Probably because the bodies that govern esports and competitive chess are not the same groups.

Mattel doesn’t care about who the movies are by and about, as long as those movies can tie into toys that they own.

That was what I came to say.  It’s not like there haven’t been movies by and about women for decades.  Barbie succeeded because of a combination of factors, some of which were in human control and some of which were not, and ‘Make movies by and about women’ is no guarantee of success any more than ‘make movies by and…

Strong username/post content synergy.

I’m gonna just throw out that I don’t have a wife to complicate things. I also don’t have a boat and wouldn’t mind having one.

LOL ‘Do everything you can to get into an accident but DON’T DAMAGE MY VAN!’

I couldn’t accept the fridge because it shows the fridge actually bouncing around to the point where anything inside would have been battered to pieces. With the raft you know that it’s not going to work in real life, but because of the way the stunt is executed we see it land in the snow hard enough that it’s…

And it worked, too.  Clicking on something to criticize it still means clicks and comments.  If you see something that you want to see less of on a website, the only winning move is not to play.

There’s a small minority of the pro-abortion side that believes that a fetus is a part of a woman’s body until it actually leaves. There’s a much larger minority on the anti-abortion side that believes that abortion should be completely outlawed. Multiple states have voted against outlawing abortions, and it’s pretty…

I wonder how effective the message of “Hey, you lean kinda left/right but you don’t want the nutbars of your party choosing the direction, right?  Vote in the primaries!”

Political parties, in the US two-party system at least, need to be able to figure out how to sell their hardline single-issue voters on compromise. Because the general public doesn’t tend to congregate at the fringes, they congregate at the middle and while parties need their bases at some point catering to those…

Are we sure that her husband doesn’t reload his own ammo, and they got the bullets mixed up with the fertility pills?  That happened to me once.

‘Character name is intended to fit into the title phrase’ is definitely a sign that a movie’s not going to be great. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be terrible, but it’s not the mark of something special.

I haven’t, so I can’t tell you how closely the show hews to the books.

Narrow your browser window by 10-15% before clicking on the link and it will load all of the slides on a single page.

The worst element of Ashley was how they changed her character model in ME3.  Hair in her face, high heels in combat?  Awful.

ME:A was a disappointment overall coming from the trilogy, but the movement and combat was hands down the best of the series.  There were things that changed for better and for worse since the first game came out but those mechanics were only ever improved.

Silo is good, but slow. It’s very well made with stellar production values, solid performances (minus numerous slips of Rebecca Ferguson’s accent and Common) and good character interactions.  But it’s quite slow.  It’s a fairly enjoyable watch but it takes ten episodes to unfold three episodes worth of plot.

‘Risk taking’ depends on what the series has defined itself as previously, and for Star Trek it’s not a big one but for Star Wars it would be, just by virtue of Star Trek having a much more elastic premise than what Star Wars has been.  SW just hasn’t had those flights of silliness in the same way as ST.  It’s like…

A ripoff of The Bear that has Jake come back to New Orleans and take over Sisko’s Creole Kitchen.