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.

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 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. 

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.”

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…

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.

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.