>However, you don’t have to be a person of color, a woman, or LGBTQ+, to have persons of color, women, or LGBTQ+ representation in your games,

Yeah, it’s the original sin of Superman stories, and it’s ironically made worse here because they bust right out of the gate (well, from the audience’s perspective anyways) with a planet that is just overflowing with miracles, be they technological, genetic, or magical... and with a bunch of government spooks 100%…

The entire debate about the super soldier serum inside the MCU is believably laughable. Bit a contradiction there, but, well, that’s human society for you.

I sincerely doubt that WoD’s brand of fiction is going to get another chance to be taken seriously by both artists and audiences simultaneously. The 90s, in hindsight, really were a razor’s edge where you could be boldly progressive and boldly misanthropic simultaneously. What’s worse is that, overall, I don’t think…

I’m assuming there’s a Spec Ops: The Line twist where eventually the game tells you that the only ethical choice was to never have played it.

Just to pile on to all the inaccurate observations and poorly-considered points raised in this piece:

Sorry, I should have specified: I’m electrocuting you all.

The definition of what constitutes a public figure for the purposes of defamation standards has been slippery forever. It was the subject of my 1L appellate argument exercises precisely because it was so easy to construct a fact pattern where there was no obvious correct answer. 15 years later, not much has changed.

Screenwriting has fairly strict rules, unless and until you’ve got enough juice in the industry to do your own thing. Video games are liberated from those rules, both for better and for worse. The character stuff alone is crazy, because people are willing to do a shitload more work to meet an avatar halfway rather…

That would be one hell of a coincidence, because the CW’s been doing this for years to save money on talent. They get slightly larger casts, but with more “special appearances” or recurrings or whatever else is cheaper than a full-on lead/support.

>After Nia’s random absence last week, Kelly is nowhere to be seen tonight. I’m assuming there’s a budgetary reason why the show’s massive ensemble are seldom all in the same episode together.

The Good Place always had a problem with its characters trying to morally philosophize as though they were in a vacuum while acting like everything was an engineering challenge. If that sounds like an abstract criticism, well... okay, fair enough. But I contend it had a significant negative impact on the show’s…

Sad to say, a lot of these older entertainment dudes are just cliches. They have more money and more eyeballs on them than your average 60+ resentful, barely-educated white American or Brit, but it’s all of a piece.

Oh please. When a company like GGG comes crying about how it’s not just a game, it’s how they make their money, you’ll flip the switch instantly. “It’s just a game” is just letting them have their cake and eat it too - and it’s all the more galling because games are a platonic ideal of order and rules and at least…

This guy couldn’t come up with a compelling conspiracy theory if lightning struck him while he was pretending to be Jesus Christ in exchange for money.

Feige wasn’t the only guy in charge at certain points, though, and Captain Marvel felt like it had been released in the wrong spot in Phase 1. It’s hard to ignore that the very first MCU film headlining a female superhero was also the franchise’s biggest misstep in that context.

Whedon could very well be “done,” in the sense that his contribution has been made and it’s time to move on. But he did make the contribution. The dude walked onto The Avengers and his sensibility was a perfect fit. That wasn’t a coincidence. That was like somebody finally getting their pity/apology Oscar, and, at…

>(You needn’t look far to find comments that cross the line. The Outriders team has been hard at work through the weekend two weekends in a row now. But even if that wasn’t the case, harassment is never, ever justified.)

The visa episode was a faithful examination of the discrepancies between “illegals” fearmongering and the statistical truth of most illegal immigration in the country, told by the illegal immigrant who’d been living here for decades as a decent, productive member of society. And that was a 30-minute cartoon show,…

[Oh, Kinja. A double post, but underneath two different comments? You are truly a marvel.]