Thiel seems like such a creepy, transhumanist, Randroid, though. So I have a hard time cheering for him. He's a new form of silicon valley amorality that I think is a bigger threat than Gawker ever could be. Plus, Hogan is a racist scumbag. So there's really no one to cheer for in this whole thing.

I feel like AV Club's demo is aging pretty quickly, though. How much longer can they coast on 90s nostalgia?

I could see people of any political persuasion getting turned off by the child shooting bit, especially the part where he enacts a hypothetical senator's daughter dying in elaborate detail. It's satire whose heart is definitely in a humanitarian place, obviously, but I could see some people, right or left, finding…

Well my understanding is that their algorithms make predictions based on what people with similar taste profiles as your own rated things. So all it means is that people who have rated stuff similarly to you didn't like Cross's special much. If you are the sort of person who watches lots of alt-comedy types, that…

I always thought Netflix ratings were predicted based on stuff you've rated in the past, rather than being aggregated user ratings. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

He seems to think that AV Club commenters hate him, which I've never gotten from this place. If anything, AV Club commenters are his core demographic. Pretty much everyone here reveres "Mr Show" and "Arrested Development" as sacred, and while not every one might like his stand up, I'd venture a guess that more do…

I guess that's true now that I think of it. I'd probably watch way more Netflix if things had a timelimit, rather than just watching American Dad again (which I what I usually end up doing now).

Never heard of MUBI. 6 dollars a month for 30 rotating films seems a bit steep. Odd business model.

I like them as 2 though. I don't think the ending to Vol 1 would work nearly as well if it cut directly to the next scene. And if he re-edited it somehow to just make it a "twist" as opposed to a punch to the gut just before the credits kick in, it would ruin its impact.

Well, I honestly don't post enough on reddit to know the culture or the positives and negatives of how it's set up. I just like more of a traditional forum structure, compared to Disqus.

The comment section is shit now anyway. I've always thought AV Club should just set up a reddit or something and have articles link directly to that for commenting. Disqus is impossible to navigate.

Everything about it was great, save for the characters (plot was fine, got the job done, but not much reason to care given the characters were all as thinly sketched and uninteresting as could be). For any other film, this would be totally damning, but it got the atmosphere, SFX, and monster fighting down so well…

I felt the same about Sense8. Overall it's a great show, but I highly doubt most people made it through the pilot to realize that. In Sense8's case, the show doesn't even get good until episode 4. I try to sell people on it, but it's difficult to tell people, "just wait 4 hours and it becomes watchable, then,…

Yeah, I noticed it was on.

MAME is your friend. When I was a kid I used to fantasize about owning every arcade game ever. Now that I do…..I never play any of them because most are terrible.

It's all about content these days. Finding any old shit and reposting it.

I'm a gay English major and this was shit. It's the "reference" form of joke writing, where you just make a reference to something with no added wit and expect that to be enough to be funny. Seltzer and Friedberg for the overly earnest, lesbian, English major set.

Many cinemas I go to still have arcades. It's just that they tend to be pretty sad and no one's ever using them.

Just saw a revival of this at a local theater. It was awesome on the big screen and the showing was packed. Didn't realize what a following it had.

"Higher Learning" was great. Mostly original songs from Ice Cube, Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Rage Against the Machine, early Outkast, a pretty good proto-typically 90s song from "Eve's Plumb" (who didn't do much else after)…it was basically all popular genres of the early 90s on one CD.