It’s not the speculation; it’s the confidence. I don’t see sufficient evidence to support any one claim. At best, we’ve eliminated one as being discordant with the show’s structural choices (e.g., that we saw so much sitcom stuff that Allison wasn’t there to witness.)

I’m surprised so many commenters already think they have enough information to make a prediction.

PoE was yet another attempt by Obsidian to critically examine traditional tabletop/RPG systems and improve them. I really admire the hell out of them for stepping up to that plate over and over again. They just... don’t succeed. It’s disheartening to watch.

D&D’s complexity in and of itself wasn’t a problem (at least not for a certain audience,) but the emperor really did not have any clothes. It’s conventional wisdom that computers are super helpful for ultra-crunchy gaming systems, but the thing is, D&D was made by humans, who are actually kinda bad at that stuff! It’s…

>But there is something about the cyberpunk genre that inspires developers to try to club you over the head with the blunt end of the premise.

Yeah man, there aren’t exactly a lot of George F. Wills and William Buckleys running around writing eloquent reactionary bullshit about video games in user reviews. You get a dittohead or trumplet with an axe to grind, and they’ll let you know it in no uncertain terms - one of those certain terms often being terrible…

As Mark Twain famously opined, “if you don’t read the news, you’re uninformed. If you read the news, you’re misinformed. If you exclusively consume unauthorized Sonic the Hedgehog porn, by god you’ve threaded the needle.”

I tried out Solasta this week, and, boy, all the people online talking about how terrible the writing and VO are were not kidding or exaggerating, not even a little bit. Some of the vocal performances sound like they’re in on the joke, and are still bad. That’s how bad it is.

Storman was an idiot from start to finish, but it’s still parcel to a larger conversation we need to be having. Fair use is de facto restricted from its full legal scope by both the fear of bullying-via-litigation and the plain fact that lots of passionate people are too fuckin’ broke to be doing cool stuff for free.…

If Mel hadn’t been caught ranting about his religiously-fueled antisemitic bullshit, Hollywood would’ve been his bitch. He fronted his own money for Passion and got something like a 10x ROI to the tune of $300M, just for himself. That completed the hat trick of top-tier actor, director, and producer.

He does, but they go back on it almost immediately. All the dialogue from when they discover the branch onwards is trying to telegraph to the audience that this is a really, really big deal.

The CW should be, collectively, the master of writing around actor absences. Their primary budget-saving measure is to demote a bunch of the ensemble to the next rung (special guest, special appearance, guest star, whatever) and only use them for x of y episodes per season, per the union rules or whatever.

It’s generous and yet still fails on its own terms. In the same movie where they’re allegedly telling us to question everything, they’re lore-dumping like fucking crazy. But why should we even care, if they’ve established that we shouldn’t believe anything?

Ackles, oh Ackles, you’re talented enough to not have to do this. So don’t. Please.

Man, good thing the DOD left the Kent-Lane family completely defenseless even though they now know that an actual evil Kryptonian is flying around trying to make Superman join his ranks. It would’ve been super inconvenient for those writers if Morg-Zoh or whoever-the-fuck got krypto-gassed, shot, or stabbed, or…

It’s an interesting thesis, except for literally all the okay-to-good series that have been released, and the pretty decent Rogue One film. I’ll grant the Fallen Order video game despite the fact that it was pretty solid in its execution, if only because its original sin is indeed what’s being discussed by this…

Damn, that’s a brilliant drawing-board concept for a game. The closest to it I can recall offhand is SimEarth, but even that one eventually pushed you towards intelligent life that clawed its way up the technological ladder.

Dude, Kotaku will get into weird modes where it will release two dozen mini-articles about a game that it poorly reviewed, all because of some nebulous idea (which sprang forth unbidden, 100%, and was not in any way pushed by any moneyed interest, no sir!) that the game is “the next thing.” I can’t even rightly say…

Yeah, the cracks are deepening, and it’s not good. In order to gently separate itself from the baggage of the Beeboverse and Crisis, this show would’ve done better to have stayed slower and more deliberate, focused on character dynamics and maybe one or two slow-burning mysteries. Racing through plot - especially…

Yes, but you forgot that this is an “ignore Crisis and all the other shows” episode, not a “remember Crisis and those other shows, kinda,” episode.