I think one of the main reasons why MEA failed and DAI succeeded (besides how MEA got meme’d to death due to the animation issues that DAI didn’t suffer from to nearly the same extent) is the character writing.

Once you’ve pushed the colonialism narrative away from your mind with all your might

Yeah, the people personally involved in all this come first, obviously, absolutely, but wooooof you know that a lot of people at Disney are drinking real heavily tonight...

Money.

Look, they’ve already replaced actors in past works, they could easily do it again. You just need to adjust the writing of their first appearance in the work to more properly introduce them, and make a big deal out of it in the adverts and previews that there’s a new actors playing the role.

I wonder if the goal for this ending is to have a sort of backstop in case the new Pokemon cast crashes and burns. Like, they’re trying something new, but if that doesn’t work, well, they have the ability to pull the plug and go “Look, everyone, Ash is back with a new season! But older and with new friends and please…

Eh, I’m not going that far.

It’s not proof of anything, absolutely. It is very circumstantial evidence, at best, fully agreed.

For the record (to others that don’t want to hop around on a 2+ hour video): Cantwell starts talking there at around the 1hr 17min mark, and the Sony question comes at around the 1:19 mark.

I’m not familiar enough with the Japanese console market to gauge if any anti-competitive shit is going on there, but... you don’t see anything suspicious about a 98% market share in terms of PS5 vs Xbox Series X in one specific nation? Something not shared by one of Japan’s closest neighbors?…

Pretty much what I’m expecting, especially after all the news about the struggles that the Preorder Bonus Weekend had. They’re probably going to be deploying some fixes to the issues that they found, but there’s only so much they can do in a week, and some problems cannot be fixed by throwing more servers at it.

Pretty much what I’m expecting, especially after all the news about the struggles that the Preorder Bonus Weekend had. They’re probably going to be deploying some fixes to the issues that they found, but there’s only so much they can do in a week, and some problems cannot be fixed by throwing more servers at it.

For the record, I think that she’s being an embarrassment by being an attack-dog for her corporate backers, and a particularly unsubtle one, but I do think this bit is worth addressing:

...I mean, I’m not a fan of the outfit, but that’s mostly because it just looks so danged busy.

The escape would’ve been five minutes of slapstick nonsense...

There’s two tiers of AI/Script-generated writing in my mind, based on a simple question: What is the nature of the dataset used to train the program?

The problem is that when their message includes lines like “Not all classes at level five should have the same power”, a statement that is inherently false, its going to make me grumble.

Okay, uh, yeah, sorry, bullshit. The goal for class balance in a game like Diablo 4 should be that all classes are at the same power level at all points in the leveling and gearing curve. Your decision on which class you play should be based on personal playstyle and aesthetics, not which one is stronger at which…

I mean, the rumor is that the pair have already directed an episode of an upcoming show, so “will it happen” isn’t the pertinent point.

To be fair, this always seems to start out as basically “You want to pay me how much to work with an IP that I’ve been dreaming about making movies for since I was 10?!” I sure as hell would have trouble saying no to that.