So by “good news” you mean “good news for about 4% of the world and literally nobody else.”

That’s great. Real great. Expected, but no less bullshit.

Nestle bottled it all up and sold it to Americans.

As you can see from my anecdata, all of life is terrible and people only ever struggle to survive. There. Wasn’t that entertaining. Art: it Is Challenging.

After Westworl came out there were all these posts talking about its “philosophy” - what philosophy? “Humans are intrinsically bad and violent” is about the extent of it - it has the same philosophical depth of your average 17 year old who just skimmed Niezche and now thinks he’s super-smart for being so cynical.…

I would say that’s not an unreasonable point - if the show existed in a vacuum, instead of in the long shadow of True Blood, Game of Thrones, Westworld et al. which have a history of masturbatory violence. Also, the show has been to this gory well before for equally salacious reasons: the lynching scene in the first…

“What it doesn’t deserve is this lingering voyeurism, the lurid slo-mo brutality of his many injuries”

I haven’t been watching Season 2 of this show - everything I hear is negative - but this kind of lurid gore is what I hated in the first episode of the first season. When it dialed it back in later episodes (that is…

I’ve come to hate Iron Man’s suits and their ability to materialize out of nothing. The nano suit is the absolute nadir - it’s literally a magic suit that can become anything its wearer wants or needs it to be at any time, which means Tony Stark never has to meaningfully build anything ever again.

Part of what made the…

You’d have to pay me to sit through an Ant-Man movie again.

Without Feathers was one of my favourite books as a teen.

Got rid of my copy a few months back when I came across it on my shelf - haven’t read it in years, and even without the endless ‘new’ batches of revelations - if i could be returned to an unknowing, author-ignorant self - I suspect I’d find it much more…

Well then we should thank providence that Musk and Tesla can’t go twelve hours without doing something mortifyingly embarrassing. That’s symbiosis for you - life endures.

“While the American F-35 has many problems, accidentally ejecting civilians won’t be one of them—the Joint Strike Fighter is a single seat jet.”

Oh Jesus. it’s been a long while since I cared - but are you telling me the F-35 is still under development?

Batman and Robin is the only good live-action Batman movie.

It’s not a good movie - it’s pretty bad, pretty wretchedly bad, actually - but such is the dreadful quality of live-action Batman movies, a motley connection of pathetic whiny gloom men and very silly people trying to emote SadPain.

Every Batman movie from…

Oh shit.

I mean the movie would suck, as DC has made a decent picture that wasn’t afraid of comic books since... of, 2006 or so, but still - what a great casting choice, god-damn!

(I heard that both Aquaman and Shazam were fun, but I didn’t see them. I was told good things about Wonder Woman too. I was disappointed.)

What’s it supposed to be filled with? No idea what a CBP is beyond some kind of flak jacket if that’s even the term.

I played enough of the first Borderlands game to realize A) Claptrap is horrible and B) Oh... in this game you just shoot things. There’s no bigger RPG system coming its just well-animated boxes full of guns that the sole metric of achievement.

Which is awesome if that’s your thing - it was very good at the shooting…

I am perfectly willing to accept my 92-year old queen probably has some deep-seated racial issues that were never properly confronted. But I’m also 100 percent certain that all brit tabloids are nightmare garbage rags who’ll take any hate-filled position if it sells a single copy more than a non-hate filled one, and…

I come from the future to warn you that in my time, a Romney victory with Bachman as a cabinet secretary now seems like .a wonderful dream we would give our right arms to live through.

I come from the future to tell you the good news that not only did Michelle Bachman not get more power, but “Michelle Bachman” is a name no one has thought or heard about in years!

The bad news is that we’re in a dystopia, Donald Trump is president, and his overt, venal criminality is getting no pushback from his own…

It persists because nobody wants to confront the idea that alcohol isn’t safe, that our great social ‘lubricant’ is gasoline poured near open flames, that recreational substance use in general doesn’t exist in safe amounts for far too many people. I speak as someone whose country just legalized pot that all the…

This is a very thoughtful article, but it feels like it came close to saying something really aggressive and meaningful about the normalization of drinking-as-therapy in culture and how flat-out disturbing it is - but swung away from it at the last moment. It was possibly excised by an editor who knows that nothing…