Great, meaning large or immense

It’s referenced at the end of the second paragraph.

I basically can’t watch Aliens because I played so much Starcraft. When I tried to watch Aliens for the first time, I realized how many of the unit vocalizations were ripped directly from the movie, and it was too distracting to get past.

And twist-based storytelling is the last thing I think of when I think of Ted Chiang. If anything, he pays more attention to the emotional effects of the premise than other works do.

Ken Liu did a great job translating his parts of the series; I slightly enjoyed his translations more than the work on The Dark Forest.

Wasn’t pizza rat a hoax / art project? This smells even more so like one.

Also: Westworld has a tendency to be obtuse, even for simple things. I still don’t understand the “What is reality? / That which is irreplaceable” thing.

What languages does the virus speak and how fast it?

Cinnamint rolls

I started skipping Big Macs and instead getting double quarter-pounders, without ketchup, with mac sauce + slivered onions + shredduce. 

I swear, the only people who hate liberals more than conservatives are other liberals. No wonder we can never seem to get ahead. I wish my side had some more solidarity and was less of a purity contest.

Wasn’t this the show where Patton Oswalt deliberately acted slack-jawed in the backgrounds of a whole episode just to show that the show didn’t matter? Somehow I don’t see that playing on Seinfeld, The Simpsons, or any other shows that exhibited any sort of craftsmanship.

_Auntie Bellam_

I definitely most remember him from The Square, and specifically Elizabeth Moss trying to (spoiler alert) get him to hand over his used condom. I was rolling on the floor.

The “no successful socialist countries” comment is the combination of ignorance and bluster that I’ll never understand.

The Coens write great narration. I think Bad Santa is one of the few director’s cuts that’s worse than the original, mostly because it removes the narration.

I feel like I’ve seen this guy in a movie or two, but I can’t for the life of me put my finger on them. He certainly has an interesting face. (I think it was Layer Cake.)

As much as I love both iterations of What We Do In The Shadows, I’d rather see a 1st Waititi Star War than a 2nd Thor or a 3rd+ Shadows.

I’ve (honestly) heard that the 7-Elevens in Japan can’t be missed.

Cheer was a great series. I wish the AVClub were able to review more shows like that. I used to discover a lot of stuff on this site, and I feel like that’s less and less the case.