Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
I am going to go out of my way to let lots of people know that Andy Weir is friendly with The Critical Drinker. That is all you need to know about a person to decide "I do not want to promote your career's success in any way."
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I am going to go out of my way to let lots of people know that Andy Weir is friendly with The Critical Drinker. That is all you need to know about a person to decide "I do not want to promote your career's success in any way."
@artemis It really pisses me off that these regressive assholes think that if it's a white man, it's "not political", but if it's anything other than a white cishet male protagonist than that's "political".
Fuck em all. Consistently making that one special protagonist a white man is the most white supremacist Nazi political choice of them all.
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
@artemis ah crap… his recent trash talking about Star Trek was starting to give me some ick and now this just confirms it further
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@artemis It really pisses me off that these regressive assholes think that if it's a white man, it's "not political", but if it's anything other than a white cishet male protagonist than that's "political".
Fuck em all. Consistently making that one special protagonist a white man is the most white supremacist Nazi political choice of them all.
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@SharpCheddarGoblin
I'm under the impression that it's the type of "hard sci fi" that goes out of its way to be "realistic" about some things but then hand waves everything else.It gets really in the nitty-gritty about some specific things, but then just has the main character have the generic "amnesia" trope.
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
@artemis ugh we really can't have nice things, can we
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
@artemis oh no
I loved reading the Martian when it came out, but I somehow got those icky vibes too a while ago. Or at least a suspicion of icky vibes? I really wish that feeling would have been wrong. -
@artemis oh no
I loved reading the Martian when it came out, but I somehow got those icky vibes too a while ago. Or at least a suspicion of icky vibes? I really wish that feeling would have been wrong. -
@SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis What's funny is the books very much center observation and problem solving and the scientific method and almost all of that gets glossed over and reduced to few times with Ryan Gosling drawing equations on a whiteboard. You had a bit of the same problem with the adaptation of his prior work The Martian. So has anybody actually watched this interview and seen how bad it is? Does he make any offensive or questionable statements? Is this part of a pattern?
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@SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis What's funny is the books very much center observation and problem solving and the scientific method and almost all of that gets glossed over and reduced to few times with Ryan Gosling drawing equations on a whiteboard. You had a bit of the same problem with the adaptation of his prior work The Martian. So has anybody actually watched this interview and seen how bad it is? Does he make any offensive or questionable statements? Is this part of a pattern?
@SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis I'd kind of like to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that this is just him being absolutely slammed with interviews and spending weeks on end with a publicist doing like 20 different segments without knowing anything about the people he's interacting with.
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@SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis I'd kind of like to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that this is just him being absolutely slammed with interviews and spending weeks on end with a publicist doing like 20 different segments without knowing anything about the people he's interacting with.
@Infoseepage @SharpCheddarGoblin
I understand the hope.I haven't watched myself so I am speaking from secondhand knowledge but apparently he made a knowing wink to "The Message" (Drinker's phrase for what he thinks is the "woke agenda" in every Hollywood movie) & appeared pretty familiar with Drinker & what he is about.
Tbh, given his reputation & following, I doubt Drinker is making it into anyone's press tour unless someone involved is making a very intentional choice to include him.
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
@artemis Disappointing. Noted.
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@SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis What's funny is the books very much center observation and problem solving and the scientific method and almost all of that gets glossed over and reduced to few times with Ryan Gosling drawing equations on a whiteboard. You had a bit of the same problem with the adaptation of his prior work The Martian. So has anybody actually watched this interview and seen how bad it is? Does he make any offensive or questionable statements? Is this part of a pattern?
@Infoseepage @SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis
I watched half the interview and it seemed fine - actually, it seemed very, very interesting. But I have a high tolerance for random casual political comments that causes some to take great offense.I'm not super into policing language. Also, I may now be a subscriber to Critical Drinker's youtube feed.
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I am going to go out of my way to let lots of people know that Andy Weir is friendly with The Critical Drinker. That is all you need to know about a person to decide "I do not want to promote your career's success in any way."
Just saw someone respond with basically "I don't see what's so bad about the Critical Drinker."
What's so bad about the Critical Drinker is that he believes women are inherently weaker & less capable than men. He believes diversity in film & TV is "forced" & everything should be about cis-het white men. He whines & complains whenever anyone gets any representation or has their story told.
He also hates because it's lucrative.
He is a grifter & a bigot.
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Ah. I knew Andy Weir gave me the ick, even if I didn't know why.
Andy Weir, author of the books Project Hail Mary & The Martian (now major Hollywood blockbusters!) just did an interview with The Critical Drinker on YouTube.
Drinker is a loudly misogynistic, queerphobic, & racist "anti-woke' movie commentator.
Yeah, I'll be skipping anything associated with Andy Weir from here on out.
@artemis I've been hearing about Project Hail Mary from various directions and in the corner of my mind had been meaning to read it sometime. Now I'm no longer meaning to read it.
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@Infoseepage @SharpCheddarGoblin @artemis
I watched half the interview and it seemed fine - actually, it seemed very, very interesting. But I have a high tolerance for random casual political comments that causes some to take great offense.I'm not super into policing language. Also, I may now be a subscriber to Critical Drinker's youtube feed.
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Just saw someone respond with basically "I don't see what's so bad about the Critical Drinker."
What's so bad about the Critical Drinker is that he believes women are inherently weaker & less capable than men. He believes diversity in film & TV is "forced" & everything should be about cis-het white men. He whines & complains whenever anyone gets any representation or has their story told.
He also hates because it's lucrative.
He is a grifter & a bigot.
Critical Drinker is no free speech advocate either.
He wants to shut down all media that doesn't match his narrow worldview.
You're not standing up for "reason" or "logic" by defending a bigot who hates that people can tell their own stories.
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Critical Drinker is no free speech advocate either.
He wants to shut down all media that doesn't match his narrow worldview.
You're not standing up for "reason" or "logic" by defending a bigot who hates that people can tell their own stories.
It's so weird that in 2026 some people are still playing this game where they tell you "I don't buy into that cancel culture bullshit—you're too sensitive" & then go & subscribe to a person known for hating diversity to show you they are a "free thinker."
Y'all.
In 2026.
Bigotry isn't intriguing & it's certainly not a "moderate" path. Being reactive & getting onboard with hate because you don't like seeing straight white men criticized is a bad look.
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It's so weird that in 2026 some people are still playing this game where they tell you "I don't buy into that cancel culture bullshit—you're too sensitive" & then go & subscribe to a person known for hating diversity to show you they are a "free thinker."
Y'all.
In 2026.
Bigotry isn't intriguing & it's certainly not a "moderate" path. Being reactive & getting onboard with hate because you don't like seeing straight white men criticized is a bad look.
Also...the other thing about the Critical Drinker?
He straight up lies about the movies he dislikes. You can find people on YouTube who have done whole video series on the lies he tells.
You can't seriously be going to a man who tells deliberate lies about the media he's talking about for movie opinions. Even if we could set bigotry aside for a second, why TF would you do that?
Critical Drinker is not a media critic. He's a well-known right-wing, grifting LIAR.
