Well, the 80s did produce some excellent satire of the 80s. Robocop holds up.

It’s a remaster that’s treating a few remakey things like a bonus. That’s not really how consumers work. The devs and publishers shouldn’t be surprised when people want more remake, since the devs and publishers dangled tiny bits of one like chum over a shark tank.

At a certain point I think you guys just need to admit that you don’t want to do certain things that would make your coverage more ethical and reliable, because business is business. I mean, reading between the lines of this piece, you pretty much are already. I guess all I’m suggesting is to make it explicit so that…

I need to push back on you, though, because video games represent a high-water mark, currently, in entertainment products (or, gag, services) with lots of moving parts, many of which may not function properly, well, or at all.

There’s also a theory that Wanda is only in the MCU because she already did a House of M on her original timeline, complete with giving herself a new backstory to justify why she still had some witchy powers.

Hitman really does encapsulate the dead-end, man-behind-the-curtain philosophy of big modern game design. If you want your alleged “sandbox” to have anything interesting and/or complex to do within it, you basically have to build a traditional game inside of the sandbox, complete with heavy scripting, obvious buttons,…

We likely won’t. The colorful toy can only be (poorly) explained by linking it to Wanda’s emotions surrounding the event. She was shocked and afraid, and so color broke through. When the radio startled her, we got red blood. Not so when the beekeeper came out of the sewer.

Closest visual analogue that didn’t totally violate the prison’s rules. See e.g. the SWORD drone turning into a toy helicopter. It’s a conservation-of-concept rule existing secondarily to the “no illusion-shattering stuff” rule.

Everybody Loves Raymond straddled the 90s and 00s. It’s still problematic in that it was more of a family-ensemble comedy than a nuclear-unit comedy, but it’s the closest in time and most popular by far.

It’s not clear if the time travel rules established for the quantum bullshit machine would be the same as for somebody utilizing the combined power of the infinity stones. In fact, it’d be a little lame if the combined infinity stones couldn’t do a massive rewind/revise. The time stone by itself can do some amazing…

What’s the theory of liability? Intervening actors abound. Is Reeves going to sue CDPR for electing not to pursue legal action against a rando, which is their prerogative?

I wouldn’t. That gives you an army of mouths to feed with no idea what they’re actually making. To break into AAA without doing anything before that, you need to start with two pillars: a vision for a game that actually seems like something people might want to play, and a shitload of industry experience in how to…

Hey I know you’re just being a shill, but the game is actually a barely-coherent collection of unpolished and superfluous mechanics, combined with CDPR’s trademark poorly-conceived and terribly-balanced progression systems, and no amount of hotfixes is going to change that.

You have to hope that the original share owners (who lent them to the shorters) are greedy enough to want those shares back in the hopes of cashing out quickly, rather than being satisfied with the continual flow of interest. Otherwise, they could just let the shorters float and keep paying interest forever.

I’m not sure it’s even possible to make a parody of Borderlands. Its humor is already in a place where some version of Poe’s Law applies to it. There’s nothing so juvenile, scatological, or lolrandom that it would be necessarily disqualified from being in Borderlands. The gore speaks for itself. If you removed the…

But what about for violently overthrowing an existing one? That’s its own thing innit?

For whatever reason, last time Laura went straight from dead to somebody menacingly (yet conveniently slowly) telling her she was going to end up in Afterlife XYZ. This time she goes to Purgatory.

Cynically, you’re probably right that the SEC is going to take a look at it, precisely because it didn’t involve one of the Made Men (read: giant corporations) in the marketplace.

I honestly consider Aragorn an exception to my general agreement about the characters. Viggo did a great job; the problem is in the material. Aragorn’s one deep, personal connection is kinda basic, and never really endangered. Besides that, he’s very distant and detached. He swoops in to fulfill his destiny…

Community would be the ideal homage show for when the illusion breaks down - Wanda’s rules about living in a sitcom becoming the petard with which she hoists herself. It’d be trippy if she were unable to change/erase/rewind things like Dan Harmon doing a fourth-wall-breaking narrative because it’s not technically an…