Smash Bros probably has a role here too.

the fact that Ernest Cline predicted our most likely future is lame. Lame, I say.

I blame Funko Pops and the inexplicable popularity of Ready Player One.  

This feels like a particular issue with Warner Bro.s, who have a habit of throwing ip at the wall/smashing it together with no real grasp of what makes their individual properties special.

I was a 90s kid. When shaggy punched bugs bunny it felt like i got punched by corporate America. Fuck this whole thing so hard.

This comment is the argument ender.

Or maybe she means it in the way that nobody has ever really met John Krasinski because there’s nothing under the surface there. There’s nothing behind his eyes.

Professor Marston and The Wonder Woman didn’t help the situation. The film presents the Lie Detector Test as a revolutionary (and accurate) means of uncovering deception. 

It was common even before COVID, but I feel like this writer is forgetting that MoM was one of the first Marvel movies to start filming during tight COVID restrictions.

I wouldn’t even give them 50% accurate. Maybe in lab conditions with some pretty strict standards and very simple questions.

All these things do is detect a bunch of physiological reactions, and assume they represent stress. That that stress can be consistently tied to lying.

Yeah - I’m fairly certain we’ll discover that none of the Illuminati actors were in the same room with one another.

Next you’re going to tell me Tig Notaro never met the cast of Army of the Dead.

…or c) these movies are filmed on a green screen and it’s entirely common for people to appear in scenes together without ever having met.

Getting rid of skill jumps doesn't really affect the game that much, other than make it one less thing for people to think about. The biggest issue has always been map design and limited modes. Either they bring back map voting or they need to put more effort in making them. 

why did they promise this in the first place before actually finding out if it was doable without breaking their own staff?

Sure the problem starts with them setting bad expectations, but it also bleeds over the fanbase being shitty. With the response that comments like this and their subreddit give them, I’d have walked and left us far behind by now.

Yeah, honestly I kinda forgot how often we got new Forge variations in previous Halo games. Not having that ready for launch really reduced how flexible they could be with new gameplay experiences.

I largely agree with you, but wanted to touch on this:

This is why Forge should have been a release priority. Content draught wouldn’t be an issue if the community could churn out maps and modes while 343 rotates a community spotlight playlist.

The problem I think is the optics from the player community. Everything we know from the games development up until they delayed it a year was that it had become a mismanaged shitshow. Now they are trying to fix those foundational issues and that requires time outside of the development of the game itself to fix.