An older era of pop music, perhaps. For me this trend is marked by the 1999 chart toppers from Britney Spears (“When I’m not with you, I lose my mind”) and Christina Aguilera (“Waiting for someone to release me ... Come, come, 😉 and let me out”). 2005 had Mariah topping the charts with We Belong Together (“Come…

Did you try the open beta of 2042? I had trouble getting my settings to a place that I liked, but to me the gunplay in the game felt awwwwwful. I would have bought the game if not for that experience in the beta.

I agree that the Cold War campaign was enjoyable. I didn’t quite finish it, I just have so many games to choose between, but I was having fun with it. The multiplayer, however, did absolutely nothing for me, and that is the lifeblood of a CoD game. The gunplay felt like a regression from Modern Warfare, and none of…

In any event, 100M at just $6/month is more than $7B/year, just for running servers.

I find it interesting with pop music how frequently women artists are either (a) desperately pleading for some man’s love / dick; or (b) defiantly telling men to eat shit, I’m better off without you—with very little in between. Sometimes the same artist will alternate between the two modes on the same album. My theory…

Once again, The Simpsons did it first.

I doubt very much that his lawyers give a shit. The issue is one of negligence, the key question is what he “reasonably” had an obligation to do to prevent injury to concert attendees as a performer on stage (an objective standard) vs. what he actually did. Neither of those can be changed by what he does after the…

It is an absolute masterpiece of slapstick comedy, made even more incredible by the fact it wasn’t intended to be funny. Like if you put it in the middle of a Naked Gun movie, it would get the biggest laugh. Every camera angle choice, the timing of every cut, every facial expression, every sound cue. It’s perfect.

The mere mention of “Harrison treadmill” is enough to make me burst into uncontrollable laughter

I definitely think this is it, he needs to be able to pull open his the Sheriff’s laptop to get someone’s criminal record, and have some way to run lab tests or run fingerprints to gather his “proof”. They can try an analog, self-help Dexter for some period of time, but eventually they’re going to need the police crutc…

I’m starting to think James Gunn is the only person who can pull off a comic book ensemble movie with lesser known characters. The sample size is admittedly low, but he’s found success with both DC and Marvel characters where other directors have failed multiple times (the sample size is a little bigger if you include…

Question 5 is the one I’ve been puzzling over for weeks. I’m not so much disappointed or upset as I am fascinated, how a writers’ room with experienced and talented people could build such an expensive show with that character at its center, and then cast an inexperienced actor who can’t elevate the material to make…

This seems to be a worst-of-both-worlds level of adherence to Asimov: not enough to please fans of the books, but too much to make a functional TV show.

I think there’s clearly a way to use real guns in movies safely, it’s been done in thousands upon thousands of movies, and the accidents that have occurred have been rare, and entirely avoidable if the safeguards that were supposed to be in place had been followed.

I’m fine with it, what else are you going to do on a pop culture site, it’s better than recycling articles from TMZ, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, etc... and posting trending tweets.

It is kind of a classic tale of hubris, it seems like they got distracted from GoT because they had their eye on other post-GoT projects ramping up, but they fumbled the ending of GoT so badly that their stock as creators was flushed down the toilet, and a lot of the stuff they lined up has slipped through their hands …

I think the comparison to the Luke Skywalker hero arc is a pretty compelling theory, but I’d say two things.

lol, cartoonists aren’t “supposed” to make money.

Gaal was actually in the episode. I think she’s only been narrating the episodes in which she doesn’t appear. They have been ludicrously unnecessary narrations.

I think this is meant to divert attention to whomever introduced live rounds, which should have never been there in the first place. There is plenty of blame to go around, but if we’re trying to figure out who is the most blameworthy, then I actually agree it’s the person who loaded real bullets into a prop gun…