First that creates a lot of work for them. Second, it’s a public relations nightmare. This is the path of least resistance.

There is no way they could have disclosed this in the Investor’s Meeting it would have blown the conclusion. I could see them cutting either way but honestly I’d be fine if this was an anthology series. Follow the stories of different Mandalorians. This gives them mobility through time and space, they could tell…

100% the first thing that came to my mind!

I still think it’s evil, just a different brand of evil. Cannibalism is eating your own species (dictionary definition). That, in itself, is not inherently evil depending on context.

Good part about it is we’re now finally done with the last vestiges of it. We can move forward with a clean slate in the future so no worries about canon issues or messy plot decisions.

Okay, I have to ask, how is eating Kelpian cannibalism? They are not human, cannibalism only applies to eating humans. I mean, it’s NOT cool but it’s not the same thing. We eat whales and octopus meat. It’s as bad as that given they have been found to possibly have human level intelligence and possibly sentience but…

They really are damaging relationships with the big platform holders. Between this and saying how they skirted the validation process by promising they’d patch to fix the issues in day 1 and then not doing it (or at least not to the extent they had led the platforms to believe) is how you get your privileges taken…

100% this, it’s literally rewarding bad behaviour.

Part of that is due to the anti-union sentiment amongst many in the development community. I have pro-labour developer friends who’ve butted heads with the libertarian streak in the technology sector. What made film work is its guilds and unions ensuring fair practices. Despite growing game dev union movements I don’t…

Same here with Cherry, I thought it was a way to tie the character more obviously into the issues that Cherry was trying to address in the book (though not keen on them making Cherry adopted and not a dwarf).

The tonal changes to some characters are just too bizarre, one of Sybil’s defining traits is her physicality.…

I started with so much hope for this, I even walked away from some Discworld groups because of the toxicity the reactions to the show generated. It’s not that they were critical but HOW they were critical (some racist and transphobic elements floated to the top which was shocking due to the nature of Terry’s books).

I know right? It’s literally a critics job to have this discussion.

Honestly, we’re more in agreement than not. Both pieces serve a purpose they just both have different intent which is fine.

That’s how fiction... works? Not every piece of creative work needs to be progressive so that it checks some PC box for everyone. It’s the world they built.

English majors can make-up themes and deeper meanings as much as they want, finding imagery in all kinds of things. That doesn’t mean they’re right. Or that it was intended.

Remember when video game writers used to write about the actual experience of playing a video game?

And The Dark Knight came out the same year as Iron Man. That doesn’t mean Iron Man was a shit movie and a failure because it was a shallow escapist genre film rather than a grand operatic look at madness, chaos & order, hero worship, the power of symbols, and human nature.

Expecting every video game to be The Last of Us is like expecting every superhero movie to be The Dark Knight.

Why it happens is why much of genre media now days is misunderstood. They saw Blade Runner that one time, thought it was pretty and it went out of their head anything beyond that (not targeting this at anyone in this thread more a general remark on fandom).

To be fair, CDPR’s resume includes a BUNCH of transphobic gaffs. It also includes courting a technocrat Bond villain in its marketing. The more I dig into the company and the marketing around the game the less I felt like they were going to understand the ethos of the genre let alone the people who built it. Is it…