Eh, I think your argument is a slippery slope one that leads very quickly to neo-Nazis complaining about censorship. But I do think pushing boundaries in comedy is important and that great stand-up comics are often very uncomfortable at times. There’s a line though between pushing a boundary and just punching down…

Yeah that was my thinking too. But if it’s violating TOS and bringing up dicey topics, there’s probably other risks of it not ironically making fun of these topics and actually spouting off some heinous bullshit

“Frankly my dear,  I don’t give a dean!”

My dumb ass thought that Deadpool was Spiderman

Yep. Assuming it’s toxic because it’s some racist thing is just silly. People have been co-opting friendly emotes/emoji for decades to mean the opposite. It’s just classic sarcasm and internet snark.

I liked Netflix’s Sandman quite a bit. HBO might have “super-sized” the output, but I can definitely tell Gaiman was heavily involved in the Netflix output because it is (generally) quite good.

Love the casting and trust HBO in general to put a lot of polish into their projects, so I’m expecting this to be very well done over the long run, which is great for both fans and people unfamiliar with the IP.

Alessandro Juliani is a good pick for Mr. Black. I’m getting that with shades of Ricardo Montalban.

Good talk, chief.

I mean, it’s a quick para at the very end of the article that comes off as a necessary caveat to nuke comments like OP’s. Personally I don’t really have that much invested in Kotaku’s content strat but getting your ragebait articles while getting your boob clicks seems like having your cake and eating it too.

All the discussion around AI Art is really fascinating. The argument quickly comes up around sourcing data (i.e. art) for the AI and it’s a very sensible argument—if artists are producing the inputs for the AI, they should have credit in the output. What’s fascinating to me is that there is very little heated conversat…

Sounds like Musk is turning Twitter into OnlyFans, except without telling the content creators and keeping all the money for himself. Big brain time, indeed.

Has it really been two years Cyberpunk came out? I can’t believe how time seems to have just slipped by...

Soon enough we’ll have to buy a license to look at certain colors.

I love ITMOM. I’m surprised it hasn’t had a resurgence of some sort, it’s such a delightful mix of atmosphere, cosmic horror, humor, and 90s cheese.

Maybe I’m just getting old and soft, but my mind went to all the devs and team members who actually probably worked very hard on this game and were likely to some degree mismanaged. Hopefully they work on enough not to have this kind of thing affect them too much, but I’m sure it can’t be great for morale.

Kevin Conroy looking like a 5-Star Man in that header image!

In my day, you had to insert a damn floppy disk! And then you’d listen to it snicker inside the drive and pray to the PC gods something wouldn’t go awry to eat your data.

It’d be wild if there was a mythological origin for the mimic chest. I’m sure someone can dig up some “this inanimate object is sentient and villainous” story but what would be really interesting if specifically the “object” is meant to contain treasure and the “villainous” form is creature-like/monstrous.