Micaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz

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Trans Culture Critic & Editor & Essayist & Author & Poet Formerly of Dangerous To Go Alone and Ninsight, Currently of Bushwick :) Nemesis of Damon Lindelof, Bobby Kotick, and FPS Games ✍️ @ Stop Caring, Polygon, Paste, Fanbyte, Uppercut, etc

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truly baffled by the decision to quote “Trash, Art and the Movies” by Pauline Kael at the beginning and then never referencing it again when it could, in fact, help Jackson’s argument. all criticism about this movie is people who can’t read arguing with one another aftermath.site/the-odyssey-...

I Am Here To Defend The Noble Action Movie From The Classicist Emily Wilson

A stupid movie isn't always a bad one.

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i never liked ken jennings anyway. i never liked the wnba anyway. i never liked womens sports anyway. i never liked harry potter anyway. i never liked the nyt word games anyway. i never liked alice cooper dee schneider and kiss anyway. i never l

an interesting side effect of all this talk over criticism: folks asserting that there’s a proper way to be a critic, or decorum to follow. I don’t think there is! There are as many ways to be a critic (or a writer) as there are of being a person.

"ok emily wilson's film criticism isn't wrong but she's being pedantic and annoying" damn okay i already supported her perspective but now i'm supporting her character even more

absolute gobbledegook writing. unsubstantiated claims about “influence and reach”, nonsense metaphors, “the graphics have caught up to our imagination,” complaints that the remake remade things too accurately. can we PLEASE care about words and meaning? it’s not hard, especially if you’re an EIC.

Halo: Combat Evolved is a foundational game whose influence and reach are hard to
encompass. 25 years ago, that game established an array of mechanics, control systems, story tropes, and gameplay flow that rippled outward across the genre and beyond. In crafting a rebuild, Halo Studios opted to strip out the competitive multiplayer that helped establish part of that reputation, which is a real shame.Behind the wall of clever sci-fi world-building, Halo's triumph has always been its insistent fun at all times, sometimes at the cost of perfect balance or sense. Brightly colored weapon flashesMaster Chief and Cortana's journey across the ringworld of Halo was an integral experience in my gaming life, and I'm certainly not the only one. Campaign Evolved is a superb update and rebuild of what made the original great, but it stops short of a complete restructuring of that landmark game. Even constrained by some of the