I’m personally waiting for the unisex shower scene in Starship Troopers to be retroactively designated as woke propaganda. :P

To be fair, we know how Andor ends too, do you feel that undermined the stakes in the first season? I personally do not, and Tony Gilroy’s quote is equally applicable to Bill and Frank’s story -

“If I want some pictures in a style but can’t or won’t pay an artist...”

The planet has been bombed over and over and over again over the centuries. Sabine gives a quick overview in this scene from Rebels (you can rewind a bit to get Bo Katan’s take on things):

That what the commenter meant :) - “glassed” means that the surface was bombed from orbit to the point that the surface literally turned to glass. See: Halo franchise.

IMO, it doesn’t work in the video game either. I had trouble in the game looking past the fact that these deadly spores just politely remain in their assigned areas- we breathe spores every day in real life after all, they’re all around us.

EVERYONE should be infected if they kept that transmission mechanism, and the…

It’s important to note that this fungus is based on a real one, cordyceps. It’s also worth watching the amazing documentary Fantastic Fungi, as it goes into some of the concepts leveraged in the Last of Us.

It is absolutely inflation - over 20 years of it. The core $60 price point for games has been in place since the X360 era, yet the cost of developing them and the expectations of gamers (including robust post-launch content) has increased exponentially in that time, as has the number of titles competing for player…

The SEC spells it out very clearly. Maybe you and Elon should read it.

Zombies are fictional constructs with traits that vary depending on the needs of the narrative. Even real world zombie folklore has both undead and “captured soul but still alive” variants.

Semantics aside, LoU’s creatures broadly follow the generally accepted behaviors for fictional zombies. If it shambles like a…

At the very least, it’s been obvious that Moff Gideon is trying to create a force-sensitive clone, with some of his dialogue implying that yes, he wants to bring the Emperor back. If the Clone Wars primarily exists to atone for the narrative sins of the prequels, the Mandoverse is trying to do the same for the sequel t…

He was in both Season 1 (in the Cantina) and Book of Boba Fett (he hangs out with Amy Sedaris at her garage now) Filoni has confirmed that it’s R5-D4, he even had the prop dept recreate the damage from his “bad motivator.”

“it’d be a bad look if Disney wiped the old EU only to give up on maintaining their own continuity a decade later.”

He was going to be part of the Rangers of the New Republic show (along with Carano), and Kennedy mentioned in an interview for Empire Magazine after it was cancelled that some ideas would be repurposed for The Mandalorian.

Why? To what end? If you live far enough away from nuclear targets that you’ll only have to deal with shifting clouds of fallout, starvation, and complete societal collapse and feel like you want to cosplay Fallout, more power to you. Otherwise, your survival will be measured in days or weeks.

(preface: I’m a dirty liberal myself) You have to add censorship-loving “progressives” into that mix too. Perhaps they’re an unspoken part of the usual dipshits you mention, but let’s not pretend it’s just the right that has authoritarian fantasies. It was Al Gore’s “social issues advocate” wife Tipper that spun up…

Weirdly, there wasn’t a day where I didn’t see an ad for it on YouTube or ad-supported streaming services in the month leading up to its launch.

Amen!

Counterpoint: Watchmen. Damon Lindelof had a story to tell, and despite HBO wanting another season, he didn’t think there was a logical way to continue and noped out. And to a lesser extent, Andor. Disney wanted 5 seasons, Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna negotiated down to 2 (Diego Luna: “Each season takes three [to] four…

On that note, I still have my copy of Steve Jackson’s Killer sourcebook...early LARP fun that would NOT fly today.