Not funny

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that people decide to be passive aggressive in the most cloying ways possible for such mundane reasons. My brain can’t fully comprehend!

Well no, because this is an article specifically about new details on that other Mega Man game.

That’s like going to a buffet restaurant and finding a “hack” to make them bring you food to your table so you don’t have to get your own food at the buffet. If you want people to serve you food at the table, don’t go to a buffet. If you want someone else to bag your groceries, don’t go to Aldi. As the article says,…

“Humans are incapable of change,” says man who lives in civilization vastly different than the civilization of even a century before, much less a millennium or two.

Picture yourself as a 20-30 something women with a master’s degree from a private college in a liberal arts field, who likely has the student loan debt to prove it.

I question the “talented” part of your comment. I mean, part of being a writer is actually reading your own stuff before hitting “submit”.

Uh, what? Are you suggesting they stop... printing cards entirely because idiots are idiots?

Unfortunately, not liking this project automatically makes you racist, sexist, and possibly homophobic.

Oddly negative tone at the end of the article, which is unusual, since as you said, Miyazaki’s titles have been quite strong.

Wrong. Death Stranding was awesome.

I’ve taken the liberty of drafting some future headlines for the AV Club and other Gizmodo Media Group properties:

Can the Kinja engineers develop a way to block certain commenters?

Probably because of some kind of masochistic tendency, much like why some people read a blog about pop culture, entertainment, and celebrities where none of the bloggers actually enjoy pop culture, entertainment, or celebrities.

Yikes. There are a couple of levels of irony you’re missing here.

I love how at no point in this article do they comment on whether his special was good...or bad...or worth watching.

The author seems to think that the cross projected onto him is meant to be taken literally, as if it wasn’t satire meant to examine the melodramatic apologies that follow a celebrity being “canceled.” And this coming from a blog that started as a supplement to The Onion...

That said, I’m glad this post exists so I can…

I can’t believe I waited a full week for a full avclub take on that special and this is what we got. Inside dealt with so many different themes, personal struggles, and existential questions - it feels weird to use “Problematic,” a song that felt mostly tongue-in-cheek, as a benchmark for the whole show. I mean,…

There have always been National Enquirer style gossip mags but they didn’t pretend to be anything but that. AVClub feels like they’re commenting on something they’re deeply a part of without bringing that up. Or maybe they’re so vain they don’t see the song is about them.

I’ve been anxiously awaiting an AV Club review of Inside, and this is all that’s posted about it? A superficial take on a single, relatively minor song, that doesn’t seem to fully understand the broader themes of the special or this song’s place within it?