The Arabic stuff was already present in cyberpunk, specifically in George Alec Effinger (who had his cyberpunk trilogy already adapted into a video game in ega colours). I mean, in written form there is a lot of variety in cyberpunk - and sci-fi videogames were at their popularity peak around 1990.
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I feel like there’s plenty of variety within the genre, though that depends on how strictly you define “cyberpunk” as a genre. Citizen Sleeper, Norco, The Last Worker, Observer, Remember Me, Stray, Cloudpunk, Gamedec, etc, all offer (or will likely offer) interesting takes on what it’s like living in a dystopian,… Read more
Monroe@Steam: ‘This is how the original game looks like when your eyes are full of tears in the rain.’ Read more
Holy shit - never knew about the TV version of The Thing with the slapped on ending! I kind of want to see that now just for the heck of it even though the theatrical ending is far better. Read more
Yeah, I don’t think anyone is trying to defend this particular piece. It was mindboggling bad and indicates that a lot of people up the quality assurance chain at Marvel are just awful at their jobs.
But to make the assertion that non-black people shouldn’t be hired to write a black character is, I think, far from a… Read more
He should be criticized for his work, and his identity is inseparable from that criticism. What’s concerning is the implication that he shouldn’t have ever been hired in the first place because he was not Black.
Man I remember the PS2 game from back when I was a teenager working at Game Crazy.
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Yes - KVM switches all the way. I’ve used them for many years and they work.
We’re getting to a pretty concerning place if non-black writers are never allowed to write black characters. There’s attempting to address imbalances and then there’s race-gating, which feels pretty gross.
Miles was created by a non-black writer and he never felt inauthentic.
I’m a very big fan of the hardware solution. Read more
I’d be stunned if they did that, and also technically they did already. Making Blade 3 MCU canon would involve implying that Ali and Snipes are the same character, which they would never do even if they were on the best terms ever with Snipes. But also, multiverse, so that technically makes all Marvel properties… Read more
The tricky part is that despite how good Blade I and II were, they can’t risk even implying that Blade III is canon - it’s just too horrible a film. I think Snipes could create a great role in the MCU, but not as Blade. I’d kinda like to see him be one of the resources for Whistler’s creatures-of-the-night background r… Read more
People need to chill...
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To be fair (to be faaaaaair) the headline is a gotcha. They mean “worse” in terms of them deliberately looking raw and primitive. This is evident in the reading. But I agree, they look great. So much better than the CGI monstrosities in the Hobbit trilogy.
we did cut and paste the quotes, as they are quotes. the rest I did actually write myself. i’ll fix the error, i just assumed that IGN had it right and that maybe i was wrong??
yes, they do look great! we were trying to be clever with the ‘worse than ever’ headline considering the orcs were supposed to be kind of gross looking. we couldn’t use any of those images because they were all originally IGN watermarked. Read more
They choose the ‘weakest image’ to push a narrative.
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From what I understand it’s almost all sourced from the Appendices (not including, of course, all the stuff the showrunners invented for the show) though there might be some Silmarillion material in there. Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey was an advisor on the project and he hinted at that in an interview with German… Read more