From a game design standpoint, balancing between “carrying a bunch of useful stuff, but the more you carry, the more that hampers you” is pretty interesting. It certainly makes decisions more interesting than “I’ll just 15 different swords and 82 different shields around” because I can and am not penalized for it.

Is this one of those things that no one was expecting because they didn’t show their hand in pre-season, but now that everyone knows they’ll be doing noisy pre-snap motions stuff, the surprise is out of the bag?

This isn’t really surprisiing. I think it was Target that kept (keeps) track of purchases via credit card or something. One of the things they do with the data is track tampon purchases, and when a person stops buying tampons, they take an educated guess when to start pushing baby supply ads to you via email and…

I can’t help think that one of the problems with Apple streaming is that Apple has spent so much time and effort in marketing their walled garden approach, that there is no one outside of their Apple eco-system who is going to bother with trying out Apple streaming.

I’m sort of surprised at how many fleshy humans were actually filmed.

And why are there so many Iron Men?

Don’t forget kabaddi!

Go with Meta-humans and make it seem like it’s a part of the DC universe.

The thing you don’t see are overweight people oozing over the armrest in your lap.

I would assume they confiscate all of them since, as far as I know, they don’t allow any liquids through the security gate.

2. Passengers aren’t going to passively sit and wait for the outcome of a hijacking. They’re much more likely to rush and subdue attackers.

No. It’s someone isn’t going to threaten someone with a replica device, it’s someone else on the plane gets only a partial glimpse of it in a bag, and starts calling the police or FBI or whoever, which then has to shut everything down.

The situation with the Marvel Comics #1000 essay appears to be another example of Marvel Comics censoring its creators in an attempt to be apolitical, to the detriment of the company and its audience.

Like everyone else who experienced it, the transporter gimmick was amazing, from set up through follow through. The set up was you were waiting in your typical motion simulator queue, where you had a person in a crappy star trek uniform giving you the usual “keep your hands inside the ride” disclaimers. Then WHOOSH…

There’s just something clunky about they way that thing unfolds in that gif...like a bad tool demonstration on Tool Time from Home Improvement.

The main plot drivers in Homecoming are the Avengers and Tony, and the main plot drivers in Far From Home are Tony Stark’s past associates and “Nick Fury”.

I wonder, however, if the solution really is “let’s just Spiderverse it! But in live action!”.  A large chunk of the appeal of Into The Spiderverse was the whole visual look of the animation, which I don’t think you can pull that off in live action as effectively.

I’m kind of missing the Elvis connection given that he didn’t have relatives living under an oppressive regime half a world away that he had to worry about protecting.

It’s some old weird guy who keeps showing up on the outskirts of Lars moisture farm with a pair of high-powered binoculars. I assume at some point he winds up in jail as a peeping tom.

I understand that point...but my experience has been with iPhone users is that “feature X is completely stupid and why would I want that” suddenly becomes magical when it appears on their next iPhone.