I think the problem is that people mistake wedding invites for compliments and the lack thereof as insults. I didn’t have kids at my wedding because I number many profane drunks among my dear friends. That didn’t stop somebody from bringing their kid anyway, which opened a whole new realm of shit, but at least I was…

Zsasz also leaves one of his little tableaus near one of the ‘opera corpses.’

Well, it’s ROCKSTEADY’s final Batman game. Nobody thinks WBIE’s going to stop developing open world superhero games.

“The business reality Hickman has worked under has seen Marvel de-prioritize Fantastic Four—the title that helped launch its present-day empire, remember—because the company doesn’t control those characters in Hollywood.”

I continue to be profoundly skeptical of this. Like, I buy that Marvel wants to put the properties…

Hold on, let me hit my inhaler.

I don’t want DC to make Marvel movies. Marvel already makes Marvel movies, and Marvel is pretty good at making Marvel movies. DC should make different kinds of superhero movies, and it looks like they are.

They’re easier than they might look. Most of them are actually platforming challenges, although there are a few footraces/car races here and there.

A fair chunk of them are in the dungeons of the game, although I admit I’m annoyed each dungeon has at least one or two trophies tied to a gadget you don’t yet have.

So why not blow up the clocktower? Why not have her try to fight off the Arkham Knight as he attempts to abduct her and get killed that way? There were about a thousand ways to handle this that don’t involve making her hurt herself so Batman will feel bad. And I don’t buy that Batman would think Barbara Gordon is so…

There’s a multitude of ways to handle this that don’t involve Barbara killing herself. I get what they were trying to do; if you pay attention in the cutscene it’s pretty clear who Barbara thinks she’s seeing in the cutscene. It’s just forced and clumsy.

Right, but not by suicide. Getting killed in the course of doing something dangerous is way different from killing yourself. Why is Batman imagining Barbara Gordon eating a bullet? It’s just not consistent with how we’ve seen the character, or how we’ve seen Batman view Barbara, at all. It’s a forced moment that’s…

I know, but I was trying to find a Mexican stereotype that was fairly innocuous for my analogy. :-)

It’s still a ridiculously poorly written moment. Like, does Batman really view Barbara, one of the key members of his team, as a professional victim? What, did her time as Batgirl and the fact that she’s the linchpin of his intelligence operation not change his mind?

The fact that the game immediately goes “Welp, that…

I feel like Batman: Arkham Knight is a “bridge game.” It’s pretty clear they’re testing out a system where instead of a central plot, you have Batman solving crimes across the city and slowly tying together the larger threads into a finale. Which is a great idea! I’d rather honestly play games that are all varied side…

Have you read the original comics? Granted, Marvel does not have a great track record depicting Asian cultures but the old Doctor Strange books are particularly clueless in that respect. The American equivalent would be mashing up every Canadian, American, and Mexican stereotype into an incoherent wad and saying…

Did anybody else find the hint that a certain palindromic killer was running around Gotham again? Wondering if that’ll be DLC.

I dunno, once you’ve had a cup of Robusta you don’t soon forget it. That bean could probably start cars.

Oh, good, so my belief the impending nuptials fell apart because she was screwing somebody else on the side can, for now, remain intact.

I’ll defend Dragnet. It works largely because Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks play off each other pretty well, and the parody in the movie is incredibly straight-faced. It also has the best ending joke of the 1980s:

That overlaps with “tough on crime,” usually.