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It should be mentioned that Plex sent out these emails within (I belive) 24 hours of noticing the hack. That’s lightning-fast for this kind of thing, and they should be commended for that. Every company either has been or will be hacked, and most of them wait months to notify their users of security breaches. Kudos to… Read more

Compulsory watching:

My money is on Okoye becoming the new Black Panther. I’m getting a very strong vibe of the women of Wakanda changing the traditions of who rules the nation and who gets to be the face of Wakanda’s might. It would be very cool if Wakanda is ruled by Queens from now on, with women filling in all the other roles in… Read more

This is not a “phenomenon” limited to the Star Wars community, or Zack Snyder movies, or any other niche fanbase. Racist people are literally everywhere, and it’s not like racists don’t like the same things non-racists like (except, you know, minorities). We need to stop with this framing of “You know how these Star… Read more

You’re conveniently forgetting about America Chavez, who can travel between universes, and who we see literally empowered to take control of her own powers/life. Not to mention the other-other-other-other Dr. Strange who, as we see in the film, is in fact corrupted by the Darkhold (the one we see with the third eye).… Read more

I dunno, this kid’s obviously a dick, but these ubiquitous platforms banning people because they say naughty things that hurt people’s feelings is just making me feel icky. We shouldn’t celebrate every time someone we don’t like gets ousted from the public square, unless we are the ones doing the ousting, not the… Read more

I’m not giving anyone any credit on anything they say in the media, ever since Hillary Clinton publicly confirmed that it’s every elected official’s job to have a “public” position and a “private” position. Public is for the sound bites for voters to eat up; private is for the actual legislation that gets passed. Read more

maybe if our domestic police forces weren’t so dramatically over-funded and stocked with surplus military equipment and trained to see every civilian as a potential life-ending threat to their own lives this wouldn’t be an issue. Read more

The blame does not lie solely with an out of control police force - that force is funded and controlled by the local council. This revenue is being shared across the board, and not a single person in that board or police department wants to end this gravy train.

There is the possibility of a premature birth. That’s as good a reason as any other to not talk about it.

I know the knee-jerk reaction is “fuck Disney”, but I’m reading this a different way. Imagine the juvenile content (and corporate nightmare) of a Disney character saying something awful about gay people. Imagine someone making a clip of Moana talking about how much she “hates the queers”, and that clip going viral. Read more

re: “Doctor Strange/Vision,” via Reddit: Read more

Brick (Rian Johnson)
500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb)

This looks more like a “skin” for a regular, contemporary racing game - rather than a little car racing sim. I expected to see the cars handle differently than full-size versions, but Re-Volt had better toy car physics than this.

The decision to use Luke as the Jedi who collects Grogu is, I think, one borne of making sure the audience is comfortable with the idea of a super-powered space wizard-monk taking away our little buddy. If it had been a Jedi from the prequels, or some other rando, we as the audience would not accept Mando handing… Read more

“I don’t like that Godzilla is big and has a hard time moving around; this is offensive to obese people.”

“Why is Voldemort missing a nose? Don’t people understand this is a harmful depiction of a disabled people who lost their noses?”

I don’t know why, but this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. The… Read more

The issue is that the in-game model is not a representation of a physical thing that exists (like a photo), it is a digital recreation of copyrighted work in a published piece of entertainment that is being sold for money. Someone at Take Two had to painstakingly recreate all those tattoos, effectively copying them;… Read more

I mean, it’s not like this is a completely novel idea in the Jurassic cinematic universe. It’s the main conceit of JP3, where the motivation to go back is that the son of a rich couple is alone on the island, and they set off to rescue him.

I really liked JP3 for what it was: a seat-of-your-pants dinosaur action movie;… Read more

It’s nothing as complicated as that. Protecting “the children” has always been a central theme in the Conservative Handbook for Appearing to Be a Good Person™. Q people just kick that up a metric shit-ton of notches.

The meat of it is that being against the harming of children (very broadly) proves, in an absolute… Read more

The movie was perfect. The game was perfect.