Something nobody’s talking about: Literally every movie released this month has flopped financially. With current predictions, Trolls will come *closest* to its break-even point, followed by Songbirds and Snakes. The top-grosser for the month will likely be The Marvels (unless Songbirds and Snakes or Trolls have great…

Most articles in the AV Club these days, regardless of what the author meant to write about, are actually articles about how the author is desperately unhappy.

Literally everything corps do are ways to get our money. That’s their whole job.

You basically quoting the second- and third-to-last paragraphs is pretty funny.

paying for the privilege of being advertised to is the new horizon. 

Western videos games players complaining about this is funny.

Asia has done this forever, we were just slow to this.

to say “it breaks immersion” isn’t a good argument. Right now there’s Alan Wake 2, I have yet to play it, but Alan Wake 1 had the branded batteries and of course “I call this my Flaming Eye of Mordor.” “Hey, I want one too.” Does it break immersion if the character cracking pop culture? Alan Wake 1 was a 25+ hour…

yeah I genuinely don’t get the scarface complaint here either. It fits right into the payday vibe.

Eh, I’m not really bothered when my favorite characters are put in random games I don’t play. Are they cashgrabs? Sure, but they don’t affect the source material in any way. For example, Alien is still a classic sci-fi horror film even if you can play as a Xenomorph in Fornite and Dead by Daylight. The Boys is still a…

Old man yells at cloud energy here.

Say what you want, the Payday 2 John Wick skin was an immediate purchase and I still use it as my main.

How do these crossovers diminish the original properties anymore than say bad sequels, reboots, or just plain neglect?

If you care about atmosphere, lore, etc, you should probably stick to single-player games. Most of the people who play multiplayer games don’t care about any of that so they’re completely fine with random crossovers.

Rather, Sony overcharging devs to sell games in the PS store, taking advantage of the fact that it is the only available store for it, the PS ecosystem being massive and all.

I just want to be able to buy digital PSN items outside the Playstation Store again, like from CDKeys.  

nobody watched it. And you gave me a reason to never watch it

Does nobody remember Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and its use of long-dead Laurence Olivier as the villain?

Alarm bells were sounded 25 years ago when we saw Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum. It’s been 11 years since the 2Pac hologram. I don’t understand why it took this long for “You can’t use my likeness without me” to be codified.

They actually tried to make that digital actress a celebrity. If I recall she “posed” for Maxim

Remember that Final Fantasy movie that was a test run for animated actors that could be plugged into anything, except the movie gave us literally no reason to care about ever seeing this particular “actress” again, so nothing happened with it? I’m guessing that’s where this is going too.