Interesting - “rhythms of an epic adventure without setup or payoff” was how I felt about Rogue One, which reaches its nadir when Jyn gives a speech to rally all the Rebels to keep being Rebels despite her having no textual or motivational reason to do so at this point given that they literally just murdered her…

I’ve said this before and i’ll say it again: there are no crucial gaps in Obi-Wan’s story. At the end of Sith he goes and becomes a penitent hermit until two droids in a pod crash on his planet and ruin his peaceful life.

That’s it. There doesn’t ahve to be more. Why does Obi-Wan’s life of living quietly and peacefully…

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that personal responsibility works extraordinarily well for public safety - if nations whose populace are capable of being personally responsible.

Americans, collectively, are not.

American gun owners murder more people on a scale unlike anywhere else in the world, because…

Probably because that’s how Netflix themselves are reacting - layoffs and cancellations despite the fact that they’re still a massive and profitable company. But because capitalism demands a (literally impossible) trend of ‘eternal growth’), hitting market saturation is treated like a death sentence.

“Mighty money powerhouse IGN “

Important question: who the fuck goes to IGN for news, and why?

My dude, the latest movie came out 14 months ago. This is like dismissing someone being mad about The Book of Boba Fett because Star Wars is a “45 year old franchise.”

My guy, it’s still happening. They’re still making it in the present day.

Not that it’s really relevant, because I will also fundamentally never…

I know it’s not: Japan put EVA on kid’s lunchboxes for some bizarre reason (see also WB putting Arya Stark in the new for-kids punch-em-up game alongside Steven Universe and Shaggy). I am addressing the language of this article, which is presenting this as a tragedy.

And also, again, it’s not a tragedy because all this…

Call me when a franchise with meaning and clarity gets shat on: then I’ll take umbrage.

As someone who has now seen every bit of NGE, television and movies (except for the recap film Death & Rebirth), I speak very firmly when I say: this franchise does not in any way shape or form earn your veneration or respect, and we should all celebrate its pretentious bullshit being made to do stupid video game…

I’m not, because now Iron Giant is going to show up in a fucking punch-em-up brawler as the absolute antithesis of the point of the Iron Giant.

I made it just for you!

Like so?

That has to be a typo: Shadows of War is, mechanically, a far better and more refined experience.

I mean narratively they’re both awful, the second one is just somehow even less coherent, but so long as you don’t pay attention to the almost delightfully stupid cutscenes featuring the two most generic broody manpain men to ever grace the screen, as a game Shadows of War is far better than the first.

It mirrors the…

Where do the helmsmen go to the bathroom?

No, it isn’t. Economic disparity is a cause for despair and is thus an intensifier of all sorts of problems that can certainly drive people towards mass shooting events. But despairing, screwed-over poor people in my country haven’t loaded-up on firearms and gone to blown the brains out of fellow poor people in mass…

Friend, I’ve been having a nice, deep reading of Das Kapital lately. I was tickled pink when Marx went off about the same kind of problems with capital reducing exchange value down to meaningless quantitative data points, as its similar to a complaint I’ve been voicing for a few years now about the inherent uselessness…

“Unreasonable easy access to firearms.”

There. I made a much more relevant point and only needed five words to do it.

A couple of years ago (Pandemic has made the number screwy because people simply went to less places and schools were actively shut), I pulled all the shooting death numbers that the CDC collates and really just tries to sit with it for a while. I think just crossing the bridge between Windsor and Detroit - going from…

As usual: oh, not Cassie Cain as Batgirl? Not interested.