It’s fucking depressing.

Old AvClub had its problems (And the old AVClub comment system wasn’t better so much as different) but some people act like debating movies is offensive on here now - the movie is either good or it is bad and you cannot say something bad about a good movie without being a bad person.

Not all the…

I feel like this would be better on Dark Souls for... some reason...

“Feel free to give Ant-Man a miss, though” Joe says with a chuckle, “Especially if you’ve just re-watched Iron Man - no point in repeating yourself.”

“Joe didn’t even see the second one,” Anthony adds with a grin. “And I rushed out to pee at the sixty minute mark and realized I had no motivation to go back in the…

Was anyone else super disappointed in Battle Chef Brigade once you realized that: A) despite being a story about chefs who wander the world battling one-another you were on a rigid story-track with no freedom of movement or even exploration and B) nothing you put in your dish mattered? The only thing that changed the…

Being really good in a field does tend to create arrogance - I think that culturally we reinforce this by making things like post-nominals and titles like “doctor” badges of honour and distinction, when they should also be reminders that specificity cuts both ways: yes, you have focussed very hard to perfect this one…

I realized a long time ago that the only way change is going to happen at the scale a lot of countries need is to elect a “class” of representative - be they senators, MPS, congresspeople, MLAs, MPPS, what-have-you - willing, as a group, to lose the next election before they’re elected to this one.

Because the sticking…

Every Republican President since Nixon has had a criminal conspiracy occur on their watch and under their supervision.

Not one of them has so much as endured a disapproving letter in their file.

you want to start pursuing people, you’re going to have to be away at what a massive and far-reaching project that’s going to…

Ben Carson has long been proof of the lie of STEM mythos- which is that being good in a STEM field makes you some kind of genius.

Instead of just, you know, really good at a thing you’re good at.

Ben Carson is a brilliant neurosurgeon.

He’s also an idiot.

This guy graduated from MIT - oh let’s say in Space Robotics…

Maybe Felicity Huffman will play herself, a la Oliver Thomas in Treme.

Thank you. More than anything I’m just tired of grim and gritty.

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…

“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?

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.