We’ve already seen that Strange is able to cast spells on the Time Stone that can’t be dissolved by anyone else in the universe that we know of, including Thanos. E.g., it’s incredibly crucial to the plot that the Time Stone cannot be taken from Strange, and that if Strange is killed, Thanos would have to find another…

I’m thinking it’s the opposite—it’s the all-new crew who will travel through time. I think all the people who “died” were actually dispersed through time—I think Strange put a spell on the Time Stone before handing it over to Thanos, and that’s what he saw when he scanned through the possible futures.

I just really would like us to move from “has to” to “ought to”. This is a basic but important rhetorical shift in social media arguments. It’s important, because “has to” right away relieves the person saying it of a certain burden of argument. Which is honestly visible here in the weakness of comparative address…

I think Kevin confuses things by talking about how cottage cheese could be savory, could be sweet, as if this is a crime.

It’s pretty simple. Cottage cheese has the texture and even a bit of the bile-acidity smell of vomit. If I introduced some of the coloring of your typical upchuck to fresh cottage cheese, I think…

I think you are right that Far Cry 5 says something. What it mostly says is, “The writers think that the most clever time of their entire lives was when they were 13-year old boys trying to write a DEEP STORY and they’re going to stick with it”. That’s it. The whole “we’re the same, you and I”, the “what if the bad…

I can’t stand that I bought this game after finding Far Cry 3's writing to be the most reprehensibly stupid writing I have ever encountered in a video game, and that’s saying something.

Far Cry 5 is an interesting and involving open-world game that gets repeatedly crapped upon by adolescent, predictable narrative that…

Kids these days. “Where the hell is my X-Com show?” “It was on television decades ago, catch up.”

Kind of interesting to look back to 2014 and see Sploid promoting this slide multiple times...

Because Far Cry 2 3 and 4 weren’t political at all.

I give up. Just say, “If it disagrees with my politics because I’m a sensitive right-wing snowflake” if that’s what you mean. Everything is not political until it crosses some line that some individual maintains. Or, if you’re paying attention, everything IS…

I honestly would like to buy some of these. Unless I’m wrong, they’re not available?

Don’t forget the thing that Grant Morrison has continually referenced in his DC work: that the original multiversal cross-over story, “Flash of 2 Worlds”, had as its central premise that the Barry Allen Flash of Earth-1 had previously read of the adventures of the Jay Garrick Flash of Earth-2 in an Earth-1 comic-book!…

To be honest this has been an issue with kid sidekicks since the beginning. Maybe the only one that ever worked really well in those terms was Robin, and that was only during the long Silver Age era of not-dark Batman. Once Batman went back to being the Dark Knight etc., Robin stopped being easy to fit into stories.

If the Cebulski story is even remembered when people do similar lists of the first 25 years of the 21st Century, I’ll be shocked. Every once in a while, this site really decides it’s going to go to truly extensive lengths to make something into a story.

I’ve really enjoyed some of the comics that Marvel has produced in the last decade that in some sense were trying to move beyond standard white male superheroics. Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Young Avengers and more. I also really support what the writers of America were trying to do with the character in this book. But…

You “work on shows”. Like, what? Puppet shows you do in your basement? YouTube videos with six viewers? Fox News? Because I’m not really getting a “professional with creative experience” vibe here.

Whatever it is, I hope it’s not a character I like.

Hand Job.

It’s not meant to foster community. The Gawker folks liked it precisely because they were tired of having a community in the older sense.

If you’re writing books that draw from a century of complicated dynastic struggles in Western Europe, bringing incest into the picture is not actually much of a reach. First-cousin consanguinity was pretty common among European nobles in the medieval and early modern period, and there were quite a few avunculate…

Always loved reading The AV Club and especially the commenters, who were brilliant.

RIP AV Club. Browsing through the site is now radically different and kind of pointless. Moreover, the duplication of content elsewhere in the Gizmodo Group is really marked—sure, the AV Club writers still have their own take on things,…