I used to think that until politicians started getting gunned down ... they would do nothing. Now it’s “rich old white dudes”.

How did we get Jordan Hoffman reviewing this film? I miss when this site was good and the writers actually cared about things.

Davidson’s goodbye was two minutes to long, like his five minutes of fame.

Seconding this. And I will say, that even when he didn’t like something on which I disagreed, it was always interesting reading his review. (Best example was his pan of Wet Hot American Summer, which he wrote in the style of “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah.” 

Ebert as a TV “thumbs up/thumbs down” guy maybe wasn’t that great and I often disagreed with him (but not as much as with Siskel who comically hated nearly every genre movie but loved even the most pretentious art film). But Ebert’s written reviews (for which he rightfully won a Pulitzer) were excellent and still…

What are the goofy parts, goober?

In what way was the original Silent Hill goofy (outside of the silly, non-canonical secret endings that weren’t part of the actual gameplay)? The only thing I can think of is the slightly off-kilt voice acting, but in reality - whether intentional or not (I believe it was entirely intentional in SH2) - slightly wonky…

My dude saw Eddie from SH2 and thought was a goofy game with its goofy characters, and that perception didn’t change throught the whole game

I work in data science (i.e., I do machine learning work, including pattern matching), and have previously worked in fraud detection where looking for this type of rule evasion is a major effort. If you think it’s easy, you are either massively overestimating the current state of the art of pattern matching, or are…

That’s not “ironic”. 

i don’t care. 

I can say it didn’t look much like the trailer in the article, but I haven’t seen whatever other clips have been released on tiktok. I’d say it’s “highly probable” that the developer saw a chance to get some articles written to promote his game, whether or not it actually influenced the scene in the film.

Holy shit. Every time I think the AV Club’s quality has hit rock bottom, I see something like this.

That would have been something ideal for the AV Club to have included in this no-byline hack job.

Those would be the things left out by the AV Club write-up. I don’t know why they’d include “was a weird creep in a hot tub” and leave out the stalking, but their editorial decisions have been iffy for a while.

These complaints feel like they’re conflating being a gross dude with being a “predator,” unless someone is leaving out pretty major stuff.

This was an abuse of power and gross misconduct, but this was not grooming. Everyone involved was an adult at the time. Grooming, by definition, is something an adult does to a minor. Stop infantalizing yourselves. 

There isn’t a political justification or legal excuse for firing on unarmed people, especially when the murderer went far out of their way to be in that situation in the first place. He may have been acquitted but he's guilty as sin and you damn well know it.

She’s referring to ‘people’ in the general sense, i.e. Society, and in that regard, yes, the comparison is apt. That you’re here whining about semantics in a story in which an innocent woman lost her life only adds credibility to her point. Sometimes contrarianism just makes you an asshole.

And I’m sure a bunch of respectable upstanding Germans supported the Nazi war effort without outright wanting to murder Jews. Point is, men often face little to no actual real world repercussions for domestic violence up to and including murder. The result is abused women aren’t just facing that abuse from their…