Fuckin’ Tom Bombadil. I wouldn’t be sad if they introduced him into the show just to make him the Meg Griffin of Middle Earth.

It’s amazing to me how many of the commenters here seem to not have read Schreier’s Anthem article, or, alternatively, don’t credit its content. Or maybe the fact that Schreier didn’t literally come out and say “Casey Hudson conned EA into putting him in charge of a vaporware project” means they couldn’t connect the…

To be fair, I don’t think any of us have ever been the godlike chosen one, either. Power is one hell of an aphrodisiac. Maybe that is how it works for people like that.

As long as Jones wasn’t responsible for his character having the same exact speech 10 times during season 2, then I’ll back it. Like, the first time it was great, but after the third time you either gotta start lampshading it as what gods do as they’re dying, or you gotta move the fuck on. One good way to move the…

It’s overwhelmingly likely that this won’t end well for Bioware - at least from the perspective of a grumpy ‘core gamer’ who doesn’t care about overall revenue streams and whatnot - but, sadly, it’s probably also the only kind of change that offers up a chance for something better.

I think the “they/them” scene is emblematic of Star Trek losing its way in a middle ground. Past Trek would’ve more likely shifted this issue onto an alien/civilization of the week, and Trek’s heirs-apparent (like The Orville) would’ve found a way to be less uptight about it all generally - which would be more…

It’s eminently believable, however, that somebody with a superpower is firmly in the “fuck you, got mine” camp, no matter how much they luxuriate in their emo sessions. Better yet, they can tell themselves the same comforting story that nuclear powers do about proliferation: obviously I ain’t giving up mine, but it’s…

He probably is all of those things, but he picked the perfect setup so that it didn’t matter. His vision of the future is full of shallow, incurious, and disinterested people who’ve been effectively lobotomized by corporations (and by the mostly-free OASIS too, to be fair.) It’s also fairly plausible in that respect.…

I do think it’s a bit much to expect anybody writing about the future to also spontaneously invent creme-da-la-creme bits of culture from the fictional intervening periods.

I think it’s perfectly poetic that RP1 received a burst of giddy, drunk, overly-positive reviews just like so many tentpole video games... and then came the hangover the next day. Sure, people could blame themselves and learn something... ooooor they could engage in some historical revisionism and scapegoat the booze…

Cline is receiving a lot of hate from anybody who has any sense of the distinction between good and bad writing. And yeah, so long as Cline enjoys some degree of success beyond 15 followers on a wordpress chapter-by-chapter storyblog, that criticism is going to smack a bit of gatekeeping and tribalism. But some gates…

Don’t apologize. It’s more absurd than ever to think that somebody as smart as Lex Luthor - and, more specifically, the kind of smart person who does not suffer fools at all - could ever become president.

>People sent Anna Gunn death threats because they viewed *Skyler* as the villain getting in Walt’s way.

Personally I hated how the overwhelming majority of the human race was fridged just to set up TLOU in the first place. So shitty.

I’d say American viewers are more “obsessed” with it than the writers are, and even that’s an extreme statement. We enjoy being entertained by these stories, and we get excited about them rather separate and apart from ascribing morality to various characters. Millions of people love watching stories that include…

Nah, Moff Gideon is the Emperor Palpatine of the Star Wars universe.

Higher than they can go in the game? Did they nerf all the hilariously imbalanced skill trees, and the wanderer phenomenon?

Sure, but evidence mounts that (shocked gasps) DNA is made out of matter, which can be affected by other matter and energy. Its information, complex and holistic as it already is in some manifestations, isn’t sacrosanct or playing on an empty field.

I mean, for all we know, we’re the “after” (or an “after”) in a process exactly like this... except, you know, a version with more infosec and comparmentalization. These Bastion guys are pretty sloppy if they’re letting a bunch of dimension-hopping mercenaries shit where they eat.

I haven’t made up my mind yet, but here’s hoping that CP77's moment-to-moment gameplay isn’t so abysmal that it turns people off to replays once all the DLC is out.