Some things just aren’t possible to translate while retaining the original sense and meaning. The classic example is “Only read Camus’s La Peste in French” since a lot of the value in the original is that he chooses his words to evoke a droning sound, like the buzzing of flies, a thing a translator probably could not…

I mean, ultimately the reason they’re changing the text is “they expect to sell more copies of a book when it is not considered wildly offensive by modern standards.” It’s not about “liberal sensitivity” so much as capitalism, since it’s a lot easier to change words in a text than it is to change broader societal…

It’s not actually clear to me that anybody at Disney understands how to make Star Wars movies. Their batting average for the films is like 2/5, but they’re doing better on the TV side of things.

Like in a vacuum it’s a good thing if a computer takes your job, provided that we have figured out a way as a society to provide for people’s food, housing, medical care, and “things that make them happy” without requiring people to have jobs.

I’m in favor of more cookie shops at least until I find one that bakes their cookies correctly.  Crumbl cookies are bad, so maybe these are better.

Like JKR is a bad person and those books weren’t that good, but it does seem a miss to apply the “open world” template to a world that’s already pretty fully constructed and populated. That’s why you see a lot of successful open world games take place on the frontier, in the wilderness, in a wasteland, among ruins,…

I would accept “haptic feedback from touchscreens” in a futuristic setting, but that’s really just virtual buttons. Traditional touchscreens, so I can’t interact with the car’s controls without taking my eyes off the road, can go to hell.

A fundamental fear of conservatives is that the market will reveal preferences other than their own.

You don’t support the devs of an AAA  game by buying a copy- those people are salaried workers who already got paid and many of them will already be laid off by the time the game ships.  The people who benefit from “buying a game versus not” are the executives and the publisher.

Harry Potter is ultimately the Chik-fil-A of the fantasy space now- some people have fond memories of it, it’s ultimately not very good, and the people who profit from it use that money to push a hateful agenda.

Honestly, “white meat chicken” was the thing I think fake meat has been good enough imitating since like the 90s.  Cauliflower doesn’t really need to pose as other things to be delicious, and the reasons I will never eat a CFA sandwich again are unrelated to all of these things.

The point of continuity in comics (and things based on comics) is ultimately that if you buy, say, an Aquaman book and a Batman book if the Batman book completely undermines a thing that happened in the Aquaman book, then it’s a bummer to have bought both. It’s not a problem if Book A and Book B ignore teach other…

I know it’s just about the size of the companies, but it’s weird to me that people are making such a weird deal about Microsoft buying Activision (a company that has published 2 games i have purchased or played in the last 13 years) and there was nothing about Microsoft buying Zenimax (a company that published 10+…

I mean, it really feels like the reason they haven’t even considered cancelling the Flash movie, despite Ezra Miller’s reign of terror, is that the Flash is the character who can (when the story needs it) travel through time via the Speed Force. “I traveled through time and changed the past and now the future is…

Honestly, any Dragon Age game is going to work (or not) for me on the basis of “everything except the combat.” They could make it a rhythm game or a visual novel or a match 3 game and it would be about the same as far as I’m concerned.

Honestly, “you can see a movie for less money” is probably going to work on me. Since I’m at that point in life where most of the movies coming out are not that exciting to me, but “going to the theater” is sometimes fun.  Getting a dollar off since I have to sit in the absolute worst seats in the theater is probably…

He’s not rolling, baby, rolling in the green but he is unique.

Moore’s run on Swamp Thing should probably be why he’s famous, that’s how game-changing a book that was.  It would be a genuine surprise if the forthcoming Swamp Thing movie was not a version of that story.

Honestly, the fact that you could scroll and periodically come across a cute otter or a cat being weird was honestly the thing that made Twitter bearable most days.

No, they’re terrible. A Crumbl cookie is further from “what I want a cookie to be” than a McDonalds hamburger is from “what I want a hamburger to be.”