They got advanced degrees? I thought that was a bad thing for these hate-filled mouthbreathers. 

I appreciate this as a good bit of writing. But with respect:

Sorry to be That Guy, but what has happened to the editing process at Kotaku as of late? Is it G/O cuts? Kinja jank? Both? So many pieces get published lately where you scan it for 30 seconds and you’re like oh wow, this is completely scuffed.

Imagine if every “Thug #4" on a set held back filming for an hour because they were handed a prop gun and wanted to double-check for themselves. It’s just not feasible or realistic for every actor to be responsible, and it’s also a level of expertise they’re not going to have and you don’t want amateurs mucking up the…

And you think that class would cover every type of gun that you might come across on a set?

Safety rules require that if an actor does open the gun, it has to go back to the armorer. No one on set wants a non-expert ‘checking’ the paid expert’s job.

Baldwin might be partially responsible for the unsafe set as a whole, but he is not fucking responsible for not checking up on the armorer. That was the AD’s job…

I disagree completely.

The point is that everybody has a job on a movie set, and checking the props isn’t the actor’s job. It never has been, and it shouldn’t be.

None of those are dummies. Dummies are indistinguishable from live rounds. That’s the point. They’re meant to be seen on camera. A dummy round is just a live round with no powder or primer. 

“Murphy’s struggles parallel Spears’s, right down to the widespread ridicule of her marriage to a grifter and the grotty “I told you so”s that came after Spears’s 2008 and Murphy’s 2009 death”

hold up

yeah but these kids weren’t at those shows before

The games aren’t MCU-related. Whether it’s MUA3 or Insomniac’s Spider-man.

That story could have been four or five paragraphs long. Bad form the including it - but even worse form making it the first story.

I posted a comment asking people not include too many extraneous details, and someone strongly disagreed with me and said the details made them feel like the story was real and verifiable. After reading the first story, I stand by my opinion. I did not need 10 paragraphs(!) of exposition explaining how newspaper…

I think the extraneous details were meant to make it feel more “real” but instead I was rolling my eyes at how fake it felt. You remember all that shit from 35 years ago?

I couldn’t bring myself to read it all. Lengthy...

That first story sure didn’t read the comment about extraneous details, Christ.

Your obsession with “being held accountable” is... odd. But if you’re worried about it, you should worry much more about being held accountable for the harm that will be done to them if they get COVID, or they spread it.

Diversity is indeed great. But, being supportive of “diverse” thoughts that lead to unnecessary deaths exceeds the boundaries of what’s acceptable. But you know that.

Idiotically, the “vaccine hasn’t been tested enough” people are afraid of vaccines that were tested on like 40k people (now hundreds of millions have taken it with no ill effect), yet the original (retracted) Andrew Wakefield study claimed 8 of 12 kids got autism from the MMR vaccine. A sample size of 12! 12! And the…