Needless trivia that nevertheless amuses me: the voice actress for Bariss Offee is best known from obscure 80s teen comedies “Dream A Little Dream” and “A Night In The Life of Jimmy Reardon”, and is the wife of comedian Patton Oswalt.

Ventress was reintroduced for a reason, and the voice actress has hinted that this is not the last we’ll see of her, and that there is a reason why the novel Dark Disciple can still be canon.

That’s quite a reach. The Rebel Alliance is larger than the sum total of battles they’ve shown onscreen, nor do we know what role Omega will eventually play in the organization. It’s no different than people complaining about Jedi survivors of the Purge popping up in the OT era because Yoda told Luke he was the last…

A fair point, but also note that the award was for “Best Adapted Screenplay” - Taika had guardrails in place for JoJo Rabbit, in the form of the original novel.

Frankly, yes. Read the official description again:

Jinkx is a Hocus Pocus superfan, so on that level it’s not surprising, just that the production leaned into it with Jinkx’s costume design.

Given you haven’t played much of the Fallout games, let me just point out that your impression of the lore is fundamentally wrong. Fallout 2's Big Bad is literally The Enclave, you know, the group of pre-war jerks you see in the show. Fallout New Vegas has Mr. House, the former head of Rob Co.

Please, go watch A New Hope and tell me what the Clone Wars are, or the Spice Mines of Kessel, or any number of throwaway phases that are never explained until later films and expanded media.

Revan is already referenced in the Disney canon (Exegol’s “Revan Legion” in The Rise of Skywalker) and an actual appearance made it as far as the animatic stage for the Clone Wars season 3 episode, “Ghosts of Mortis.”

Dan Schneider and Brian Peck increased shareholder value before they were caught, while Gina very publicly threatened shareholder value by opening her big mouth on social media. It’s a pretty easy calculus, and all corporations are amoral.

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General rule of thumb: digital rentals become available the week that the physical release drops. While there are special exceptions, this covers almost all release cycles post-covid:

No, they are not. The popcorn bucket has drawn comparison to a specific type of sex toy, and social media ran with it.

Another explanation - they knew exactly what they were doing, and can easily fall back on plausible deniability while enjoying the social media buzz.

FWIW, it’s explicitly mentioned in the DVD commentary with Waters - their first and last names are intentional, with Betty and Veronica being from the Archies, naturally. I thought it was talked about in the book below too (coincidentally written by actor John Ross Bowie), but it’s been years since I’ve read it.

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Shout out for Khary Payton as BP!

From what I’m reading, the joystick input in this port is linear as opposed to having an acceleration curve. It definitely doesn’t feel like the original but this is one issue I’m fairly confident Aspyr will patch. I’m less certain about adding an Invert-Y option back in, something that was in the originals but not in…

“Better” is relative, of course. The Alan Smithee cut of Dune is longer, contains more exposition and key scenes for book fans, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it a better film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/alternateversions/

Here’s a quick primer from 2020 (back before Trump bit flipped on his position):