Weimar Germany issued legal, doctor signed passes for transvestites, that served as legal recognition of their gender transition and barred them from prosecution under anti-crossdressing laws. The Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft, operated by Magnus Hirschfield, operated one of the first and most important research…

Bill Murray voiced Venkman in the 2009 Ghostbusters game, which could speak to already fading recalcitrance. 

Just looked it up, it does seem like it being said about Elvis predates the Gore Vidal comment about Capote. However, I’m seeing the attribution being either an unnamed “Hollywood cynic” in a 1978 Esquire magazine article, Peter Bogdanovich, or talent agent Sue Mengers.

Actually, I think it was painfully obvious what Don’t Look Up was satirizing. It’s the opposite problem where it had the subtlety of a brick.

American media loves to put out political satires that aren’t actually satirizing anything, they just have the tone of having  something important to say. See also: The Regime. 

See, this is why I’d be interested in the show too. And I’d be curious about how successful the show is as historical fiction, rather than just Biblical expansion. Because I think it’d be cooler to do both. But from what little I’ve seen, the show seems more interested in verisimilitude than in genuine history.

I really want to see a critical deep dive on this show and how it fits into the Christian media from a non-evangelical perspective. Like, it seems to be the most popular piece of Christian media, but nobody outside of Christians are interested in talking about it, they all focus on the God’s Not Dead freak shows. The…

“Good career move” was Gore Vidal’s reaction to the death of Truman Capote, I thought

Because autistic coding for an adult is that they act like a child, and autistic coding for a child is that they act like a mini-adult. The shows are an exercise in caricature, and childish men and adultish children are both read as short hand for nerdy and neurodivergent in ways that are easy to laugh at. Hence,…

I actually still really loved the game when I played it, the Seraphites thing only hit me replaying it, and is an unpleasant note in a game I otherwise like. But yeah, it makes me really wary of Druckmann over all from now on.

No, it isn’t on its face. But Neil Druckmann has said that the game was inspired by his brooding over the Israel-Palestine conflict. One of the sides, the WLF, is broadly humanized. The other side is a bloodthirsty superstitious fanatical cult known for homophobia and misogyny that reveals “the prophet”, that carries…

The Prophet wasn’t merey a fanatical cult leader, that came later. The info we get about her in the game is that she was a more peaceful, mellow, spiritual figure who was murdered by the WLF. The Seraphites were driven by desperation and retribution, which after their attacks on the WLF, motivates te WLF as well. The…

Your review makes this sound a lot like The Americans but with comedy instead of the historical fiction element.

Plays like this are exercises in fandom too. They pick movies that have cult followings to make into movies because the audience likes to go to the play and when the dialogue or lyrics reference or reframe dialogue from the movie, the audience feels like they’re in on an inside joke. The musical is a representation of…

Zoomers were bon in the late ‘90s/early 2000s. People born in 1996, the year Daggerfall came out, are Zoomers. The slang you’re using is actually a Gen Alpha thing. 

You’re leaving out that Nelson Peltz is a huge backer of Ron DeSantis and wants Disney to be “less political.” He’s also close friends with Ike Perlmutter, who is backing Peltz’s move to take over the board, and wants to personally appoint the new CEO (Jay Rasulo is who Perlmutter likes). 

Rustin kind of sucks because of the way it writes over its subject’s politics and essentially presents him as the forgotten sidekick of King. As one critic noted, “In a cruel twist, it seems, Rustin’s sexuality has been weaponized yet again. In Rustin’s lifetime, it was used as an excuse to forget him — in his death…

I mean, the capital city of Reach isn’t even named in the books, even though it has a substantial population. So I don’t know if I’d call that “the important stuff”. There’s a mission there in the game, titled New Alexandria, which is probably the name they should have gone with, but it’s not mentioned much in…

The overall mythology of the show is actually pretty faithful to the games and novels, along with the aesthetics. It’s basically the same worldbuilding. The divergences are mostly in terms of character and focus. It’s a weird show that is simultaneously obsessively inaccurate and weirdly different, which I thik is…

This was my question as well. People still don’t seem to realize the damage repeat infections can have on your body.