Watched the first episode. I am interested in the premise, although I can already spot the things that will tend to drive this site a bit nuts over time.

Not sure why I didn’t see this...

The criticism was fine. It’s how they went from MCU treatment to DCEU treatment I think that probably caught him off guard.  The brigading, the revisionism, the media feedback.  It’s always a loop.  The media isn’t to blame per se, but they do act as a megaphone on what they want to.

Agreed.  I think the problem there is lack of information.  They have no control over who filed into that room so while I think this is the reaction they probably would have gotten, there’s no guarantee if they were still on the bill a brigade wouldn’t have shown up.  Strangely I think them cancelling helped because…

I wonder if this reaction helps things calm down a little bit. I’m sure part of the problem is the cast/crew aren’t unaware of that one pocket of the internet that really (at times) present the view they’re going to get ostracized for showing up. I don’t blame the showrunners for not showing up as they appear to be…

This. Freefolk was fine in their little corner but way too many in the media liked to stir things up with them. How many articles did IO9 have on will they or won’t they show up for the showrunners?

I think that’s part of the issue. He’s entitled to his reaction while he’s processing what he’s doing. He didn’t present that reaction to the public, someone else did.  He’s even entitled to not like the last season.

To some extent I suspect what this will do is make it easier.  By not allowing roles to essentially be substituted they now just need to worry about balancing characters amongst their individual roles and remove any cross-role synergies that break the game.  They will no longer have to worry about an game-breaking …

Wait... People are assholes?!

I wish they’d just implemented role queue a long time ago. Let that freaking Genji and widow main wait 6 hours for their game and let the people who are willing to play supports and tanks get in as many games as possible.

The problem with GOATS was not that it couldn’t be beaten. It was that the amount of effort and precision needed to beat the GOATS comp far exceeded what was required to play a GOATS comp.

It’s also often thought that a judge (just look at the result) may be looked at to deliver a more favorable sentence than a jury, who itself, depending on the circumstances may be expected to become more enraged and overshoot.

‘Eh - I think there’s two extremes here. On the one hand there’s taking a subpar deal because one has verbally committed. On the other, it’s just being wined and dined until someone forces you to sign a contract physically.

I’m not really sure where a lot of these people are getting their info, but in Tennis “at the player” is both a valid and normal thing to do. Yea, no one likes it but you know if you’ve put yourself in a position to get drilled.

So this isn’t an MCU dig, but I think this is part and parcel of Disney/safe storytelling. IF you start getting into finances (like even Raimi did) you start getting into where criminality comes from. If you do that and you’re honest with it, it’s harder to draw clean “good” or “bad” people. It was one of the things…

YEa I think the main problem is the primary Spider-Man fan reaction was he got so much wrong that the baby went out with the bathwater.

Not sure how you figure that. It’s heavily implied May knows who Peter is and simply allows the pretense she doesn’t when she gives advice. Unless she was doing something else that you mean “oblivious” with.

In general I’ve found more peace in consuming pop culture alone then in fandoms. Don’t get me wrong - I like hearing opinions and even the ones I disagree with because I like that sort of stimulation. But even GoT most recently... it’s very hard to consume art and have a genuine experience when that art is so deeply…

Man... what is so hard that people can’t figure out the following phrase construction is a bad idea.  I mean I knew it in the 90's.  It doesn’t mean everyone paid attention, damn...

My read when I saw it for the first time the other day was that Kawaru was unambiguously interested in Shinji. But I’ve only seen it one time and the timeline for that is so freaking compressed I didn’t really read mutual interest of that kind back.