My biggest problem with RPO is Cline never seemed to truly settle on the sentiment that the Oasis was a legitimate replacement for reality or if reality itself was still something worth caring about. The book reads like he constantly was on the edge of actually going into all the problems with the Oasis but it just…

I still regularly mourn the lost of Don't Trust the B….

So I did a double take when I saw this was cancelled because I could have sworn it was cancelled years ago. I haven't heard anyone mention this show either online or offline since its first season.

Funny that you mention Bolano, I just started reading 2666 a few days ago.

That album is basically a religious experience for me now. Far and away my favorite thing released last year.

I finally got around to listening to Ryan Adam's Heartbreaker, fairly removed from my usual tastes but it really struck me. "Come Pick Me Up" in particular really hits me with where I am in life right now. I think it's a new personal favorite. I want to listen to the rest of his discography but I've heard it's fairly…

He's one of my favorite authors for how he portrays isolation and human relationships in general but I agree with the sentiment that he's kind of overrated in the west. He does tend to explore the same topics a lot and his protagonists all start to get kinda same-y after you've read enough of him. Also agree with the…

I'll listen to this entire playlist while drinking Cutty Sark, it's the only truly authentic Murakami Method.

I spent far more time trying to get back to the school than I care to admit before learning you can warp between wards. I was thinking the time how bitterly realistic it was.

Ever notice the comments on the FB link to an AVC article tend to be significantly more volatile than the userbase on the actual articles? I'll never understand.

It's nice that we're seeing a surge of high profile projects from Japanese developers lately, there was a serious dryspell for awhile.

Considered Chicago on the list but Chicagoan pride always feels like it has less hubris than the others I named. I'm chalking this up to socioeconomic factors. I've never known anyone from Austin but I've heard stories from Texan friends and other than SXSW, I can't think of too many examples of Austin being a big…

To be fair, given how much people from New York love to mention they're from New York, American media's obsession with New York almost seems rational. Only people from LA, Seattle, and Portland come close to matching New Yorkers' obsession with their city.

I tried to watch it last year after all the praise I've heard for ages and I think your assessment in on point, that kind of subversive humor that was big until about 09 or so really hasn't held up.

Apparently his adaption of The Disaster Artist is getting great reviews, not sure what it says about Franco that directing and starring in a film about/as the infamous Tommy Wiseau may be the zenith of his career.

This idea honestly gets funnier every year. Are there even dedicated Avatar fans like Cameron seems to believe there are? Even among people who liked the first film, I don't see a huge desire for a franchise. It'll be a decade since the first film soon and who the fuck still talks about Avatar besides James Cameron?

I'm kind of curious if they can ever create anything as terrible as Raditude again. About half a year ago, I listened to every Weezer album from start to finish for the sake of having a definitive personal opinion on where Weezer got bad and despite a lot of lows (honestly, most of the middle period is more just…

Not a huge metal guy but i have to back this line of thinking. AVClub's focus on subcultures and niches they've never really given a fuck about before because neo nazi navelgazing= clickbait is getting a tad too self-righteous/condescending. And like you said, this isn't something that's unaddressed in the community…

Yeah, a lot of my friends that are more into online gaming than me use Discord and like….it's more just a Skype alternative, since Skype has been barely functiong garbage since Microsoft purchased it, than anything. The idea that anything on this list besides the obvious alt-right relevant/exclusive memes have been…

It feels weird having stuff like Feelsman (this has been a thing long before 4chan and Tumblr took up political arms), Discord and Baneposting which aren't even really strongly alligned with the alt-right with stuff like 1488, the echoes thing, and the term cuck on the same list.