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Yes, too many people are going to the movies during a pandemic. Read more

AV Club’s position is that too many people are going to the movies from a health perspective and not enough are going to justify Warner Brothers finacial strategy. There’s no reason those two things are incompatible.

Yes, that is the obvious and sensible reading. Read more

The A.V. Club Read more

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but it seems that your lede is “too many people are going to the movies,” but your conclusion is “very few people are going to the movies.” Do I have that right? Read more

And this.. is why we need to start enforcement of people making these claims. They are all culpable. I know a while back there was the trial and conviction of a female for texting a guy she knew to kill himself and he did. Pull IP addresses and usernames from Logs and go after them. Read more

I blame this toxicity on the ultra reactionary people - which by now have become part of some alt-right group/chan - who through their prolificacy, normalized that behavior on the internet

Oh, they pause. They consider. And then they lol. Read more

If you were cursed to be born without a sense of humor or a single iota of charisma, then being an edgelord seems to be the go to substitute for internet shut-ins everywhere.

I’ve only ever said ‘KYS’ three times ever. The first two were for the worst of the worst trolls I’ve ever seen and the last was for one hardcore right wing nutjob Trump supporter, even then, I feel a little weird about it.

It’s unfortunate that gaming culture is like this. It’s even more unfortunate that it became… Read more

People are making jokes about his passing in his Twitch channel as we speak. Some people will just never develop empathy.

One must also consider that the toxic layer of the internet is fully aware of the consequences and acts maliciously. No amount of pause is going to eliminate this layer.

The offical AV Club party line is that The Last Jedi was an amazing movie that revitalized the Star Wars franchise, and if you didn’t like it you are a sexist CHUD who deserves to rot in your parents’ basement for all eternity.
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There’s a very contrarian bent when it comes to Star Wars in certain places, especially here.

Star Wars films can never be accused of being great art, but they shouldn’t be boring. TLJ was dull as hell.

Hell, The Last Jedi was one of the best things to happen to this series in decades and people are still arguing about how it was actually bad.
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She’s kinda hott and some people like to masturbate while looking at her.

Playing a withdrawn teen. Read more

This is what you’ve been training for, people! This is not a drill! Now get in there, isolate yourselves, and play games like your life depends on it!

They’re hoping to get a softer landing at their backup job when the world realizes there is no need to pay a human for 250 word blog posts and links to better websites.

I don’t understand why it’s not better. To me, it’s the difference between a character people wanted to apply their identity to suddenly going heterosexual because they found the right person, invalidating the legitimacy of homosexuality, and making that heterosexual interaction a purely transactional interaction,… Read more