It is always impressive when writers can turn what should be a purely commercial property into something better.

Maybe I’m just getting old and soft, but my mind went to all the devs and team members who actually probably worked very hard on this game and were likely to some degree mismanaged. Hopefully they work on enough not to have this kind of thing affect them too much, but I’m sure it can’t be great for morale.

probably still going to be young adults for the foreseeable future, so....

Tennon continued by describing the movie as “edu-tainment,”

I watch “Ted Lasso.”

That would be a good point if he hadn’t explicitly discussed “Grey’s Anatomy” on his show. I’m paraphrasing, but his two points were that nobody really thinks actual doctors and nurses at a hospital are that attractive, and (more importantly) the show would be in trouble if it actively depicted medical misinformation…

So, pretty damn clear that Fury doesn’t actually say “This is different,” right?

Why is there, um, scarring on her eyebrows?

TONIGHT

Half Life 3 confirmed!

Are y’all really whining about the pop culture site covering the most talked about pop culture drama of the moment?

If an organization cancels an event they were going to hold, they should be allowed to explain why. I’m sorry you think keeping their attendees safe and LGBTQ+ people existing (which make up a decent number of speedrunners for some games) are “politics”.

Shut the fuck up snowflake

The Boys coverage tends to focus on Antony Starr and Karen Fukuhara’s incredible performances, but Erin Moriarty has done phenomenal work as Starlight. In the first season her character has to be brutalized, exploited, and silenced but Erin still plays her with agency and driving her own story. That’s a tough line to…

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You’re talking to a dude who consciously cosplays as an insufferable pedant. I don't know that "it's fantasy" is going to wash with that type.

Yup, that was Michael McDonald, who, if memory serves, has some experience being an adult playing an irritating child.

“I literally prayed, ‘Please have a joke at the end. Don’t do this. Please don’t go down there.’ And there was no joke at the end.”