I read the first half of your comment and suddenly realized...

I’ve re-watched S1 several times in the last ten years, and it’s still my favorite miniseries of all time. I have not re-watched any of the subsequent seasons, nor will I ever re-watch S4. They are just not the same quality of writing, acting, directing, or production. I don’t care who is at the helm, or what sex they…

I found Remake to be boring, pretentious and overblown despite actually accomplishing very little.

My take is Herbert used that as shorthand for desert culture, not that Arrakis is populated by the descendants of Arabic/Middle Eastern Earthlings.

“However there is a jarring disconnect between the words uttered by the film’s characters, many in Arabic or derivations of the Arabic language, and the actors uttering those words.”

Well-deserved and long overdue IMO.

“the game has been held up as a shining example of what the AAA machine should be in terms of creating a huge, high-quality game without microtransactions and other predatory monetization schemes”

I finally watched The Marvels yesterday. It was awful, not quite as bad as Quantummania, but awful nonetheless. In my opinion, mainline Marvel is dead. I’m glad the Spider-Verse films continue to innovate and the Deadpool trailer looked promising but I’m finally throwing in the towel on the MCU (bar Deadpool probably).

Is it worth noting that, given the average weight of an American, “tons of people” is about 23 people.

If you have no interest in PC gaming and really like the XSX’s feature set then yeah, I’d say it’s worth $500.

There are some who prefer the Xbox gamepad, the XBL interface, features like Quick Resume and cross-buy/play, etc.

They were cheaper and you could actually find them. I have yet to see a PS5 just on a shelf at a store. Xbox’s are everywhere.

Gamers should be in shambles. Less competitions will be more expensive for the gamers. Sony being the sole player in their market will be costly to everyone.

Game Pass is a silly subscription service? This is a phenomenally stupid take.

I kind of don’t think so. It would simply have to be a different arc. Sokka’s views about women weren’t arbitrary. It’s actually tied to his role in the Southern Water Tribe, as well as Water Tribe culture in general, when it’s a key plot point later in the series. Plus, it’s almost the entire basis of his growth with…

This person is the poster child of all the inherently uninteresting, banal ‘influencers’ that somehow became mystifyingly famous in the past 10+ years. I’ve heard her talk, watched a stream- and to this day her appeal still escapes me.

This is a side effect of the left claiming that “context doesn’t matter” anymore for the better part of a decade. 

Look at Disney’s last live-action reboot, The Little Mermaid, which rewrote Ursula’s iconic villain song “Poor Unfortunate Souls” to remove sexist lyrics (“The men up there don’t like a lot of blabber/They think a girl who gossips is a bore,” among others). Ursula’s problematic verse was a deliberate narrative…

but it’s not like they’re going to swing in the same direction as Marvel and make everything kind of self-aware and quippy. Right?

T0 be fair to the outlets, people are dumb.