I loved the original Despicable Me because it felt like they were trying to show that a single dad with non-biological children could be just as loving as a married parent with biological children— and because they were the focus, not the Minions, who I’ve always been ambivalent-to-negative about.

I have a similar love…

I almost never travel, but as a person with a chronic illness who has a few “I save these for when I am in pain and need to lie down with my Switch” games, I feel like those same games would work for an airplane trip: A lot of Pokémon, Katamari Damacy, & HADES (I have only played the first one, waiting for the second…

Why use AI to recreate James Dean’s voice, when you could do an imitation of it and create an alternate universe scenario where James Dean lived to become president instead?

I don’t really see pop culture as inherently gendered. If you’re a man who likes Jem and My Little Pony, or a woman who watches action movies? Go for it. I figured if anything, streaming media would prove you can’t always predict what someone will enjoy based on their gender or age alone.

Two very recent favorites, but as a bi/pan (I’m comfortable identifying as both) trauma survivor disaster myself, I related pretty hard to both Zagreus from HADES and Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3. To know that you can be a complete mess, to not know what you want romantically other than “someone who genuinely cares…

I’d be curious to see the gap in people who watched The Apprentice when it was originally on, but did not/would never even consider voting for Trump for president. I’m sure it’s more substantial than he realizes.

For some reason I was under the impression the stalker was actually a man with a totally different body type, and that he’d been changed into a heavier woman in the adaptation to hide the stalker’s identity (I assume this is erroneous information).

One of the reasons I’m selective with romcoms is because some of the setups sound “cute and quirky” on paper, but are downright psychopathic in execution:

In general, I’ve never understood the “we never knew what to do with this character, so we killed them off for drama” plotline. Why even bother killing them off if you didn’t build up their personality and backstory enough for the audience to see them as multidimensional, or see them as anything but a background prop?

I can only speak for myself— I’ve seen a lot of bad behavior at previous jobs where I worked retail, but I’ve also been out to stores/theatres/restaurants where I was a customer, and saw someone else just acting super rude, or treating a public place like their house, or acting without courtesy to the fact that others…

This is only an armchair observation, so take it with a grain of salt:

1. The internet has introduced us to a much wider berth of media. This is good for broadening our horizons, but also means there is no “everybody watches the same TV show and discusses it around the watercooler” like there used to be.

2. People are…

The original trailer had Lord Hades in chains, but still seeming to be alive, so fingers crossed Persephone and Zagreus are just in exile, not dead. I don’t want Zag to overshadow his sister’s story, but it’d be nice to check in on him for a few moments, see if he’s still with Meg/Thanatos/both, etc.

IDK if this was the actual issue, but I’ve heard it argued “they’re Americans, Blur never really hit it off here like in the UK, if an American knows who Damon Albarn is it’s probably because of The Gorillaz”. Which...makes sense. I grew up hearing a bunch of Gorillaz songs on the radio or on MTV2 back when they…

TIL that was even a reference to something, I thought it was just evoking how the senses are strongly tied to memory in general.

Am I correct in my understanding that Dan Schneider only worked on specific Nickelodeon shows for a specific period of time? Why bother even interviewing people he never worked with?

To be fair, he’s always insisting he “doesn’t count” because he’s “just a vampire spawn”.

I do sometimes wonder “Would this NPC and I get along, if neither of us was constrained by a script, and we could just talk about whatever?”

But AI, especially at its current state with its inconsistencies and inability to stick in character, isn’t the way to do that.

It’s basically Max Payne with vampires, intentionally corny in an endearing way, and a thoughtful, sympathetic look at a male character surviving relationship abuse (which we don’t see much in media until 2023 pulled a “if I had a nickel for every time this happened in a video game, I’d have two nickels” situation).

It’…

Fair enough, and I’m not disagreeing with you. I think I just kneejerked a little (which is on me) because I’ve gotten some stupid comments about myself as a queer woman (being told that queerness only exists in/for porn, that female bisexuality is made up exclusively to attract men, etc.)

I mean (speaking as a queer woman here), I’ve also met women who can’t discern between fanfiction written about fictional gay male characters, and actual living, breathing gay men. But that might be more of a fandom-brain thing.