The fandom/convention stuff was mostly pretty lazy but the diversity panel gag and the stuff about steampunk protagonists was so spot on it felt like one staffer in the writer’s room knew the field very well but only a couple of their joke pitches ended up in the episode.

I’m so glad to hear that cops are great at dealing with domestic violence cases and women drop charges for totally unremarkable reasons on your planet. Here, things are much more complex.

Why are you so invested in Depp’s imagined innocence?

Depp is barely a fraction of a percent of the man Vincent Price was.

The TV show is a sad story. There was a pilot, which got leaked (maybe to drum up interest), but the leaking enraged the WB so much they canned the whole thing.

A. Jeremy Piven can go fuck himself.

Oh and I just remembered how they recently hired a climate change denialist for their editorial pages. (there’s tomorrow’s gigadeaths today)

It’s also interesting how many people seem to have forgiven it for its role in selling the second Iraq war. A pretty incredible quantity of blood is on its hands.

We already knew we lived in an age of grifts, but the grift the NYT pulled on moderate liberals — convincing them that it was the journal of the resistance while helping itself to their subscription money — is one of the greatest.

You do get that was a quote from the article itself, right?

I mean even this version doesn’t exactly let Pixar off the hook, does it?

I’m not always writing for their benefit when I reply to them. Sometimes one expresses a specific error of thought that’s shared more widely, and deserves to be corrected forthrightly so that others might learn.

He didn’t realise I was being kind when I told him he was obtuse. I guess he’s what the kids are calling a concern troll, too.

Yeah, DC is another particularly awful example. And proof it doesn’t take many entitled dudes to completely ruin a workplace.

Ok, you’re just deeply obtuse. Let’s not continue this interaction any further.

Dude, it’s not assumptions, we literally know Rashida Jones quit Toy Story 4 because of him.

If you’ve ever wondered why a certain creative grouping, such as Pixar, took an incredibly long time to feature female characters in substantial roles, well, there might be a fairly obvious reason after all.

Well this is certainly one way to look at it.

KinJa has lousy moderation tools but I’ve started using “dismiss this person” pretty relentlessly and at least it puts these trolls out of my field of view.

To be clear: you’re a deeply stupid and evil person.