Sure, but once you’ve given ground to the concern trolls - “oh my goodness, this piece of art didn’t do a primitive Greek Chorus dance letting the audience know that the writers know that all the bad stuff in it is really bad, so maybe they’re actually fascists!” - shit like this logically follows. Suddenly, everybody…

Better hold on to those donut receipts, people. Hold onto them forever.

I’m instantly reminded of that old Looney Tunes cartoon where a boxing referee takes tremendous care to show one of the two fighters exactly what isn’t allowed during the fight. I mean, how else can you ever be absolutely sure that you’ve explained it sufficiently?

As far as people having extreme reactions of taste, well, maybe that’s a natural response to a market made up of non-fungible monopolies.

A perfectly reasonable compromise would’ve been to hold Pepsi accountable for offering a prize of x dollar value in exchange for y points. That’s the part that people seem to forget. They didn’t just say “ha ha maybe we’ll give a Harrier Jet, wouldn’t that be funny, ha ha.” They listed a point value for it, and then al…

It doesn’t make the feelings any less real, but I tend to agree that the kill was borderline. It obviously violates the “don’t kill” rule, but, meh. The dude was ultra-dangerous, not at all neutralized, and was actively mindfucking the teenagers by projecting himself as his own son - who, clearly, he also was…

Man, imagine how aggressively Acti-Blizz would be cleaning house if this CA lawsuit wasn’t just “irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California.”

But then we descend into the perplexing question of whether a Tigger warning is itself a Tigger, which makes the whole exercise a farce.

LoT at least has the decency to straight-up tell the audience to turn their brains off and stop asking questions. I put it at the opposite end of the spectrum from Superman & Lois, whose entire deal is that they’re trying to be more grounded, emotional, and serious. The latter is a good show in a vacuum, but its…

I was willing to grant the episode the gimmie that all aliens are terrible at bowling, and these douches just happened to be the best of the worst. There was a shred of a setup, with the manager saying that humans must be great at bowling because they invented it.

>‘Pacifist Luke’ is the rebuttal to the dark side and even the Jedi, he goes against Yoda and Obi-Wan’s warnings and finds another path to redeem his father and find balance in the force.

Star Wars is a pretty flexible property. You can get away with a lot of timey-wimey handwavey bullshit. But you can’t just randomly shit it out onto the screen and expect people to nod along. There are still basic storytelling rules to follow, and you do still need some measure of respect for the previous material.

It’s not just about positioning. It’s about speed/recovery on her moves. She’s the outright worse character for it.

Stardew Valley’s a great time, but it strikes me just how odd it is that a genre whose artistic conceit is “retire to the countryside” is so stressful in terms of its time management, and whose persistent, live-in-a-neighborhood charms are inevitably brought low by running out of novel content.

Hey man, plenty of people want to see Mickey Mouse’s genitals, but Disney won’t budge and even sends C&Ds to the people trying to fill that hole in the market, giggity. Maybe if Disney would loosen the fuck up about that, they’d have more totally irrational support when they’re at odds with a celebrity like ScarJo.

The Zelda joke feels like it’s only halfway there. I mean, Link’s the chosen one, and he probably needs some legitimate air holes in a way that fairies (apparently) do not.

“Widely theatrically released” is a concerning bit of wiggle room. That still doesn’t mean exclusive.

Shitty P2W practices balanced out by also being shitty noob traps in the slightly longer term! What brilliant, elegant, and ethical game design.

No offense, but, “I wish it were a roguelite instead” needs to be articulated as the criticism it is. Roguelikes and roguelites, it turns out, are actually very different beasts, even though the distinction between them can sound trivial on paper.

I know, right? It’d be terrible to have to do this stuff without automatic weapons and drones again.