While social media is absolutely terrible, JD Vance was a venture capitalist who then won a Senate race as a rightwing candidate in a conservative state. In between, he published a bestselling nonfiction book. Arguing that his political ideology - which includes antagonizing other Republicans -centers on the online…

Millions of Cats Fucking or GTFO. 

People seem to be implying that Outside is one of his bad records, which I don’t understand. It’s very dated, but that tends to be Bowie’s comfort zone. “Strangers When We Meet” is top-tier, and I have a lot of affection for “I’m Deranged” and even “The Motel.”

Colbert sold it very clearly as satire - a lot of his bits made his character the butt of the joke or had his character “accidentally” debunk right-wing taking points. He also had the sense to avoid ironic hate speech. 

Fortunately there are people who conduct research on this exact topic and can provide more granular data:

I’ll be shocked if Barbie doesn’t win Best Picture. Oppenheimer has a shot, but it made less money and had less cultural penetration - it’s the kind of movie that got Best Picture a few decades ago. Barbie is a billion-dollar crowd-pleaser with a mildly subversive edge and no superheroes. It’s a lock.

Almost as exhausting as the Academy Awards themselves?

When I was a kid, I used the Kree-Skrull War as an indicator of which Fantastic Four comics to avoid.

Nothing more fun to read than the middle ground.

When one version of Quicksilver appeared in Avengers 2 and another appeared in X-Men, I remember reading that only the MCU version was allowed to be Scarlet Witch’s brother, and only the Fox version was allowed to be Magneto’s son. Poor bastard. 

There was an interesting Variety article that argued superhero movies have done what they can do, and producing more won’t enable them to do more. It was an interesting take on the whole situation, and it certainly rang true for me. Despite my lifelong love of Spider-Man, Batman, and the X-Men, I’m not remotely…

Stabbing a bad person to death doesn’t make you a good person.

Don’t worry - there aren’t. 

I agree that she probably won’t kill her mom a second time, but she’s at risk of having a short life. Incredibly severe child abuse culminating in murder is a rickety platform for adulthood.

I’m surprised how many people don’t know that you can easily record your screen in Windows without additional software.

So replace “get tired of” with "no longer see value in" - either way, the control over media accessibility is centralized in a way that I dislike. 

Child abuse, incarceration, and celebrity are three of the worst things that can happen to a person, and she got the hat trick. Here’s hoping there aren’t any more violent deaths in her future. 

I suppose, but I’m not sure Hollywood actually managed to follow that example. Sony tried with The Amazing Spider-Man, and it didn’t work out. Fox tried (kinda) with the X-Men prequels, and it didn’t work out. The MCU hasn’t attempted a reboot. WB rebooted Batman again in the Snyder movies, and it didn’t work out, so…

Ironically, the entertainment landscape is gradually evolving into the mid-1980s. Home video is a niche industry, there’s a cutthroat subscription market, series have reruns until the producers get tired of licensing them, independent productions have minimal theatrical distribution, and major studios are going…

Conservatively, 90% of people’s love for the Nolan Batman movies is because of The Dark Knight. But that movie wasn’t really an influence on the MCU - it came out the same time as Iron Man, and the subsequent MCU movies followed Iron Man’s tone and aesthetic.