I don't think their purported libertarianism got in the way of trying to criticize both parties even-handedly in this season. On the contrary, it is evident that they decided not to offer any alternative to the dysfunction of both candidates, which (and many don't understand this point) doesn't by itself invalidate…
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*chuckles* You mean the Chaos Emeralds?
Ethan…rethink this.
And who could've thought the unholy marriage between pop culture and politics would not only affect the way people react to cartoonishly evil demagogues, but also provide a reason for people to indulge in petty solipsism and shitty explications in the face of genuine turmoil.
At the very least, it doesn't shy away from lambasting the nerve-deadening incompetence and hypocrisy of most of the so-called public intellectuals.
My personal pick: Chapo Trap House. Technically, it's a political podcast, but it has been more entertaining, responsive and even-handed in its coverage than any pop-culture foray into the politics zone I've seen this year.
Charisma is a work of a superior being. Humans don't shoot like this. It's like the Nature decided to make a movie about itself, but it had problems understanding the limited concepts of causation and simultaneity inherent in the medium. Even Kurosawa himself later admitted he couldn't account for the strangeness of…
This sounds like a 100% typical Kurosawa work, but this is one of the very few cases where a modern author's repeating himself doesn't temper my interest in the least.
I think it is a great summation of the kind of uber-practical thinking a lot of tech billionaires in the Silicon Valley are steadily driving at with their increasingly megalomaniac humanity-renovating plans.
Watching Robert Aldritch's films is like being punched in the face by visuals and getting your ribs squished by sound, with an ending typically providing a blow so violent and angry you want to pass out, but instead just lay prostrate on the ground undergoing distancing echoes of pain.
2016 is truly the year of stupid megalomaniac billionaires.
The 6-minute version is the legitimate version of the song. A shorter length often injects the lyrics with a self-conscious faux pathos and fails to bring out the inherent desperation in Bowie's voice.
Reading some celebrities' tweets c. 2009-2010 is basically the Early Installment Weirdness of twitter. Especially if they're in lowercase.
It boggles my mind that the jokes you could make about them 30 years ago are still relevant today. These guys warp time in their own way. It's like it doesn't exist for them.
Mine is ''Obungler''. I think it's started to catch on recently, especially in ironic bro circles
Has there been a lot of hype build-up around Westworld recently, or the series has just started gathering a huge following due to a good pilot? I feel like it already has a bigger fanbase than all Bryan Fuller projects in their 1 season combined.
Indubitably.
Hey everybody, look at this guy standing athwart history, yelling "Stop!" at a time when no one is inclined to do so!
For years I have been thinking about what exactly makes Half Life 2 so special to me and what prompts me to replay it once every four years. Is it the sound? (I still remember reading a great piece in PC Gamer UK in which the author exalted the terrifying way the barrel's explosion stuns you). Is it the pervasive…