I won’t take anything away from the performance because yes, Vaughn kills it in that role. BUT. I take a lot less enjoyment from his bits knowing now that he’s a fucking gun guy. It adds context to the character that I wish I didn’t have.

Tangentially related, I’m really disappointed by the complete series collection available in the U.S. It’s DVD and the packaging is bare-bones. I still bought it on sale but the show deserves better.

The chemistry between Pitt and Jolie is undeniably a huge reason for its success. But don’t discount some really fun action choreography. Like REALLY fun. It’s the primary reason I enjoy it. The chemistry of those actors in those characters having those fights, both with each other and with goons, is a fantastic mix.

If he felt that screwed there was always the Alan Smithee option. He has no right to complain at that point. Take your name off the product.

That’s fair and I think exemplified in the review by the wrist-grab thing. That’s abusive. But the example immediately preceding it is a boy insisting that a girl try horse riding even though she says she has and doesn’t like it. That’s not abusive, that’s stupid. That’s a dumb boy’s dumb ego.

I don’t know enough about the history of journalism to make this a full-throated complaint but it certain *seems* like far too many modern journalists/nonfiction writers feel the need to crowbar in their generation’s slang terms. The G/O sites especially seem guilty of this.

As a former boy, we’re kind of stupid. I’ve heard that current boys are getting much better but... I dunno. I see this complaint a fair bit about fictional teenage boys and I find it strange. It almost always comes from women and while I get that part of fiction is wish fulfillment and I personally tend to rail…

When people harp on the sex of the scene I also feel like they’re entirely missing the point. It wasn’t ABOUT sex, ya dummies.

We already had a word for that long ago. It’s schadenfreude. There’s no need to believe in cancel culture when we have words for these things. Consequences. Schadenfreude. Boycotts. Political correctness. All the stuff people think of when you use the words “cancel culture”. It’s just a boogeyman buzzword for assholes…

People still endlessly (IMO idiotically) bring up the sewer scene at the end of Stephen King’s It as pedo propaganda. So no, I don’t think those responses will stop.

As a former Pittsburgher who hopes to return some day, you shut your damn mouth! Anthrocon is a delight! (Maybe they could shift the date from “jesus christ middle of summertime” but otherwise...)

Which is especially galling given that her temper tantrums forced the Good Wife writers to work around keeping her and Archie Panjabi, playing a bisexual woman, apart. Nevermind representation then, oh no! Girl was taking too much attention and audience affection from the Lead Actress.

Yeah, I believe the essence was “Hulk Hogan is a shitbird and these women are decent humans.” Which is a true enough statement on its own but an absolutely terrible journalistic ethos. It didn’t help that they had absurdly grandiose ideas about their own journalistic standards, which some of the editorial board seemed…

Oh my friend, you are condescending to exactly the wrong person here. I’m well aware of “basic element of story telling”. I teach it for a living! And at least two of my former students have been Emmy nominees. FWIW there is a marked difference between what I ACTUALLY wrote and what you somehow gathered from what I wro…

It was also always hard for me to goof around in Skyrim VR while regular Skyrim was still on my system. Between the improved graphics of the later editions and the ability to use mods... (Especially the one that changes all the written dialogue into Khajiit and the one that removes spiders.) (Spiders in VR... fuuuuuck…

I don’t know what else I expected but I was genuinely surprised by that aspect of the court case. They seemed to be almost *working at* being insufferable fuckwits. That case was, by all accounts at the time, theirs to lose. And boy did they.

Tsk. I don’t deserve this kind reply. I deserve a “Shut up, you jagoff.” (I’ve spent just enough of my life in Pittsburgh to have a fondness for that word, too.)

Then Paste readers could deal with endless whining from oldheads about How It Used to Be.

That is this whole host of sites generally. Hence their enormous lawsuit years ago. You can’t post an article condemning the Fappening and then go around laughing at Hulk Hogan’s cuckold video. Hypocrisy was Gawker’s downfall and I laughed my ass off, even while bemoaning that Hogan was backed by a rich monster…

That number of VR players would go up if the motherfuckers would just fucking update to PSVR2.