Considering a third of the cast announcements have been actors playing characters who don’t exist in the games, I’m not worried about it being a shot-for-shot remake. Even that Twitter compilation of comparing the game and show aren’t that close. Bill takes off his mask? Joel carries his daughter? Joel teaches Ellie…

I don’t doubt it’s different elsewhere. But there’s always parochialism. The big epic struggle in Harry Potter is in Britain. Sailor Moon is Crystal Tokyo. Why build a global capital on a island at the edge of a super continent? Etc. Americans are extra parochial because the country has been the global center of…

It is the business contact information from the lawyer that sent the email to the government division.

I know some people seem committed to the “everyone who plays these games have to be an addict.”  But the reality is that a bulk of people who play this stuff more than likely are okay with spending a couple of bucks here and there for potential rewards...especially if it allows them to bypass the grind.  

Maybe its the Paxlovid talking, but I really don’t care if loot boxes stay or go. I do wish we’d figure it out so we could stop talking about them.

they’re not wrong, almost as if there are entire massive groups of players that like the system and game and dont read enthusiast blogs or share perspectives of the core playerbase.

This mode would effectively be dead without loot boxes. We can argue all day on how monetized the mode should be (and it’s EA, so you know it’s too expensive), but fact of the matter is, even with zero monetization, you need loot boxes for this mode to even feel remotely fair.

I do like Cabin in the Woods and that feels like self-aware Whedon

Ah gotcha.  I didn’t look at the document so I thought you may have been referring to referenced personal information in the legal docs.

Most dub actors are white so when they do their take on a character I perceive them as white. Christopher Sabat albeit white has a heavy urban voice so pretty much all of his characters come of a little black to me. I get that vibe with his version of Zoro too lol. 

Personal info in legal docs are par for the course unless they file non disclosure documentation along with it. My guess, though, is the “personal” information is far more public than personal which is why they didn’t bother. I can’t imagine companies of this caliber, with attorney of their caliber, not filing…

To answer your question, yes. Many many people feel when you sit down to write a story you make all the characters straight, white, and male, then go back and change the characters based on need. I’ve studied storywriting for 20+ years and I cannot tell you how many arguments I’ve gotten into with people when I try to…

It's a bit "of its time" in places but I think JLI/Super Buddies doesn't get enough credit.

This is so true. I’m in my 60's so old enough to have seen this sort of cycle come and go.

I’m Latino (American) and Latin America is crazy for Dragon Ball (and now the Gohan Blanco is real...!) but I never really coded any of them as anything but what they were. I was not represented at all in any of it, not even as much as the token black guy from the 90s. Jet Black I get though because his VA (who is blac…

Same. I watched it, the whole thing was a little over-the-top, but.... :eh: I was expecting something that would require a PR team to apologize, “this isn’t what we intended”, etc. etc. etc. But this is...well, I’ve seen much worse, ya know?

Same. The trailer was no more cheesy/silly/bad/whatever than your average game trailer (not that I oppose having a little fun with it!).

Yea I’m not seeing what exactly about the trailer is triggering people to mock....is the protagonist thinking over her situation too meta or something?

Game looks fun and I thought the trailer was fine in that it got me interested in the game. *shrugs*

In the author’s defense, I have come to learn that many non-white children really needed the validation that came with someone looking like them doing something positive. I am Black/White, and have been called every ethnicity of brown throughout my life, but because both of my parents were dramatically their race and…