Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb say that was maybe a little too far over the top.

I really enjoyed Wes Craven’s A New Nightmare. I bring that up because it was more grounded (relatively speaking) and they toned the comedy and shtick down quite a bit.

Really, I think it’s less about the jokes as much as personality.…

The laser light looked like one of those scan guns you use in retail to scan inventory, or at a register. It seemed almost more like that; not a weaponized laser but more like it was a robotic doll that was scanning the child for information.

And yes, I think there has to be a bit of a balance. I’m not sure it has to…

This may be the worst take I’ve ever seen.

Ah. I may have been misquoting a music teacher from >20 years ago or thinking of a different anti-semitic composer and misattributed it to Wagner. But yes, my history was off here.

I think it’s fine to like Deafheaven. They’re more of a weird Shoegaze/Blackmetal/Pop amalgamation, but they also have the advantage of being really, really good. I don’t know the other two (I’ve heard of them, but I am still fairly novice in the Black Metal scene).

I still like straight-up Black Metal, although some…

Thanks for the suggestion, that sounds pretty fun! I’m a fan of knowing the whole story, and playing those on the Wii as lightgun shooters sounds like a lot of fun too! I’ll definitely add that to the list.

Having never played the original Resident Evil games (I was more of a Silent Hill fan and somehow never got into Resident Evil until RE:4), is there a best starting point? I have a PS4, FWIW. Is there an optimal version of RE:1 to look out for available on the PS4? For that matter, should I start with RE:1 before…

^ You’re not wrong. I guess I like establishing a new character so it wasn’t forced to fit into the already established backstory. That seems boring to me for the same reason as any retelling of an already established character a/o their backstory notes seems boring. It’s that lack of creativity you alluded to.

That…

If you cannot see the relevance, that is perhaps your problem more than mine. I am just going to go back to ignoring you.

Hey identity and difference, I think this encapsulates the recurring banter recognitions has with others quite a bit.

Who’s Stan?

While it’s a bit cute you think you are the only one with a formal education, and you spiced it up with memes and gifs, this is an important topic. Your derision over grammar or implied superiority over the rest of us may make you feel better about yourself. If you need that, then that is a little sad. Or maybe you…

But you happen to know Person X was actually a Neeson family member, huh? Do go on, Mr. Receipts.

Presumably when that “new information” comes out— some [insert-PG-13-racial-epithet-here] may be lying on the ground dead or, y’know, just lying in a hospital.

Many of her sarcastic questions are actually answered in the article and transcripts/ recordings of the interview (I heard this line of questioning on XM this morning). Liam’s basically asked whether or not he can identify with the anger/ desire for revenge that many of his characters go through (hence why his story…

If we’re giving him the benefit of a doubt, I think he was perhaps just being honest. He could have carefully chosen his words, but I think his initial gut reaction was both racist and horrible, and probably pretty not all that uncommon.

if by consent you mean just sort of whipping it out in front of the women. But I guess we’re going with the “if they didn’t want it they would have left”

I simply pointed out that the Joker meets the same criteria he put forth. (The implicit argument being that maybe it is more than just what he is claiming.)

To play devil’s advocate, the same claims (don’t know their motivation, or their background, etc.) can be made against the Joker in TDK and yet that was one of the things that made his character even more compelling.