And like, that’s fine? He doesn’t have to endorse someone if he doesn’t want to I guess, but what really chaps me about it is how he really *thinks* he’s being a hero here. “My goal is to bring this country together.” Like fuck you, dude. What hubris to think you personally have the power to bring the country together…

And why did Rick leave his iron fist behind?

What a nice big spoiler on the front page, in both the title and the image. 

I also wouldn’t refer to GoT fans as being a mature and reasonable bunch in general, but they probably are significantly more so than the audience for a preteen movie.

The entire rest of the cast also went out of their way in just about every interview to stress how nice and unlike Joffrey he was, clearly knowing this would happen otherwise.

Knocking on wood that this is correct.

Ah, Mark Wahlberg. Poster boy for our amnesiac, peri-Trump pop culture.

Anne Hathaway is smokin’ hot. She looks gorgeous! I would say she looks better now than when she was 25. Leave her alone. 

Speaking of playing hated characters, anyone keeping an eye on Jack Gleeson?

It’s because Lawrence leaned way too hard into trying to cultivate that cool girl image, implying she was really just some schlubby dork who fell ass-backwards into an acting career through no real fault (or effort) of her own.  People saw through that pretty quickly, given she’d been acting since childhood.

Not like that, though.  Lots of famous women are confident who don’t get a months-long hate campaign about them.

Didn’t the hatred pre-date Les Mis?  I vaguely remember people hating Hathaway even well before the Oscars hosting gig with Franco, although that hosting gig seemed to amplify people’s dislike of her.

I don’t think anyone hates Chris Pratt for being Christian.  It’s his particular brand of Christianity that people have a problem with.  So it seems a different pedigree of bullying. But there could be something to the overexposure thing, as everyone loved Chris Pratt when he was just the guy on Parks and Rec.

I’m just going to assume, for the sake of not bashing my head against a wall, that you aren’t saying we should hate Anne Hathaway because you found an episode of Between Two Ferns she was on “cringe.”

It seems like these avant garde performance art style comedians always take things way too far in the name of comedy (see also Andy Kaufman). There may be pushback, but I kind of doubt it, seems like with Borat firmly in the rearview mirror there’s not so much love for SBC. 

Even at the time I never understood what everyone hated about her.  It was all nothing but juvenile meanness and never made sense.  She’s never had any scandal or anything that would indicate she was a bad person; she didn’t deserve that.

Tears in the rain

Herb mandated that it’s no longer a gaming news site but a gaming guide site that needs 50 guides a week. EiC didn’t like this and quit. It kept being brought up in comments and now there’s no more comments. 

The day before the comments went away on Kotaku i saw the impending change being discussed there. Something to do with a pivot to more guides & less news, mandated by the person who makes such decisions for Gizmodo (Herb something?). The Root did away with their comments entirely a while back as well, but I gathered…

Yeah, I’m torn. Part is obviously “Why you gotta fuck with shit?” But at the same time, this is basically the least harmful way for the exploits to have gotten used and publicly known.