great write-up as usual, one of the only columns i look forward to anymore. someday it would be great to see this as a collection in print!

they’re the ones making political statements. i don’t think they probably should because the people writing them are obviously fucking idiots, but if they’re going to put it in the game i think it’s totally fair to take it to pieces.

oh god i forgot about the goblins, fucking rowling always one-ups everyone else’s shit.

waaaaah somebody mildly critiques my favorite corporate product waaaaahhh give us somebody who tells us all the reasons we’re special for liking it waaaaahhh

between this and her claiming (on the same episode, maybe?) that congressional progressives want israelis to die because they don’t think america should be funding the iron dome unconditionally, she’s really showing her ass and reminding everyone she’s kinda fucking stupid.

just a fundamental and probably intentional misreading of the point: there is a difference between serialized and episodic television. you can just throw on an episode of seinfeld of star trek tng or columbo and rarely will any of it have some grand implication for the season as a whole.

the alternative is that more of your paycheck ends up in your boss’s pockets, the shareholders pockets, or the ceo’s pockets. so fuck that, support the fucking workers. very very few places where non-union gets paid more than union. that position just isn’t supported by the facts.

Plenty of Venom’s quips sound like scrawled-in placeholders: When he fills the silence in Brock’s head with “Awkward!” and “This guy makes zero sense!” he could be auditioning for a DreamWorks cartoon.

even with very odd material, he’s one of our best actors around.

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oh holy shit you’re just insanely delusional

if you’re down for doing something annoying that others will disrespect, i would say once you get through the first bit of dark souls with a guide, just spend an hour killing the same enemies over and over again and grind for souls and humanity. there are guides online about early places to do that, and as long as you…

trevor noah really is the absolute worst, which is saying something because all of these talk shows are mediocre.

party pooper. (This joke is less good, since it relies on the viewer assuming that he’s going to call her something else, and I don’t come to the MCU to hear Thor potentially throwing around sexist insults.)

nah, someone pointed out that he’s been really shite about it, defending himself by saying nobody else could have made the movie despite the half-dozen others who have played the role on and off broadway, including his current boyfriend (!!!!) who had the role. also his father is a producer on the movie. hence why he…

But in 2001 we were well within our rights to remove the Taliban from power and the notion that we should have been willing to negotiate for them to hand him over to a 3rd party is ridiculous because the offer was a sham.

that’s not what this is about, mr. resident centrist

yeah you sound basically like right-wingers fretting about gay boys in locker rooms and how they’re all sex predators. you sound just like that because that’s who you are, hope this helps!

If it’s money launderers then sure, it can bring real, state-backed currencies. But - and this is a huge but - it will not be coming from legitimate sources (hence the need for laundering) and “its economy” in this case will almost certainly be like other tax-dodging and black-market economic harbors (Ireland,…

HRC gives awards to places like Raytheon and Amazon, two places that have done irreparable harm to the world, absolutely garbage organization.