I didn't start with the attacks on my person.
Not that this hasn't been a blast, but it's 3:25 a.m here and my coffee is wearing off. I hope I didn't incense you too much.

Says the guy who called me an "insufferable, little twerp"

Again with the personal attacks. Is it really so difficult to have a relatively civilized discussion? It it so hard to conceive that a word has different contexts in different parts of the world and to different people? That a term can evolve its meaning over time instead of being locked into one narrow definition?

"Michael J. Pfeifer, whose book Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1847—1947 (2004) provided an excellent comparative study of lynching in seven states, tackles the foundation problem in The Roots of Rough Justice. Although recognizing and briefly discussing the British origins of American lynching and the…

"Lynching is an extra-legal trial and punishment by an informal group." Does ruining a man's reputation, career and legacy not count as punishment?

And here come the ad hominems.
Also, you might want to look up the definition of a moral panic.

Celebrities accused of rape found through one google search:

I don't give a shit about him as a person. I think his shows are pretty terrible and he is woefully unfunny in every single way. If he were to drop dead tomorrow, I wouldn't spare him a single thought. What I DO care about is when people presume guilt from unfounded allegations, some of which are decades old, that…

he is not being criticised. He is being steamrolled. The pitchforks, torches and noose may be gone, but the venomous malice is still there.

This sort of moral panic is nothing new. When one case pops up, many more do. From the Salem Witch Trials to the terrorism fear in the 00s, when one case came up, the fingers started pointing all around, usually for no good reason. The same pattern is emerging here. Unvalidated claims that can't be proven or refuted,…

Holy shit is it pathetic to read this comments section. Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? Does that not matter to anyone any more? It finding a culprit in this decade's moral panic more important than the basic values of a society ruled by law or are you all keen to go back to the days of the Lynch…

I would be genuinely interested in seeing a series like that.

If you are so mad about this film being called out for historical innacuracies while others aren't, why not start and AV Club series exploring the subject? Or would that require actual work instead of repeated shouting of opinion?

An actor/actress winning an Oscar for a movie that ISN'T clear oscar-bait? Never going to happen. If you look at the category winners, there is a very clear trend of winners being from "prestige" pictures that follow the formula the academy loves. The only real exceptions in the past 20 years are Cotillard for "La vie…

The problem I had was that there wasn't even a tiny little acknowledgement that they had even met before. Even if they didn't like each other, which the characterization made it clear they didn't, what they went though should have left at least a begrudging respect or, worst case, outright hostility. Instead there was…

[Slight Spoiler Alert] The fact that the main villain of DA:I is someone you already killed previously in the series gives you an idea of how much impact previous decisions have on your game. I did the whole Keep thing, aligning mye new world with the games I had played previously, but apart from a few small cameos,…

I would assume you didn't much like the Infinity Engine games or the original Fallout games either?

No love for Divinity:Original Sin? Or will that be in part 2?

"it is deeply, profoundly American"
Sort of an ironic statement since the non-featured artist is, in fact, French. So apparently the French are better at being american than most Americans now.

My GOD was pop music dull this year. I have heard his previous ones which tend to be quite driving, but this was just a snooze-fest. Even 31 flavors of EDM would be better.