It wouldn't be an article about millennials if it wasn't also an example of the inanity of articles about millennials.

Ignoring the "boohoo, white males are oppressed" vibes, there is a good point here about modern humor not being as transgressive as social norms become more progressive.

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His point is that if the only way you can "fail" walking simulator games like Tacoma is to actively avoid playing it, then its no different then actively leaving a theater.

This is a nonsense response.

We care because Da Vinci's brand marketing has really taken off after since his death, thanks to historians, pop-culture, and art critics.

"Cynicism means you just aren't a sheep like others" is part of Rick and Morty's DNA too and the associated mistrust of government, politics, etc are all there as well.

I feel like this isn't much of a "hot" take since it dovetails with the idea that millennials are just another self-centered/small-minded youth generation that will invariably find out their beliefs are the result of their youth.

Are we still making fun of David Brooks columns?

I just finished Nier:Automata and I'm a little divided on the game.

The romance plot in Wonder Woman also serves a wonderfully meta point: Wonder Woman as a character, like Jesse alludes to, is unique in that her character doesn't really follow the more modern template of just being a 1:1 subversion of sexist tropes/flipping of the traits we associate with female characters.

I head the same thing, which is another nice reprieve from completionist anxiety.

I will be playing Yakuza 0, my first Yakuza game. I'm loving it so far, particularly the way the pacing and scale of the story unfolds.

Isn't ignoring the other points of his comment, because of a regressive element within it, a contradiction of what we constantly tell people who complain about social justice critiques of media, i.e. that a regressive element doesn't mean you have to reject the show as a whole/that there isn't still something…

I got this game to play with my girlfriend but I'm afraid to play it as I feel like you can only truly enjoy it fully while you're still trying to beat it and I wonder if it will feel as special with only two people.

The movie really does have more nuance than people are giving it credit for.

"Rushed" - I don't think that word means what you think it means CBSN.

I had to do a double-take when I saw the program guide description of this episode. This is very not "woke".

To me one of the most defining characteristics of both Japanese games and anime is their willingness to implode the idea that thematic consistency requires strict aesthetic-tonal consistency.

I guess Bane always did have a bottom/sub look to him.