Hotline Miami is an intense game to watch the person sitting next to you on the airplane playing

The original Wasteland game has a lot of personality. I can’t say I stuck with it for long because the interface is as weird as it is archaic, but the modern-day sequels are excellent. I was impressed with how well the devs (as well as the ones who made Divinity: Original Sin) were able to streamline and update the…

Hades is incredible but it’s arguably my least favorite Supergiant game. It really is just a roguelite retread of Bastion (which, to be fair, is more or less a perfect game), but one of Bastion’s greatest strengths was its restraint. The main game was the exact right length. The challenge content allowed the player to…

Hmm. You’re ceding a lot of ground to the accused without any evidence either way. You’re planting seeds of doubt about whether the sex they had was consensual, arguing that it was some kind of BDSM play. Why are you volunteering your time as a freelance reputation management agency for a man you don’t know for a…

That’s literally the opposite of what they said

Also it’s 2023 and I think we all know that not getting convicted for a crime doesn’t mean you didn’t commit the crime

There’s some funny ambiguity in the letter, where she tells the writer that she doesn’t want to date coworkers and then the next detail is her saying that she hopes he takes the hint. I think he meant what Dan thought he meant, but it could be read as “I don’t want to date coworkers, HINT HINT. [walks away] God he’s…

That’s not true at all. The vast majority of instances of rape and sexual assault occur in situations where people are familiar with each other, are intoxicated, or are in some romantic or sexual situation that involves blurry lines, poor communication, and lack of consent. That’s not rape apologia, it’s an…

Randall, ungray me please! Be my champion!

I agree and found the reviewers’ hand-wringing at the end of the last season incredibly disrespectful to rape survivors. I understand that all pop culture critics have turned themselves into societal critics, but there aren’t very many critics who have made the transition successfully (and unfortunately none of…

And so very relevant to this show...

He said that the lords of Westeros would have an easier time following a male ruler, which is 100% in line with the misogynist medieval world. I would also think they would rather be ruled by a Westerosi instead of another interloping Targaryen.

Lol, I was quoting this scene the entire time. “This cloak is really chafing me. I don’t believe it, now this jerkin is chafing!” He even took off two layers of clothing. I was like, “Brienne is not going to fall for these sophomore year shenanigans,” but she totally did.

A little fan service? It is 99% fan service at this point and it is fucking ridiculous. Every single thing the fans have wanted has come true, even if it makes no damn sense and pushes aside any surprising or even interesting potential plot developments.

Fridging is killing female characters to advance male characters’ motivation. It’s a common trope that points towards weak, misogynist writing.

I just rewatched season one, where Tyrion and Shae and Bronn play the exact same Never Have I Ever-style drinking game. That scene is a master class in writing. Shae gives hostile/evasive rebuttals to Tyrion’s assumptions that she is just a stereotypical whore. She never tips her hand, giving her this power and…

Does he only turn boys into White Walkers, or are boys the only infants Craster gave to the Night King so he could maintain his incestual harem?

Before Armando Iannucci went into the profane political comedy business he was the Larry David of the sitcom I’m Alan Partridge and had his own sketch show, the Armando Iannucci Shows. IAP is a classic example of lightly cringy British character comedy, while the sketch show is full of extremely goofy high-concept…

A summary judgment is when a judge dismisses a case if there is no need for a trial because from a legal standpoint there is nothing to discuss. Like if everyone agrees on the facts or there are no factual disputes, or it’s obvious that there is no basis for a trial.

I tried to read it after Sandman / Lucifer / Swamp Thing, having heard that Y is one of the greatest comic series. It wasn’t. It has an interesting premise but it isn’t explored in any meaningful way. It felt like Tank Girl meets The Walking Dead, but not funny or dark or anything enough.