Spoken like a poster child for armchair game designers. Bravo, you’re a stereotype!

Until the industry is more willing to openly discuss development processes, the lack of transparency will continue to be used as a straw man for bad-faith arguments that characterize DEI as an imposition by nefarious, unseen forces rather than an effort to cultivate a more accurate reflection of the world around us.

Management and shareholders are not game developers. So again, please try to separate development teams from studio and publisher management with your ire.

Amen. If players want games built like assembly line automobiles, well, AAA live service and mobile F2P games are for you. They’re not about fun, they’re simply a framework of retail and gambling psychology tricks with a pretty wrapper to generate sweat equity to hold players while they pick their pockets.

Your argument hinges on the fact that number of features = quality. Perhaps the minigames were cut because general audience reaction to them in previous installments was lukewarm, or perhaps it was just the fact that adding X more minigames to hit parity would force another feature to be cut. These decisions don’t…

I love these discussions, because in my 30th year in the game industry (i used to draw sprites for SNES games), I truly despise armchair developers who say stupid shit like “I can’t believe QA let this through” as if QA has final say on when a game ships. I’ve had to veto a QA recommendation to hold back a release…

That’s an odd take. Rinzler = Tron was heavily telegraphed throughout the film. The There was literally zero surprise when the reveal came.

Jared Leto was not in Legacy. Are you thinking of Cillian Murphy, playing Dillinger’s kid Edward in the boardroom scene?

There was a non-canon “bonus” ending to TWD comic issue #75 that became the basis for Rick Grimes 2000. It is even dumber than you’re probably imagining right now.

Radio plays, books, television series, film, Infocom text adventure, multiple stage plays, and a largely forgotten 1979 condensed reworking of the radio play with new material on vinyl LP. Every one of them different in some significant way, and some much better than others.

It has always irritated me that in order to…

An odd example to put forth, because the Hitchhiker’s Guide radio series is the original (1978) and the book (1979) was the first of many adaptations. It’s also unique in that Douglas Adams was involved in almost every iteration of the material, and by his own admission had zero interest in retreading the exact same…

why couldnt it just be about Clones dealing with the end of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire?

Nic needs to take a good honest look at his True Detective output and STFU. He got lucky for season 1, faceplanted in his sophomore effort, and then cribbed his notes from season 1 for season 3. I certainly won’t be going out of my way to catch any of his future work.

Yes, that is correct. TL;DR - they’re looking for a subject whose body will not reject/degrade implanted midichlorians, that can in turn be used to create force sensitive clones.

Perhaps we’ll get a nod to Dark Empire in the climax of this season...

I’m willing to bet it’s an intentional homage to illustrator Hajime Sorayama’s Gynoid airbrush paintings

My first thought was Amazon’s Crucible, but it managed to launch and stick around for 2 months before going back to closed beta, officially cancelled 5 months after launch. So yes, we may have a new record for game development, although plenty of non-gaming tech projects have launched and collapsed almost immediately,…

Disney not pandering to your expectations for male Lucas legacy characters does not mean they don’t know how to handle them. To use some TV Tropes archetypes, sounds like you wanted “Older and Wiser” or the “Old Soldier” trope, but you got “Broken Heroes.”

Someone on the cinematics team really liked this scene from Apocalypse Now

Explanation of what the OP is calling “pods,” from Tony Gilroy (note - don’t take “Friday, Saturday, Sunday” literally...he just means 3 consecutive days)

Tron: Ares was put on hiatus because of the strikes, but it’s supposedly resuming production after the holidays. io9 has been reporting on it, surprised it’s flown under folks’ radars.