These are the awards for works released in 2020. They are being awarded later than usual due to COVID.

I’m glad Wells won. The Murderbot series is great, tons of fun to read, and loaded with interesting ideas that never feel forced.

This list of winners skips the authors so it’s not clear that Martha Wells won for both Best Novel and Best Series. And T. Kingfisher won both Best Short Story and Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.

what is “dignity...”

Dennis Lee:  he’s happy to sacrifice his dignity because he lost it a long time ago!

I’d like to be known as the pissy shitties guy from now on. Pissy shitties.

It Is 2021. Star Citizen Has Raised $400,000,000, And Is Still Not Out.

I believe it’s called burying the lede. That’s the closest thing to a smoking gun in this GTA6 speculation, as far as I’m concerned.

If I remember correctly, the crews fucked that house up right good shooting in it — like I think they took walls out and shit. And also the filming in the house took many, many months longer than initially planned -- meaning the family who actually owned the house was stuck in a hotel much longer than they’d planned…

(I give every home in movies/television a 30% interior size inflation break just so that the camera crews can fit in it, like the corridors on the Enterprise, or the Connor’s house on Roseanne.)

Also the kid is British!!  The only British people I root for are Doctor Who(Who is not actual British, just an alien with a British accent) and Mr Bean.   The rest of those tea drinking Queen lovers can sod off!!!

Eh, murdering a child isn’t really a “yeah, well he started it!" type of deal, especially since they could have just fucked off at any point.

Yeah, as with many of his movies John Hughes’s barely concealed conservatism is not difficult to spot in Home Alone, but the message is much more in a law and order, “rich people must and deserve to protect their property at all costs” vein. Harry and Marv were also a legitimate threat and repeatedly tried to murder…

And not only can they afford to fly the whole family to Paris, they can afford to fly the adults in first class.

The Wet Bandits, at least, manage to be completely unsympathetic regardless of their economic situation by being willfully destructive. They aren’t Jean Valjean stealing bread to survive, they’re opening faucets and plugging drains in order to flood the homes that they burglarize.

Be careful. You’ve written enough background here for Disney to make a Wet Bandits origin story. Obviously, they would be orphans who grew up in a water starved desert town which they saved by diverting irrigation piping from the McAllister golf course.

Probably, but the “bad guys” think he did, so it’s weird that we’re meant to root against desperate people who want to recover stolen property that could save them from homelessness.

SPOILERS: In the post-credits scene, they flash-forward to the kid as an adult in a creepy mask with a siren blaring in the background, and you realise the whole thing has been a prequel to the Purge movies.

An argument can be made for not parsing the social messaging of films like this one too deeply, as the creative team probably didn’t.

So the film’s setup is really ‘little shit steals priceless doll from destitute couple’ and we’re supposed to root for him? Buzz, your screenplay, woof.