My optimistic side says that the writers of the AV Club don’t actually want to keep reporting on it, but are being forced to for site traffic because of some management credo.

Well I'm not bored of it yet!

and we keep commenting.

This is getting too meta. The AV club, the pop culture website that’s oh so tired of talking about a four day old controversy, and the topic of celebrity in general, posts it’s 18th article about the oh so tiresome controversy, featuring an oh so bored celebrity’s opinion. We’re through the looking glass, people!…

Behind the curve, man.

‘Overall, he gives the kind of performance traditionally associated with stars who died during filming. And yet, Seagal is in almost every scene.’

When the game launched and everyone was on slightly more equal footing in terms of money and the destructive options available to them,

Man, it’s been 8 years since GTA V/GTAO launched? I only logged in for a couple of months at a time, but I know the community’s been around for it. I think some people are even doing like, long-form RP servers? I saw one with a lady roleplaying a driving instructor. That seemed neat. 

That is a bold claim indeed:

it was refreshing to read an article on a website that reminded me of the articles i used to read on websites. more fun stuff like this, less hacky slideshows.

“stainless steal”

Perhaps there were specific theaters that were doing well that were responsible for the revenue, but at least in my area (Washington, DC suburbs) from about 2015 onwards I would often be the only person watching a movie or at most there would be a handful of people there. And several theaters closed in the area before…

we were at a restaurant that snuck a 3% charge to our bill with the note “a three percent charge has been added to your bill. it can be removed upon request.” i asked the server what it was and he replied, “thats something they have added to cover business lost during covid. i can remove that if you wish.”
“do you get…

This passage culminates in one of his most brutal owns:

So what's his deal? Is he hopped up on pain meds from akido-ing too many extras or something?

Make sure your cross stitch makes use of old-timey font!

"His fully dressed body is lowered over a naked woman like a drawbridge."

I think this review shows that it is Ignatiy, not Segal movies, that is the real treasure.

He's been given that kind of performance for over a decade. I wonder who ADR over his voice this time, or who stood in as his obvious body double during the action sequences?

I think we've solved it. Segal is CGI'd in over the dying Kim Jong Il, who was making a Korean propaganda film