I’m just happy someone’s using the Force and not throwing around lightsabers. Seeing Ezra vaguely flail about using the force in hand-to-hand combat made me mourn that Kung Fu Force show they had lined up they eventually scrapped.

“Welcome to this new galaxy. Here’s the moors of Ireland that you saw in The Witcher and some turtle people.”

Several of these directors have Emmys and Oscars. This is not a director problem, this is a showrunner problem.

While there is a small but common medical reason to perform circumcision, it’s not necessary with attentive hygiene.

Disney and Netflix are the two largest streaming-only services. Amazon is a contender for 2nd place but it also includes fifteen-finity other things that have nothing to do with streaming in its subscription fee.

“We need to raise game prices to the highest they’ve ever been non-adjusted for inflation because we’re making profits higher than they’ve ever been adjusted for inflation and we’re not paying our workers any more than we did 10 years ago!”

I still remember the first time I heard about that fascist I was like, “NO!!! NOT THE GUY FROM UCB!!!”

Gaming profits went up 11.9% in 2023. Profits in the AAA market have seen record highs every single year for over a decade. And now game studios are just deciding “it’s time” for a 15% increase in the price of games.

The game really insists I deliver this letter to an empty black expanse of stars above Paradiso and I’m starting to take it personally.

I think what’s interesting is that Boy Meets World was an excellent show that understood its demographic and its politics and had deep empathy for its characters and the process of learning through failure. Girl Meets World was condescending and arch.

Trigger capitalists without mentioning capitalist challenge: Story Mode.

I really hoped they were going to create something closer to Fallout 3, or at least 4, but they really did just take Skyrim, rip the world navigation out of it, shove Mass Effect’s in instead, and then cover it all in a thick layer of No Man’s Sky busywork. Bugs aside, it really does feel like an iteration of their…

The game’s trying to be open world Mass Effect. Mass Effect pioneered the lens flare that the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies later adopted.

You can disable enemy ships and weapons and jump away with EM armaments. But this game really doesn’t want you using non-lethal weapons. Converting laser weapons to EM drops the damage by about 90% per shot, so you have to fire ten times longer to get them to work.

Fallout 4 came out in 2015 and it was even easier than it was in Fallout 3. Bethesda also publishes Dishonored, a game that can be completed non-violently as well.

But which kind of car were people sold? Look at the ads for this game and it’s about exploration and discovery with no reference to combat at all.

His face popped up in Miles Morales and I physically cringed. It’s like a weird, plastic, dead doll’s face compared to the expressiveness of the original. Like they’re afraid he’s going to look ugly if they give him actual facial expressions.

None of this is particularly new. DBH and Heavy Rain did the same thing with their main characters dying off and leaving behind other main characters to either solve their problems or work around them for an inferior ending. And the Until Dawn company does this all of the time with its main characters, just on a…

Raphael’s Wisdom Ability Score has been increased.

I finished the main story for Starfield and realized it’s the feedback loop of XP-->skills-->stuff to play with that got me. Too early and the game is mind-numbingly boring, too late and you run out of XP-->skill/time investment.