I kinda liked the new tomb raider, though I never saw the Jolie one. Agree that National Treasure is a good stylistic target.

Jesus Christ. “She has the right to her opinions” means that she can’t be arrested for them, not that companies and people can’t choose to change their relationship with her based on them. If she started saying flagrantly racist things, they’d drop her in a hot minute (I mean, I hope), and she’d still have the “right”…

I mean, The Mandalorian was a Disney+ original and it looked great I thought.

It sure looks that way. I mean, it looks like an entertaining 10 minutes...

I like musicals, but I never really liked The Lion King. Musical was still amazing.

Yeah, I felt like one of the creators had said as much at some point, but even if it wasn’t a specific event, it’s obviously “inspired by real events”.

My mom (born 1943) has one and bought one for my sister (born 78) some years ago. She likes the back stories (one of them was born right around when she was I think). She also likes quilting and sewing. I don’t know if that’s who their for, but feel free to generalize based on my midwestern born, bay area living,…

That is the weird part to me. I mean yeah, it’s indisputably racist, but it’s also just *weird*. Like framing “A (sterotype), a (stereotype), and a (stereotype) walk into a bar...” joke. 

You’re thinking of Stewart Bear...

You fuck it, and then you serve it to all your manly, non-bracelet wearing friends, and they prove their manliness by gulping it down to the last manly drop.

I think his podcast has a pretty large audience, and if I remember correctly he was the one who spearheaded the movement against that patent troll that was trying to (is still trying to? I haven’t heard about it in a while) extort money out of basically every podcaster because 40 years ago he had the idea to send…

If you have a kid in your life, I highly recommend We are in a Book from the Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willem (hell, I pretty much recommend everything by Mo Willem - he’s a delight).

+1, my kid’s a little old for it now (he’s 8), but it was often requested when he was 5-6.

I like the look of the art, but it doesn’t seem particularly evocative of, well much of anything really. Like do you feel connected to the theme/story at all? I really like the Marvel Champions co-op - you can see how the heroes and villains are meant to be evocative of their comic book counterparts.

Well, since it’s portable, you could go to church *and* bump WAP. I’m sure they’d appreciate it.

Sure, but I think the fact that they can without any real hyperbole make the case that Apple is in fact shafting small developers to an even greater degree is just something they get for ‘free’ here.

Lol ok friend. So go ahead and tell me what superhero movies meet your high standards. Oh wait, you aren’t here to offer opinions, just shit on other people’s. I’ll take Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Winter Soldier up against any genre thriller ever made. What’s your counter point.

“Totally expected from a SEAL Sniper with over a dozen confirmed kills in Vietnam.”

I dunno, Epic saying that they “can’t afford” it, would sound even more disingenuous, and “hey, we make a lot of money, but we want to make even more” would probably not be a winning public stance. I agree the “we’re doing this for the people” thing is a PR move to some degree (perhaps a great degree), but I’ve…

Not sure I understand. Is “factory assembled” just a trolly way of saying  “competently made”?