The DCEU has effectively been disclaimed. Everybody’s doing their own thing now, but without having to do anything truly onerous like consciously recasting all the roles. That holds true even inside the “core” DCEU of Supes, Aquaman, WW, and Batman (who will get a new actor on top of Pattinson, maybe, because…

Just call him a bucket of shit, and then, when he gets offended, tell him he’s clearly out of the loop and can’t appreciate the nuance of what you’re saying to him.

I almost exclusively used the Scorpion and Arch precisely because the full-size cars were such a disaster, and perhaps “bouncy” is a better way to describe how stupid the bikes were, specifically. “Floaty” is for the cars, for sure.

The issues I had in my playthrough really don’t strike me as unique to my rig, so I’m surprised to read this.

I’m not sure we can dock Anderson any points at all for the world-crossing conceit. MHW, which propelled the franchise into the core-gamer-mainstream, had fully-blown crossover events with Final Fantasy and The Witcher that they actually wrote shit for. It was perfunctory, sure, but they took time out of their day to…

CP77 really is the gift that keeps on giving. One can write a near-infinite number of articles about it that expose our current reality as just a boring, less-technologically-advanced cyberpunk dystopia.

The majority of this article’s observations are oddly blind/deaf to the setting.

The “clothing is also armor” decision in CP77 was highly questionable; you do have to wonder, chicken-or-egg style, whether the transition to almost-always-1st-person was informed by it, or vice versa. It actually feels like entire game systems were removed - which is a complaint I’ve seen echoed across the entire…

I’ve said before that cyberpunk is generally tough to criticize, because part of its dystopian vision is a world where art and life have already imitated and eaten each other to the point where both are just hollowed-out husks. If there’s any sense of true personhood left, it’s something that the highest-level corpos…

It’s only valuable if you have the means to refine it and/or fence it. These are freedom fighters without any outside support. All they have is a pure-destruction offensive strategy to make the mining endeavor non-viable.

If you play it on PC, it is still abundantly clear that the whole thing is being barely held together with bubble gum and hairpins. Non-fatal bugs are happening everywhere, all the time, and they range from mildly amusing (example: hehehe, another enemy died-but-not-really because of three different types of bad…

It’s not a coincidence they gave him Thor, though. Thor’s first movie was fine but not memorable; his second movie was a low point; the character got *way* better after getting Whedonized in the Avengers. If you view that as an extant vector, Waititi’s take isn’t nearly as radical.

I get that the Avengers is 100% a “quantum energy” kind of franchise, but I would’ve respected them more if they’d swapped it out with Natural Healing Crystals or The Power Of Positive Thinking.

We’re on the same page. I certainly hope nobody thought I genuinely believed that Jones had so much control over the project that he was the VP/EP In Charge Of Excessive Speeches.

I’m more concerned that the writer can’t connect the dots between dystopian fiction like this and a generic implication of progressive idealism. That, in turn, implies an incredibly immature view of the intersection of art and politics.

Yo Imma let you finish but Fus-Ro-Dah-ing Lydia off the Throat of the World was the greatest yeet of all time.

I think you can tie this more generally to the internet phenomenon of literally millions of people being able to come together into a hype ball over a shared interest, and yet also still cultivate the idea that they’re an exclusive club - a minority of good taste in a sea of window-lickers.

I think you mean ‘should, but usually don’t, because life is boring.’

Well, if there’s one thing that’s pretty consistent across every iteration of this general time period of Star Wars, it’s that Palpatine was kind of a geek, and he had a lot of plates spinning in a lot of places. It makes sense to me that there’d be remnants of the imperial fleet all over the place, many of them…

I’d say they managed to pull the story out of a tailspin (or out of a meandering nowhere?) with the DLC, but overall DA:I is a pretty shoddy game. I really can’t recommend it be played first.