They were probably worse than now? Even lip service to mental health is better than no consideration whatsoever. I suppose another way to look at it is that norms that the tabloids enforce/exploit have changed, but the tabloids themselves are the same.

I know we all work for clicks, but the story is Twitch and these platform’s opaque policies and enforcement, not her or her financial well-being, right?

This is more important to me than I expected: Are there any required plane missions?

I think the Zatoichi may beat Bond actually, so third?

There were no new concepts—it was meant to seed the “twist” of the ending, but it’s always been dissonant with the gameplay and tone, particularly of this series that’s all about your character’s ability otherwise. In the regular telling it renders what you’ve supposedly accomplished narratively meaningless again and…

Setting aside the commentary about how their settings and stories land—which I largely agree with and still play them...(I’m a FC2 fan for tone, FC3/4 for gameplay, FC3/5 stories were junk)—How many times were you captured in the because the story demanded it? God I hate that.

Apologies—I certainly didn’t take your comment as an attack and rather meant to expand a bit on why I didn’t mention their background in my initial post, so if there’s any edit that might change the tone of what I meant it’s that it feels reductive even though it isn’t. I didn’t want to say anything that even glanced…

Good point, and I probably should’ve noted their proximity to Whiteness directly—I don’t like talking about people so reductively even though I think it’s clear it’s I’m talking about beauty and appearance norms and not who they are, so I instead went circling around handsomeness instead. It’s relevant here, and also t…

Huh, I guess unlike everyone here, despite being on this site often, I didn’t see all the teasers that this was going to fully crossover and become a MCU brick, so I did want What if? to be a loose anthology like the comics. (Not end with everything dies at the end all the time.)

My initial reactions to this topic going round was an eyeroll and skepticism, but digging into a bit...I’d say there’s definite “taste” in the casting that comes from cultural (and global norms) of beauty and approachability. Something like colorism with how “ethnic” people can look. As an Asian male, there’s no…

Maybe it’s because it’s of her tone-deaf history with diversity and casting issues, but mostly it’s that rich people aren’t people reflexively, and apparently it’s not possible to approve of things contracts being honored if that happens to people you don’t like?

I think that (and the comic) underrates how much stable and reliable matters. Tools serve the worker, yeah, but care and maintenance is work too.

Eh, I dunno. A better weighted sword is probably going to allow better expression of control, and it’s practice. I get the comic, but tools matter.

People seem to agree with this corpse run strip, but I gotta say—work conditions matter, and so do quality of tools. I get the scenario—here the new tablet is more like a new toy, but in a year where how people work has been the conversation topic I’m a little bit struck by what feels like a regressive idea—art as…

I can’t tell if you’ve just picked a weird moment to proclaim your dislike of soccer—when it’s becoming increasingly popular in the US and commenting on a show whose appeal has actually little to do with it—or this is masterful incitement. People around the world seem to like their “native” sports and soccer (and…

Its designed to be easily readable and replicable whether visually animated or in print. I think it looks boring, but unless you’re Nike or Apple or the like where a wordless logo and shape make you recognizable, readability trumps all and simpler is better.

It sounds like it all escalated quickly, but her first yelling was in character playing the scene--that’s not an unusual acting situation.

I just want to register a mild disappointment in What if series in general, that it feels like it’s retained too much of the MCU construction style and not enough of the weird nonsense of the comic series. (Mostly from the comic it’s just taken and run with “and then everyone dies” endings.)

I’m mad at them too, but a more progressive primary candidate would not be likely to beat Manchin. Sinema likes the power and money from being not-the establishment, but Manchin reflects his constituency (and yes, makes money off it). The DNC should be looking to replace Sinema and flip some other state.

Eh...it feels like the wrong kind of faithfulness. You can’t hit all the same notes in adapting something, and you shouldn’t. The show may still be good, but I wish this wasn’t actually the intro and more like a fun extra, because this didn’t sell the dynamism of animation. It’s like a picture of a pose instead of a…