To everybody who contributes to my roast post later today: No, you eat shit.

Nathan, nooo! I get all my starred comments from arguing with people who shit on the subject of your twitch articles!

Genres are descriptive, not prescriptive. A film cannot “appropriate other genres”, only use elements that genre labels might describe.

It’s always dimly entertaining when the college freshman who just got a C in their arts course logs on

He’s just arguing to argue at this point. Let him die on his hill.

Captain Marvel is a hyper-violent satire of capitalism gone haywire in which a company sells an obviously immoral product as a solution for social ills that they themselves created?  Wild?

But...

Thanks but, having gone through a Connery phase a few years back, I know the film plenty. And the similarities - again - are about as much as Heat and The Dark Knight. Johnson’s been very open about doing a classic whodunnit that draws on the classics.

I think it’s ethically sound to withhold your business from shitty companies. That said, the way you wrote this implies that consumers are responsible for forcing change at the corporate level.

I throw David Gilmour and Steve Rothery in that mix.

You’re thinking of Bing Cosby from Cosby Stahls and Natch.

That still just makes it a game with a great soundtrack. GG, as a concept, is just one homage after another to Daisuke's favorite musicians. Character art, names, special move names, all referencing bands/artists/songs.

Dear Phoebe Waller-Bridge:

Please stop being awesome at everything. It is making the rest of us look bad. If you could fail at one thing, that would be great.

Barsanti? Doubtful.

every time i hear ‘international’ or ‘foreign’ market, i just assume it’s the east asian market and the rest of us don’t count.

That’s fair enough. I mostly just wanted to dunk on Tyler Perry, if we’re being honest.

Her brother. Yep, it was even worse than you thought.

Julia Robert’s what, exactly?

I won’t talk about the other aspects of the game, but I generally liked the combat in FFXIII. Unfortunately, the combat played like a simplified, less fun version of FFX-2's combat system.

I mostly agree with this. I generally suck at them, but I know that if I keep trying, I will make progress. I dunno what my playtimes look like compared to people who are better at them.

That being said, I’ve only ever beaten one of them. They are pretty time consuming, so I can definitely see the argument(s) for…