At this point I’ll take what I can get. A choppy-looking incomplete game that’s actually trying something fresh is far more compelling to me than the “I’ll hold your hand and stroll you through a mediocre story” approach of the main series.

They sold comparably, but Ghost of Tsushima was just a better game.  

Friendly reminder that Metroid Dread is better than at least half the games on this list.

Hot dog chili. Michigan dogs are part of a whole complex of chili dogs that are named after places that have never herd of them. Midwestern Coney Island Dogs or “coneys” aren’t from Coney Island. Michigan Dogs aren’t from Michigan. Jersey’s Texas Wieners have fuck all to do with Texas.

A thin meat sauce, similar to what is on a Coney dog in Detroit. Usually has “warm” spices like cinnamon, allspice, etc...

They are also very common in upstate NY, often covered in michigan sauce.

the only time i’ve ever had red hot dogs was on a summer vacation in maine, and so they are intensely nostalgic for me. this was the same era as the heinz colored ketchups, so bright red hot dogs with purple ketchup was the order of the day and it was fun, albeit kinda weird.

Not a cheap shot. That interview implies one reason Lana made the movie, but the movie itself (by this reviewer’s read of it) implies a different reason.

Somewhat off topic, but I just watched JUPITER ASCENDING last week for the first time and I...kind of loved it? It was ridiculously fun. I know Eddie Redmayne won a Razzie for it but I adored his wacked out Crispin Glover energy.

I’m not sure you can call it a cheap shot if the film itself implies this as strongly as this reviewer and others are saying. It’s possible for a creator to be of two minds about their own work (i.e. Trinity and Neo could be incredibly comforting figures...in a movie Lana really didn’t want to make).

Surely given the subject matter of the film, the grade should have been C++?

They’re testing the waters for a game proper. Calling it right now.

Still say El Camino was a waste of film.

There’s a lot that’s really bad about Many Saints of Newark, but the biggest problem is that this was a script Chase wrote years earlier about the Newark Riots, which he retrofitted to be a Sopranos movie so he could get it made. Those seams are highly visible. Leslie Odom’s character is completely pointless and…

You really can’t turn this around into ‘perhaps it is u who are petty’ - the guy gleefully harassed and targeted minorities, and much of his anguish was that his website matured (to a degree) while he didn’t. The Something Awful website bankrolled his entire lifestyle even as he grifted and complained server costs…

Something Awful produced a wild amount of humor and culture for decades and had a massively outsized influence for a long time. It was a place where I learned a lot about writing, about politics and some other things.

the bit about not talking to Dunst on set is misleading- in the NYTimes article Dunst talks about how they went to dinner together every week and how wonderfully nice he was. It was ONLY on set that he didn’t talk to her because only on set was he fully in character at all times.

My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?

Oh I’m not done with NFTs at all. I love them, bring it on! I’m always hungry for a Nice Fuckin Tomato!

Well Dune also had to contend with a simultaneous streaming release on HBO for “free”. I know a few people who watched it that way.