The Wire is a show with cops in it rathe rather than a “cop show”, and only in Season 1 are they very high in profile in the storyline (they diminish every season, as other city factions come into play like the newspapers, the schools, the Mayor’s office and the docks, though they remain the anchorpoint for the viewers…

Which puts him in the same book-selling league as George R.R. Martin.

Stormlight Archive is very consciously a JRPG in novel form, even down to the character wearing ludicrous armour and impractical swords that are bigger than they are, he just provides an in-universe reason for why they exist.

The Guard is a glaring absence here, but the rest of the list is outstanding so it’s a hard call. Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle as an Irish cop and an FBI agent who join forces to take down an international drugs gang led by Liam Cunningham and Mark Strong in Galway, is simply as fantastic a premise as you can get.…

The moments later on in The Wire (when he’s given up playing the career game) where he just lays out on the line what’s going on, not giving a single F who he’s talking to, are just unbelievably good. The calm resignation, usually punctuated by a slightly emphasis on the second syllable in “BS”, means that business is…

Very solid game. Remedy can’t help but making something interesting, even if it doesn’t entirely work out. Also great performance by Aidan Gillen. It was amusing seeing two Wire alumni talking about parallel universes and fractured timelines rather than police reform.

His performance in The Wire is God-tier. Very interesting character arc, especially the way he intersects with Dominic West’s character (McNulty) and how they kind of make each other better cops whilst also hating one another, and not in a jokey cop buddy way, just a really complex relationship.

Fringe is outstanding. I think it got a bad rap for a while because everyone was expecting another Lost situation, but the writers on the show actually learned from the earlier show (and, JJ Abrams working on both aside, neither had much in common with the other, and Abrams bailed on both very early on) and the…

Unlike sex with a very high impact in New Vegas, thanks to Fisto.

It does no such thing.

Fallout 4: “My son has been kidnapped by nefarious evil-doers who killed by husband/wife in front of me! I must find them immediately! But first I have to spend 2 hours looking for concrete and nails to build a table for my settlement, and then pretend to be a 1930s comic book superhero. Away! Adventure awaits! Who…

IIRC, CP77 review code dropped 4 days before the release date, so all of the games journalists had to play like mad trying to finish the game off. A semi-completionism run will take about 100 hours right on the money, which is obviously impossible to achieve in that time if you want to eat and sleep as well, and the…

Your affinity with Johnny can rise as high as 80%, it’s just very difficult (and I’ve seen speculation that the reason you can’t get it to 100% is that there’ll be more stuff to impact that in the DLC, which obviously they weren’t expecting to take 3 years to come out).

TI4 is still being manufactured and sold today, despite Fantasy Flight being bought out by the much more conservative Asmodee, who immediately canned most of their complicated or legacy games and sold off the IP for some other things.

Also CP77 is based on a tabletop role-playing game which had its heyday from 1988 to c. 1994, and the car designs in the original were an extrapolation from trends at the time. CP77 is paying homage to the source material in it’s graphic design, making it an interesting mashup of 1980s, 1990s and 2020s design.

Angel was transformed into a literally different being, whilst Willow was still Willow, just consumed by her own power and her morality removed by rage at Tara’s death. How culpable Angel was for stuff that Angelus did was questionable, although he felt guilt over it to the extent that he left Sunnydale forever, and…

Not really the same situation. Faith was a recurring character in one season who blew up big time so they kept bringing her back, and it took a lot to drag her back to the light side (spanning almost all of her later appearances on Buffy and Angel). It takes like four years for her to really earn her way back to being…

To be fair, having Willow as evil for a full half a season, killing probably way more than the people she did kill etc would have been a moral event horizon that it would have been very difficult to pull her back from. Bringing Willow back after really killing just one guy was convincingly tough enough, and she had…

Tony Head, who was part of that ingroup, was mortified to read the stories because Whedon was not like that around him or anywhere in his sight, but also noted the power dynamics from being an experienced, older actor with profile versus all the young actors without, were really different. He supported the other castme…

The story that went around was that Willow was supposed to break bad at the Season 6 midpoint and she’d be the main villain for all of Season 6's back half, like every season before that had a midseason twist. But they changed their minds and suddenly had to fill in like mad until everyone was ready to kick that story…