In what world is movie based on a 70 year old toy line, where production has already started on a sequel, a “non-franchise” movie? Plug “Barbie” into IMDB and count the dozens of titles in this apparent non-franchise.

Not talking about shitting on bad music, which is something I want this site to do more. I’m talking about these god awful, facile “OMG can you believe these lyrics!” which appears to be a regular feature now. 

Real fun to see all these internet leftists line up to condemn a song about how the wealthy political class screws the poor, because of one line they don't like.

I wouldn’t say this guy is picking on the poor. The song ain’t great, but the whole point of the song is about struggling with poverty. He’s got a line about homelessness right before the obese welfare abuse line. And he’s not saying “abolish welfare” despite this being picked by the antiwelfare crowd.

To all who who don't know VA, Farmville is actually a college town.  Longwood University is not exactly way off the grid.

When the hell did we become the song police? I’ve been listening to music with offensive shit for decades. Now all of a sudden I’m supposed to act like lyrics are scary when they’re coming from someone who may or may not be conservative?

It’s a huge stretch. It’s a bad song, but he’s pretty clearly complaining about politicians in DC. He wouldn’t have singled out Rich Men if he meant to include, say, rural Pennsylvanians. And a real Lost Causer wouldn’t drop little hints, there would at least be a line about the thing they hate the most: the tearing…

I mean he says “not just”. I think he’s saying they should look out for miners in addition to minors, and it’s a very awkward line.

Hmm, I have not found any of that to be true in my playthrough. From what you are saying (enemies have twice the hit points) it sounds like you went into a major story battle under leveled. If you were the same level as the enemies you were fighting, you would have been in the same ballpark for HP.

The AVClub is really covering on Days Of Our Lives now? Looks like we checked the last box on the tabloid checklist.

For the record I hate this rebrand, Discovery and Zaslav. But this article leaves out some important details. And the word choice makes me think the author did so intentionally to play to our desire for bad Zaslav news.

His take on Americans wanting black and white morality is easily disprovable: the massive success of Game Of Thrones is why Netflix greenlit The Witcher.

Well if there’s one thing the WAG/SAG strike has taught us: you don’t have to worry about him making any residuals off this.

I mean, those Nolan movies had zero scenes where a superhero’s beloved father criticizes that hero for saving children instead of watching them drown. So I do think they were closer to normal.

Yea the phrasing like “DC responded with Th Dark Knight Trilogy’ implies the comic book company made those movies.  It didn’t.

Yea I think that’s a big part of it for Netflix, which never quite made sense to me. Why encourage viewers to binge when you want them to stay subscribed over months?

Honestly I think this applies to every show. Watching Poker Face and even Mrs. Davis reminded me how much better a truly episodic approach is than the Netflix approach of an 8 hour plot cut into hour-long chunks.

Bud Light is a good comparison to The Witcher, because 1) it has bad fans and 2) it’s also a shitty product despite having the right politics (temporarily in Bud’s case) making it very easy for those bad fans to turn on it.

Yea ironically, the fact that diversity is incorrectly scapegoated as the problem with show by some racist fans, also allows the incorrect scapegoating of fan racism as the sole reason many people don’t jibe with this show.

Yes he is mocked mercilessly at independent cinemas everywhere, like the beloved New Beverly Cinema.