Honestly, I doubt it’s (intentionally) racist. It’s a terrible and unfunny pun, but any link to a racist rhyme is probably coincidence. I don’t recall anyone getting up in arms about Once Upon a Time in Mexico’s “Are you a Mexican or a Mexican’t?”, and this strikes me as about the same level.

The difference is that Geller regularly insists he has real psychic powers. It’s a tricky line with magic, with regards to how much you can get away with suggesting it’s anything other than illusions and trickery, but wherever you want to draw that line, Geller will consistently be found waaaaaay past it.

That is some serious bullshit. If “maskers” are doing anything, it’s getting frustrated with the completely pointless arguments of the anti-mask crowd, who seem to think putting a piece of cloth over their face when they leave the house is tantamount to being enslaved. If anyone’s claiming it’s the be all and end all,…

I think my dream version would combine the whole trilogy into a single game with more consistent mechanics across the board, and maybe with some revised and/or new sidequests to make the environments from the first two games worth revisiting later on.

Snyder fans liking a cartoon? Especially one with actual jokes in it? You’re kidding, right? Maybe if Snyder himself had made a dark and gritty live-action remake...

It would be, except that “we won’t cancel your show without warning” is basically unheard of, regardless of your status. Also, by the standards of TV, he’s very short on experience — before American Gods (and arguably not until season 2, which seems to be where he started to get more directly involved in the show),…

Maybe Gaiman’s really good at getting insane contract commitments? I saw he was on Twitter the other day suggesting that Netflix’s The Sandman adaptation somehow has safeguards to prevent it being cancelled early:

“We knew we wanted to return to what people loved and responded to in the book”

Atwood doesn’t get any royalties from Handmaid’s Tale for example because she sold those TV rights.

First impressions have always counted for a lot, and No Man’s Sky made a pretty terrible one for a lot of people. It’s inevitable that many of them won’t give the game another shot as a result, no matter how much it gets upgraded.

No time at all? As far as I can work out it was simultaneously released as DLC for Odyssey and as a standalone game.

The thing with Battlestar Galactica is that it lost its way a good season-and-a-half before the finale. But the whole business of it being prehistoric Earth was definitely not the satisfying and clever final twist they seemed to think it would be, and “God did it” is never going to be a satisfying conclusion to a…

He perhaps blames Johns for the film’s (and his role’s) change in direction, not to mention the actual replacement of Snyder with Whedon.

Have you never noticed who makes the operating system on your PC? Microsoft isn’t being altruistic. It doesn’t “understand” people like you. It’s just exploiting its own ecosystem, because why wouldn’t it?

That’s all well and good, but until now the assumption was that the delay was predominantly a response to significant backlash against the graphics. As this appointment does not appear to address that concern at all, it instead indicates that whatever problems the game currently has do not stop at a poorly received…

This is worse than Mass Effect surely. A writer can have a big impact on a BioWare game in a relatively short amount of time, but how is one going to help resolve Halo’s graphics being well below expectations (to put it kindly)? If anything, this suggests that graphical issues are just the tip of the iceberg.

He’s been doing Cabin Fever on his YouTube channel for the last few months, a sequel of sorts featuring Arthur vlogging from lockdown.

Yeah, I don’t disagree. I was more interested in the context of your statement — more than five examples in a 2 hour film would definitely be significant, but spread out across 136 episodes of television, not so much. We could dig into specific examples, but in principle six instances seems a very low threshold for…

I’ve not gone back and tried counting up exactly how often Daisy’s presentation might have tipped into sexualisation or objectification, but I think the line between a significant and insignificant amount should probably be drawn a fair bit higher than 6 instances across 7 seasons/136 episodes. That seems an awfully…

I cannot believe people seriously rank Modern Warfare 2 above CoD4, unless it’s purely for multiplayer reasons that I don’t grasp (I’m way more interested in the single-player).