The Boys is another victim of a problem I will expound upon, that is when a show accidentally casts a secondary character way too well and has to adapt to match it. I've seen tons of shows go through this - The Expanse, the Witcher, the Clone Wars... but I call it the Preacher effect.

is this the most niche joke I've made on this account? Probably, yes

To Arnold's credit, one man he has been very open about how he's specifically talking about him is his father.

My friend told me the IDF keeps arresting his boat flotillas so I asked how many boats he has and he said he just goes to the marina and gets new boats afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding boat flotillas to the IDF and then his daughter started crying.

How it started How it's going

Ok but as a millennial I am going to whine so fucking hard now

I don't love judging people by their families I know if you look up my family tree you won't find many wonderful people but good grief this family tree is some kind of arsenic plant

Punisher having two seasons of Daredevil, two seasons of his own show, and now a special, and still being reluctantly forced into killing criminals is the biggest surf Dracula I've seen.

If I had a nickel for every time they did a superhero movie inspired by Taxi Driver I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.

I was at work all day and now having your kids eat is oppressive so clearly joining the ranks of the employed was a mistake I could have experienced so much drama

Big tech ruining the chance of future me to hear some amazing takes about who really rules the world.

If we're going to have to fill all of my discord servers with bad Mass Effect takes, here is my best mass effect take (and anyone who disagrees is wrong, though I think I should bring Ashley up a tier)

are you saying this is not an extremely valid and productive way to engage with ancient literature

Mass Effect Andromeda

A story about me that I think says a lot about the sort of person I am is that in high school I had a teacher mock me for only reading fantasy so I read five dostoevski books and a dostoevski biography and immediately went back to reading fantasy after proving I can do literature if I want to.

If you are one of the people harassing this man and inventing fake shit, go fuck yourself. He doesn't deserve a single percent of the shit he's gotten. Stop adding to it.

People who are critical of Zack Polanski (and I’m increasingly one of them) need to be able to recognise that, even if you think he’s handling antisemitism within his party really badly, he is himself a victim of antisemitism.

You can hate Stancil with the passion of a thousand suns, nobody's stopping you. But the sensible response to that is to simply not interact and ignore him as a blight on your social existence. I think folks target him instead of right wing assholes because they know they can get away with it.

I don't see a problem with this, the man supports a death penalty for terrorists. Kinda gauche to remind him of his own fate at his birthday party, but hey, gotta prepare him for the future he wants. www.timesofisrael.com/naftali-has-...

I didn't know all of this (though I assumed some - the range issue). Good thread.

Something tells me Jacobin was not entirely on the up-and-up on this one.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Arcane The Shield The Wire The Good Place (1st 2 seasons only) 30 Rock The Expanse Fargo Ted Lasso (first season only) Scrubs Rome Frieren Watchmen Jessica Jones Season 1 Doom Patrol The Magicians Wheel of Time S3

He don't do the book learnings too good, but boy howday can he grow a gourd.

This is my son and I am so proud of how good he is at growing pumpkins.

I've said it before but it's worth repeating that a sign of someone being an absolute piece of shit is that they despise Will Stancil. Congratulations on sharing the same view as ICE guys. Also to annoy you further Will Stancil is the closest we'll get to James Holden IRL

I'll be real I don't think I need an insider going "there's dirt" (which I never actually believe) to know that this man has *so much dirt* on him. Everyone supporting him now is ignorant and shitty. The purely ignorant would reject him for the Nazi tattoo, the shitty would reject him for stupidity.

The Khan of the Great Plains does not let barbarity to his subjects go unpunished. May all his enemies cower in the face of his wrath.

Starship Troopers and Grogu

White men are white men above all else & they'll back up each other no matter what. I am not even remotely surprised that walz is campaigning with the nazi. Not at all.

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

I want to see the big one eat the little one

I sent this email to Ken Martin's press team and called the DNC office in DC. (202) 863-8000. 😤

In Players the lead actually broke his hand when punching the wall. He's improvising while in pain in that scene

Another qualified woman who likely would have made a wonderful legislator, losing out to a problematic man. And people will argue until the cows come home that America doesn't have a misogyny problem. And they will be as full of shit as the field those mythical cows inhabit.

This is who the Democratic Party endorsed. I. Am. LIVID.

For the last decade I've said "the best Republican is worse than the worst Democrat". This has been true for Susan Collins when compared to Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman, Gluesencamp Perez... if Platner wins the primary it will no longer be true and his opponent will be Collins

Yeah, how dare you compare them? Fetterman doesn't hate Jews!

I posted a jokey thing about a book I'm reading to distract myself, but I can't help but think about how much the Supreme Court decision is compounded evil. Not just attacking democracy but attacking Black people. It's not worth much but I am angry as hell.

I appreciate the joke but also this is the single best campaign template out there.

About to start my third SA Barnes novel. I expect a woman to be in a lowly position in space where her secrets are going to be relevant to resolving the plot, and the evil horrifying force is going to be an agent of capitalism. Also I will likely enjoy the fuck out of it Barnes is pretty great.

It’s crazy that I’m thinking this but we need to heap even more contempt and hate towards the American press. They are actively harmful to society and there’s no weak claim of ethics they can hide behind anymore.

The Congress must address critical security issues, like transgender people and their gender nonconformity and violation of traditional standards, and getting Donald a ballroom so that he can host parties and pick out drapes

This fall there's going to be a huge, expensive, meticulously planned PR campaign for a very expensive show that will benefit a transphobic nightmare person. Every bit of spin you will read should be translated -- honestly -- as "I wanted this job so I took the job & don't care about anything else"

Anyone who was as dumb as me and pre-ordered a special edition of the expanse effect game (yes I paid 30 extra dollars for Miller's hat no people actually do treat me like I'm an adult) there's an hour-long beta available to you on their website

I need to always remind myself that the pathfinder 2e discord is one of the most useless places on the internet if you're looking for advice and you're not running a specific campaign.

The movies don't write about this, maybe, but a pretty mid TV show was made about exactly this (and keeps being really weirdly relevant)

>create spectacle the media can't ignore >declare the president is a pedophile >the media repeats that claim, forcing a presidential denial >the Epstein affair returns to political prominence Total Stancilite victory, the disciple has learned from the master

I am at least a little bit amused that near-universal reaction to this has been, basically,