I think you really missed the thread on game Ellie. She’s always been drawn to violence. Her trauma after killing the hunter to save Joel was a matter of suddenly facing the reality of violence, vs the fantasy she’d been living with for so long.

HBO is a premium brand associated with top tier movies and television.

I had my first (and ONLY) kid at 38! 

“Teach abstinence only!”

Looks like she was the preppy girl that was killed by Vecna in front of Eddie.

I’ll say it... the second game wasn’t as good as the first.

Obviously he’s always been an awful person.  But before he ran, he was just a blowhard celebrity that was easily ignored.

Somehow, I completely missed this reveal. So I went and watched the co-op trailer with Flash, and... it looks fun? But extremely generic?

Lots of Waititi hesitation in here, which I can’t say I’m surprised about. He’s wildly creative and funny, but like a lot of directors, including Lucas himself, his worst instincts dominate when he’s given all the power to make a movie.

“Small government” Republicans, everybody!  Dictating what you can, and can’t invest in!

I have two Pennywises (OG, and new), the “This is fine” dog, and Sloth from the goonies.  Their boxes are all thrown away, and I’ve never bothered to see if they’re worth anything.

I know he’s supposed to be more “palatable” than Trump, making him the supposed front runner for 2024.  But Trump also had no previous baggage going into 2016.  People can see how authoritarian he is, and how vindictive his is, and how petty he is by how he’s running Florida, and I’m not sure he’ll be able to gain…

All this handwringing about a series that has always been expressly and aggressively inclusive is hilarious.

Uh huh... so then why were boomers were able to go to college, buy a house, a car, and raise a family on a single minimum wage income?  They seem to have had it pretty easy, if the Silent Gen “acreted power” before them.

Seems irresponsible to chalk this up to “financial illiteracy” when millenials and zoomers have been screaming for years that wages are stagnant, and cost of living has long since outpaced what we’re allowed to earn.

Portable Fallout on Switch?  Portable Fallout on Switch, please!

I was never as hard on Joel and his behavior at the end of the game as many others. Yes, the greater good and all, but it made perfect sense that he would kill and raze his way through anybody to save his adopted daughter.

It seems like if you’re going to do this, it’s easy to avoid getting caught by doing a simple once over on the essay.  The first draft is always the hardest part.  Just go through once, tighten up the focus, and rewrite things slightly so it sounds more like your voice.

I think the idea is that no matter how many you kill, Kang will ALWAYS come back.

It’s three movies a year.  I don’t go crazy, opening-night for them, but it’s not exactly onerous to keep up if you’re even mildly entertained by the MCU.