Yeah, I don’t have a problem with most of the other acquisitions, tbh. Sony especially made some great buys, and it’s like you said, for some of these smaller developers, it’s kind of the dream. The problem is Bethesda’s history and size.

Xbox’s purchase of Bethesda pisses me off so much, more than the publishers and studios Sony has acquired for PlayStation. Sony mostly acquired mid-sized developers and up-and-coming publishers. Bethesda was a massive, well-liked company with over a 20 year history of cross-platform releases. And now most of their…

The article starts by saying that it won’t count Disney’s acquisitions, and will only focus on movies produced by Disney. And then immediately includes all the Pixar movies, movies made by a studio that is not Disney that Disney acquired.

It means they don’t want to do the actual journalistic work of understanding it. Although I appreciate the snark somewhat, of presenting these ruling class elites as literally a different insectoid species. 

Yeah, I was kind of expecting that Blood and Cheese would happen in the first two episodes of the season. Probably not the first, as you need to give people time to adjust, but the second would totally work. It would catch people off guard, putting an event that feels like an episode 9 one in an unexpected episode.…

I don’t think so. Removing the “politics” from the movie makes the politics more invisible, which helps the propaganda. The military is defending us from this faceless, all-powerful other. We’re not actually even presented for why they’re antagonistic other than the US doesn’t want them to have a nuclear weapons…

The point is that as long as she is alive and holds the rights, she financially benefits from every sale of the game, and she puts her money towards anti-trans groups like the LGB Alliance. It’s not just about the moral impurity of buying something associated with a transphobe - if it were that it might be something I…

Yeah it honestly feels like a missed opportunity, it could have been something really fun. Instead we got... this

Amazing that this article fails to mention Harry Potter ending and JK Rowling’s bizarre journey into transphobia since then, Xi Jinping coming to power in China, Occupy Wall Street, the rise of the MCU and the return of Star Wars and the ensuing fandom battles that resulted from that, the entire run of Game of…

She’s only made three movies, with Wonder Woman her first in 14 years. Monster was pretty good, WW84 was pretty bad, so I guess what you think of Patty depends on how you feel about the first Wonder Woman movie.

It honestly sounds a lot like a food-based version of Theatre of Blood!

Letitia Wright also followed and liked tweets from accounts promoting  conversion therapy, which always gets left out of these stories.

Crimean War was over 60 years prior, I meant to edit that to be “had been adversarial with Russia” - which they had been, more or less, for most of the 19th century. But yes, the bit about them being mostly friends is hilarious, and I also laughed out loud.

I actually had access to the correspondences of the British Foreign Office during the Russian Revolution and Civil War for a research project. In reality, it seems as though George V was initially wanting to help the Romanovs, but Lloyd George was cautious about it because he felt under threat from the Labour Party at…

They eventually did release Code Veronica on the PS2. Fun fact: It was the original intended Resident Evil 3 and was developed with “Resident Evil 3" as its codename for most of production. Capcom felt that Dreamcast was more suited for their technical ambitions than PS1. Resident Evil: Nemesis was considered as a…

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. also did three arcs in one season for Season 4 - they called them “pods”. Honestly, I’m baffled that more of these shows didn’t take notice of that and also do it, because it is so much better pacing. The CW should have immediately applied that structure to all of their DC shows as well.

They’re more protecting their movie, and in this specific case their franchise - DC is in shambles, and this movie - which has already been filmed, and includes the returns of Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton - is supposed to use Flashpoint to sort out the whole DC Universe mess. Not to mention that it has been a $200…

I think it might have worked if it had been either a faithful remake of 1978 (because the parts that are taken from the original are super faithfully done right down to the dialogue - similar almost to Psycho or that ‘90s Night of the Living Dead) OR a prequel about Michael Myers as a child. It’s really two separate…

Yeah the impression I get is that Green didn’t want the baggage of Laurie being Michael’s sister, and wanted to take it back to the randomness of the original, not that he actually dislikes II. Both 2018 and Kills are loaded with callbacks to II, rather than simply ignoring it. II doesn’t count for continuity, but…

Honestly when they announced that they were making two more films after 2018 to round out a trilogy, I was really hoping that Halloween Kills would be Halloween 3 2 and have nothing to do with 2018 or Michael Myers, and then Myers and Laurie would be back (again) for Halloween Ends. It would be so perfect if the…