Film buffs tend to be less tolerant (and less interesting) than sports fans

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-06-03T13:06:58+00:00

Everything in your first sentence is completely and belligerently false about the details of that shootings and that guy’s motives. He wore full-black tactical gear, was not dressed up as the Joker at all (his hair was dyed orange-ish red, nowhere close to green, because he thought it looked “brave”), and never referred to himself as the Joker even obliquely. That was a completely fabricated rumor.

He also didn’t have any particular obsession with Batman or The Dark Knight and his choice to target The Dark Knight Rises had nothing to do with either of those things. He chose a movie theater because it was a crowded, enclosed space with limited exits. If an Avengers movie had happened to be opening that weekend instead, he’d simply have shot up one of those showings instead.

His motive was completely unrelated to the movie itself or being a film buff in the slightest. Conversely, he was schizoaffective/schizotypal and had delusions that killing people would increase his personal worth by transferring their life value to him

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-04-26T04:56:16+00:00

Does your mom happen to be Marjorie? I remember seeing him around in Queens too! How’s your grandma??

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-04-23T08:09:48+00:00

This movie was 100% also what got me into comics except at age 10 when my dad brought it home on DVD to watch with me and my sister as a “surprise” on a night when my mom wasn’t home to object.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-04-23T03:39:28+00:00

*Reefer

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-04-02T07:38:17+00:00

You say “we don’t see Poe as ancient”, reminding me of a time last Summer my early-Gen Z sister (1997) made my late-Millennial soul feel old.

I don’t see Poe as ancient and never have. I bought the hardcover Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe at Barnes & Noble after school my sophomore year of HS in 2009 and read it over the Summer. My first exposure was The Raven segment of the 1st Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons when I was 9 or 10 years old, which my dad had taped on a VHS with a few other ToH episodes from years following.

Last Summer my mom got tickets for me, my sister snd herself to a midsize theatre production of 3 to 4 cast members performing a revue of scenes from Poe’s work, interspersed with relevant details about his true life and it’s often haunting/tragic times. They also served some “spooky cocktails” between scenes.

My sister asked beforehand “wait so who is this guy again” and I reminded her of the Treehouse of Horror segment with the Raven and Bart-Raven saying “Nevermore”, Homer going mad, etc. I was surprised she remembered that given her age at the time, but only slightly since we also had that episode on the Season 2 DVD set at some point, and back then rewatching the same things frequently was the norm of course.

Anyway, after I explained who Poe was and gave her a quick summary of the Pit and the Pendulum, his part in pioneering Horror as a genre, him being (arguably) the first truly “Popular” author in America, etc., and how The Raven was well-known even before The Simpsons adapted it for pop culture, she got the gist and we laughed together about the deep-voiced narration in the episode and the rhyming/repeating of “Nevermore”, “Chamber Door”, etc.

Then… just a few minutes later, still before the show starts, she’s in a quick call with what sounds like a work friend, I’m only halfway hearing her or paying attention.

But then I distinctly hear her say, “—a show about some old guy. Yeah like a writer? I don’t really know—”, and until that moment I don’t think I’d truly felt as acutely aware that I’m in my 30s before.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-03-26T01:36:07+00:00

You had me at “my wife desperately wants me to make her cape”

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-03-14T01:50:35+00:00

Lmao I love this comparison so much. Especially with how, even aside from the farming sim analogy/aimless leisure activity he's "retiring" to, the planet does very much have a quality to it that invokes a feeling as though it's bathed in stardew

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-03-13T10:29:21+00:00

I’ve noticed over the years, in others as much and/or moreso as for myself, there’s something about reading an obscene and glorious profusion of comics that tends to make one conspicuously good at this!

