’s such a financial fantasyland their crashes don’t even have an effect on the broader markets.

And so it begins....the biggest of them all approaches Death Star status.

I can’t decide if this one is going to be just as hilarious as all the previous ones, or even more hilarious.  I have definitely ruled out the possibility of it being less hilarious, though.

A stablecoin is just hilarity on hilariousness. “We’re going to make our own currency far away from all that stupid government interference and regulation...but peg the value to that stupid government anyway. For reasons.”

All the crypto exchanges are going to collapse. The vast majority of coins “minted” are backed by absolutely nothing, and are not produced by mining. They literally just make up a name and put it on the exchange.

He'd sell us out to Skynet/The Matrix in a heartbeat if they promised to make him a cyborg.