Internalized nominative determinism, perhaps? I'm generally not terrifically fond of stories built on a foundation of Villainy, but I accept it as a trope. I'm rather less fond of that sort of thinking being applied to real life. There are many reasons that people cause harm. Much of it is inadvertent, while much…

I'm not a fan of the current hot trend in people calling each other "asshole", "terrible", or "garbage", but a) there's fuck-all for me to do about that and b) it's roughly 0% different from the way that people have insulted each other from time immemorial. I just try to pay attention to what people mean when they…

Ever visit Toronto during rush hour? Plan to walk and you'll outpace the cars.

Damn good article, and I say that not even liking Guns and Roses. Thanks.

Yeah. It could have been much worse in real life than it comes across in the article. I don't like getting accosted or having beer spilled on me either. The article just built it up too much for the payoff of a pushy guy and some errant beer.

Jesus. See, everybody, that's an audience that you can call terrible and be totally justified in doing so.

There was definitely an attitude of tourism, for lack of a better word, that I got from this article. I really doubt that it was intentional, but it came off a bit like Alex found it amusing and unnerving that people who are unlike him exist. It's not a class thing, exactly, but calling people "objectively terrible"…

"To store the acorn for winter is rational and for Life. To foolishly eat it now is irrational and Anti-Life. Choose now! No one can choose for you!"

I don't really know what people consider big or not, but Ninjette from Empowered might qualify. She's not superpowered, but she's skilled enough to win fights with superpowered people.

I thought he was leading up to something much worse than "a guy was loud near me and then at me" with that intro. That said, the bit I really didn't get (after all, having beer spilled on you does suck) was the open-mouthed shock at a middle-aged couple performing some mild flashing. Is that really all that bizarre?

The slow blade pierces the shield. The AR-15 mostly just makes the shield look really dented for a few seconds.

I would genuinely love to see a Pixar anthology film in the vein of Amazon Women On The Moon or something like that. It'd probably be fucking riotous. Ten teams, six minutes each, one more team providing interstitial sequences totalling about 20-30 minutes of footage in order to tie the whole thing together? It…

Inside Out 2 and 3 are the only sequels I actually want. They could show Riley (in order) in late adolescence, on the cusp of adulthood, dealing with a real sense of existential dread and loss of identity, and then dealing with mid-20s malaise and finding a passion to sustain her throughout the rest of her life. I…

So it'll be ten GIFs?

I wonder if it actually shows up in greater volume these days than in any previous period simply because there's so much writing in general in comparison to older times and so much of it consists of lamentations or commentary thereon.

Yeah, there are lots of times where you need to think pretty laterally in order to wring some laughs out of the premise. Still, it's a little more flexible than CAH in that way. The problem with the latter is that you can get stuck with a hand full of stuff that doesn't fit or isn't funny to you. You could probably…

God, I've gotten more entertainment out of that than from many actual good movies. They had an impressive commitment to getting as much mileage out of that damn fight scene. The second (and clearly best one) uses it as a background to introduce what seems like nine named characters who die about five minutes later.

They get you coming and going sometimes. I get shirty about how some people who make a big deal about avoiding slurs jump right into the physical insults against fat people as soon as they have an excuse ("he's an asshole, so it's fair game" they say), but it's not like they're even the main element here. The world…

Well, we wouldn't end up with Third Reich situations and the like if more people were like that in the first place. It's strange, though understandable, how empathy and courage are so rare; one person usually feels like they have no influence on the society around them, and anyone with kids will probably be extremely…

Yep. It has nothing to do with health. It's just ritual humiliation and redemption for the benefit of a population who can hardly conceive of a greater tragedy than a human body storing more fat than it needs.