Out of curiosity, what do you define as “finished” in a game with procedurally-generated content like NMS?

Or you can appreciate the themes and relationships while realizing no one talks like a normal person. What the game needed, what most of Kojima’s games need, is simply an editor.

My favorite thing about learning this is Kojima casually criticizing the violence of the final fight in The Last of Us Part 2... only for people to discover he was probably just salty that Naughty Dog got there first.

Disney+ has delivered a nearly unbroken string of shows rated 90+% among audiences and critics (and, no, it’s a myth that critics only watch the first two episodes, you can see they rate all the episodes highly). Their success rate for shows is far better than their success rate for movies. The two lowest-rated MCU…

The old “reality is unrealistic” trope.

Marvel is increasingly showing this weird habit of taking really high-minded modern ideas and then sanitizing them so they’re toothless or demonizing them to the point that the ideas themselves are dangerous before throwing them away so no one can ever talk about them again. I think this has to be the worst, most…

Sinead O’Connor ripped up a picture of the pope on live television during a SNL performance and a ton of people turned on her. She did it over what are now widely-known and accepted abuses of children and young women by priests and in convents. But this was 1992 and the backlash was massive to the point that it almost…

Anyone who hasn’t seen it should immediately go watch the Documentary “Nothing Compares.” I learned so much about her fights, her struggles, and her crusades that took me from simply admiring her as an artist to seeing her as one of the greats and an exceptional human being. There are so many highlights and so many…

I have 400 hours in No Man’s Sky... over 7years. Sometimes you just need to finish a game.

I think in both instances the show had the idea of a rogue group trying to have a revolution, the producers saw that the characters actually made sense, so they did their best to stop the audience from sympathizing with the revolutionary characters.

This is a show built heavily around the use of antisemitic and antimuslim conspiracy theories in order to create a paranoid feeling of terror and helplessness in the main characters and audience. But to get there it sacrifices its goodwill in creating its single best metaphor for refugee crises. And then it has the…

Aw, I love Crash...

So Gerwig based the personalities of the Kens partly on the actors? That explains... everything.

Alternately... never buy a game, only have premium subscriptions and churn through four $60 games in a single $15 monthly subscription. (This is how I played through Far Cry 6, Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn, and Watch Dogs Legion for the low-low price of a Carl’s Jr. meal.)

Some set out to make the best movie of the year. Oppenheimer set out to make the most movie of the year.

As a kid who read the books “A Time to Kill” and “The Client,” I was always confused how dead-on The Client was and how many diversions and omissions A Time to Kill had. Carl Lee Hailey is a much bigger character in the book with a whole plan and endgame, and his motivations are a lot more directly spelled out. By…

Dang. Now I feel a little bad making fun of how overpaid he is based on how consistently his movies have bombed throughout his career.

It was weird comparing the costumes and realizing, “These are much better uniforms.”

Spock’s “It is presumptuous of you to assume you are the only one who uses it” as if that’s an actual response is what got me.

That BOIMLER RUN... LOL