and the bad, like how the story frequently features women, nonbinary, and queer people being sexually menaced or outright assaulted by deranged, violent men.

This is so over due.

Slight difference between modifying your car for performance and modifying it to intentionally pollute. Like the difference between an athlete wearing tight spandex to run faster and a guy flashing kids in a trenchcoat. In both examples, my child self becomes a bit more familiar with the shape of adult male genitalia,…

The Highlander series also had a kid who discovered his immortality during the Civil War. He was a bitter little monster but he also kind of had every right to be.

“At the center of it are the Nihil, who are the bad guys of the era”

Pascal looks like a televangelist in that top photo.  I guess that’s the look you want if you’re portraying a sociopathic narcissist consumed by greed.

My guess is Veidt always knew he’d eventually get busted by the game warden and put in a cell. So he’s been telling Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks that someday they’ll need to give him a horseshoe. In episode 4, Veidt tells Mr. Phillips he doesn’t need the horseshoe “yet.” Clearly he’s been planning to need the…

So, Adrian is the Star Child from 2001...?

That version of Life on Mars at the end was so good.

Can’t hear you over the ultimate philosophical and spiritual pilgrim: Legion. His story was interesting, his perspective excellent, and his dialogue was both hilarious and insightful. Garrus was just ‘I’m a standard male hero.’

There are a lot of really interesting characters and species in Mass Effect, in the best tradition of those chunky sci-fi novels from the 70s and 80s. A crazy species perspective you have to get your head around can really make a character shine.

And Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide.

As a Gen Xer, I just want to point out that I was anti-Boomer way before it was cool.

Fuck.

I’m surprised at this anti-Bulgaria post.

This is why you don’t invade Russia during winter.

A perfectly cromulent analysis.

...Head coach Brian Flores ran some kind of Bizarro World two-point conversion pass that Kenyan Drake actually ennobled by dropping.

It was

If you told me 10 years ago that Hearthstone would be at the center of a huge, international diplomatic storm, I would’ve said the same thing I’ll say today: What is Hearthstone?