That scene transition was awkward...I chalk it up to the fact that the first cut of the episode was 2 hours and they had to trim it down somewhere. Given the incredible critical reception of this episode, I hope they release that cut once the season ends.

You are exactly right, and this article is mostly reductive correlation. Common factors in folks who favor support roles in games are that they enjoy the social aspect more than the competitive play, and they enjoy helping the group achieve goals over individual glory (putting others first, empathy). So far, studies…

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...”

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…

(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.

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

I AM a digital artist who will absolutely be affected because of AI advances. I began my career as a traditional media artist, became a digital artist in the early days, and have CONSTANTLY had to adapt to new tools and developments that changed how and where I could work.

Futurists have been warning for decades that…

Artists are not unique - “menial, entry level jobs” are generally not heavy creative lifts and have ALWAYS been targets for automation, even before AI entered the picture. And I say this as someone who has been in digital art since the 1980s.

I was a pixel-pusher in the SNES days. When the first Playstation entered the…

I echo your experience - I was a visual production artist for many years, but lost my passion and desire to create through decades of soul crushing crunch. Crafting prompts and going down the rabbit hole of image iteration has sparked my creativity and gotten me out of my own head in terms of constructing…

Newsflash: Kids are not exempt from the law, and at the very least he was trespassing. Also, being arrested /= jailed.

It wasn’t word salad, it’s an alt-right/ QAnon talking point. The kid has a history with InfoWars, he’s the next generation of those scumbags.

There isn’t a bigger prize because originally there couldn’t be one, as the show was on BBC (see link below). It’s an integral part of the show’s formula now, so it was kept even after the move to Channel 4.

The stash isn’t in full view of anyone. Go to episode 7 and scrub to about 11:00 to see him put it away. It’s hidden in a recessed area of the showerhead assembly, above line of sight even if you could see the box. And if you think the cleaning staff would have found it, you’ve never stayed in a hotel. They’re not…

I’ll start off by saying that I do believe Maarva is dead, and I agree with you that she wouldn’t want Cassian to return. However, she has been trying to use her remaining time to help Ferrix break free from the Imperial occupation, from recon walks past stormtrooper checkpoints to seeing if the old tunnel to the…

I spent last year working at a VR studio. Motion sickness is absolutely a thing:

That isn’t true, but you are correct that their lore would need to be somewhat altered, just like it has been for every other pre-Disney character brought over, like Thrawn.

If you’re referring to the fact that they were once involved in the theft of the Death Star plans, they weren’t even the first. I was a child of…

It’s more than being good for the budget. It was an intentional storytelling decision by the showrunners, whether you agree with it or not is up to you. https://www.cbr.com/andor-aliens-humans-disney-plus/