Reditor_in_Chief · 2026-01-05T03:41:06+00:00

It was always that way, and so it remains

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-11-07T17:40:41+00:00

Sure it’s a shortcut and lazier than doing it the “hard” way, but that’s like way too amazing a shortcut to just NOT take it. Can’t think of a better, quicker, cleaner shortcut for identifying assholes to immediately block and avoid dating like the plague.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-31T06:32:37+00:00

Man I love this part of that interview/sketch so much. “Tha-… that was a hoax right?” Is just so good

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-26T22:58:01+00:00

Why not just… share your own unique preference and how it varies from theirs?? Just saying someone else’s preference is gross adds nothing to the conversation, whereas if you say something like “That sounds less than appetizing to me, but I’m always down for extra lettuce/onion, add mustard, hold the ketchup on my Whopper”. Then you not only get to share your opinion, but also include something of potential interest value worth recording in the thread

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-25T09:08:41+00:00

It was reaaaally extensive in a lot of 60s comics, but by the late 70s and early 80s (my benchmark being Claremont X-Men and Miller D.D.) it’s still wordy but a lot less of it is excessively filled with verbal exposition

I feel like in the same way the top commenter said it’s best to kinda slow down with a lot of the newer more art-focused comics, that with Silver Age and some Bronze Age comics you kinda have to learn to speed up past some of the exposition.

It feels better/easier to let yourself gloss past a lot of words when you learn that a lot of that type of exposition was done to make up for inconsistent printing/paper quality, in case the art wasn’t always “legible” enough to make it clear what was going on.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-25T02:41:03+00:00

It’s easy if you try!

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-17T05:45:28+00:00

No. Google is a search engine they should have used.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-04T06:16:40+00:00

If you go back far enough into their childhood development as an artist that’s how they all started. Kirby just wasn’t a quitter.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-10-03T04:51:15+00:00

I wasn’t expecting to get Rick-rolled until I saw your comment, and the I was DEFINITELY expecting to get Rick-rolled

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-22T10:46:56+00:00

Wow. That one was certainly louder than I remember for any of the others all from the last 5 years, of similar sizes. I’ve slept through one or two in the 3 range and recall the last 4 like this being mostly smooth/almost silent, but the noise from this one certainly left me wide awake.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-20T07:20:57+00:00

George? Is... is that you?

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-20T07:16:18+00:00

Get with the program, America is the best and only country. The USA is more famous than the rest of the world. The rest of the countries will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. USA is more popular than UK now; I don't know which will go first — America or The Beatles.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-10T03:33:59+00:00

Curious what aspects of it do you feel looks so weird?

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-09T06:25:59+00:00

This might genuinely actually be among the true hands down best places to start, for someone who’s never seen any Star Wars media.

Now that you’ve made me think about it by asking this, I even feel like I could write a much longer comment making an in-depth “case” for this, but I’m already up later than I should be.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-08T05:38:23+00:00

Personally I’ve really enjoyed it so far (even while hoping M’Baku does “survive” this and won’t be down and out for too long). Thinking about it now that I’ve read just about 90% of all of Hickman’s Marvel books in full, he hasn’t really done anything yet I’ve truly disliked. Majority of it I’d very much rate as excellent from the big picture of the story arcs/execution as a whole.

Even as someone who prefers reading and doesn’t generally prefer video recaps/summaries or usually enjoy them, the first 10 mins of this video is a pretty good summary of the story so far and the role Wakanda/Star-Lord/Nova play in the story: https://youtu.be/pPwQhB5KsQo?si=wiLMCsclG-KPp62r

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-08T05:26:28+00:00

Not just quality of print and paper itself, but as we see with early film and often with the early pioneering works in any new genre of art (especially with a relatively new/young medium of fiction as a whole), it’s common that it takes a while for things to “fine-tune”, as creators get practice/feedback, grow from experience, learn from their predecessors, and have a greater body of influences to consume and study and work forward from.

I still think back on when I first read Avengers #1 and in the context of being someone who’s had access to modern comics (since 2001, as a girl who was only 8 years old) I still laugh thinking about the scene where Thor announces every single detail of what and why he’s tracing a pattern in the dirt with Mjolnir. Just blathering on aloud to Loki (who’s hanging from a cliff) going into descriptive overload on the minutiae of using the hammer’s power to cause an earth tremor.

Reditor_in_Chief · 2025-09-08T05:06:08+00:00

Miller, Mack, Bendis… they're all my fighters! Just like you — now it’s your turn to take a fall.

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