Ultimately this is going to have to turn into a joke about how long it takes to make animation, but I think the Animaniacs already did that one.

As someone who vastly prefers “messing around and doing sidequests” in every open world game and will only really address the plot when it’s absolutely necessary in order to get more sidequests, I feel like I should give Cyberpunk 2077 a try.

Which is to say, entire layers of middle management of this company exist to insulate the CEO from actually needing to understand how any of this works and also to insulate the people who need to understand how relevant things work in order to do what they do from having to respond to the CEO’s whims.

Maybe your headaches, dizziness, and fatigue aren’t caused by a large foreign energy weapon, but I’m built different.

I mean, the thing is that RPG video games had parallel development tracks since the 80s, but that was largely a console/PC split. From a common ancestor we had the likes of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy on consoles and Ultima and Might & Magic on computers. But it wasn’t until 2006 or so that a significant number of…

I would happily switch to a thing that is exactly the same as Twitter, but does not have Elon Musk on it.

I like how video games lay bare how silly all “best x” lists are, since it’s immediately clear how someone can fail to connect with a game that have basically nothing to do with artistic decisions.  Like “I don’t like first person games” or “I don’t like rhythm games” or “I don’t like turn-based games” are all valid…

Like a frequent complaint about Star Wars is “this universe is so small, all the important people are related and/or have history with each other”. So *somebody* has to be on all those ships that get blown up in space, no reason it can’t be someone we’ve met before.

I’m pretty sure the idea is “The food at Alamo Drafthouse is pretty good, and people pay for it, so maybe we can get away with charging slightly prices for vastly inferior food.”

The nearest one of these to me appears to be about 400 miles away. I guess I might not get the chance to visit one. 

I honestly can’t think of a reason not to ban it. Now a ban of course will not put an end to all uses of cryptocurrencies, but it would absolutely have a chilling effect- you’d largely see the end of ads for crypto (which are almost certainly scams) and anybody thinking of installing a bunch of mining rigs would run…

It’s the same thing as the Dahl reprints- this is just capitalism.  The number of people who will refuse to buy a book because it has too much racism in it vastly exceeds the number of people who will refuse to buy a book because it doesn’t have enough racism in it.  By changing the book you can (presumably) sell more…

I always thought things like this were to share. Like when I was in college, I got roped into some sort of “progressive stop on every floor” drinking event where every floor was responsible for providing some sort of tipple, and I lived on a weird floor with like 4 people on it. So my offering was made of the cheapest…

I feel like the basic problem is “Why did a 7-year old boy think that this particular spaceman toy was cool?” is not actually a question that anybody really needs to see the answer to. Since that’s a gap anybody could fill in by themselves.

I support normalizing the idea that children should not be allowed in public except in child-specific places until they learn how to act.

This is the first time I have seen this, but I am glad to have seen cat (any cat really).

Well, it would be weird (and a vanishly rare case of “reverse discrimination”) to have a character in your script called “Big Nose” because that’s a common appellation within Chinese culture for White People and to say “well, we absolutely cannot cast a Jewish person for this role since that would be a bad look.”

I think the basic problem was that it was difficult to tell at a glance (or just watching a trailer) how the heck this ties into the Buzz Lightyear we know the toy version of from the Toy Story movies. Like was Buzz an actual guy and Toy Story takes place in the future so we have spaceships that find aliens? Was he a…

Paid Verification is not a good idea. Twitter spent over a decade teaching people mean “the checkmark means that someone did some diligence over whether the person or entity making the tweet represents the actual person or entity that the account represents.” So if I make a Thomas Germain account and post how much I…

It does seem like a structural problem the MCU is going to have is that if they keep with the Marvel Comics DNA of avoiding retcons and reboots, just memory-holing the stuff they want you to forget about, then they’re eventually going to churn through a lot of characters since Tony Stark can be Iron Man for 60 years…