I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. We shouldn’t have principles because Netflix is too big and powerful?

Great, but we’ve already decided we’re going to cancel Netflix for the duration of the strike, especially since their public position is “fuck the writers, we’ll work around them by stockpiling scripts and buying foreign content.”

Yeah, I was really much more concerned with whether they’d have Chris Sanders voice Stitch than I was with the fact that all these live-action Disney remakes are totally devoid of any cultural function. “Brand deposit,” folks.

I’ve seen U.S. Marshals probably more than anything not by Pixar, because I worked at the campus computer store in college and they had a demo Mac that was playing that movie on a loop for some reason. I didn’t see all of the movie in a row, but I definitely saw every scene at least fifty times.

I’m not a comics reader, so I’ll take your word for it, but for my part bringing back Nat in the MCU by way of “oh that wasn’t really her” would come off, to me, as not playing fair with the audience.

That’s the thing that bugs me the most. People see a handful of outputs from an LLM and are like “oh my god, it writes like a human!” but if you keep looking at their output, you very quickly start to see patterns, and the contours of the space the LLM can generate stuff in becomes evident. LLMs still can’t create…

“the haters were just the start of the internet turning on a franchise.”

Shut up, The Meg 2!

I hope he gets to see Montana!

Presumably, sure. And Marvel could certainly come up with a plausible in-world explanation for why that person did that, and why Nat wasn’t really Nat, etc. But the major problem remains that it would undermine the audience’s emotional connection to the character and event. We all had emotions about Nat dying, and to…

*checks item off bucket list*

It’d be weird for a Skrull impostor to sacrifice themselves on Vormyr, for a couple of reasons: It’d drastically undercut the impact and meaning of Nat sacrificing herself (oh it wasn’t actually her, it was just some random Skrull?), not to mention having to explain why such a person would bother going to all that…

Here’s a list of movies we watched while high that were wonderful experiences. As someone else said, this is a supremely idiosyncratic topic, so YMMV:

Oh come on, why is it always worse than Hitler? Why can’t someone just be exactly as bad as Hitler? This Hitlerflation is going to run the modern discourse.

It seems like by now we should have come up with a solid bit of rhetoric for elucidating the difference between something that actually makes fun of racists, and something that merely thinks it’s making fun of racists. I don’t doubt that in a lot of cases, artists behind such things actually do think they’re making…

It’s my most fervent hope that in about 20 years, Gen Z looks back at their childhood love affair with streaming “personalities” like this and develops an alcohol problem to cope with it.

The rotting carcass of Richard Nixon would be better than Trump or DeSantis.

Given that the oil industry used its unfathomable power to lie to the public for decades, directly leading to the avoidable early deaths of millions of people (not to mention the incalculable environmental damage, which still might potentially lead to the end of civilization), just getting a pipeline blown up is the le…

Yeah, I like her character the most, probably. She’s the least predictable. I think Vella Lovell is killing it, though; I’m so accustomed to her as Heather from CXG, and Emily is utterly different and she’s amazing.

Yeah, I’d bet money they had meetings talking about what they could do instead of cops. Amusingly, McHale’s character is an ex-cop!