I think Valentine’s Day’s tag line ought to be: “the straights aren’t OK.”

This dude would’ve been better off just dressing up as the Monopoly Guy and screaming “WE ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY!” at the interviewer. It would’ve made him seem less tone-deaf, manipulative, cowardly, skeezy, and - Maximum Irony Alert - even a bit less bought-and-paid-for by the MIC.

Nah, they’re even ahead of you. She already did it, and the entire MCU to date has been us stuck in the alternate reality created by it. Her brother dying in the MCU was the Monkey’s Paw price she was forced to pay in exchange. Literally everything that happened with the Infinity Stones was all a convoluted way to…

“Here’s 20 dollars. Go see a Disney’s Star War movie.”

I know the internet is abuzz about Snyder dropping the meme-bomb, but frankly I’m disappointed. A forehead tattoo on Joker reading “This Is Fine” would’ve been next-level.

People are like this with all fiction, because fictional characters are idealized (which includes being conveniently ill-defined at many margins) and safe.

Star Wars is barely considered science fiction by a significant portion of the science fiction community - especially the literary science fiction community.

You’re basically already living in it.

Geez, we’re past the halfway point on this show and they’re serving up some odd morsels.

Me: I wanna spend $60 on virtual rejection from fictional characters!

>inability to bring Warner to justice for actions whose repercussions lasted much longer than the law was willing to acknowledge.

Counterpoint: I’m not sure Claptrap’s depth can survive a scenario where it’s not a video game, and therefore where the “audience” (read: the player) knows in advance that every insane, reckless, destructive thing he does is obviously not going to actually hurt anybody or have any serious, lasting consequences.

If they wanted to get really dark and weird with it, they could use the last season to build up Holt to a scene where he quits the NYPD with a highly public, raging denouncement of institutionalized bigotry.

I’d suggest to you that the founding fathers are hoisted on their own petards. They were a fairly unique collection of brilliant, well-educated people who were utterly drenched in the rushing waves of Enlightenment-era political and moral philosophy. They could walk down the street and have a conversation with another…

It turns out that the feeling of being able to freely speak one’s mind - which is usually a delusion to at least some extent - is actually pretty awesome, and even intoxicating. Celebrity is weird. I’d wager that half of these celebrities hyperfocus on meaningless praise and get seduced into believing they can enjoy…

Larry Flynt would’ve been a great founding father: gross, white, pervy, rapey, racist, ruthlessly capitalist, and yet elevated immeasurably in esteem by the quality of his enemies.

It turns out you can be a really, really, really bad person and still possesss a sufficient combination of decency and enlightened self interest to be opposed to fascism in all its many flavors.

The flying is going to be the dealbreaker moving forward. If you loved the flying and want to keep it in some future iteration or game, then that game needs to be built entirely around it. Anthem very clearly was not.

Hudson briefly flirted with Codename: P.T. Barnum, but he was worried somebody at EA might actually get suspicious that it was a double entendre.

...didn’t Walter Mitty eventually sack up and actually start going places?