i’m not surprised they didn’t quite hit the mark on the underlying themes of imperialism and american hubris/exceptionalism. it’s likely to be their own interpretation and distillation from a uniquely european cultural lens (and by rights a pov that is somewhat complicit in the imperialist themes they try to tip toe…

The cast and ambience feel on point, my only complaint (and it may be owing to how the trailer is shot) is that the action feels a little wooden, especially the fight choreography. Not just that it’s slow or choppy, but there’s no sense of the fluidity and lines of the original, with the smooth and improvisational…

I think they’ll cast Feyd, because of spoilery reasons from the 50-year-old plot, he should closely mirror Paul as a foil rather than Beast Rabban’s complete inversion. 

Hey now how is the American government going to spend trillions of dollars on arms contracts and failed interventions in the Middle East if they’re on the hook for inappropriate small business loans provided to individuals that the individuals have to pay back?

The fact that other awful people get away with other awful actions doesn’t change that fact.

For the same reason they practice Zensunni Catholicism and have paintings from Van Gogh, they’re directly descended from and historically aware of Earth.

I had a long lasting internet friend who went to work with Netflix in some decent position before our pirated streaming haunt went to the Great Napster in the Cloud. 

The Witcher barely counts because it’s as much an adaptation of the books as it is the games.

I have a plan to start playing Genshin Impact for the first time whenever they release Dainsleif and reroll until I get him.

Here, the absolute barest of context you might have used: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color

Nobody gives too much of a shit that Just Cause or Saints Row don’t make political statements because they are upfront about their cartoony, entertainment-focused nature.

And Donald Glover was one of the writers on 30 Rock to boot. 

Meanwhile Bobby Kotick, who oversaw all of the harassment, alienated the actual creators at Activision-Blizzard, and resulting mass exodus of its most talented veterans, not to mention the following bad press and irrecoverable hit to their reputation, receives $10 million more than that yearly in bonuses and stock…

A certain unpleasant subset of Hearts of Iron fans are gonna absolutely *love* this.

“When the rats start captaining the ship, it’s time to drain the rum”

I just beat Kingmaker, which I figured with a few years of polish and bug-fixing and an Enhanced Edition should be pretty smooth.

Anything more than the screen time he had with the personality he had would’ve just been cartoonish, and not in the good sense.

Yet, in Gundam, humans are exploring the universe and colonizing. But we don’t live in that world.

There is a huge space between “spending 3 million dollars on a house” and “living as an itinerant beggar.”

I don’t understand what the ostensible critics would even want him to do, spend his money renting property to the enrichment of landlords? Give up material possessions to become an itinerant beggar?