I’d say the biggest divide comes in the sense of what a superhero even is. Because not all supers in American comics are from worlds where there’s that tension between normal people and capes (a la X-Men), but all of them tend to agree on what a hero’s role in society is. At least, what it ideally should be, so even…

Trope or no, it’s terrible storytelling to have a student at a superhero academy frequently talk about murdering people he doesn’t like, actively declare his intention to kill a fellow student, and not have a single instructor take issue with it. There is a lot of this show that plays off Shonen tropes more than…

Your wrongness knows no bounds, sir or madam. I can forgive you, opinions being what they are, but Bono? Bono sad.

MHA is “What if X-Men was Harry Potter, but in Japan?” It’s a great show, but what’s maybe most fascinating to me is to see such a foreign take on superheroes. On the one hand, it’s clearly made by somebody with a lot of love for them, on the other, it’s equally obvious there are major cultural factors that are lost…

Bad take. BAD TAKE. But I will grant you that HTKK is a great song that encapsulates the Zooropa era perhaps better than anything on the Zooropa album. It’s like it takes the entire album and blends it into a single song.

AND THE BATMAN GAME TOO! I didn’t even know that existed until just now, and I wouldn’t have been able to afford that one either. Could somebody please put effort toward finding a way to do cool, fun, interesting board games at a sub-$60 level, please?!

Man, there is a real high price bar for getting into board games anymore, huh? Seems like all the best looking games run $70-90 now, which is a lot. I spent all month cutting corners to finally afford to buy into the Street Fighter Miniatures Game Kickstarter, and that’s the only one of these I’ll be able to justify…

Fear, jealousy, and greed are the three cornerstones of modern conservatism. And when you mix them all together in the electorate, you get hatred, anger, and resentment. Thus, our current political climate.

I can hesitantly second this, with respect to the RHCP Higher Ground. Living for the City is one of my all-time favorite songs. All-time. No question. And I will sing the living fuck out of it in the privacy of my own home or automobile. But there is no chance in any hell that my white ass is doing that song at…

Favorite celebrity couple. Still waiting on the release of The Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades of Filliam H. Muffman. That thing’s gonna be a classic.

Lady Stoneheart is a terrible character that undercuts a number of better and more valuable storylines and themes while adding nothing of interest to the narrative. Rendering Jon’s resurrection mundane, losing Beric Dondarrion without him ever actually doing anything, turning the Brotherhood from a fascinating…

I never use my wallet phone case as a wallet. I just like it as a sturdy phone protector. Also, it looks kinda classy; makes my old Samsung look a little more swank. But using it as a wallet? Yeah, that seems dumb.

There’s more of us than you think, friend. But people who hate stuff spend more time and effort bitching online than people who enjoy stuff spend praising, so when something’s divisive it often looks like those against outnumber those in favor.

Come on, now. It’s Ram-Paige.

I hope there’s a “Ghost Starbuck” special pilot card. And the winner should get to send all their ships into a nearby sun so they can start civilization over again from scratch.

Is this not who everybody was expecting it to be from the moment they revealed there was a new Rorschach? This seems like a non-surprise surprise. 

Sh*t rolls downhill. Executives and board members see this kind of thing and make terrible choices based on fear of losing money. Those choices disproportionately affect the employees (and, to a different extent, customers). You can’t just look at these board members this time and say who cares - and, understand, I…

It’s all part and parcel of the same thing, though. Whether it works in a linear fashion (they made a lot of money, but not a lot enough! Waaah!) or from a different angle (we bet they’d make a lot of money, over-invested, and now we’re disappointed! Waaah!!!) it’s still the same impulses driving the behavior and…

STAT | 20% - The pay cut Rovio imposed on two senior board members’ salaries this month after the Angry Birds studio posted record annual results that still fell short of investor expectations, causing its share price to plummet.