I still think the Tiger LCD handhelds look cool as objects, even if the games sucked. I played a lot of Street Fighter 2 and Sonic 3 on car trips in elementary school, but even then I didn’t think of them as real videogames.

They should have thrown those balls in people’s faces! ROCK’N’ROLL!!!!

Criticism is punished in all dictatorships, most of which aren’t and haven’t historically been communist by any stretch. Try criticizing the king of Thailand. Try talking shit about the Saudi royal family in Saudi Arabia. You could argue that authoritarianism in inherent to hardline communism, though it’s debatable,…

Another thing is that China has never been a democracy. Russia had never been a democracy prior to the Soviet Union. Cuba was a dictatorship. All those places were authoritarian and oppressive before they were Communist. The new dictators just used ideas that were popular at the time to get into power.

It’s no such thing. The crimes committed in the name of communism are the on hands of the leaders who committed them; they’re the outcome of brutal and and stupid dictators. Nazism is literally about genocide.

It’s 2019 and Cam’ron still can’t talk about dinosaurs without saying “pause”

One of the best of all ‘90s brawlers is in 3D; it’s Sega’s Die Hard Arcade. That game has “scenes” rather than levels, meaning you progress through shorter, unique set pieces, with lots of crazy weapons and a fairly expansive moveset. It’s a pure arcade experience. The Dreamcast sequel (Dynamite Cop) is good too, but…

You’re right to prefer the original Final Fight! Final Fight 2 has some of the worst pacing in the genre, with levels that absolutely never end, and 3, while better than 2, has very, very passive enemies, which makes it kind of boring. The first game might have fewer moves, but it’s just better designed. It’s also…

Golden Axe III is far better than II. It’s got more interesting levels, new moves that actually matter (you can block and use low attacks), and there’s a very fast and mobile character who can double-jump. Plus there are multiple paths through each stage. It’s a really good beat-’em-up. Critics were just down on the…

That was just hyperbole. He immediately went on to qualify that statement that clarifying that they’re not “the cinema of...” literally in the next sentence. People getting hung up on that first sentence act like they’ve never talked out loud in their lives. Whatever you say doesn’t always come out exactly as you mean…

Carlito’s Way was De Palma, my dude. And Cape Fear is in no way a gangster movie, as you know yourself.

... I believe the definition is a little more specific than that. A TV show is filmed, but we know it’s not a movie cause it’s a TV show. Porn is not “cinema”, it’s just porn. Me filming my cat doing something funny is not “cinema” or “a movie”.

...and then there’s the worst kind of pretentious douchebag, the one who makes sure to shit on each side of every debate to show his superiority to everyone involved.

It came easily to you because you’re a nerd, though.

How many times does that stupid “Scorsese’s done nothing but gangster movies” argument need to get stomped out before you ignorant / disingenuous idiots keep trotting it out? The vast majority of his filmography doesn’t consist of gangster movies. He really hasn’t made many, they were never a “series”, and he didn’t…

Adults liking superheroes has traditionally been in the realm of nerd shit. This may or may not have changed now that it’s super mainstream, depending how you look at it.

That plus the kind of aversion to socializing that makes libertarianism an various flavors of far-right fuckery so popular in Silicon Valley.

They’re bemoaning the state of the industry and the loss of a certain filmgoing experience they value when they say that, not criticizing the actual movies being made for Netflix.

By that definition anything ever filmed is cinema, which I’m sure you don’t believe. 

They’re both examples of nerds acting like trash now that they run pop culture, even if it’s to very different degrees.