And also, as uncomfortable as it makes a lot of people, psychology is pretty clear that most people’s weird sex kinks (even the consent ones) are not intrinsically harmful, and the idea that you’d have this safe space to run around and indulge your weird but harmless kinks on toasters is, y’know, no different than…

Picard Season 1 was all about how people are irrationally afraid of robots who are remarkably down for exterminating all organic life in the universe the moment the idea is suggested to them and come within moments of successfully doing so.

Huh. People trying to sell me on FFXIII always said the exact same thing.

It also runs hard into the X-Men problem in which the group standing in for the Other is repeatedly shown to actually be something it is rational to fear: rather than just being people who have been othered because having an otherable groups serves the people in power, it’s always folks with insanely dangerous…

That’s... not a common opinion.

But the hot blue aliens in MEA suck.

It really wasn’t. It was a shell game with an Abrams-style mystery box that contained nothing but the most anodyne BuT WhAt iF ThEy’rE PeOpLe narrative and a heavy dose of post-GoT ‘sexual violence and gore mean a grown-up show’ that was already played-out in 2016.

Westworld season 1 just did a much better job at…

I’ll use one more: what it is your fucking problem you little nasty turd?

“The Fallout TV show is being led by Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan”

Not a good sign.

Rewatched Villenueve’s Dune a few days back and like dit even less this time. It’s a gob-smaking visual masterpiece, an extraordinary work of visual medium, but it completely drops the ball on characters. Jessica spends the whole film either crying or about to cry, Pieter, Thrufir, Gurney, and Yueh (THE DAMN TRAITOR)…

Replaying ME1 is a weird experience because it’s a lot of ‘ME3 sure will never follow-up on any of this, huh.’

There’s been this weird, faintly desperate trend to rehabilitate MEA’s reputation—and I understand it probably runs better now on PC than it does on my PS4—but the game is just bad. It’s full of interesting ideas executed astonishingly poorly, wretched QoL problems that were easy fixes[1], and a lack of any sense of…

I don’t think I did? Since I don’t disagree with that statement? Nor did I write anything contradicting it?

It’s okay to deadname Twitter. It’s a corporation not a person and we don’t have to respect its decision to choose a new name because, again, it isn’t a human being.

We are facing don a people whose problem is with a system, but a system they are fundamentally unwilling to meaningfully reshape or change, and so they blame everything else.

It’s like if you threw people out of the an aeroplane in a heavy cloud bank and after falling for a while they can see the ground that they are…

Oh thank god I’m not the only one perplexed.

Some years ago I had both my eyes held open with mechanical devices, was given a lot of pain killers, and then watched as surgeons scrapped the sclera off my eyeballs with scalpels.

It was not an experience I am in a hurry to repeat.

Of course it is.

“and learn fight choreography with heavy swords.”

Well that sounds like a failure of the choreographers and the armorers to produce actor-appropriate props.

Given how fucking awful both my cinema experiences were for Barbie and Oppenheimer, I’m not sure why I’d ever go to the cinema again.