Simu is definitely justified in what he says, no matter the reality of the situation. He doesn’t even sound pissed, IMO—to me it’s simply a powerful assertion that no matter what the business decision is, the movie still matters in more ways than just the bottom line.

If it wasn’t clear with Ray Fisher’s situation, here at AVC many people don’t like it when PoCs speak up.

I fully understand that exec guy was talking about this as an experiment in logistics.

If Ohtani is so bad for MLB why is he so incredibly popular for Americans? Hell he’s more nationally popular than Mike Trout, his own teammate and a guy who’s the best player since Bonds.

“People unfortunately tend to have a problem of looking for a reason to be offended regardless of intent”

The fact that you equate Tolkien’s elves (which never really existed) to Native American cultures (which actually existed, suffered through genocides at the hands of colonists, forced indoctrination, erasure, oppression, looting, a whole lot of other things, and still to this day face many of those things) is a…

I am interested to see what the world decides the outcome of this to be. I am a Jew who is generally anti-Israel, though I do think the solution to the conflict should not involve the slaughter of any civilians, even if and when Palestine is liberated. I don’t know how that will happen, though, nor do I know how the…

The “Censorship” and “Freedom of Speech” crowd is real quiet about this one...

xenophobes and misogynists

And people in gaming, women in particularly, were warning about this for years and got ignored or made fun of. Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn, among many others, are long overdue for an apology.

I was a very frequent commenter there back in 2014-2015 and the way I see it there’s a fairly straight line of radicalization that went through a certain console brand’s fan base to Gamergate to Pepe to MAGA white nationalism in the years since. The same strain of fanboy malevolence pervades in on the politics sites I…

This sounds about right.

I was reading an unrelated article on there earlier and the people in the comment section were having a meltdown about IGN sponsoring Palestinian terrorism. I only visit the site during slow news weekends, but it’s a shame how the first video games website I frequented as a kid is now a cesspit for xenophobes and misog…

Well I had been pleasantly surprised to see that tweet last night, but now I’m unpleasantly fucking pissed at this chickenshit move by IGN.

Hey, it can be two things: Stodden can be a victim of abuse and a terrible person who probably shouldn’t be on TV. Kinda like O’Neal can be a “former AV Club writer,” and one of, like, three or four people who all but made this site.

Franco is probably guilty of all the stuff he’s been accused of. But if you’re good friends with the guy, you’re going to give him the benefit of the doubt initially. Unless there was overwhelming evidence immediately, it’s hard to give Seth Rogen any blame for not bailing on his friend right away. Not to mention it’s…

Let’s just look back at that AV Club article...

Sorry, multiple things can be true. She may have been groomed and let down by multiple levels of society and somehow passed through far too many safety nets that should have prevented all of this from happening.

This is absurd. Simply put, Rogan didn’t hurt anyone, Rogan doesn’t owe anyone anything. It’s not a difficult concept to understand. If he and Charlene are friends, she can reach out and talk to him. Obviosuly they aren’t, so shes yelling out into the ether to get him to take action on something that’s not his fault?!…

well, that became a good cautionary tale on ‘don’t use crowd sourced sites to do your homework’ quite quickly