This seems like an odd position for him to take when it’s easier to create a film than it’s ever been and he’s actively railing against the distribution methods that allow those films to be easily seen.

I suspect that part of the problem is that both high- and low-culture are vanishing into the ever-expanding middle-brow center. Comics may have been lowbrow, at least when Jack Kirby was at his prime, but the MCU is not. The glossy production values and ready-made lessons of the Marvel movies have little to do with…

Oh no, he’s the kind of Libertarian who thinks that the idea of systemic injustice is nefarious groupthink rather than a commonplace observation. These dudes have a knack for outwitting themselves to the extent that anything they say is in good faith.

Gotta hope. I didn’t expect D3 to be such a great couch game, but here we are. I never want to go back. 

Well!

My earliest memory of him is when he repeatedly bullied Chelsea Clinton - who was 12 or 13 at the time - by referring to her as the White House dog. More than once.

I just started this game, on the strength of this article, and it fucking owns. 

Seriously, was this written by an AI robot or something?

These assholes. There may be some merit to their claims that scalping is capitalism as usual, but so what? The service they provide is to ensure that people with plenty of disposable income are not subject to luck in the same way as people with moderate amounts of disposable income. Insulating the rich from mundane…

This is the way.

Has this system appeared in a game since the Mordor sequel? I keep thinking this system - or even some of its single components - would be a fun addition to other games and even other genres. But it doesn’t seem like other developers have even tried to riff on the idea.

I’m an English teacher. And I think that many of the canonical novels fall victim to their own classic status. Faced with something like Gatsby, students feel the distance between its cultural prestige and the breezy, sordid romance in front of them. The actual novel becomes a barrier to this thing they’ve been…

Been a Resident Evil fan from the beginning, and while I was initially skeptical of VII, I ended up loving it in the end. Definitely not my favorite RE game, but I really dug the fresh take that almost felt like it was in a different universe save for a couple subtle callbacks and the Umbrella/Chris reveal at the end.

what cat and mouse gameplay? the people that stalk you occasionally? they work exactly like Mr. X and Nemesis in the old games. when you run into them fill them will bullets and they’ll leave you alone until the next scripted moment when they have to appear.

The first time I heard his name, I thought it was just a tool. “Do they have a different kind? Why?” In hindsight, that’s about right.

Wow, Fincher’s response is a masterclass in emotional intelligence. I guess I’m so used to today’s endless, vapid Twitter bitchslaps that I wasn’t expecting it.

I’m slowly making my way through Valhalla, but I might take a break this weekend to finish up Mortal Shell. It’s not as polished as the mainline Souls games, but what I played before was really satisfying.

News of the assault on the Capitol broke when I was teaching a remote high-school class. Being reassuring and terrified at the same time is my new least favorite thing.

I question Mank being on this list at all. I really do!

...where’s Mulan?