The bigger narrative isn’t the collapse of Wall Street but the collapse of America itself. The entire national lie that holds up this rotten edifice finally had one too many termites chewing on the load-bearing beams.

Still salty about the recent change in management I see.

without reagan, you wouldn’t have the chunk of silicon in your hand that you tweet your nonsense from.

It’s been a while since I saw these movies (probably not since the cinema, actually, I’m due for a rewatch), so I can’t suggest anything specific. But honestly, if I were to casually speculate I think it might be a combination of the sheer length of the film(s) wearing on people, the editing like you mentioned (I think…

The [American] military and the police are inherently malicious. Individuals within might not be, but they are surely aiding and abetting an agenda that is highly focused on destroying anything outside of the white, capitalist norms that most western nations adhere to. Sorry that there’s no soft way to put that.…

I kind of have the personal standard that the game has to come out some day and while there is always allure to think what could be achieved with a few more years, ultimately it is about good project management and I feel that going that path gives a certain excuse, if that makes sense. Although, since I am a…

My assumption had always been that Worthington’s agent somehow had access to Harvey Weinstein’s ex-mossad private investigator blackmail files on half of Hollywood because I really can’t think of a reasonable explanation for how he ended up cast in nearly everything for a solid 3-4 year period there.

I just want to say that although technically the moment has passed (was the moment ever really there?) I am always, always here for Sam Worthington jokes.

Bringing Chris Pine back (by dubious storytelling means, in a way that is honestly kind of icky when you think about it) is IMHO unambitious, in that it plays it safe by recreating positive elements from the first movie instead of exploring new territory and new relationships.

That wouldn’t be realistic. Magic stones can only transport your resurrected spirit into a random person’s body. It’s a scientific fact. Magic stones can’t just make a dead person alive. Be realistic.

Don’t worry, Cherami Leigh is just as one-note as girl V. She’s a great actress overall with some damn good roles under her belt (like Makoto Nishima from Persona 5 and A2 in NieR Automata), but this ain’t the one. She’s not even miscast - her perma-raging A2 was great - just very poorly directed.

Agree with you on a lot of this, but... best story of the games?

Bioware has lacked that leadership the moment the Doctors left.  Trust me, Hudson was never that guy and I honestly believe Bioware is actually better off without him.

This was a running gag in 329 pages you won't get back podcast.  Here's three quotes, which one is real.  Its really hard to figure it out.

372 Pages is already on it (The only way to read the book in my opinion.

It does. And yet it sold a lot of copies. So when you ask how it got published, the answer is “a publisher thought it would sell a lot of copies”.  They were correct.

“Fridging.” Do you speak in anything other than buzzwords? They sure do make the world a lot more manageable, don’t they?

Except dilithium is still a valuable commodity and having it will give the Federation immense political and economic power even if they don’t use it.

This isn’t even theoretical. The Clone Wars works really hard to correct the deficiencies of the prequels and succeeds surprisingly often. With Lucas’s input—refined and improved by better storytellers—Anakin becomes a real tragic hero instead of the Worst Jedi Ever, the war becomes something that corrupts and…

Same issue on Console. I actually found PC zoom out far more forgiving. Console it’s awful.