I mean, ostensibly a major reason we engage with art is to participate in or be exposed to experiences that aren’t our own. As a cis-het middle aged white dude, part of what makes me so upset about the idea of conservatives dictating art is that it would all be so fucking boring. I’ve seen enough of myself represented…

Given that Led Zeppelin were a bunch of proto-fantasy nerds heavily inspired by Tolkien, I don’t see the use of their music as being as anachronistic as all that.

To be the sole outlier in this thread, this looks pretty good to me. I guess the audience for this service is people who are interested in checking a lot of these games out but due to time and/or money constraints, have not. The fabled two years behind everyone else demographic.

They’re ready.

I’m not usually one to argue with listicles, that most subjective of pop culture criticism, but I would place Fellowship easily within the top 10 on this list.

1. Coca-Cola is plenty evil in its own right.

Yeah, the internet is full of writers who I don’t agree with. I do myself the simple service of not reading their stuff. I especially don’t join in a self-reinforcing circle jerk community who repeatedly show up to voice their indignation in a show of compulsion that’s grown more obnoxious than the original…

Why do you keep coming here? Go somewhere you won’t be so miserable. The fact that you feel the need to comment multiple times on every Barsanti article is a bizarre addiction you’re inflicting on yourself. Be free, fly away and find peace.

And sadly, that can’s going to bounce right off the concrete wall of totalitarianism the Republicans are building.

Gosh, it’s not even about the money. I just shudder to think of the pure creative vision of Epic Games being compromised at the hands of foreign investors.

Congratulations to Cool Helmet, for spawning both a successful show and spin-off series.

I love how Iron Man 3 handled Mandarin. Both the initial presentation of the character and the undercutting reveal were one of the most clever ways by which they could update and play around with Marvel’s history of racism by ignorance. I certainly enjoyed Shang Chi’s more straight-forward presentation of the 10 Rings…

I haven’t listened to the whole (brief) album yet, but I’ve been listening to Days Like These on the regular. The tension between the melodic , flowing rumination and aggressive distortion just trips my trigger every damn time.

It’s a weird combination of things. Both that it doesn’t feel like they’re confident in letting the character stand on his own, and also the shift from as you say, street level underdog to super well-connected science hero.

Looking forward to the thrilling conclusion of the surrogate father figure trilogy of Spider-Man films.

I’m definitely more interested in this now that they’re showing off more of the grand cosmic weirdness of the movie. It has more of a 70's cosmic sci-fi vibe than Jack Kirby clutter vibe, but that’s okay. The Deviants still just look like cgi sludge.

I know this kind of thing shouldn’t still bother me, but it does. Nothing in the preview explicitly showed it would be an adventure movie. And sure I went in thinking there would be a buckle swashed here and there, but it didn’t take long for me to figure out, “Oh, this isn’t that kind of movie” and set my…

Sure. But again, that has nothing to do with whether a movie is good or not. What Disney’s bottom line is, and whatever interesting cinema may grow like a wobbly flower from a crack in the concrete slab of corporate obligation are two completely separate things.

I will never take an argument less seriously than that of an adult human using toy sales as the marker of decent cinema.