I agree that “everything about Avatar is just so weird and idiosyncratic that it somehow simply defies reference culture.”

What would’ve happened if they had casted a Michele Rodriguez as the lead, and Worthington as the Zoe Saladena part? Would the constant harping of the last 10 years of “white saviour” trope have gone away, or just morphed into something more nuanced?

Oh, okay. Green Day. Sure. I know Green Day, I guess I didn’t follow them enough to know who the band members are.

For the few episodes I’ve watched, the singer lists are pretty eclectic, ranging from “who?” to “geez, I would’ve figured that they were too big to be on this show.” So they do a pretty good job mixing up the contestants, I assume that by mixing up the participants, you cover a bunch of different age groups.

I initially read it as Anal, primarily because my browser is open on a secondary screen much further away from me than my primary screen.

So, A Kotaku special report based on Apple trashtalking Epic about spending too much on exclusives, while Apple spent over 500 million on exclusives for Apple Arcade and is losing money so badly, that they have decided to bring free-to-play games into Apple Arcade. ( for example: you can now pay a subscription fee for…

Beyond the music aspect, the thing about West Side story though, is that it is really technical work of movie art, filled with all sorts of interesting set designs, costuming ( it’s only recently that I noticed the costuming color codes at the school dance between rival gangs), and camera shots.

Didn’t we just go through that kind of thing with ios blocking all searching of the term “asian” with their safety filter?

Apple CREATED the cesspit when they allowed in-game transactions, allowed free to play, decided that “Top Grossing” is a good way to promote “good games”, and decide to push games on the front page of the app store based on name recognition and advertising budgets of large app makers.

“credit to Apple for making mobile gaming less of a cesspit.”

Actually, the digital version of Gloomhaven is pretty well done.

I always found the the first Keaton Batman movie interesting because it’s the only Batman movie where it feels like the “worlds greatest detective” actually does detective work ( “Alfred, Let’s go shopping.”).

The Boo-yah thing is what Cyborg has been known for the last 15 years of Teen Titans cartoons.

My definition of Snyder is basically the story of a guy who is trapped in a dead end job all of his life pushing paperwork around, but all he’s ever dreamed of is being a ballerina.

Yep. the whole point was to homage old “drawing room murder” stories.

Yeah, that’s sort of my round-about-thinking.

My experience with Monster Hunters in the past is that the game will severely beat you up if you go in expecting a button-mashing good time, or Assassin Creed guards who A) have the awareness of scarecrows of what’s going on around them and B) really provide no honest pushback.

Nothing is ever new!

I don’t remember the Robert Downey JR Holmes movies being very drug-centric, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen those. I do remember him hanging out in an opium den at one point, but he was in disguise and it seems like it was implied that he was there hiding out or being on a case or something as opposed to…

Most Asians don’t see themselves as “Asian” but as a member of a distinct culture, with various attitudes and hostilities towards the other Asian ethnicities.