I don’t know - I only really love videos that feature beloved long-running character Hat-Dan, the Dan with a Hat.

Which I think speaks to the heart of my problem about lenses: it is always messier than a simple linguistic panacea can easily cure.

I think the moment where Mirabel meets with her grandmother by the side of the river is really powerful and moving—I really don’t want to invalidate your feelings on the matter or pretend that there isn’t strength in the moment. My issue comes more how that scene is not strongly layered into previously ninety-odd…

There was a good... Atlantic article, I think, talking about the word a year or so back and that outside a pretty narrow demographic group, that word had no traction at all.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t people who would genuinely prefer to have the term used, and I’d try to respect their wishes, my problem primarily…

But it didn’t say them well, and its stated themes don’t well-match the script as presented. Encanto is a second-draft movie—there’s a great, coherent third draft of that script just begging to be written.

I was frustrated that I didn’t love Turning Red when I really wanted to, but it is unquestionably a better film on just about every level, especially animation.

Yeah that was the worst of it—it remind me of when Rich Crazy Asians came out and the default progressive line was how important this movie was for Asians and what meaning Asian representation was, and then everybody in Asia hated it or pointed out how racially biased it was in favour of light-skinned Asians and in no…

It was one final straw in well-over a decade of non-stop abuse that only ever happens to female creators who are always always always not only held to a higher standard than men, but are treated far more harshly than men.

Ellis fans loved her so much that they ripped her to shreds and hounded her off the internet when she didn’t live up to their progressive ideals and said insensitive, racists things like... checks notes... American corporation Disney’s Raya the Last Dragon was mediocre.

More specifically, Miller was too toxic about fifteen years ago. These days he’s just too damn weird.

To be clear: I don’t like any of his work and hold his work in the 80s as incredibly influential for subsequent decades of garbage comics and garbage movies based on truly garbage ideology that we’re all still suffering…

Encanto is a by-the-numbers animated flick that looks pretty and takes zero risks. I’d have much rather the award went to Mitchells, a film I didn’t like but did some interesting things that Encanto never bothered to attempt.

I’d have loved Luca to win, since that film was both gorgeous and really resonated with me,…

Not oil per se, but I am sure whatever venture capitalists who currently own the AV Club are pretty greasy.

But that would require going back and suffering through the first season of Picard, which I abandoned pretty early because I liked neither its elaborately violent fight scenes nor its belief that making the Federation Super Racist and Isolaionist now is mature, grown-up storytelling. (See again every previous comment…

Only if they sue this guy to take this picture of an ancient bitmap down.

I haven’t gotten to that episode yet, but I like the idea that he was personally sanctioned by the EU simply because backroom deals worked-out that it was the most effective way to get him off the track, thus improving driver safety.

Don’t worry—Max Verstappen makes himself really unlikeable without DtS’s help.

Games should never get patches because that diminishes what made the game popular in the first place - its pristine, flawless launch-version.

Except its kind of a weird 2002 Toronto - watching it with my friend tonight we both kept seeing things that we’re really temporally out of place, from the colour of the money to range hybrid streetcars that vaguely look like the 2002 models but then have big electric chairlifts they didn’t have until modern times.

“The two Democratic Representatives voted ‘no,’ joining 15 Republicans. Omar said her concern is how the sanctions will effect the people.”

It’s a good bundle but for somewhat puzzling reasons some games that have Mac versions on steam don’t have Mac versions in the bundle.