This reading is a little cavalier with that story’s events.

I’m familiar with all of this stuff and this is the first episode that isn’t a complete wet fart for me. Then again, I think Clone Wars is the inferior Clone Wars by far (hallowed be thy Tartakovsky) and did way too much to preemptively “redeem” Anakin before he becomes a villain... again... because he was already a…

Declaring that everybody is on a specific team regardless of their beliefs and that you don’t want to play is literally just team think.

When an oppressed ethnic group complains they’re being badly represented, I wake. When an oppressive career complains they’re being badly represented, I go back to sleep.

Except all of the augs in that game had a glitch and randomly started attacking people, they didn’t respond to centuries of endemic institutional violence and brutality with spontaneous uprisings. There were definitely anti-aug terrorists in the first game, but they screwed up the allegory with the typical Zootopia,…

But what if no one else would hire a former puppet? What if being a puppet is the only job you can get after beating your wife and beating someone to death while being a puppet because no one else can trust you?

People who are fine with the American police killing more people on the planet than any other police force but one and walking around carrying guns everywhere would respond with threats of violence to people being concerned about it? Nooooo heaven forfend...

Racism, police corruption, most prisoners per capita on the planet, one of 10 countries with the death penalty, second most people killed by the police yearly on the planet, one of a handful of countries where street-level police are armed, and our police force is technically the third most heavily funded standing…

Is that how your typical police sergeant defends their 40% rate of domestic assault?

I kept seeing these animals getting merked and thought it was because these creatures were aggressive. Scanned them and it just said “defensive.” So the little solo cat creatures kept trying to merk the triceratops and got one-shotted to death leaving random bodies here and there.

I’ve been struggling how to play evil but I end up just playing irritated, myself.

I wonder when we decided on the internet that we can’t critique things that people like? I’ve seen effusive praise for this game for weeks, why can’t people have opinions that aren’t mainstream?

What’s interesting about the constant retcons post-prequels to Qui-Gonn as a character is that they basically pretend like there was never an actual movie he was in. Because if they actually cared about that movie, Qui-Gonn REALLY sucks.

This game and ITSV understand what other media constantly forget: Spider-Man is neither power fantasy nor escapism. Spider-Man is how Peter Parker/Miles Morales become responsible adults and part of a larger community. It’s not what they do because they’re special, it’s how they help keep it from getting worse. They’re…

“If we didn’t incentivize work by forcing everyone to starve, none of the work would ever get done. And if we didn’t take 90% of the value of that work for ourselves, then people wouldn’t be starving and none of the work would ever get done. Basic math!”

To be honest, most writers in Hollywood are garbage (just think of all the shit the produce). This is the perfect time for them to revaluate their life and move into another profession.

Started playing this on GamePass in the middle of two simultaneous replays of BG3. Five minutes of walk-and-talk and I immediately realized they were serving up Fallout in space... which is fine... but between this, Sea of Stars, and even more BG3 I’m just struggling to get into the headspace for aimless wandering and…

I’ve stopped at least a half dozen times wishing I could just hack open chests and remembering BG1 and BG2 where the loot would pointedly be destroyed if you didn’t use lockpicks. This information comforts the heck out of me!

Playing as a thief on my first run, I’d say this makes little sense. Playing as any other class on my second run... yeah, those things are hard to find.

And how on earth did a 35 minute episode with a giant space fight at its core manage to be so boring?