The games are portable and people can play them socially on the go with people who aren’t on their friends list.

Cliched, I know, but Aeris dying in FF7 had me in tears and a video game has never done that to me before or since. I plowed through the rest of the game sure there would be some way to bring her back, but there wasn’t, and it made the whole game so bittersweet. And every moment of joy, mystery, humor and wonder in…

This was a really bad take. FYI.

Have you played Rock n’ Roll Racing, though? The original release, not the stripped down, soundtrack-less one that Blizzard let’s people download legally for free.

There Patriots exist so that other franchises know what greatness is.

I don’t see why Wii would be any easier than GameCube. Wii basically *is* GameCube underneath the hood.

DKC2 or bust.

I think CBS is willing to sink enough money into their service that they’ll make it work eventually, and has leveraged their IP well on the business end of things even if they were late to the game. The fact that Netflix made a deal to have the rights to at least some of their content internationally basically means…

What I don’t get about this movie is how hard can it be to fuck up a Holmes and Watson buddy comedy/satire movie? This shit practically writes itself, and there’s so much material out there to lampoon.

Annihilation was amazing, but super intense and went over some people’s heads. I feel like it would have done better if it was released in the fall during Oscar bait season - so no one would have had any illusions that it was a big blockbustery action movie when it wasn’t.

It only “seems” that way if you remove all context from the AIDS epidemic and Freddie’s life. Dangerous practices were commonplace then because people literally didn’t know it was dangerous until years and years after the virus had already spread, since most lived with it symptomless for years.

I think you put more thought into this than Huawei. 😉

A lot of people would have argued he should have won Best Actor for Call Me By My Name, but was hurt by his young age and first time around the block-ism - and the movie’s problematic elements that bogged it down during award season.

Right. It’s not even a book that’s commonly assigned in schools that I’m aware of. Maybe it should be - there’s more than enough books that focus on often angsty male teens and adolescents in school curriculums (A Catcher in the Rye, A Seperate Piece, Lord of the Flies, Huck Fynn, etc.), and not nearly enough female…

No it isn’t. Not once.

She’s not perfect.

Hermione is never - not once - described as white in the books. I think it’s pretty clear JK Rowling thinks she’s black. And the books do actually imply it, it’s just that most of us missed it at the time.

-Hermione is never described as white in the books, and it’s strongly implied she is black. Most readers (myself included at the time) just made wrong assumptions.

The premise, and year chosen for wizards and witches to begin their story, feels like really good ideas to me.

I’m honestly annoyed at the nerf. The problem isn’t that sloshers were ‘too good,’ it’s that others needed a leg up. I don’t even think the dualies needed another nerf. The game should just slightly increase the range of most non-dualie splat type weapons, and make splat chargers a bit more forgiving on range... or,…