Genuinely curious: has there been a study of how much of a driver the Rotten Tomatoes score actually is? I mean that’s going to be a tricky one to tease apart the causality, but I am skeptical that there are a bunch of movies that would have been so popular if only Rotten Tomatoes wasn’t keeping people away from the…

I’m really not sure what you mean. I saw lots of bad reviews of Ghostbusters and as long as they criticized the movie on it’s merits (or lack thereof) and didn’t try to do some ridiculous “like people are saying women just can’t be funny” crap I didn’t see anyone get raked over the coals. I’m sure there was some…

I mean, by most standards the movie was a financial success, but by the “we want to be as successful as the most successful Marvel movies” it isn’t. Blaming Rotten Tomatoes for that rather than accepting that many people (reviewers and audience alike) did not like a lot of the choices does not bode well for actually…

Guess I shouldn’t have watched Lucy (which really ruined me, as that was an awful movie).

Sure, but who are you trying to convince here? If you just want to have a good laugh in the echo chamber, go for it. If you want any chance of actually reaching anyone who might be having second thoughts about Trump and all they see are insults about personal appearance, that plays right into “oh, both sides are the…

Man, that is a pretty punchable face.

Is there evidence that Gorsuch is anti first amendment? That is news to me and would be wildly out of line with the rest of the supreme court (both liberal and conservative). I am wary of many things Gorsuch might support; anti-sedition laws are not one of them.

Yes, they do have to deal with it, but I think the point is that “he has small hands, his hair is bad, he tapes his tie, his clothes don’t fit” while all accurate, and kind of funny, are fine when he’s a reality TV star, but are kind of distracting when we should be focusing on the legitimately horrible things that…

Just wanted to say I’ve been loving the hell out of this and *especially* the History Matters podcast. That one in particular has been the first time I’ve been able to start to understand how what I’d consider otherwise reasonable people could vote for Trump.

I can’t even...are you seriously saying that somehow Filipinos today are in anyway analogous to African Americans in the 1930s? You are either trolling or willfully ignorant. See Somhairie’s post (in the grays) for more proof than is necessary to show that somehow the fear of black people did not disappear in the…

Then you would know that the point of a mic drop is that you don’t get to say anything else, like you just did, because you DROPPED THE GODDAM MICROPHONE. If you are going to mic drop, that means you need to subsequently shut the hell up.

Right, that’s what I thought, but if the student bothered to correct the spelling, wouldn’t you expect them to also explain what it meant? I mean given that it’s not anything dirty, just kind of dismissive.

It’s odd that she was involved enough in this to correct the spelling but that she couldn’t or wasn’t asked to explain what it meant (though to be fair maybe she tried and the teacher was just like “....i don’t know what you are talking about....”). Seriously, there are a lot of layers to explain to a non-gamer.

Also his appearances on clueless gamer with Conan O’Brien, where he keeps getting invited back whenever they have NFL guys on. I would seriously watch a series that’s just “Marshawn and Gronk do things”.

Weird. I’ve never seen that stuff be anything more interesting or dangerous than mildly soapy water...

Perhaps rather than thinking “I need to fix this” his motivation is “I need to be the one to get rich the next time this bullshit happens and screw everyone else.” That sounds a lot more rational (if also sociopathic).

I’ve had google log me out in the middle of a hangout, so it wouldn’t shock me if it logged out right when I opened something (though I like to think I’d be suspicious).

I’d also point people who really want to dig into this stuff to the games of Volko Rohnke (who is mentioned in the article). Labyrinth: The War on Terror and the ensuing COIN games (which explore asymmetric conflicts/counterinsurgencies across a number of theatres and times) are amazing (though not for the faint of…

Well personally I’m *glad* that Trump saved my village from Portuguese marauders.