Except that it’s not. Comparing this episode to Andor’s political commentary just underlines the differences in both shows. Mando is an adventure show, and the political nods are about as deep as the Bush-era character names in the prequels. Given the absolute shitshow of the sequel trilogy worldbuilding, they have a…

Old game developer here, can confirm. They’re basically hacked and pirated the moment builds are sent out for localization testing. The publisher of one game I worked on in the early 00's went through the trouble of manufacturing a cartridge with JUST Russian on it, so when it was inevitably pirated it wouldn’t also…

Yes they are!

I can answer that from my own experience - I played TLOU1, and enjoyed the narrative, but feel zero need to revisit the game. I will never play TLOU2, because I just don’t have room in my soul left for being an active participant in the unrelenting misery porn that is the plot of the sequel. I have experienced enough…

I thought we’d all figured out Disney marketing by now. Trailers for D+ shows focus on the first act, with tiny snippets of scenes from later in the series, without context.

Show me an ACTUAL trailer — not just a logo or flavor-of-the-month director sitting in an X-wing— and I might believe a Star Wars movie announcement, because they’ve burned that goodwill to the ground.

We might as well all start announcing Star Wars movies ourselves, they have about as much chance of getting to…

You can take some comfort in knowing that according to Earl Mac Rauch (writer of the script and the novelization), Rawhide’s death was a ruse. I used to get the Buckaroo Banzai newsletter, World Watch One, in the 80s (still have a stack of them somewhere) -

Andor does has rhythmic dialog. Mandalorian absolutely does not, as the author points out, it’s more often written like NPC quest dialog in a video game. I was struck by how closely the S3 opening sequence on Nevarro seems like a stealth infomercial for a future Galaxy’s Edge 2.0 retheming, and that everything about…

How do you feel about Mike Mignola, because he wrote The Doom that Came to Gotham in 2000.

Any Lovecraft story written prior to 1927 is in the public domain, and as another commenter pointed out, neither Poe nor Lovecraft have an estate. Also, The Doom that Came to Gotham was a well-received Elseworlds mini-series written by Mike “Hellboy” Mignola in 2000, who has always been deeply influenced by Lovecraft…

I would have preferred a Galactic Empire version of Galaxy’s Edge myself, but take a step back because hindsight is 20/20. This project and its budget had to be greenlit YEARS in advance. Disney gambled their entire marketing strategy around the success of a sequel trilogy that was still being made, because it’s a…

And that’s why we’re here. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. No one thinks that a fascist regime will sprout in America, when we’ve been on this slide since the moment the New Deal was signed and capitalists began their efforts to undo it. Gutting the social safety net and bringing about a White Christian…

My theory is that Mando Season 3 and Book of Boba Fett were supposed to be a big crossover event, and pandemic-era filming restrictions made them alter their plans. To explain: On Disney Investor Day 2020, Lucasfilm announced that Mandalorian Season 3 was supposed to arrive in December 2021. Then Mando Season 2 ended…

That was your first mistake. That site is a lair of CHUDs.

Do not equate “working hard” and “sleeping in your cube, being at your boss’s beck and call 24/7.” That’s abuse, not work.

She’s valuable because her new employers know they can abuse her and she’ll smile and take it. There is a difference between drive and blind allegiance. You can career hop your way upward without having to put up with abuse from your employer, get out of here with that bullshit.

That’s an awful take. She thought that by debasing herself for her overlord that she would have a position of power in the new world order at Twitter. She lives to work, and she’s a stooge and part of the problem. Meritocracy in corporate culture is a lie - there is no loyalty, no gold watch at the end of your…

...which requires millions of years of evolution, whereas this fictional variant of codyceps is using the biological material available to it.

And to your earlier comment, they didn’t change it in the adaption because it serves the same purpose - to create a sensation of dread when you hear it. You know, standard…

They are specifically modelled after the original 1982 Kenner 3.75" action figures, but with an incomprehensibly worse head sculpt. The head looks like they put a hat on the 1978 Kenner Han Solo figure. :D

There are a lot of factors going on that have stalled new Star Wars films. TROS and Solo failing to meet expectations created a culture of fear at Disney/Lucasfilm that they have yet to climb out of. That’s why Kenobi and BoBF became D+ shows rather than films as originally intended.