The weird thing is that, unlike the show, the guy in the suit when Din appears at Disney’s parks is always Pedro Pascal.

It honestly didn’t even occur to me that people would be asking him to apologize for things on the show that they think are offensive, rather than just how unfunny the show has been for most of its run.

And this article is how I know Kenneth Shepard is not actually old enough to remember MK2 in arcades. 

Imagine complaining about product placement when the scene is set in a mall - a building where the literal reason for its existence is product placement.

Feels like a pretty cynical way to look at things and a pretty big reach. I mean it’s obvious to anyone that “The Turning” is not just a random fighting game and very specifically meant to be alternate Mortal Kombat of some variety. So of course they would use it for real if they had the chance.

Mortal Kombat’s huge impact is far more likely to ignite some sort of emotional response from TV viewers than a fake game that is mentioned a couple times on a videogame they probably didn’t play.

What a cynical way to look at things, lol. It didn’t feel like an ad, and I think they enhanced the moment from the game by doing it this way. Plus, whether intentional or not, it’s fun to watch characters play a video game within a video game adaptation. Obviously it’s different, but in a way, it reminded me of when…

Mortal Kombat scene doesn’t feel like an Ad at all. For actual people who grew up going to arcades in the 90s and 00s its one of the most iconic games.

The grill, antennae/tentacles hairdo and missing eyebrows are a distraction so we won’t keep pointing at the bad surgery, but it’s not working.

The Last of Us Part 2 built incredibly well upon themes that were well established in the first game. The fact that the discussion surrounding that was so quickly coopted by people who thought the series was just another badass simulator is really pretty tragic. 

Mergers are inevitable.

Microsoft basically buying their competition. I’ve been telling Nintendo and Sony fanboys this for years. As much as you hate Xbox. Microsoft is one of the richest companies on the planet. They could buy Nintendo and Sony ten times over. 

It’s a huge merger, and huge mergers are ultimately bad for consumers, especially in already-rapidly consolidating industry like video games, to say nothing of the employees that will undoubtedly get laid off after the merger is approved. It’s not about just CaLl oF DUtY.

Yeah... nobody’s issue with this merger has anything to do with whether or not Microsoft will handle the IPs well. 

To some extent you have to “question” ace identities to see what the person actually means. Not everyone uses it in the same way, and some people use it in contradictory ways. Just trying to get clarity on what people are actually saying about themselves (and acknowledging that there can be confusion) isn’t inherently…

And that’s why my entire response to this article was, “sometimes you want sex and sometimes you don’t.”

I was talking to someone who identified as gray ace, but they were basically like “I only feel sexual attraction in specific circumstances. For instance, I’m only sexually attracted blonds who are over 6 foot with minimal body hair and a muscular build.” and I was like... I don’t know that “having a type” makes you a…

Because the dictionary definition of asexual is “experiencing no sexual feelings or desires; not feeling sexual attraction to anyone.”

Yeah, I think there’s a huge problem with the discourse surrounding the topic that kinda frames the whole thing as this dichotomy between asexuals on one hand and allosexuals on the other, wherein asexuality is a spectrum that covers every possible variation of how humans understand certain conditions of their own…

Agreed. The definition here doesn’t match with the dictionary definition at all.