For sure - I often learned more about a subject from the comments than the article, or was introduced to new movies, bands, etc.
IIRC the reason G/O switched to Kinja is because the owner at some point owned the IP. As long as Kinja didn’t go with the sale, which I would doubt, they should be free to choose a decently functional comment system.
Where you live impacts whether or not a small film will show up in a theater near you, but I only clicked on this to see if it’s streaming or not. And oddly enough, the answer to where and when you can see this is in the article, at the end. The answer is nowhere and maybe some day, unless you live near Lincoln…
I see a paywall for comments coming, and I don’t think I’ll be taking that particular plunge. On the one hand, it at least would make the trolls pay for their weird pathos, if they wanted to stick around.
I don’t know what the cost aspect is, but I’d be totally fine if they just went back to Disqus. It’s simple enough, easy to follow threads, basic upvotes if that’s your thing, block functions, etc.
Agreed. Maybe getting rid of slideshows is the first step in getting things back to being somewhat respectable. Of course, I saw Paste is relaunching Splinter, which I’m curious to see how that turns out. Will it be full of comments about the actual articles/topics like when it started, or will it be like it was at…
I don’t recall hearing that before either and it makes complete sense. I miss the days when NBC had a can’t-miss comedy night and AV Club had a great TV review section. It was a lot of fun to read every Thursday/Friday.
it’s 2024 i’m reading an av club newswire about joel mchale and chevy chase fighting on the set of community
Sure but using the word “snubbed” gets clicks.
comment/username synergy.
Damn right you do. You also hate Shane Gillis. You hear me?!
As the bodies descend into the waters beneath them
Or you know, a post-credit scene with Samuel L Jackson: “I’m putting together a team of... True Detectives.”
I’ve noticed this too. Ennis seems to be shorthand for the North Slope but without the established infrastructure of the actual North Slope. I’ve been amazed that Ennis has half the things it does. A very modern mining home office, an addiction treatment center (?!?), a shockingly modern-looking police HQ. It’s like…
A bit odd too that the mine corporate office (at least what looks like it) is in the town itself. Mining corporate offices are almost always located in a major center. Any mining office in a place like Ennis would be a small field office, likely even modular trailers. Certainly not the ultra modern architecture that…
It was freak avalanche! You know, the kind where you take all your clothes off when you see it headed your way.
“but I love that there’s a protest/riot in this tiny alaskan town, and some of the cops are in riot gear beating up protestors, but some of the other cops are just chilling at home and have no idea what’s going on? really??”
it’ll turn out the caves, station and town are all built over an old native-american cemetary.... but they never moved the bodies!!
We knew Hank was shady but multiple murder cover-ups feels like a swift about-face for the sad sack we last saw nursing his broken heart with an Elf rewatch.