She's on a scientific mission to determine "what if a modern comic somehow made all their observations as hacky as any female comic in 1992".

Unsurprisingly, this description has a fundamental lack of understanding of how game development works. It's really clear that the issues with the game are related to development time. There's a satisfying core gameplay loop that the developers didn't have time to flesh out. The game was apparently a Dark Knight…

I mean - Shadow of Mordor was clearly a rushed title that happened to find some stuff that really works in a fun way (largely by aping Batman's combat).

That…is intellectual property licensing. That's what it is! Control of how your character is displayed when other people are using them.
Saying "they could have easily…" is worthless commentary, because that's not how these things work. We don't know where they were in the production pipeline, we don't know what…

You keep acting like "that argument makes no sense" is a refutation of what I'm saying. I'm saying that ARGUMENTS THAT MAKE NO SENSE are commonly the reason that companies do things! You don't prove anything by proving that a company behaving perfectly logically wouldn't do a thing, because companies, especially…

Have you ever been privy to licensing conversations about anything, because I'm telling you that something non-spoiler being a spoiler because you're talking to an idiot is exactly the kind of thing that can happen.
Companies aren't holding big meetings where they carefully review exactly how their characters are…

It also includes Darth Vader, who is not in the film. I'm not talking about a well-written policy being interpreted correctly. I'm talking about a somewhat vague policy being interpreted stupidly.

There are literally thousands of pieces of merchandise related to the Force Awakens. You seriously cannot understand how mind-bendingly stupid dealing with IP licensing is until you've actually had to grapple with it. Is Rey not present in the mountains of other merchandising they've put out?

No, they didn't "clearly" do anything. Tie-in marketing is a nightmare, these kind of things can easily be caused by internal miscommunication, misinterpretation, or typos. Licensing is literally insane and can depend on who you get on the phone that day. Your primary mistake here is assuming that Disney put as…

There's dozens upon dozens of reasons that it could be literally true and incredibly stupid. The best one I've come up with is that there was a top-level mandate to never show Luke and Rey together, and that was interpreted in a dumb way by a person making $30k a year who takes phone calls in the marketing department.

My guess? A mandate from the top said "don't ever show Luke and Rey together", and one of the dummies waaaaayyyyyy down the ladder in branding interpreted that as "they can't be two figures in the same set".

also, and this is important, it was one goddamn lion

Why? It makes sense to expose actual unethical behavior, but somebody being a hypocrite really isn't a good reason to ruin their life.

Part of what you have to remember is that a lot of the people posting the really awful stuff ARE 14.

that ending still doesn't make any sense

Is there a way to see this movie if you don't live in an area that is showing it? I'm absolutely fascinated.

Actually, Japan is one of the least ethnically diverse countries in the world, with 99% of citizens being ethnic Japanese!

KING OF MINOR ANNOYANCES:

When you've got Mark Hamill's Joker available, you don't waste it.

We've found it. The dumbest reason to call an entire game terrible. Pack it up, everyone.