Question for the AV Club staff: when did the site’s house style officially change to “be so smug and snarky that whatever credible point might be buried in the article is invalidated”?

If you keep seeing the complaint over and over again, maybe it’s becoming something of a valid complaint. 

Okay, so this is massively stupid. An actor’s job is, quite by definition, to portray someone/thing they’re not. Should Dustin Hoffman not have been cast in Rain Man? Was Daniel Day-Lewis the wrong choice for My Left Foot because he doesn’t actually have CP? I don’t think these films are any less effective or…

I think I said this over at I09 last week, but I’ll repeat this here:

Which of course has absolutely nothing to do with how they’re applied, which is what your original post is about.

So I’m guessing this isn’t going to show how Reagan’s war on drugs was specifically meant to impact poor and black people, how his response to the AIDS epidemic was basically exactly like Trump’s response to COVID-19 (“do nothing and hope it only kills the people we want it to kill”), and covertly funded arms to…

Murphy.

As a parent of 2 kids, one of whom is just 2, I know for a fact one of the defining characteristics of babies is putting shit in their mouths that they’re not supposed to.  So, people are mad at a baby for doing something that all babies do.  People are stupid.

Joe Rogan would accept a wrong answer if the contestant was emphatic enough.

No, there’s a zero chance of divorce. I’m sure he’s got an ironclad pre-nup that guarantees her nothing. She sold her soul for that lifestyle.

I believe the movie had Ryan Choi working with Cyborg’s dad at STAR Labs, so it’s possible the only POC removed from the movie not associated with the reduction of Fisher’s part in the story was the lady playing Iris West (who I guess was removed to make the Flash more of a friendless loser?).

I think Archers point is that they backslided pretty easily when he returned, with the exception of Cyril who tried his best. Like he actively pestered Cyril and Lana but everyone fell apart seamlessly, and instead of helping Cyril they laughed at Archers jokes and joined in. Like OBVIOUSLY Archer is a PoS and ruined…

Fillion is old and fat and not famous enough and his tiny fanbase consists entirely of middle aged female nerds and elderly female procedural fans.

Imagine a train wreck, but instead of grinding to a halt after plowing through an elementary school, the train wreck starts moving again, crashes through an old folks’ home, causes another train to derail, and then somehow votes for Trump.

It’s weird, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a Canadian nationalist, till now. It’s almost a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron, at least. 

That’s one of the many things here he’s made points of that’s particularly amusing. 

This product is definitely a bit silly, but just to put some of those seemingly dumb As Seen on TV products into perspective - a lot of them actually solve problems for disabled folks. If you have limited mobility, tremors, are in a wheelchair, etc., etc. they can come in pretty handy. For instance, the “Sock Slider”…

But it feels so delicious to be self-righteous, outraged, and offended, doesn’t it?

Perhaps the same reason people love acting outraged over an inconsequential tweet from a stranger they don’t care about.

Fuck you, this movie’s great. I used to feel like trash for liking it so much when I was younger, then I watched it again and realized that it’s the closest thing we’ll ever get to the actual PG-13 spirit Scooby-Doo always needed but never got. It’s fun, the production design is excellent, and it completely gets the…