I'll say it as many times as I need to say it for the higher-ups to see it: the film section and the Gameological Society are the best parts of the site and I hope they keep going strong. Please don't mess with a good thing, AVC brass.

Genevieve Koski appears at the doorway and breathes "Ghostbusters". A full minute of silence is observed.

I remember when a somewhat common complaint around here was that TV Club was taking over the site and pushing other stuff out. Now TV Club is gutted and that other stuff largely hasn't come back. At least we still have the film writers and the Gameological Society.

I think my favourite thing in Ong Bak is still the idea of a pit fighter who only uses foreign objects. No other fighting, just throwing fridges and shit. How did that guy even get started on his style?

It's a surprisingly difficult process in some ways, but if you start out on a work visa, you can get all the way to citizenship in under a decade. You just need to land a job up here and start out with some significant savings in order to begin the process. Once you have the work visa, you start applying for the next…

That's evening wear only.

Every time I see a picture of that guy, I can't help but think that he should be wearing a white suit.

Yeah, there's an additional complication in the question of whether or not business degrees have much value in the first place. I've heard people describe MBAs as being largely networking opportunities, which makes no damn sense to me whatsoever.

Those were indeed the days of weird internet film critic identity shenanigans (I wonder if AICN had a house rule that you weren't allowed to write there without some kind of absurd gimmick?), but yes, someone would need to be a movie-watching machine to get through that many movies on a regular basis.

Was that Internet Film School? That was rad as hell, but I was thinking of something more specific to Mike's interest in how cinema is ultimately all about the cuts. It'd be interesting to read him talking theory.

I'm certainly not against Facebook trying to do something here. My only actual objections stem from a suspicion that they'll mess up, not from a belief that they shouldn't try. I specifically just don't trust Facebook very much as a company, so I get skittish about the prospect of them trying to do something this…

I'm not disagreeing about where the mockery comes from or where it's directed. My point is that mocking someone by comparing their inflated qualifications to the supposed mundane reality of what they actually did can involve implicit ridicule of that mundane reality. This is regardless of intent; instead, I think…

My favourite critic is Outlaw Vern (the hiring of whom would completely justify whatever else the site got up to, in my opinion), but Mike is up there. I'll always seek out his insight on anything of interest that I've watched. I said it in another comment, but the film crew is the best part of the AVC (with stiff…

I choose to take some hope in that Mike didn't say anything about leaving the AVC entirely. The film crew here is the best part of the site and Mike's contributions are a big part of that. It'd be cool if this fitting ending were merely the necessary clearing before something new and worthy can grow in its place (a…

I get that and I agree that it's mockable as hell. That said, the article did come off to me like the joke was partially about the gap between a Sizzler employee's skills and the skills of someone with an actual business degree. There is definitely a gap there, and I don't have a problem with the article, but I can…

I think you're right. I don't know if neurology has shed any light on this yet, but it does seem like people have qualitatively different feelings about their bodies. It's good that you feel settled into your body, especially since you weren't born with your disability (I wonder sometimes about how people who don't…

Learning to love things that you can't change is certainly a convenient skill, but I haven't found it particularly helpful either. Going straight from hate to love doesn't make sense to me.

Dominionists also want to dismantle the current state. Christian zealotry isn't necessarily incompatible with white nationalism. Basically, I may start believing that their beliefs are in opposition when I see them start actually disagreeing with each other. If Pence isn't a racist isolationist, he may want to…

I wonder how many people feel like their body actually represents them. I've always had a tricky relationship with mine; I have some minor disabilities and have thus never really known life without at least some minor aching at any given point. I'm also not a terrifically visual person, though, so I think that I…

Are their ideologies truly so dissimilar? I've wondered whether or not they've substantially opposed each other on anything yet. Pence and Bannon have shown different focuses up to this point, but they were in very different positions and might have been influenced thereby. Political offices in Indiana and a career…