HAHAHAAHAH OMG YOU MADE A FUNNY! I'm sooooooo regressive for and inflammatory at a time when our POTUS can't go a damn day without attacking his imagined enemies or responding to any any perceived slight on his Twitter account. And yet, you two can't even comprehend why people bring up political parallels when…

Andromeda's troubled development was a little more…complicated than that. Long story short, the Frostbite engine (which EA wanted all their studios to use), staff shake ups, difficult coordination between the different Bioware studios, and outsourced animation work made the game a pain to create. A lot of early work…

Blame Overwatch for the Injustice 2's issues with earning gear. I fear that Blizzard's success with OW's loot box system will encourage this kind of bullshit from this day forward, and I say that as someone who loves OW enough to buy two versions (PS4, then PC). Plenty of fans don't mind the loot boxes, but after my…

Seconded. I could not watch the last season until at least a month after I finished that season. Even with one of the kids having a decent end, the other three's fates were soul crushing.

The industry still makes a lot of money, but the profits get stretched really thin. Most of the "traditional" porn industry are getting trounced by amateur models, sitting at home and doing their own shows, mainly. Everyone else has to make a living through expos, online subscriptions, and doing live shows, mainly.…

I have no basis to your vague reply, other than personal digging into your profile, and all I have to say is…you know nothing, Jon Snow.

I didn't read that as a budding romance. Just two adults connecting over personal moments of loss. He didn't seem romantically interested at all.

Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept says otherwise. Al Jazeera, back when it was on, was also pretty good, but unfortunately, the station was gated off into premium cable, and after a while, I cut that away and cable TV in general. The BBC, back when I kept up with it, was also decent, but I can't speak for it these days.

Fair enough, though this was what I alluded to with the "Golden Mean" fallacy problem. In NPR's aim to become fair and balanced, they too often bring in conservative guests who bring in inane talking points and give them equal ground to more reasonable sounding leftward guests (which makes it all the more ironic when…

Cable news in general has lowered the bar in journalism since 24/7 news channels emerged in the 90s, and never looked back. Just because Roger Ailes and his tactics existed doesn't mean everyone else had to more-or-less follow suit. However, they want ratings, and as CBS Morning News CEO gleefully admitted last year,…

This is why I prefer NPR and Democracy Now. They are tonally more matter-of-fact than sensational, even when their audio podcasts, which makes it easier to take them seriously. NPR does suffer from the Golden Mean fallacy from time to time, but unlike MSNBC, CNN, CBS Morning News, and especially Fox News, I can…

Rachel Maddow and "serious journalist" should not even be used in the same sentence, and I say this as a liberal. Sadly, the fact that she and MSNBC is considered the current best news player in the game only reinforces how awful television journalism has become in the states. The same media which let Donald Trump off…

When I turned on Hulu this past Saturday and noticed two episodes were posted, I gave a sigh and said "here we go."

Charlie is the only character left on this show who

If a "protagonist journey to villain" is what you crave, watch Breaking Bad instead; along with its currently running spin off, Better Call Saul, when you are done. Unlike this mess, BB and BCS show how the trope is supposed to be done, and do it in fascinatingly different ways from each other.

Well, I was alluding more into how torture was used pretty loosely during 24's initial run as a legit interrogation tactic. Scandal's use of it bordered on careless, precisely because it assumes that we, as an audience nation, haven't left that mindset in 2012-2017. As least 24 had that excuse of ignorance, but now?…

The way torture has been used in Scandal has been pretty appalling, even in the good seasons. This isn't the immediate post-9/11 decade when audiences could shrug at torture scenes without thinking about its unfortunate implications, like on an average episode of 24. I'd argue that torture scenes are becoming as…

The Quinn torture scene happened in the episode Huck barely escaped from being assassinated. That was the only episode this season which was not covered in AVClub for some reason.

Marcus isn't afraid to call out anyone on their bullshit. That's good enough for me.

They should have taken a page from the Daredevil producers, who covered up the Kingpin's return cameo in season two by waiting until the CLOSING credits to flash Vincent D'Onofrio's name, front and center with big letters and dramatic music. I admit that their cleverness made me laugh for a few seconds.