Ah, you’re right. We should start arming pranksters.

Yeah but markets are sometimes slow to realizing how stupid they’re being. Definitely by last year though it was clear that esports still aren’t making it into the mainstream the way people keep dreaming.

The first Despicable Me had the bones of a much better movie, but zero courage of its convictions.

You lost me at ‘if.’

“Faze Clan, which as recently as last year seemed an unstoppable cultural force for the genre of dudes who both play video games and aspire to own lambos, is in trouble”

I’ll be honest: no, it didn’t really seem like that. It seemed like an over-capitalized flash in the pan that was going to crash and burn because they…

Hey, look, I’m glad. I liked Feist! Glad she’s still making music! Wish she hadn’t have to come back to headlines because Arcade Fire did something shitty.

In a country that was sane this man would have been punched in the nose for being a prat n camera and that would be the end of it, a simple lesson easily learned with nothing genuinely horrendous as a consequence.

Instead someone shot a guy in a mall because it was totally okay for him to be armed in a fucking mall and…

Weird. Given his violent a hatred of trans people you think he’d be happy beer companies were try to get trans communities to consume more of their neurotoxin. It’ll drive up their cancer rates, heart disease rates, and increase their already catastrophic suicide rates: it’ll kill more queer and trans people, everythin…

And in any case I didn’t say she didn’t make new music, but she did completely disappear from headlines and news articles across any of the cultural websites that I follow. She was headlines news for a bit and then... wasn’t.

What algorithm. I don’t stream music.

Unlikely. Heap didn’t vanish: she composed the music for... sigh... Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

To be fair the first movie’s not very good. The romantic through-line falls flat, its second act spins its wheels, it survives primarily on people walking away with memories of the major set-pieces and some quips, but structurally it sags and stumbles throughout. Ronan is utterly forgettable, and a great cast is…

Oh, no, there’s far more unappealing anime out there. I’m not saying One Piece is good, I’m just saying there’s some really, really, really unappealing anime out there that’s never going to get name-dropped on Kotaku.

(But even sticking to the mainstream I find everything about JJBA to be far more viscerally unpleasant…

I’d have switched out the MHA one for something a little more precise like “stand up for what’s right (unless it’s sexual harassment in which case pretend it isn’t happening and wait for it to pass)“

It did.

The nature of having a show split into half a dozen distinct, largely non-interacting stories means I liked some of those a whole lot, and others not at all.

I am glad to hear it, because in terms of cultural relevance she completely vanished and I didn’t hear her name for over a decade until this Arcade Fire thing went down.

When the article started to talk about Leslie Feist I got confused and just assumed that there was some other Feist I didn’t know about and that’s why she was being quantified.

Quick question: where the fuck has she been since roughly 2008 and was Corinne Bailey Rae there with her?

Huh, weird, it’s just Boy George’s cover of The Crying Game sixteen times.

Om the downside, then you have to play through Stormblood, an absolute narrative mess of an expansion.