But is the rumpled bedsheet technology working?!

I honestly still don’t understand the First Order as a concept other than “they’re the new bad guys, same as the old bad guys.” 

Considering the major unresolved thread of the show is why, exactly, the Imperial remnants wanted Grogu, this was 100% about putting that train back on track. And it frankly seems like groundwork to set up the whole Snoke / Palpatine stuff from the sequel trilogy, since it was infamously… uh, underexplained.

Can’t wait to see the sales figures for their blockchain games! Everybody loves an alienating and divisive fad that has already imploded!

This deep dive (that is still three months away!?) better show us more than just… shooting space raiders on rocky planet again. We still know remarkably little about a game that was initially supposed to be out last year. 

I see a lot of commenters all took the “Anything You Righteously Dislike is Neoliberal” course at the Tumblr Academy of Discourse. 

This is less about “democratization” and more about trying to get in on the ground floor so they’re well positioned to become a big player.

Fusion was the first Metroid I ever played back when it was released, and I replayed it so many times. A pretty perfect little game, on my favorite console on all time.

How about you take the finger off the react button for a little while? 

“But then something weird happened”

I know “intergenerational trauma” is another concept that has made its way into the pop-psychology lexicon of social media discourse, but can we please put it to bed for a while?

The game has so/too many other mechanics and things to do that it really doesn’t need Quidditch. It was never teased as something in the game, so whatever. I feel that they used its absence to their advantage as much as they could.

I think this episode does seat neatly at a C+ or B-. It was all table setting, which is odd since the series co-opted a third of Book of Boba Fett to do table setting. I appreciate that the arc of the season is made clear - get to Mandalore- and the first objective is clear- repair IG-11, even if that seems a bit…

It feels like this series was really good at setting up its central hook- wtf happened to the world?!- but then not as great at solving it or expanding on it. 

Kind of strange to go from very Spanish Paldea to a very Japanese location for the DLC but sure! 

This “photography didn’t kill painting and AI art won’t kill artists” take is not a great argument. For one, photography offered something that painting was never able to: accurate and efficient visual documentation of events as they were occurring. Second, photography may not have killed painting, but it absolutely…

I agree. Instead of cribbing from the Ubisoft open-world playbook, what they should have done is cribbed from Persona and weld a school social-sim onto a dungeon crawler.

Gay man here who just played Personas 4 and 5 for the first time this winter. I loved both. I would’ve loved for explicitly gay characters and relationships. But they didn’t contain them. Persona 5 is a very straight game, with straight main characters. And that’s fine! I loved Ryuji’s arc and I loved his friendship…

The fact that Spice is still here despite bringing absolutely nothing to the table week after week is insane. At least Jax had that awesome first talent show performance! All Spice had was a twin, and she hasn’t even had that in weeks.

Definitely not arguing that Rowling is a great writer, that’s for sure!