I really don’t see why not.  After Geralt’s lengthy convalescence in the books, he’s basically a different person anyway.  Even before they announced Cavill was leaving, I had figured “that was the natural point to recast if you needed to” just from having read the books.

I’m a BIG witcher fan and it has been a real struggle with the Netflix show. They do one portion of a story perfectly, and then the rest of the season feels like halfhearted fanfiction. It really, really had potential and the team at Netflix have dropped the ball outside of one or two really golden episodes. Losing…

It may be that losing Cavill is a death knell because the only thing keeping the show popular was his picture perfect portrayal of how most viewers see Geralt.

Why does it matter who she is? The security detail no doubt was embarrassed at letting a random stranger get close enough to stab him and took it out on her. Deportation sounds good.

I remember when reading about how wizards just go to the bathroom on the floor and make it disappear that I suddenly thought “well, this feels less full of wonder than I would have hoped...”

I think you underestimate just how horny Hollywood is for the Chinese market and their 1.4 billion potential moviegoers.

There’s something strangely comforting about the fact that no matter how weird the world gets, or how dire our shared problems become, there will always be a handful of weird chuds pathetic enough to create imposter accounts inside the moldering corpse flotilla that is the kinja sites.

JK Rowling has gone a long way to making me not care about the Wizarding World (and only 20% of that is because of her abhorrent politics - most of it is the actual stuff she decides to say about the Wizarding World), but surely there’s another story to tell other than remaking movies that are still very much alive in…

Especially when the primary audience this should be for is children who need more convincing to go to bed on time. I definitely do not want them to have an excuse to have their phone in bed with them with the screen turned on.

Baldur’s Gate

Ballinger deserves no pity but I’m also really annoyed by the kinds of people who scour someone’s history for any scandal that might provide them with the tiniest bit of internet clout.

The convention center itself should put a cap on it. That’s why Otakon moved - they wanted more attendance and Baltimore didn’t have the capacity.

Any fire department that didn’t shut that down is not doing its job.

I am not remotely a fan of Swift but come the f on.

let’s all pretend we live on the same planet and function in the same society and know that I clearly meant nacho cheese instead of being a giggling middle schooler thinking they got one over on someone

The Sims has been garbage since Maxis stopped developing. Whatever the Sims 5 ends up looking like it’s going to be terrible

the brain war that was parodying 5 year old Starship Troopers

Parodying society isn’t at all the same as doing “issues of the week” like south park. Most of their classic episodes are random like the egg-salad sandwich worms making Fry a genius, Slurm willy wonka, amazon women, the fem-puter, Omicron Poppers, the brain war that was parodying 5 year old Starship Troopers, etc.

The trailer seems really “topical”. Pandemic, crypto, meta jokes about streaming platforms. I don’t remember original Futurama being very topical, but the reboot did it more like with the iPhones.

Not going deeply into those ideas because this will be a huge spoiler, [but] it’s also very, very close to the meta ideas which are deeply embedded in the books, especially in book five. It’s very lore accurate.