FYI, if you make your browser window narrow enough, all the slides automatically appear on a single page in a nice list, the way it’s supposed to be.

Do we know what attendances have been like though? Zero cases linked is only impressive if people have actually been going.

I only played the first three to completion (plus a bit of ODST and Reach), but I do not understand the obsession with Master Chief. Maybe the novels flesh him out a bit, but only a tiny minority of the audience would have read any of them, and based on the games he’s a non-entity in a cool suit of armour — it really s…

I suspect the most telling part is his final line in those tweets:
“I don’t condone aggressive racist behaviour”

Not sure about top 10, but I certainly played the hell out of the first two and couldn’t finish the third either.

There are reports that he’d already been fired by the time his daughter died, and the tragedy was used to grant him a graceful exit.

I don’t know if it counts (i.e. if they were involved in production or just bought the international distribution rights after the fact), but Annihilation was pretty great.

But ultimately it is a question of quality, isn’t it? Does the game feel like it’s wasting your time? Is the thing over the hill repetitive busywork? Those things can be the difference between a great open-world game and a mediocre one.

You’re almost right. Ishin! is actually set just before the Meiji Restoration.

Wouldn’t be close to my top three songs (hard to see beyond the 1-2-3 punch of Helpless, Satisfied, and Wait For It). But yeah, King George is the sort of scenery-devouring no-such-thing-as-too-OTT cameo that’s hard for an actor not to stand out in if they commit and have a modicum of talent, which Groff certainly does…

The story cliff notes are out there already. Laidlaw released a summary of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 back in 2017, albeit with the characters hidden behind pseudonyms. Google should turn up copies that restore all their true names too, should you not want to decode it yourself.

A lot of his superhero work suffers from weak endings with unresolved threads, usually as a result of being cut short by events out of his control, but I think most of it remains great.

What constitutes “validated”? I’m sure the appeal process is a pain in the ass, but if they didn’t actually use images or footage from the leak, then presumably it wouldn’t be valid.

I mean, sure, it may have been overzealous and had some financial implications, but “destroyed someone’s way of life”? Come off it. Are you seriously suggesting someone’s way of life was entirely reliant on one video where they mentioned the leaks?

But trans people are trans even before they transition, so you’re still asking a cis man (in your OITNB example) to play a trans woman. And potentially restricting a lot of trans roles to actors who have cis gendered siblings who also act. Not to mention implicitly encouraging casting directors to look at trans…

Didn’t Ang Lee do that on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? I wanna say he used the same actors where possible too, but I can’t find any reference. I know he had the entire script rewritten to closely match the available mouth movements.

To go in a slightly different direction, I do wonder if Ellie and Abby’s stories were ever meant to run in parallel, switching back and forth much more frequently, and whether doing that would make the pacing a little better (which, to be fair, is all I think it needs).

Yeah, I did much the same. It was only after I reached Santa Barbara that I stopped reloading checkpoints when I messed up and started thinking “fuck it then” and running straight for the end of the level instead. And, not that I found everything there was to find prior to that, but the workbenches in Santa Barbara…

I’d cut as many as a third of the encounters. Like at the end for example, Ellie goes through three major sequences in Santa Barbara — infected in the suburbs, humans outside the resort, humans inside the resort (which itself feels like 2 or 3 encounters in quick succession). The humans outside the resort could have…

Yeah, Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones was another one. I get that sometimes recasting is inevitable, and they won’t find a perfect match, but at least get someone with a similar look to smooth the transition.