Baseball works really well from a story standpoint since it’s a sport of a series of one-against-one conflicts. You don’t have to visually explain all of the team-based moving parts of say, a football play.

Second, it was never going to look like an actual play. That’s a weird, gatekeeping idea — “let’s use a new form that the normies won’t recognize to make them have to commit if they want to see D&D stuff.” Gross and dumb.

Be it queer-only actual play podcasts that chart out across epic adventures for hours at a time every week, or powerful new RPGs like Thirsty Sword Lesbians, the modern TTRPG renaissance is profoundly queer and, from the looks of things, this film is not brave enough to take the same chance.

Amazon seems strangely conflicted about whether or not they give a shit about Prime Video. They have some true gems in there, a lot of garbage, and a lot of stuff that would have been in the 99 cent bin at Blockbuster once upon a time.

Lou Ferrigno frowns on bad CGI.

I get the complaint of “rice paddy hats”. But the concept that stories, no matter what story you are telling, has a responsibility to “grapple with the history of it’s location” is kind of silly.

Because white people would never put up with a system of government that involves weekly fights to the death to determine leadership positions.

That was my impression too, with the exact same game.

But if it’s coming from her bracelet, why would she be a mutant? Which mutant needs an object to activate its powers?

I want to say that the Pontiac Aztec made it’s debut in the Dark Angel tv show.

Vecna is going to wear Max like a suit at the end of the first act break in season five and be undercover in Hawkins after the heroes get their first victory of the season. They’ll figure out what he’s up to and the second act ends with him being openly exposed.

It should be noted that in the past way before streaming was a thing, The Irishman still would not have gotten made if it hadn’t been made by Marty and starring Bobby. Because that’s just kind of how Hollywood works.

Movies that are pre-Spielberg or pre-Star Wars don't count on Internet websites

“Niantic is stupid because they are out of touch with Pokemon Go players” seems to directly contradict “Niantic is stupid because the are laying off people when they make billions of dollars from Pokemon Go players”.

I kind of disagree. I went in watching it not expecting too much, and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting a pg-13 version of “kids killing each other” but I found that movies spoke to a lot more than that ( bread and circuses, the marketing of sports heroes, how one simple act can inadvertently spark bigger…

I thought that they covered that pretty well in the Nolan Batman movies, where some internal auditor guy shows up at Morgan Freeman’s office and says “this Batman guy is running around with tech that falls under your supervision for a department that doesn’t exist. Give me $10 million or I take this public.” And…

Insert “why not both” meme here.

Yeah, I liked the promise of Leia and Obi Wan having an exciting adventure from the early episodes.

When he stood there watching Obi Wan escape after the fire being ignited. The pained expression under his mask quietly said “if only I could do something about this fire...”

The idea that Qui Gon is quietly pulling the strings to ensure that millions of planets suffer under the wrath of Darth Vader’s rule is kind of fun.