What if you see him on the street and tell him to fuck off? 

Well, they said "more forward momentum." In this context, any amount would count. 

He wanted his vocals to sound like Jimi Hendrix's guitar. 

My money was on fractured penis. 

It doesn’t really matter how you view the justice system - the system is entirely punitive. There’s a great argument to be made for a more rehabilitative approach, but this isn’t a good context for that argument. Imprisonment punishes this rapist, and it also prevents him from raping women for the next 30 years. That…

It's true, the conversation should really be about NASA. 

Using a rightful conviction with a fair sentence to rail against wrongful convictions with unfair sentences? This is internet logic at its finest. 

Oh yeah... to be fair, by Season 9 there has already been a fan revolt, in the sense that people weren’t watching.

I assume there would have been a fan revolt online if they’d killed any of the Lone Gunmen, but Frohike in particular would be like killing off an adorable bear. 

Ironically, that’s the opposite of what happened to the X-Files - they tied up the alien-invasion mythology in the middle of Season 6 (the Syndicate, the alien bounty hunters, the alien rebels, the black oil, Mulder’s family, the whole shebang), but they didn’t have a good puzzle for the rest of the series. It just…

I think the historical analogy is not the changes in cinema but rather the people who assumed movies were a technological fad that would never supplant real dramatic arts like theater and opera. We’re potentially confronting a similar situation with movies as people increasingly focus on monetized social media…

My concern is that by focusing on homemade movies, people are deliberately looking away from the actual production and consumption of entertainment in 2023. There are definitely DIY movies, but they’re nowhere near as popular as other DIY media like tiktok or YouTube videos (or megabudget studio movies), and there’s…

Taxi Driver wasn’t art house, it was a major release by a major studio and one of the highest grossing movies of the year. That was a very specific cultural moment that ended in the early 1980s, but when people describe “art house” movies they’re usually describing commercially viable movies that made a solid chunk of…

I think that’s only true if you assume that people’s ambition is to make movies. There are people using their phones and webcams to make very popular entertainment that’s distributed online and consumed by millions of other people, but they aren’t making movies. They’re making feature-length videos about movies, or…

Still, if I had to make a list of “things I dislike about the Catholic Church,” I don’t think transubstantiation would even make the cut. 

I remember hanging around with my cousin in an AOL chatroom circa 1995 where all anyone talked about was Krycek. Or, in that context: RAT BOY. 

It was fine. The roster was small, and the characters had one finisher each, which was lame, but IMO it was better than MK4 or Deception. I liked Armageddon more, even though it was repetitive and had a lot of filler characters. I’m just a sucker for those giant, era-spanning character-selection screens. MK Trilogy is…

It’s no “One Hit (to the Body),” that’s for sure. 

What a piece of shit. 

She was in Deadly Alliance, right? IIRC she could drink opponents’ blood to regain health, but her fatality was just that same blood-drinking move with more blood.