I assumed this article was going to be about an actual cake that's been in someone's freezer for 40 years. I'll just resign myself to reading about this century-old wedding cake:

Personally, I would consider the first round of MCU movies and the original Avengers to be the most satisfying output of the whole franchise, since they managed some degree of thematic coherence and had fairly manageable casts. Iron Man and Avengers are the only MCU movies I've ever felt compelled to watch more than…

At this point the MCU has successfully streamlined anything thematically coherent out of their movies, and even with great casts it's hard for them to even excel as plot- and one-liner-delivery machines. As failures of ambition go, they're on par with Hollywood's other creatively exhausted franchises but with the…

I don't care for his movies at all, but they are lovely in their monochromatic way.

Yeah, I thought the bigger deal about that sequence was that they commissioned a super-light digital camera that could be actually mounted on a regatta-weight boat without tipping it.

Also, there's a CG alien in some shots that is integrated… not-seamlessly.

Whew, sane response in the top slot. I was curious where this board would go.

I would mildly disagree in that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is explicitly a TV show about a rape survivor and builds jokes around her PTSD, which is an outrageous and very ballsy way to make comedy. So it's not fair to say that it lacks a political stance or compare it to older Simpsons, which deliberately avoided…

My wife and I were just discussing how the phrase "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" is increasingly either meaningless or an oxymoron. It's cool to say "gay people can marry whoever they want, and weed should be legal," but if you're chasing that with "less funding to WIC and Medicaid" you're basically saying…

Yes, we all will, and then we'll die and the new generation will take over and wonder what the fuck was wrong with us. They'll also forget some of the things that we realize are important, and they may very well have to solve problems again that we've already solved.

It's larger than that. There are practical legal difficulties in differentiating protected and non-protected speech, and the extreme right has taken advantage of that ambiguity to claim that hate speech is legally protected (which, ugh, but maybe that's the cost of a plurality). Now the extreme right has taken it a…

There was an interesting op/ed in the New Yorker recently talking about how the purpose of free speech isn't to allow everyone to say whatever they want at any time - free speech exists to create a meaningful social discourse. When someone's platform holds that certain groups (immigrants, racial minorities, gay…

The post you're replying to is a nice part of why this conversation gets so irritating. Kimmy Schmidt has a fairly mild thing to say - "young people embrace political jargon because they're silly" - which then gets translated to "young people's political opinions are silly" to "this show agrees with me that an…

That "bottoms up" exchange almost made me cry, especially because Titus is still using his "dudebro" voice.

The interesting difference between this show and something like reddit or 4chan is the show's absolute unwillingness to take its political targets seriously. The show isn't lampooning the idea of "political correctness," it's lampooning the impulse of young, educated people to disguise their naivete with politicized…

Reading this post is weakening my resolve - I've been putting off a modest (about $250) memory and video card upgrade.

They're full games. They're mostly more of the same, only worth tower defense and grappling hooks.

Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection. Over 120 hours of gameplay, with nearly 15 hours of content!

I saw that movie in a crowded theater as a teenager. It was an awkward experience.

I actually find the (incessant, God so fucking incessant) use of the non-term "SJW" to pretty much encapsulate the whole thing. That stereotype of a loudmouthed, self-righteous, obtuse liberal has been around for most of American history (at least), but the current internet-based incarnation of it is just part of an…