>hasn't played in a decade
>has white knight as avatar

LOL no one buys plateaus.

It is not needed.

I recall The Maxx working pretty well as a cartoon, and if you can translate Sam Keith out of comics then you might be able to do The Sandman.

I actually have a dog named Walter, and he farted on me while we were chilling on the couch two nights ago. Just thought I'd mention it.

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The little origin stories and interludes are a pleasure, but the central narrative gets pretty stupid pretty quick.

There's one just like it in San Diego, too!

You are of course correct.

This is pretty incidental, but I love how the engineers in this movie actually sound like engineers. It's not a bunch of science jargon that serves as exposition (a la Star Trek), it's plausible dialogue! I'm an engineer, and I never see that in movies.

A fun 80 minutes?

Timecrimes has a great gallows humor to it, glad to see it get some love.

Great piece. "an instinctive televisual tumescence" was a particularly nice turn of phrase.

"Give and take" is quite distinct from the quid pro quo you're espousing in your previous post.

Or you could just have normal, non-transactional relationships with your friends, like a grown fucking man.
The real lesson, which you clearly missed, is that people do not typically have everything they do informed by a quid pro quo attitude - it's just the scummy dipshits that do this.

You gotta roll them up, so everyone can see the liner and know how much money you dropped.

It's preferred by the trans community at large. You can find special snowflakes in every community that will put up with slurs if they are otherwise treated with respect, but that doesn't mean that those slurs should be considered broadly acceptable.
Pre-op shouldn't be used here, as it implies that there's…

No, not right. I established one end of a continuum with PB and TF&TF, then said quite clearly that the other two movies fell short of that. You can go back and read my comment to see that I am contrasting the two pairs of movies. Is it not clear from the ensuing conversation that we are in agreement that The Fast and…

How's that? I said that Empire and Breakfast Club aren't as close as PB and TF&TF, impying that the latter two are an example of an extremely similar pair of movies.

They are not the same the way that Point Break and The Fast and the Furious are the same, but both movies hinge on themes of rebelling against the most mundane ideas of authority and inauthentic experience by rejecting popular conceptions of identity. You're right that this isn't relevant to the scope of this…