“especially since it’s still not clear what Maximus actually wants, beyond getting to be treated like a hero”

Oblivion, Morrowind, and Fallout 3 all feature fast travel.

Agreed this episode was fantastic no notes

I’m not the biggest Bethesda fan out there, but I’m baffled about your complaint that Fallout 3 was “inaccessible”. How so? If anything, the problem with Bethesda games is that they are too accessible, with ridiculous amounts of hand-holding that make knowing what to do and where to go trivial because you just follow…

I feel like Johnson used to be that way but at some point took a turn to really wanting to be taken seriously. And not like "serious actor" serious, like "respect me" serious. 

If you need it in writing that your character in a movie can’t lose a fight, you can’t be considered an “alpha” or have any kind of standing to call anyone else a candy ass.

Honestly I would appreciate the sense of humor of the guy who had this tattoo in real life.

No one seems less “alpha” to me than Dwayne Johnson. He might as well just get a giant tattoo that says “I’M INSECURE” across his chest.

The only correct response to this “feud” is “spending even one second thinking about this irrelevant bullshit is a colossal waste of time.” But I realize why Cena wouldn’t say that, even though he’s definitely thinking it.

It feels silly to call the sequel to a comic book movie that made over a billion dollars a “big swing” but... well, this looks like as big a swing as you could possibly get for that. Kudos to them for not resting on their laurels when they very easily could have.

I can’t think of two entertainers more committed to the concept of performance, I feel this is going to be rad.

Terrific trailer, at the very least.

Is it weird being devoid of empathy?

Is this the ep where Paul tells the story about Sly wanting to be credited as a co-author on a book he didn’t write, just because he was involved with the movie adaptation of the book?

Look, just because I’m a fat guy with a cane, a top hat, and a monocle, does not give you the right to insult me, okay?

Stallone sounds like a next level asshole. He’s always struck me as one, both from the vibe he gives off as well as the numerous anecdotes I’ve heard. The Unspooled episode of “Creed” dives into this in an entertaining way:

You had me at “Zendaya is in an adult film”

“The actors also alleged that Stallone asked production to bring in “pretty young girls to be around me” instead.”

Yeah, not rapey anymore, just a misanthrope.

He’s a completely changed man, at least regarding his rapiness.  He’s a widower, having met, married, and lost his wife between the original and reboot.  She showed him how to be a decent person, but then her death sent him into a depression spiral, where we find him at the beginning of the reboot.