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Post by Judkins Moaner on Sept 19, 2016 11:28:45 GMT -5
The (actually pretty good) Neil DeGrasse Tyson interview's certainly ruffling a few feathers. The comments are actually pretty substantive, by and large (so maybe not quite the drive-by corrosion we so often get in comments these days that's already been nicely discussed)*, but... damn. Can't one have mixed feelings on the man instead of "fucking loving 'science'" or being a total, abject miseryguts?
Oh, and Ms. Maslany's Emmy win was headline news on CBC 2 news updates this morning; her speech sounded classy and inspiring. Voila une femme!
*And reading through 'em kept me away from the pool, dammit, but I also got a couple of pages of comic done, so calling it a wash.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Sept 21, 2016 15:47:17 GMT -5
Just had a Cruel Awakening moment about how far detached I've become from the Old Country and its comment section. Under the Jeffrey Tambor newswire, in the comments...somebody else was doing a Ron Howard Voice.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 22, 2016 8:01:29 GMT -5
Just had a Cruel Awakening moment about how far detached I've become from the Old Country and its comment section. Under the Jeffrey Tambor newswire, in the comments...somebody else was doing a Ron Howard Voice. Aw shit, man... |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 22, 2016 10:46:28 GMT -5
I loaded TOC a couple of minutes ago, and there was no Supper Club pop-up..
Couple of minutes later, just when I thought I could trust again, the newsletter pop-up appeared.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2016 14:49:20 GMT -5
They have got to stop putting spoilers in the titles of episode reviews, especially when the review is going above the fold, and especially especially when the show airs as late as Mr. Robot does.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 22, 2016 14:53:28 GMT -5
I love that saying "above the fold" is still a thing, even though it has as much relevance to the actual physical thing as "roll down your window" or "hang up the phone".
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 22, 2016 19:05:24 GMT -5
That TIFF comment section sure was a little microcosm of the sexist bullshit that happens on the site now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 14:28:34 GMT -5
"It feels like they appropriated ska and took reggae, and it’s sort of punk, but not really, and then, just, ugh." Yes, that's an entire genre of music not limited to this one Sublime song. Excellent use of buzzwords though, Mr. Posehn, have some brownie points. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 24, 2016 15:16:31 GMT -5
Maybe Hatesong is finally dying? It used to be featured more than once a month, this summer only once a month. Now it's been over a month, and it appears on a weekend with someone who's done it before.
I will now attempt to speciate the justifications offered by the various interviewees in Hatesong:
1) it's bad...like, everyone knows it's bad...it was a hit once but we now agree it is objectively bad
2) I've heard this song too many times, and that's annoying, y'know?
3) this band is bad, irrespective of the song
4) the fans of this band are bad, irrespective of the song
5) this song reminds me, personally, of a time or something that was unpleasant (possibly myself), and that is the song's fault
6) this song has a bad word; my kid heard it and that gives me parent-rage
7) this song has lyrical content that is hateful or otherwise objectional to contemporary enlightened social thinking
8) this song has lyrical/instrumental content that I dislike for artistic reasons, which I will outline now
Only 7 and 8 are particularly interesting or at least potentially unique reasons to read about. It's harder to get at 8 when you're talking to Twitter comedians and people who are less likely to be engaged with music. Anyway, I've taken to automatically upvoting people who express a fondness for the song in question.
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 24, 2016 16:06:07 GMT -5
Maybe Hatesong is finally dying? It used to be featured more than once a month, this summer only once a month. Now it's been over a month, and it appears on a weekend with someone who's done it before. I will now attempt to speciate the justifications offered by the various interviewees in Hatesong: 1) it's bad...like, everyone knows it's bad...it was a hit once but we now agree it is objectively bad 2) I've heard this song too many times, and that's annoying, y'know? 3) this band is bad, irrespective of the song 4) the fans of this band are bad, irrespective of the song 5) this song reminds me, personally, of a time or something that was unpleasant (possibly myself), and that is the song's fault 6) this song has a bad word; my kid heard it and that gives me parent-rage 7) this song has lyrical content that is hateful or otherwise objectional to contemporary enlightened social thinking 8) this song has lyrical/instrumental content that I dislike for artistic reasons, which I will outline now Only 7 and 8 are particularly interesting or at least potentially unique reasons to read about. It's harder to get at 8 when you're talking to Twitter comedians and people who are less likely to be engaged with music. Anyway, I've taken to automatically upvoting people who express a fondness for the song in question. Someone over at AVC suggested a more interesting feature might be to have someone defend a song that is usually agreed upon as terrible. I am inclined to agree. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 25, 2016 8:06:09 GMT -5
"As an Englishman, cultural appropriation *is* my spirit animal" -Warren Ellis |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 25, 2016 8:07:58 GMT -5
Maybe Hatesong is finally dying? It used to be featured more than once a month, this summer only once a month. Now it's been over a month, and it appears on a weekend with someone who's done it before. I will now attempt to speciate the justifications offered by the various interviewees in Hatesong: 1) it's bad...like, everyone knows it's bad...it was a hit once but we now agree it is objectively bad 2) I've heard this song too many times, and that's annoying, y'know? 3) this band is bad, irrespective of the song 4) the fans of this band are bad, irrespective of the song 5) this song reminds me, personally, of a time or something that was unpleasant (possibly myself), and that is the song's fault 6) this song has a bad word; my kid heard it and that gives me parent-rage 7) this song has lyrical content that is hateful or otherwise objectional to contemporary enlightened social thinking 8) this song has lyrical/instrumental content that I dislike for artistic reasons, which I will outline now Only 7 and 8 are particularly interesting or at least potentially unique reasons to read about. It's harder to get at 8 when you're talking to Twitter comedians and people who are less likely to be engaged with music. Anyway, I've taken to automatically upvoting people who express a fondness for the song in question. Someone over at AVC suggested a more interesting feature might be to have someone defend a song that is usually agreed upon as terrible. I am inclined to agree. Hatesongs, but only done by Hatebeak. |
