More of a valid question if they served the same food. You might as well ask how many steakhouses someone passed on the way to McDonald’s.

And you, the sad hipster assuming everyone who doesn’t believe Marvel is destroying everything is a “fanboy”. Got it.

Boy’s blamin’ Marvel for shit that’s his own doin’. He’s been a supporting actor in several of these impossible to make comedies. He even had his own (apparently short lived) Hulu series based on said comedies.

Is the problem Marvel, or is the problem that the movies just weren’t good enough to draw at a Marvel level?

Noth Sloth Wroth, says Strife with Wife just Life. News at 7.

How can this be a surprise?

I’m not gonna lie, my notebook eventually got replaced by a downloaded text guide I found on Usenet. I think I bounced off Morrowind for... ten... fifteen years? I was on a 360 when I found it, went back to my original XBox and realized I’d made a lot more progress in some areas than I ever realized.

Friedberg and Seltzer. Two names that will go down in the Comedic Hall of Infamy.

I’d be more willing to believe this if there weren’t a pretty constant slate of weird comedy things released (unless I missed something and “Strays” is the long gestating canine based Antigone remake I’ve been waiting for).

If there’s any justice, somewhere in the proceedings an Official Influencer will be appointed and this entire headache inducing mess will be packaged as CONTENT!

Latter stage ‘JRPG’, true. As the ideas of what was ‘entertaining’ in games changed the field diversified. When you stop being what you’re described as the descriptor fails.

“But did you know that a subset of any group of players find literally any content up to and including blank screens hot? Sexy, even?”

The talk about the journal and the lack of handholding is giving me strong ES: Morrowind flashbacks.

“Retro” also doesn’t really apply to actual classic things.

It’s a situation where the output of a few of the various Japanese gaming companies revised the RPG formula into one that sold well. While it’s absolutely not culture-specific it’s also very hard to argue that the particular style and the story quirks that come with it (lots of young adult/pre-teens occasionally in…

The negative connotations to “JRPG” tend to be things like bloat, repetetive conflicts, endless grind etc.

Honestly, my first thought was “We stopped ‘burning witches’ when we stopped listening to people like you. Now we’re getting close to doing it again, and who are we listening to?”

Almost like “cancellation” is a ginned up talking point the right wing ‘elite’ uses to motivate the rubes.

“Cancel Culture”?

I mean, he doesn’t even have to apologize if he’d just accept that - for the moment - he’s basically at the Dolph Lundgren/Jason Statham etc. level. He’s good enough to carry a film as long as the film is suited to his skills, but even then don’t expect billion plus box office without something truly special behind…