Honestly, I don’t think this is inconsistent with the liberal slant of the Marvel movies that posits that the military are a necessary evil. Sure, the military might be incompetent, myopic and heavy-handed, but the REAL military (SHIELD, The Avengers) are near supernaturally competent and righteous. Meta-textually,…

I think the difference is that Marvel movies seem so ideologically liberal and it’s been jarring for a lot of people that a few of the Marvel movies hew very close to saying the bit that liberals say quietly (“the military is a thing we like, actually”) out loud. Marvel movies feel very much like an Obama era product…

Yes, or is ideologically aligned with the military, at least. 

Maybe? Probably? Possibly? Not sure what the point is here. Sheeran is a musical irritant and corny as fuck, but he doesn't seem like a prick.

He started in the nightclub scene and part of his method was getting to know people then using blackmail and intimidation, so despite the wacky old man persona, he was always a nasty gangster.

Yes, very punk rock.

Edit: actually, my post was needlessly churlish and snotty

Im sad for the fans and I believe them when I say it "gets good", but the show was marketed in a way which is aggressively generic. Like, I've seen Futurama and GotG, and Rick & Morty and (I think) the Orville are still airing, not to mention Lower Decks, to name but a couple. I'm fine if I never see wacky space buds…

It’s good because it means I can enjoy Misery Business without all the weird pandering internalised misogyny in the lyrics.

Yeah, that’s true. I think I was specifically thinking how VB is a show about failure.

The more I think about it, is someone like Tim Heidecker’s comic persona (like the one in the recent stand-up special) a closer analogue? It’s not a 1:1 match*, but he is a failure (albeit one who still works in the media) who covers…

The good news is that the beach will likely be a lot closer yo your door soon.

That seems to be the conventional wisdom, but I simply don’t think it’s true anymore - how does that account for a Dr Venture or Bojack Horseman (which covers some thematic ground Partridge does). Some Tim & Eric character work comes to mind, and I Think You Should Leave was full of Partridge style characters who just…

The “one-upped” Nirvana thing is entirely sensationalism there to enrage gen-x’rs and drive traffic and best not taken too seriously.

While The ‘Mats goof-off songs probably aren’t anyone’s favourites, there’s no way an “Unsatisfied” or “Answering Machine” would hit as hard without them. Undercutting themselves and playing dodgeball with sincerity like that is instrumental to what made The Replacements great - I’ve always felt that the only person…

Listen buddy, if we’re arguing “London Calling by The Clash” is a weird way to spell “Let It Be by The Replacements”

This is a huge misunderstanding of both pop and rock and how they interact and inform each other, though.

You seem to be implying that by dint of being a rock album, whatever Trapt shit out most recently has more artistic intent than something like Charli XCX’s “How I’m Feeling Now”. I’m not sure that playing an…

Nah. Like any online movement, writers started trying to outdo each other for the hottest take, but at its core, it was necessary to shake up how fucking dour and straight-white-dudey post-millennium music journalism was. Look at Pitchfork from 2002 and tell me those guys didn’t need to put down OKComputer and fucking…

Yeah, this isn’t for me, and I’d be fine with it if it was called anything other than “Castlevania” aka, “the game where you throw chicken dinners out of your brightly coloured cape while skeletons called “Yorrick” chase their own head around.” The goofy/creepy tone isn’t for everyone either, I guess, but it’s a shame…

Does Castlevania have curry skeletons, cow summoning shields and mothman yet? I wanted to love it, but I bounced off the anime tropes and generic demons (where’s the monster zoo Castlevania so adroitly delivers?!)

There has been a submarine section in the games, by the way! Ada's campaign in RE6 had her infiltrate then escape a flooding submarine in a section that played like a body-horror Metal Gear Solid in one of the game's stronger sections.