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Post by Judkins Moaner on Sept 25, 2016 8:26:16 GMT -5
The latest Wiki Wormhole promises much (on, of all things, Polish involvement with the early seventeenth-century Russian "Time of Troubles") and, the odd thing is, delivers on a lot of it, but (a) believes that Moscow has been more or less the eternal capital of Russia and (b) neglects to mention Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov as a (long-delayed) cultural product. It's weird given how well-written (and apparently researched, or at least fact-checked) the rest of the article is.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 27, 2016 6:48:27 GMT -5
Maybe Hatesong is finally dying? It used to be featured more than once a month, this summer only once a month. Now it's been over a month, and it appears on a weekend with someone who's done it before. With another one today, now I'm worried that this was like sending out the Bat signal, but for Hatesongs. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 27, 2016 15:00:37 GMT -5
"As an Englishman, cultural appropriation *is* my spirit animal" -Warren Ellis His Patronus is a magpie. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 27, 2016 20:39:01 GMT -5
I am better off not reading the comments on the article about the openly transgender kid on Modern Family, aren't I?
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Post by ganews on Sept 27, 2016 21:07:57 GMT -5
I am better off not reading the comments on the article about the openly transgender kid on Modern Family, aren't I? I thought it was quite good, as far as I read. There was one guy slinging, but a lot more people were making good points and there was learning to be had. But I came here to complain about Joshua Alston yet again, because it's Tuesday and time for another great episode of Atlanta. He's a decent writer, but how can he turn reviews in 11-13 hours after the episode airs? He even had screeners for the first two eps - because AVC used them for a "season review" - and they still went live at a weird time. Does any other writer on the site get away with this? |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Sept 28, 2016 21:11:00 GMT -5
Anyway, I've taken to automatically upvoting people who express a fondness for the song in question. Heh, I do that too. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 29, 2016 13:15:09 GMT -5
The right-wing comments on the Designated Survivor review would be hilarious in their narrow-minded knee-jerkery if they weren't exactly the people who want Trump as President, and might get him.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 29, 2016 16:53:41 GMT -5
O'Neal's piece on the Portlandia bookstore is whatever the exact opposite of a biggest blunder is.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 30, 2016 6:29:56 GMT -5
O'Neal's piece on the Portlandia bookstore is whatever the exact opposite of a biggest blunder is. Secret Success? |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Sept 30, 2016 14:21:24 GMT -5
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 30, 2016 19:01:17 GMT -5
O'Neal's piece on the Portlandia bookstore is whatever the exact opposite of a biggest blunder is. Smallest Wonder? |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Oct 3, 2016 15:04:37 GMT -5
The fetishizing of black people in the Luke Cage headlines is really making it uncomfortable for me to read the AV Club in public.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 3, 2016 16:33:11 GMT -5
The fetishizing of black people in the Luke Cage headlines is really making it uncomfortable for me to read the AV Club in public. I know the sort of discursive tradition they’re trying to tap into, and this is probably unfair given that I know nothing about who supplied that headline, but seeing it this is the first thing that popped into my head:  |
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Post by Judkins Moaner on Oct 5, 2016 7:54:46 GMT -5
Again in the "opposite of blunder" category, I approve use of the word "troubling" in the headline for the Battle of Algiers review. A much more elegant and suggestive word than "problematic" (though I'm sure it doesn't get used that way in the review proper, which I haven't yet read).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 6:52:07 GMT -5
On that history of violence column about aliens, the writer said Alien is barely a Sci-fi movie. Fuck off. It has a major sci-fi setting the villain is a goddamned alien and an Android, there is a computer with AI. Like what more do you fucking need? Yes, it is a "primal horror film" but that doesn't mean it overrides the sci-fi elements. I hate this trend of people looking at sci-fi films and then proclaiming them to be something different.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Oct 7, 2016 10:51:45 GMT -5
This comment on the morning's Q&A was particularly choice:
Yes sir, nothing says obscure like such marginal acts as Bruce Springsteen, Death Cab For Cutie, Warren Zevon, Radiohead, and The Smashing Pumpkins.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 11:11:13 GMT -5
There are many things I dislike about how the AVC does music, but "they're too indie/obscure" is not one of them, especially when they've often forgone covering notable-but-less-well-known releases in favor of covering, say, Taylor Swift or other mainstream pop acts.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Oct 7, 2016 11:30:18 GMT -5
There are many things I dislike about how the AVC does music, but "they're too indie/obscure" is not one of them, especially when they've often forgone covering notable-but-less-well-known releases in favor of covering, say, Taylor Swift or other mainstream pop acts. They tend to cover the super-popular and the super-obscure, but not a lot of in-between, which I think is where a lot of the criticism comes from. |
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