Wow, that makes it even more impressive, I figured it must be touched-up digitally with how good it looked. I wish people would do THAT instead of the CGI stuff. Especially considering physicality of someone at 70 or 80 is not going to be anywhere close to at 40 (see also: Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel, he looks good…

Yeah, that one was good. I think Donald Pleasance in Halloween Kills was also really convincing, though they did mask it a little bit with film grain. Also I think it was primarily practical effects.

Yeah, I dunno. They have themselves in a corner on this one. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any merch for live action versions of any other disney character, but usually I think they could explain that away under “they look pretty much the same anyway so what’s the point.” When that’s definitely not the case here, what…

I’ve only ever seen merchandise for the animated versions of the characters. Ariel should in theory present a bigger problem cause the animated version obviously looks absolutely nothing like the live action one, but I won’t be surprised at all if the animated version remains the only one represented in all their…

I suspect his love of Top Gun Maverick and hatred of Superhero movies has FAR more to do with the fact that Top Gun Maverick was primarily practical effects and real flight footage and superhero movies are usually almost entirely CGI. There’s a weightlessness to almost all Marvel/DC action setpieces that the rare…

Frequently when I try and troubleshoot this when I’m at a friend’s house and everything sounds like unintelligible garbage and sound effects/music drown out everything, I find it’s cause they have the sound options on whatever they’re watching (disc, Netflix, etc) set to surround but they’re playing it through stereo…

It sounds like a lot of us are in this boat. Now that I know there’s not a legitimate ending I have even less motivation to watch seasons 3 and 4. Guess jumping ship early paid off!

Based on the release schedule of the last one, 2026.

Oh, absolutely I know it’s down to the material they’re working with. I just was surprised by the Freya character being so prevalent in the last game and thought it really helped balance out the extreme masculinity of most of the rest of it. It was definitely part of why I liked the game so much. Good thought on…

I’m not trying to trash the game and I’m going to get it eventually regardless, but does it have any characters that aren’t angry beardy men or angry beardy men in training (Atreus)? There’s nothing in any of the included screenshots other than them besides Mimir, and I didn’t notice any character names referenced in…

Christmas Vacation is pretty bad. I have a lot of fondness for the nastiness of the original Vacation, but when I saw Christmas Vacation I thought it was exactly on par with European Vacation and Vegas Vacation in being totally unfunny. I was very perplexed when I learned about its apparent status as some kind of…

The movie’s more subversive than most people seem to remember. Ralphie’s really kind of a little jerk and it’s rare that movies deal with things like the guilt/pain of hurting someone else (the scene where he beats up the bully is not played as triumphant at all, he immediately bursts into tears at the end of it) and…

The time limit alone in Majora’s Mask gave me big anxiety, yeah, but less than the average Mario game did as a kid deathly afraid of heights having to play as a little jumping guy constantly teetering at the edge of all kinds of fatal death plunges.

Here’s their list, best to worst:

I think it’s partly the lighting and partly the designs. They just look way too “clean.” Some of them are OK in concept, but they end up looking really plasticy like action figures or something. Maybe they were going for something futuristic or something, but somehow they look a lot fakier than the originals. Well,…

Didn’t they watch the Black Mirror episode about the post-apocalypse with armed robot dogs hunting down the few remaining human survivors? Or was that what gave them the idea? :P

It’s way too slick, it removes almost everything interesting about the original and turns it into basically a well-done teen slasher with pain demons. It seems like everyone who made it was scared of the heavy sexuality in the original. Even the cenobites are too cleaned up, they look like action figures instead of…

Yeah, I liked the ones you could earn with in-game stuff. Though my guy had a full doom guy suit and helmet I got from the Doom 1 or Doom 2 port so obviously I had no more use for anything else ever again!

I dunno. I view this as being like the Xbox 360 where you could earn/buy “gear” for your stupid player avatar (or whatever they called the Mii equivalent). It was visible when you looked at your avatar and you could “take a picture” of it that would be easily displayed to anyone that looked at your profile. That was…

6 is idiotic. I hated the plot and all the characters, especially your foul-mouthed player character. I must have heard “comemierda” at least 500 times in the course of the game. Additionally I absolutely loathed the “supremo” upgrade system compared to the previous games’ skill trees.