“You couldn’t make that today!” has always been bullshit. It was an indy release at the time, and there are indy releases today that are at least as provocative (and well received). The article mentions Beau Is Afraid, also Everything, Everywhere...., Emily the Criminal, Black Bear (I’m an Aubrey Plaza fan :p), etc.…

The thing is that Happiness is a good movie that actually interrogates its transgressive elements with a billion times more curiosity and wit than The Idol, whose whole deal seems to be, “What if the only way to be successful is to sell your soul?”

Look, I’m one of those guys who only knows the Witcher from the third game, but man, the amount of fuckin’ weirdos in the Yen-Geralt romance fandom who think it’s a healthy relationship...

It was dumb but not anything that deserved an apology. People need to chill the fuck out. I’m more disturbed by the fact that enough people thought this deserved an apology than by the fact that she recorded the original Imagine video in the first place.

It feels like the “Imagine” one doesn’t even belong on here. It was tacky at worst, and it felt like it had been out-tacked by the end of the week. Celebrities were truly doing the most in 2020.

While I haven’t finished the game, I have played the mission in question here.

I felt cringe in every paragraph. 

I’m guessing that’s exactly what he was counting on.

Maybe he expected the restaurant to just comp everyone?

I, too, base all my opinions on what strangers from the internet think.

I only made it through 1.5 episodes. I don’t dislike the idea and concepts behind the show, it’s just the execution did not work from what I saw.

They killed [...gestures wildly at wreckage of HBO Warner merger...] for this?

Phyllis Schlafly also had nannies, but that detail never made it into her speeches.

What, no tip of the hat to Phyllis Schlafly by these grifters? She invented this shit, leaving her husband at home with the kids while she went from city to city and podium to podium, explaining how it was a woman’s job to stay home and look after the kids.

“Every ill that we are fighting right now in society has been brought forth by women.”

While I am loathe to defend CDPR, this is a stupid thing to get mad about. Expansions for major games used to cost 30-40 bucks. Taking inflation into account this is a good deal.

Ooo ancient alien tech, just like... every other space game

I guess Fox was actually toning his shit down:

There is a delightful irony in the fact Biden and other Democratic politicians Carlson made a career of disparging are for curtailing the use and breadth of non-compete clauses. 

Can’t believe I’m rooting for a non-compete clause, but here we are.