In Endgame, The Ancient One says Doctor Strange was “meant to be the best of us”, but all I can think is that they keep making him into the most irresponsible man-child fuck-up in the universe. That includes what we’ve seen from the new Spider-Man trailer.

On the other hand: if “psychiatrist” Neil Patrick Harris is the dispassionate AI villain, I could totally be down for that.

For the magician that the Sorceress Surpreme describes as the one meant to be “the best of us” in Endgame, Dr. Strange sure seems like one big fuck-up of a human being.

Lotsa people assuming it would be another (boring) take on Evil Superman, but from what I know of James Gunn it’s just as likely it would be Good Superman, or Inconveniently Misinformed/Too-Busy-To-Do-Proper-Diligence Superman, or Superman who’s “good” but maybe not “great”. There’s a lot of room for fun choices in…

I actually started idly clicking through the first few of them before seeing there were 22 and thinking to myself “what the fuck am I doing...”

I imagine the director telling Hamill “now we need you stand very, very still because we don’t have the budget for your head to move at all”

Was the creepiness intentional then?

I was a dev on this game; it was my first full-fledged credit in the games industry. Some of my fondest memories in my career are from working on it. We got away with a lot of weird stuff we wouldn’t get to do on future titles.

Am I the only one who found the editing/pacing weirdly slow throughout this show?

Suckers. I would’ve not done The Office for $2 million.

*headshake*

Kahn said that while Wata games has awarded perfect 10s, those are reserved for games that are “not only in immaculate condition but that are also manufactured perfectly.”

I think SoM suffers on revisiting, for most of the reasons you mentioned. Add to it that the story is paper-thin (and in fairness they cut a lot of it as it was originally going to be a CD-ROM title).

I remember getting Legend of Mana when it first came out, thinking that the visuals and music were amazing (and they were at the time), being in awe of all there was to explore and do... it was only as I got into the story I started to see how little substance there was for it to hang its hat on.

I’m really uneasy about a free-to-play Mana game. Please don’t drag Mana into the swamp that is gacha games. (Notwithstanding the collabs they’ve already had with FF Brave Exvius.) I’d so, so much rather pay $10 or $20 or even more for a complete, tidy experience. I know I’m railing against the inevitable here, but I…

What exactly is a pixel remaster? (I ask this not out of complete naivete, I’ve seen Square’s ports and remasters over the years, and there’s like at least three different things it could mean, maybe more, and I got nothing from that video)

Looking at the screencap I immediately assumed Seth Rogen was voicing the dragon

I slept on this show because the trailers made it look, well... bad. I still don’t think it really succeeds as a parody of the video game industry, but was surprised at how well it worked as just a sitcom, with lots of fun and engaging characters and relationships to get invested in. Not as great as Ted Lasso, but a…

I often cite the police station scene as one of the most masterful comedy scenes I’ve ever witnessed in cinema. Yes it’s Raul delivering a magnum opus performance, but everything about it is so perfectly crafted, from the words on the page, to the direction and pace of the actual scene, to the understated support of…