It’s probably for the best. I don’t think anyone cared about a spinoff show featuring the lamest character in GoT played by the 2nd worst actor in the show that everybody ended up hating. 

Every now and then I see clips of what I assume is the climax where a bunch of CGI slop is happening on a perfectly flat... field? Desert? It looks so fucking bad. 

Yeah, saying Baldur’s Gate 3 was complete on launch is an insane take. Act 3 was just transparently not finished. I don’t know if the devs wants to rush it out to beat Starfield, or if they were shut tired of working on it, or what, but the drop in overall polish from act 2 and act 3 is enormous. Good for Larian to…

And parts. Of. Canada! 

The worst episode is the one late in season 6 where it shows Tony getting addicted to gambling. All it did was show us that Tony is a shitty person, which, yeah we know.

I thought this was a reasonably good twist, though. The backstory behind the Noghri (Thrawn’s honor guard species) was that during the clone wars, a ship crashed on their planet and ruined their atmosphere. Darth Vader showed up and told them he’d fix their planet if they swore fealty to him, until the planet was…

This is definitely anecdotal, but when I bought my new car last year I told the salesman when we sat down that I wasn’t going to discuss anything until they knocked off the $6k “AMV” fee. The dealership waived it immediately. I’m thinking a lot of the time that shit was an idiot tax.

Surely you're aware that people have been doing self-inserts in RPGs for as long as RPGs have existed? 

“That wasn't designed to make me feel good!"

Normally yes, but isn't the show sort of implying that the abuse/manipulation actually is making Jocelyns art better? I think that's what's so unpleasant about all this. 

Right, I’m aware of all that, I'm more questioning the premise of the show itself, that apparently this kind of abuse and manipulation exists as some kind of like, encouragement? The show’s message seems to be “being abused by a disgusting weirdo makes your art better” and I can’t imagine that’s ever been true. I…

I keep seeing stuff about how this supposedly shines a light on the seedy underbelly of pop stardom is or how abuse makes better art or whatever but I’m struggling to think of a pop star this applies to?

Yeah, his perpetual aggrieved attitude is not a winning strategy. When he’s showing an emotion that isn’t petty spite, he’s clearly faking and is longing to get back to his default state.

Microsoft is shit at naming these systems that my first thought when I saw this was “man, already? hasn’t it only been out for three years?

I have to give Bioware credit for making a game that was so unrelentingly bleak. Purely from a narrative standpoint, it’s such an unpleasant experience that I often hesitate replaying it for that reason alone (the combat is a little jank and yeah, the recycled assets and dungeons are unfortunate, but I find these to…

Gutting section 230 is so transparently a bad idea that even this SCOTUS doesn’t want to be the one to do it.

“BoJack going out of its way to contrive an absurd punishment for its character.”

This whole thing really leaned hard into “fiasco” territory. When the price of the event was $5000 for two nights, what did Disney actually expect?

I'm not in the biz so I may not know how this works but I'm genuinely shocked that Disney doesn't have literal teams of people whose entire job it is to do this kind of research. And if they already do, apparently they're not very effective. 

Nailed it.