Definitely not HDTGM since Middleditch is in it.  The Flop House, however, will likely be all over it.

Yeah, I did a bit of a minor double take when he said, “no blood;” if anything, it was the original films that really emphasized the Stormtroopers as little more than endless legions of cannon fodder. There were more than a few fan theories in Ye Olden Days about whether or not they were just robots or cyborgs or…

Ronald M has to be the bottiest bot who ever botted.  Wow.

...long time.

Agreed, though I’m still forever trapped in the greys despite my vast, vast, vast...VAST AV Club posting history.  Thanks for nothin’, Univision!

I get what you’re saying, and agree that many comments sections just automatically end up with pretty large and/or vocal segments of shitheads no matter what...but at the same time, this is a pretty clear case of a site actively fostering (or at least clearly not giving a fuck at all about) a barely sub-4chan-level of…

“Remember, it wasn’t that long ago that Drew Magary called LeBron James a cocksucker. I don’t know how he feels, but I sincerely doubt that he would use those words today if he were back and writing (Get well, Drew).”

Fortunately, he told us!

Maybe the dude worth approximately $100 million dollars can and should just...go away.

I don’t understand the ongoing narrative of how rich men like him “need” to be redeemed, or having multiple “second” chances.

I am genuinely baffled by the seemingly insane (in both size and behavior) legion of devoted fans this just OK basketball player has. If it was 8 damn years ago, OK; it would still be creepy as hell, but it would at least make a BIT more sense....but it’s fucking 2019, and this guy still has scores of people…

There’s gotta be a blog or something out there that catalogs terrible, dated sports magazine cover takes. There’s decades’ worth of ammunition.

If it was that weird old timey setup where there’s spectators in the outfield for whatever reason? Forget inside the park; he’d smash 100 straight up no-doubter dongs.

Sure, one of the signs of the obsessive, possessive and abusive relationship he had with her.  *Sigh*  Whatta man!

Why wouldn’t his own account also count as evidence?

“Presumed innocence” in the context we’re discussion is simply public opinion as to who or what they believe. Nobody’s under obligation to simply presume someone is innocent outside of a court of law.

Personally, I think Tyson’s own account at the very least shows…

Right; these are extraordinary circumstances, so when people act like, “oh, ANYONE’S career could be ruined by these sorts of accusations,” it’s nonsense. The whole context of “this type” of accusation is wrapped up in the fame of a public figure, and the bizarre world that inhabits. (That said, my hypothetical should…

They can impact my opinion in terms of, say, Hardwick’s time at AMC; I have little doubt that they were looking to cover their asses in that regard, and it sounds like Hardwick is someone who, in some ways, did try to really get parts of life turned around or changed. By the time he got to AMC, maybe he wasn’t the…

Quibble over the semantics and call it whatever want; the account/testimony of the victim is evidence.

And if that’s not some kind of evidence by your standards, then what is?

“An investigation” is a loaded and broad way to put it. In Hardwick’s case, they might have done little beyond, “did Hardwick do anything like this or talk about while working at AMC? No? OK, we’re good.” To act like it’s even remotely a given that it amounted to anything more than that (if even that) is giving it too…

Testimony’s not evidence?

“everyone complained they didn’t try hard enough.”