Attacked by inscrutable grammar. That sentence is painful to read!

I feel personally attacked

There is absolutely nothing about this I don’t love. Amy and Nick and woodworking and welding and oh wait there’s going to be an episode about knitting, isn’t there? It’s cool, I can skip that one.

As a long-time fan of the series, I can’t argue with you that it’s almost entirely soapy nonsense, with some games leaning on that worse than others, and none of it is deep literature. I’m not sure that was ever the stated or unstated goal, and I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who thinks these things have masterful…

I’m intrigued by the suggestion that Ex Machina didn’t have an ending that paid off. I thought that one absolutely stuck the landing; the AI worked in its ability to learn manipulation, but it was still a machine without empathy that simply took the open door without looking back when the opportunity for escape arose.

He’s right. I kept scrolling down looking for that scene to be mentioned. It’s a huge fail. Even if these two staffers are right (and they’re not), one could also argue that the scene in which Nomi is attempting to seduce Kyle (I forget his character’s name) via stripping should be on the list. For God’s sakes, she…

I’m more into the artistry and beauty of cat diving. Observe the pike position.

“Hey, here’s a topic literally everyone is talking about and being asked about at the moment, what are your thoughts on it?”

Actually, yeah. I remember Katy Perry’s performance. I wasn’t even a fan but she came out on a giant metal lion, did several quick changes, brought out Missy Elliot to do some songs and then was sent a hundred feet in the air while singing Firework. It was a pretty amazing show. Not Prince-amazing (because his…

Hey, no problem. I mean, what’s the point of dropping out of grad school halfway through a PhD dissertation because you were too dumb to notice til the last minute that you were prepping for a job that doesn’t really exist anymore, if not to respond on internet commend threads with ‘dunno, it depends?’.

That seems to be true. The most popular animated crush objects tend to be human, but women my age talk about that Robin Hood like he was Harrison Ford, only British.

Well, Marion technically, at least with the furries I know.

Yeah, and if you tied their missionaries upside-down to a splintery pole and poured scorpions into their noses, you were ALSO the bad guy. You can’t win!

Just how dumb did you used to be?

“Where is your god now?” I used to say that when crushing some overly pushy civilization in Civilization. I told Isabella to keep her missionaries out of my territory.

When the president starts doing racist impersonations of Asian people, demanding everyone pay attention to them at all times, and says the absolute wrong thing at the wrong time, will Jack Ryan look at the camera and shrug?

The show ends, and society emerges from its collective haze, rather embarrassed at how much we let this childish blood, guts, and fucking show steer the conversation of what ‘mature’ genre fiction should look like, and we collectively agree to enjoy it solely as a problematic but well-made fantasy romp, and not the…

It’s not that uncommon for victims of abuse to later “choose” an ostensibly consensual relationship with their abusers. It can be a way of convincing oneself that you were never victimized, that you were onboard the whole time. Asia Argento talked about this a little in the first New Yorker story about Weinstein.

You’re criticizing the same thing that he is, but somehow you’ve managed to misinterpret Felix’s comment as defending it. Excellent straw man building there.

Actually Michael Gross was only the NatLamp art director until 1974, and this issue came along around 1979, so I don’t think it was his work.