Is there a planned intermission at least? That’s a looooong time without a bathroom break. At least classic CINEMA had that built-in.

Especially considering these three gems from his recent comments

Maybe it’s because I read a lot of 19th century and early 20th century lit, but... this sentence makes complete sense to me and parses rather easily. Do commas and additional clauses confuse you? Can you only read Hemingway styled sentences? 

I just treated it like Pokémon anime where the mouth dialogue never matches up mixed with the silent movie cutscenes the games and others (and movies) have always done. This just seems like a complaint judging a game for what people wanted rather than the game that is. Plus each of those super cinematic cutscenes are…

No voice-acting? “Where’s the voice acting?”

Really? No voice acting is a necessarily bad thing now? Do you listen to what people say fully and not skip to the next line of dialogue? Are people so aggrieved by reading these days that they need voice acting to coddle them? Can you not do voices in your head? How do you play games from before 2000? Is choosing not…

Not gonna lie, that’s entirely why I initially gave him $25 when he first announced (that and that was before he came out with his “policies”). 

Yes. Obama was an empty rhetoric neoliberal moderate that tried to be conciliatory towards Republicans even in the face of their intransigence and who probably was not privately blind to the obvious racism of the Tea Party but in an effort to remain civil to white supremacists publicly kept his tongue. Plus the whole…

Yeah! Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse wasn’t a superhero movie! It just involved multiple people with spider powers and villains and action scenes!

He said that the Tea Party had the right idea and a good direction for America. Fuuuuuck this guy. Why is this principleless shithead the first major G candidate? Plus he lied about having endorsements from major black political makers in South Carolina. Plus he lied about his Medicare for All support.

I still miss The Joel McHale Show on Netflix. It was weekly! Perfect for a Sunday morning getting stoned and laughing my ass laugh.

Definitey check out season 3 if you haven’t. The deep dive into the quotidian workings of the Cleveland police department and justice system as a microcosm of the system as a whole was fascinating to someone who hasn’t had to deal with it at all. It helped drive across just how fucked and powerful DAs are and how the…

See, now THIS is a good comment that adds to the question of legitimacy. Serial also seemed to be in the public conversation nationally for a longer period of time due to the serialization aspect you mentioned. All those other documentaries were largely one and done, and even then didn’t have millions of…

So his essays and books about needing prison reform or having a murder in Oliver Twist is the same thing as glorifying and cheering at a public hanging? There’s a world of difference between penny dreadfuls and wallowing in Jack the Ripper details and attending deaths, and writing about the plight of the underclass…

Because the author is using legitimate in a different connotation than you are it’s not legitimate in the sense of “these weren’t true crime works.” It’s legitimate in the sense of having “high culture”’s imprimatur of “now this is okay for non-guilty pleasure consumption”. You can disagree that what the New Yorker…

...that’s not what the essay says? It says that Dickens was upset at the idea of people going to public executions for fun and picnics based on essays he himself wrote about it? I don’t think what we’d call “true crime” is going to beheadings and hangings

Yeah, it’s not as if the essay’s first paragraph talked about 1500s chapbooks, or Dickens, or In Cold Blood. They ignored it all by mentioning it!

Great insightful comment here that thoroughly discussed the merit of the essay. You deserve a Peabody yourself for this. 

Nice copy-paste that didn’t respond to anything I said. You seem smart

Can’t tell if sarcasm or not...