like it’s fine if u know my name and use my name, this just makes me feel slightly freer to spit nonsense outside of job, academia, life, etc.

Gamers who have milked 200+ hours out of a $40 game: why is there no new content dead game

idk I just feel like, even if it’s not Herzog, you should have one or two great artists’ voices in the back of your head keeping you from saying embarrassing nonsense

like bro these penguins malfunctioned, fucked off into the empty tundra and DIED!! You’re doing an individualism, indomitable human spirit thing to a WERNER HERZOG CLIP???

The worst Call of Duty games look like Verhoeven movies by comparison! Who feels anything in their heart when they hear “NATO”?? Why are the opening stakes rescuing a literal SERVER FARM from a construction site??? It’s like if someone tried not to step on any toes and ended up levitating. Magical!

11 Bit is a master of mid-budget: great premises, executed with top-notch polish, and just enough surprises to leave you wanting more

Anyway, it’s funny and weird, not quite as cutting as I hoped, but worthwhile, I think. It’s a shame it makes assholes feel validated, and while that is the movie’s fault, I don’t think that’s its intent.

Cross has asthma, which fuels his refusal to wear a mask. This might be true of some anti-maskers, but plenty refused out of pure ignorance and scorn. And without any such explorations of the left’s motivations, the movie could be seen to generate sympathy on those grounds.

There are plenty of other weaknesses. Aster’s willingness to cast homeless people as implacable horrors are meant to indict him and his characters, but just come off as thoughtless. And he arguably infuses his right-wing characters with a little too much pathos: