Colossal has a great performance from him of toxic masculinity, and a strong one about alcoholism too with Anne Hathaway. Its underrated to me—which is weird, because I actually don’t like it as I think the central conceit was poorly executed.

To be fair, this is a pretty average take here, so I don’t feel it’s that shocking.

Automation takes away work is definitely a critique of it. And as long as we require working for people to make money to buy, well, anything, then yeah, some people did care about automated checkouts.

Actually, considering location, site-specific work like checkouts were one of the reliably hard to off-shore categories of work, the demise of stuff like that is the demise of labor opportunity—since we’re in a capitalist society that requires working—is comparable. This automation is hitting more of the…

I watched a Japan Society panel on the current state of Japanese animation and towards the end I asked about what the panelists thought of AI in the industry—the answer was something about is inbetween animation AI? Cause that’s already there, and then a chuckle because the conversation about AI is about creative arts…

Did they have other movies too, cause that two-fer, good as they are, sounds like a terrible idea.

I’m glad that it’s good enough that it’s pleasing folks, but it also sounds like such a pastiche of formulas that I’m beginning to think that AI encroachment in to show creation has already past just the animation production.

It doesn’t sound like he made an ultimatum, so no one’s putting a gun to anyone’s head over this. Three seasons in of working together he initiated a conversation with the showrunner, and with their long-term relationship no further discussions were needed. There’s always dissonance in acting—Penn Badgley is more…

I remember the first time I noticed the bamboo rotted if left in the deck...

Representation is such a tough topic to talk about and I very much appreciate this take on it. It requires talking about the forest and the trees, to mush a metaphor possibly past usefulness... it’s a conversation about the climate around a conversation as much as the “points” that people bring up. I’ll hazard to say…

I think that’s true for indie games, but any major published game, certainly all those listed in the OP, were definitely designed with further content to be dropped into it. Only GTAV in that list stood alone--and it’s online component is basically a separate project. Fortnite’s outsized success is certainly a…

Given the budgets for AAA games, and the multi-year financing required to even get to the point of release, ten year plans is not really that much of a leap from the kind of planning that it already takes. There’s already 4-5 years or even more laid down for that game that’s just okay, while there’s no cash flow…

One of the many weird notes that the source material had was the fact that while there are terrible spells to not use, the okay spells included stuff like the bonelessness one that just kind of sends you to the nurse’s office and gets you detention or whatever. In general, I think there was a thoughtlessness to JK…

I feel in sync with a lot of this conversation, and since she was brought up, some of the criticism that Emily Ratajkowski gets is about the nuances of complicity that maybe Ratajkowski’s takes don’t have because she younger, even though she’s maturing in a cultural environment that’s more open to critiques. Likewise,…

~140 million copies sold, ~2.5 million plays a month.

I don’t know...half of the gameplay of open world games is essentially commuting and that’d just make the whole game slower. Unless there’s a narrative reason for slowness (and it’s finite) like the opening of RDR2, I think that would get tiring real fast.

I finished Origins last year after a long hiatus (admittedly including DLCs) and I picked up Valhalla right after, and they did really improve the overall gameplay. The icons mostly are vignettes, which is what I like, instead of kill all the hippos or steal all the treasure. I do think it’s too big, but less filled…

I played Last Fortress or it’s type past the base building, where eventually it becomes a guild/clan/alliance/whatever pvp-oriented thing and you can’t sit around raising gophers anymore without being attacked and so on. There’s a Walking Dead mobile game that’s more or less the same.

For what it’s worth, given how aware of the horribleness of his character Penn Badgley is, there’s a good chance he will get a comeuppance. As for Peaky Blinders, I kind of doubt it. I like it, and it’s better than Sons of Anarchy, say, but it’s definitely a root for these people sort of show. Semi-righteous badassery…

I was mostly commenting on the fact that in the 8 years since the man himself wrote an essay about it, there’s been no real push in that realm. Certainly the only time I’ve heard Noma called out specifically was I think unconcidentally a non-white woman chef who did it. Actually, I’m not in the foodie world enough to…