Yeah, the remaining io9 writers are pretty hard on franchise content that isn’t part of their collective MCU boner. Remember when it was a great site for fucking book reviews?

“Look, of course the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany is seen as somewhat controversial nowadays, but people forget that most of the deaths during WW2 were the result of people defending themselves.”

Well you’re half right anyways, since the original commenter’s point is actually awful and basically nonexistent. Hundreds of different game related media sites will pick up on this regardless of whether Kotaku does or not. It’s already been reported on dozens of times, many of the websites getting way more traffic…

You’re right, Nintendo would have no idea about this project without browsing Kotaku, and the creators of the project want it to be such a big secret that they made a ten minute video about it and posted it on a public forum to advertise it.

Look the question isn’t “why doesn’t AV Club cover The Simpsons anymore?” because that’s fucking obvious. The real question is “why does AV Club still cover Saturday Night Live?”

It’s super easy to condemn violence out one side of your mouth while fanning the flames of racism through fearmongering and conspiracy theorizing against China.

If KK is punk, then “punk” has no meaning.  And also is dead.

Why are some people so salty about this movie being the top earner of all time anyway?

I haven’t watched Avatar since it was first in the theaters, but if you gave me the option to watch it or nearly any other Marvel film, I’d choose Avatar. At the very least it has an exciting action set piece in the third act, something Marvel has been incapable of doing over the course of like twenty movies.

As first noted by sports blog Defector,

Honestly, there’s no way this can be explained away as just being stream-of-consciousness from someone who’s not legitimately antisemitic. I’m Jewish, and in 33 years I’ve never heard someone use the word (let alone call me it) except in movies or to specifically list it as a racial slur. And it’s not like it’s out…

I too enjoyed the Mandarin twist in IM3 but I’m also of the opinion that MCU/Star Wars fans are way too precious and could stand to be trolled a bit more by creators, so I’m not the best person to ask.

If you’re looking for something that’s very Dynasty Warriors right now — something that’s REALLY GOOD — try John Woo’s Red Cliff (about the battle known in the game as the Battle of Chibi). I’ve never seen a war movie that so well illustrated the art of tactics. It’s actually two movies, and I think there’s a…

the CONTENT had to connect with more CONTENT otherwise the audience may not CONSUME MORE CONTENT

I was so happy that it wasn’t some kind of “bigger fireball wins” copout.

Gotta admit, the SEC approving of anything doesn’t give me the slightest bit of confidence, these days.

Ehhhh, there were savage cannibalistic tribes in real life I don’t think that’s “deeply racist” when the movie isn’t positing the British are super superior

We have a dog named Jack, and I like to address him in Geoffrey Rush voice: “Jaaaaackkkk”

I disagree about the Pirates franchise small cultural imprint. For a 10 year period it felt like every display TV at Best Buy and Walmart played a Pirates movie on continuous loop.

I absolutely love the first three Pirates movies, and have watched them multiple times, especially since my 9 y.o. daughter loves them as well. Our most recent rewatch was just a couple weeks ago, and I’ll tell ya, they are just as fun and clever as they were the first time. Does the third one drag a bit? Yes, but I…