I think that person was immediately arrested, and yet the Proud Boys existed as an organization that regularly threatened and planned terroristic actions for a literal decade, often involving the cooperation of folks high up in our government and media landscapes.

If that’s all it were, it’d be fine. Because then the ludicrous “theft” of the certificate created here would have been seen as fundamentally illegitimate and another certificate of ownership produced.

But that’s not what happened here. They turned a JPEG into a farcically more stealable bearer bond for its own…

There are a lot of amazing burns in this review, but:

“Consequently, long-abused fans of the franchise are treated to a meandering retread of the earlier installments’ greatest hits, along with a handful of Spielberg homages peppered in as a vivid reminder of exactly who Trevorrow isn’t as a filmmaker.”

I instinctively…

You know how you can get a license to marry people from the Church of Elvis?

That’s about how stringent some states’ firearm dealer registry laws are.

The problem with your equivalency is that you are equating the vast majority of white collar crime, which is generally theft from vast amounts of citizens either directly or through fraud, with the usage of copyrightable material, which is far more debatable as even a crime from a philosophical sense. Especially…

If you can understand that Anthony Hopkins would have been repulsed being forced to eat human flesh while doing PR for Silence of the Lambs, even though he was perfectly capable of portraying someone who actually sought that kind of meal out, then you should be capable of giving that same understanding to Mr. Page.…

Nah, there are plenty of Star Trek fans who called TNG and DS9 “too PC” in the 90s and use “woke” as an epithet to describe Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds now. Let’s not confuse the content of a piece of media for a picture of its audience’s morality. Lord knows the audience doesn’t. Which is rather the poin…

“we should be treating sexuality as something that does not completely define a character”

That would imply progress, but that progress also erases the identities created by peoples who must necessarily define themselves by their sexuality, not just because it’s a wholly free self-expression, but because our culture…

If you’re correct (and I, knowing nothing about said contracts, have no reason to think you aren’t), then I’m almost certain that every single one of his lawyers slapped themselves in the head simultaneously when he went public saying that, yes, he actually DID know what he was signing. It would have been the quickest…

Yes, precisely. I see my past self in you, and am embarrassed for you in an empathetic way. Hypocritical and unregarded projection is harmful, but not all projection is hypocritical or unregarded, even though it’s mostly used in a casually imprecise way to describe bad faith arguments/arguers. It’s a way folks…

Or rather, he owes us one.

“maybe in the court (and in your mind) but not it the court of public opinion it does,”

And now you’ve ably proven Heard’s countersuit.

Nuance isn’t dead. The people around here can accept that banally both-sides-ing the shitty toxic masculinity that floats around the internet around these topics isn’t nuance, and you can’t.

If you are living in a world where you think your words can’t be twisted out of context and are performatively angry about folks saying otherwise, it sounds like you just wanted to make yourself a part of the story, which was shitty.

And to be clear, it’s the end that’s the hurtful part. No one’s childhood is ruined. But it sucks to see things you grew up with under the control of assholes simply looking to manipulate our nostalgia for cash. The game isn’t insulting, the soulless motivations, and the lack of respect for us as audience and the…

All of the live action IPs put into Mortal Kombat had already descended into ultraviolent commercialized self-parody anyways. You can’t ruin John Rambo when literally every film after First Blood ruined him already. Bizarrely, the Mortal Kombat iterations of many of these characters are in many ways more faithful to…

Ernest Cline predicted a future where people like him are convinced they are the most important people in the world, but are really just good consumers of the pablum produced by the real rulers of the world, most of them self-centered idiots that see the rest of us as nothing more than pawns in their own narcissistic…

With Smash Bros, it helps that the majority of video game characters are written, so to speak, to be blank ciphers beyond their desire to do take actions (heroic or otherwise) that form the basis of gameplay in their respective games. This helps the crossover conceit, because there’s no soul to reshape, no character…

Better pay, better benefits, dignity, respect, agency, and community. The order of importance may shift depending on the comparative lacks thereof, but those things are ultimately what it boils down to. Because that’s what it always boils down to.

Because it recognizes that a lot more people contribute to the end result of a mixed-media comedy than the writers, especially when improv is involved, especially when so many are visual gags made by animators?

*shrug* As a designer, I appreciate this gentlest of nods towards my work simply by increasing the vagueness…