Probably my favorite game ever. As a matter of fact you’re tempting me into figuring out how to get it running on my Linux machine. I never did a full nonlethal run through of the original, but I still had fun replaying the levels different ways. One of my favorites was one where you walk through a twisty complex…

I don’t have any trouble believing she’s less nice than she acts on TV or even that she could be a genuine tyrant. She certainly bears moral responsibility for the environment at her show whether she was the one bullying and harassing people or not.

But Mulan was always such a great title. Why’d they have to change it to Screw You Single People?

One of my friends describes Toy Story 3 as the film where all the kids were looking around the theater and thinking “Who broke the adults?”

One nice thing about the pandemic: lower standards. Despite the middling review, this seems like a perfectly acceptable thing to watch on HBO Max sometime in the near future.

I think this is mostly BS and confirmation bias, but the one bit of plausibility I can see is that compared to most places you might go when you’re out shopping bookstores are relaxing and maybe that turns down the power to the “I’m not on home territory so ixnay on the oopingpay” circuit in some people’s brains.

Vinegar + mustard = some unholy hybrid of North and South Carolina barbecue sauce. Pick a lane.

“If you die you forget what you learned” was a nice little update to the rules of the genre that added some stakes without changing the basic format.

Time to share my standard complaint about Home Alone: Kevin almost wins thanks to his own ingenuity, but ultimate needs an adult to save him. Yes, I know getting help from an adult is what he should have done in the first place, but that’s not what the movie is. The sudden intrusion of realism is such an unsatisfying…

Love, Victor is set in the Berlanti-verse? So sometime next season amid coming out to his conservative, LatinX family, mending relationships damaged by his year in the closet, and perhaps even navigating a first sexual experience, Victor might get a chance to hang out with the Flash? That would be pretty cool.

What did you think about the birthday episode? I thought the way Victor’s grandfather and father responded there did a lot to nail down who they were and how their traditionalism interacted with their humanity.

Thanks. I literally just started watching DoaFP based on that comment. An early review I read implied the only queer representation was the mom’s coworker so I never bothered to check it out. It’s pretty charming so far and I’m looking forward to making my way through it. Still, it’s the “leaving it unspoken” that…

My initial reaction to Love, Victor when I binged it last week was overwhelmingly positive. Since then, based on reviews like yours and conversations with other people who watched the show the weaknesses have become more apparent to me. I still think it is a generally very well done show, just not a show that…

If studios decide to go all in on VOD they need to figure out a better pricing model. $20/film is a good deal for a family but totally screws single people.

As I’ve said elsewhere in the thread, the main story of Inside Out didn’t really work on me. What did work (in proportion to their screen time) was this and the couple of other scenes that suggested Riley and her classmate’s emerging sexualities. I know that sounds kind of pervy given that we are talking about cartoon…

I didn’t cry over Lava, but all and all I had a stronger emotional reaction to it than to Inside Out.

Inside Out did not work on me. I mean, I liked it just fine for all the reasons you normally like Pixar movies: well imagined world building, perfect casting and good voice work, clever jokes, and beautiful animation. But “it’s okay to feel sad” never felt like much of theme to me. That Riley would be sad to leave…

Release the butthole cut!

Good.

Are Lil Wayne and Young Tune the same person? Genuine question - that first paragraph confused me.