That was actually the first time I'd ever heard the joke and I assumed it was just a random Mike Judge-ism with no broader existence.

I don't know. Star Wars fans are not exactly a laid back bunch.

"The genre was almost entirely white and male"

"But by comparison, “Battle Of The Bastards” seems to exist exclusively to give Ramsay Bolton what he deserves, concluding his villain arc."

I somehow missed that review even though I generally make sure to catch all of D'Angelo's stuff.

I can't decide if this is interestingly surprising or boringly inevitable.

Is anyone else here old enough to remember "Terry Tickle" spamming use.net groups with solicitations for guys in their underpants to send her videos of themselves being tickled?

I'm glad to be made aware of this guy's stuff - he's pretty good.

Congrats on the book Steven. Will definitely be picking it up.

"Given the outcomes of Making A Murderer—and things like the first season of the Serial podcast—do you think that trial by a jury of your peers is a failure?"

Very much this. To the extent the term is used to specifically reference those whose "activism" consists of nothing but self righteous grandstanding and i'm-more-offended-than-you-are posturing on internet message boards, it's actually a pretty great phrase. Given the context of the interview, it reads to me like…

I think this is about right.

You're looking at it exactly backwards. The fact that someone in such a situation still chooses suicide exemplifies just how deeply irrational one's mind can become when depressed.

I don't know what she got on her SAT, but her IQ is almost certainly not 140. That's nearly 3 standard deviations above the mean which would put her in the top .8% or so.

You need to possess a special kind of cognitive dissonance to say that about DMB while you declare Guns and fucking Roses an untouchable band in the same interview.

Completely agree on all fronts. I always had vaguely positive associations with Louie Anderson but I never really thought much about him, and he certainly wasn't someone whose work I specifically sought out.

Parks and Recreation left me feeling that Ansari was best consumed in very small doses and I found it baffling to hear that he was selling out Madison Square Garden shortly thereafter.

Yeah, its inclusion in the general company of the new extreme French horror films (High Tension, Inside, etc.) really did it a bit of a disservice I think.

Thank you so much for that tip! I had no idea.

I felt very much the same way, which is why it's such a bummer that he seems to have reinvented his personna as that of a gimmicky, arrogant, jerk.