Thus far, no sitting member of the Senate Democratic caucus has demanded Schumer’s resignation.

Why Aren’t Any Senate Democrats Calling On Schumer to Step Down?

Despite outcry from progressives, no Democrats in the Senate have yet expressed support for replacing Schumer as leader.

Nothing in the “Fight Club” article seems to suggest this has changed in the last two weeks.

The anti-natalist folks and the pro-natalist folks are clearly in some kind of competition to produce the shittiest ideology imaginable.

Congrats for putting points on your side of the board.

They say AI can’t replace us, but that’s exactly what I’d tell my boss

Asking my TikTok nephew for a loan to cover rent this month and I have to listen to him rap at me for ten minutes before handing over the cash in crypto.

Will Smith is officially banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years. He’s also lost the ability to produce new projects, with his IMDB credits drying up almost entirely after 2022.

One of the only people in Hollywood who you might seriously claim faced consequences for deplorable behavior. We can only speculate as to why.

The John Fetterman of Hollywood.

The sequel came out in 2018 and was enjoyable

I’ve been hearing this joke since Thunderdome.

I can’t figure out why people love Rogue One.

On its face, its a good movie. I think what put it over the top was the way in which they folded the final scene so neatly into the opening scene of New Hope.

it has terrible pacing, a story that didn’t particularly need to be told, unengaging leads (rewatch after Andor helps some but not entirely), and too much fan service

Eh. Rewatched it recently and I’ll spot that it feels like three shorter films stapled together. But they’re three good movies. I’ll also say that “story that needs to be told” is the absolute wrong philosophy for the Star Wars setting. The show is at its best when its just people bumping around the Galaxy in the shadow of the tentpole events. You could write a Star Wars sitcom that’s just imperial bureaucrats fucking around in the style of The Office and it could be solid gold. Hell, that’s on-and-off what made The Mandalorian so good.

Lucas made a fun setting full of creative little asides and bits of exotic Sci-Fi art that anyone would peel off and do their own thing with. That’s what makes it so great for video games, TTRPGs, EU novels, comedy sketches, amateur art renditions, cosplay… The franchise is this elaborate sandbox full of fun little toys. Just grabbing a few and swinging them around is fun, whether or not you have the whole history of the extended universe committed to heart.

Also, incidentally, what makes “We’re doing the Death Star again” so hack. You don’t need to build a new death star when you can just play with the one you’ve already got. Test firing on Jedha is fun. Running around a construction site full of spare Death Star parts is fun. Rescuing an engineer is fun. Getting stuck in a trash compactor on the detention level is fun.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Episode 8 is better.

I don’t think you really have to choose. You also don’t really need to throw $30M at every episode (or whatever Andor’s budget was) to have fun in the setting. One reason I enjoyed Solo so much was in how it got back to that slumming-it style of Star Wars. The little vinette of Han as an imperial commando trying to survive the trenches of some mudhole was perfect Star Wars material and didn’t require a metric fuckton of CGI to pull off.

Disenchanted, the movie. Not the Netflix cartoon. The feature length movie is a sequel to Enchanted, a live-action parody of the traditional Disney Princess trope.

What we see on Stranger Things is just advertisements for IP from the 1980s. Everything from Ghostbusters to Neverending Story to D&D is just a brand name. Hell, the centerpiece of Season 4 was a mega-mall.

It’s history through the eyes of Madison Avenue. Great if your goal is to recycle period kitche at obscene mark-ups. Which… in fairness… was the design philosophy of much of 1980s mass media.

I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024

All those polls are cucked anyway. You’re taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.

Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.

Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.

The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers.

I don’t even think you’re being “bundled” per say. You’re just living long enough to take the generic “Old People Ruined Everything” flak that internet click-baiters loves to saturate younger people with. On the flip side, you’re now reaching the era in which every TV Show, radio program, and mega-mall marketing team thinks the 1980s was the peak of human civilization. So enjoy being sheep dipped in Reagan Era nostalgia for a decade or two.

My back hurts.

Back aching builds character, or so I’ve been told.

Posting this in between my angry rants about “Breeders” ruining society over in /r/ChildFree.

I mean, I generally like their original work. Moana, Lilo and Stitch, The Incredibles, Zootopia - all very entertaining, creative, and packed with talented performances.

And they can even make solid kids action movies. Disenchanted, Hocus Pocus, the original Pirates of the Caribbean, Tron - it’s clearly within the capacity of the studio to make good films.

When they buy up these outside franchises and “Disney-fy” them, though… Woof.

Tourist Town is what happens after your community has been bankrupted and stripped for parts

No shit people are resentful

I saw Rogue One and I was bored to tears

Alright, hold up

Lucas had already taken it out to the woodshed several times.

The franchise has historically been at its best in the fallow years, when people were just tapping into the IP to tell their own stories.

But you can say the same of Trek, of Harry Potter, of Marvel and DCU. Any time the suits take over, content trends towards slop

This is what happens when you let the guys at Area 51 into the design team