Sure such footage may exist, it also may not. I suspect based on Cohen’s treatment of anti-semitism it does exist, but suspicions are not proof. We’ll have to wait until Amazon or Cohen feel their interests are protected and they release the footage

There is a great documentary call The Last Laugh, that interviews many famous Jews and a handful of Holocaust survivors about whether or not they think it is acceptable for Jews to use comedy to deal with the Holocaust. As one can imagine, the response is a mixed bag. Interesting film.

It seems easy and mundane if you know little about modern standards of protecting copyrighted films. Do some research about how often studios or filmmakers have realeased such footage to, even to someone tying to sue them. We will wait for your results (hint: the number is going to be low in comparison to those who…

As longtime fan and as someone who teaches courses on pop culture I recall the massive stacks of crap that Keanu used to get from audiences back in the 90's. So, it is extra fascinating for me to watch his placement in pop culture now.

As a black gamer this game couldn’t have come at a worse time for me. Joel being killed whwhile lying face down and essentially “handcuffed” was bad enough but Ellie beating a black woman to death with a piece of pipe that, though surely not intentionally, looked all too much like a baton, were just two keenly awful…

We are going to be feeling the ripple effects of shutdowns in China and other manufacturing heavy nations for many months to come. Smaller business that people don’t think about will be impacted, like the businesses that supply manufacturers with parts or raw materials, forcing them to maybe seek new supply lines when…

Any firearms expert will tell you that we don’t call them accidental discharges (I am a certified firearms safety instructor), we call them negligent discharges. The distinction is important, this all happened due to negligence, not an accident. The word negligence males it clear that all fault lies with the person…

I suspect the movie will not fare well no matter how well it reviews. A parade of straight white guys will exclaim how this film bashes them or makes them feel awful, but the fact is that those guys also tend to sit right in the middle of the largest movie going demographic so if they don’t go then the film won’t do…

This makes me wonder which of Vox’s platforms he supports? It's just interesting that he gave details for the the pronoun and identity issues but tip toed around the Vox part.

Let’s not forget the samurai epic. The show has tons of Lone Wolf and Cub callbacks and this last episode follows many of the story beats of the Seven Samurai (save for the number of mercs) to a tee. The samurai and western genres have so much in common, there is a reason that the Magnificent Seven took the plot for…

I am by all means a historian, who is currently in the early stages of research into a project on the historical influence of table top RPGs. In the right circles none of this is new. It’s just new to those who are now hearing about it because D&D is more popular than at any point in its history. Popular enough that…

Not really. Yes, D&D’s recent uptick in popularity has played a role, but not in the way many people think. The complaints have been around for a very long time, most people are only hearing about them now because D&D is popular that fairly large sites like Kotaku are now writing these stories. There is a huge…

Anyone who thinks any major retailer is gonna watch out for the buyer has been living under a rock. If you don’t check stuff for yourself then I don’t know what to tell you. Yes, there are supposed to be safeguards and standards but at the same time there is a reason the saying Caveat Emptor has been around for over 50…

Well at least no one will be writing an article like this about the main events of Frank Herbert’s Dune anytime soon. The real winner, however, is the Numenera table top RPG, set 1,000,000,000 years in the future. Its doubtful anything resembling humans will remain to comment, of such a niche product is even…

These guys would give an award for world’s most prolific mass murderer and then try to justify it. Lucky for them Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are not around to pay their fee and jockey for the title. Kind of disgusting they will look the other way to make a buck and add something to their book.

I love when liars make out that it wasn’t a scam because they idn’t make any money. It’s a ‘prestige’ scam, where for a few weeks this guy fooled people into thinking he was ‘king shit’ with important connections to movers and shakers. Some times lairs run scams and even fool themselves into thinking they are more…

If I had a dime for everything an expert or even a novice in any field could call out as being done wrong in video games, TV, or film I’d be rich. Nothing is done “correctly,” from firearms and how they function (so called silencers come to mind), to how fire sprinklers in buildings work, to court proceedings,…

Of course people watched, few will admit why they really watched. I couldn’t have cared less about the whole affair and call me a cynic but the human race makes being a cynic kind of an easy default position. I think Tool put it best in their song Vicarious as I firmly believe many viewers were waiting for a tragedy.

While threats are unacceptable perhaps this is a leeson in not using your social media to publicly chaste a worker. Chaste in private, praise in public, unless the person has done something that warrants a public response, such as assault. Whatever happened to contacting a supervisor, but not the “instant…

If we banned everything because of that tiny percentage of inevitable asshats, then we’d end up banning everything. Yes, there is always that asshat or two but if we let them dictate how we do things going forward then we should just stop interacting with other humans altogether,  because eventually the outliers will…