...& Knuckles

*also a Rudyard Kipling hat

Wait, is his employer legally bound to not fire him until a guilty verdict is issued? I’m confused. I thought that they could fire him whenever they wanted. Like, HR isn’t a courtroom or a jury, so saying “innocent until proven guilty” in this context is kind of a rhetorical equivalent of flailing around? But maybe I…

Wait so they’re officially just fully leaning into making “Modern Warfare III, 2"? Are execs really this fucking dumb with naming schemes? Are audiences really that dumb where they respond to this type of lazy, weird, post-cynical marketing?

UPDATE: Maybe the director gave up before he even started because he knew having a celebrity with next to zero VA experience was a stupid fucking idea that was pushed by a guy who really has zero business in game development anymore.

Yes, all these things. All the baggage that comes with someone well known “slumming” it on a project like this, plus a director who clearly was willing to let things slide, for one reason or another.

Agree 100%. She could have easily sold those lines with better directing. My best guess is they were being cheap and didn’t want to extend her booking on studio time to get all the needed takes. Maybe they also didn’t want to miff someone who’s not used to doing VA recording — which is why (PRO FUCKING TIP) studios…

BREAKING NEWS! OLDER AND MORE-ESTABLISHED GENERATION HAS MORE MONEY TO BLOW ON DELIVERY FEES!

There’s no #MeToo wing of SAG-AFTRA or any other industry organization. It’s just a hashtag people used. There’s no “they”. There’s people acting independently and in different ways and with differing degrees of response or even influence in light of mounting (but generalized) public pressure — many of them just…

Yeah it’s super refreshing to see someone defend the status quo and say things we’ve routinely heard in response for the past 10 years. So brave and novel.

Wolf is also critical of the #MeToo movement in her special, calling it “the worst-run movement I’ve ever seen,” because, as she explained to RS, “I think it was a very black-and-white approach that they took, when in fact it was an incredibly gray subject matter that required a lot of conversations that we literally…

There better be puddles, or GOD HELP THEM

Yes it would look fabulous next to my still-mint-on-card Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru

What about Tifa? I’m absolutely certain no one has ever made a statue of her before.

If buying it meant I was able to play with Aerith in my party until the very end of the game (or a clone, I don’t really care, story-wise) then I would happily shell out for it.

Came to say this. Just sidestep the whole “we’re sensitive to X or Y” thing and say that kind of joke or reference doesn’t fit, period. What they said instead is very mealymouthed and defensive, with more consideration for how it affected them as opposed to the game or its players.

They should have just said “it would be distracting towards immersion in the game world by pointing too directly to outside factors” boom there done. No need to get all mealy mouthed (or show your hand that you’re afraid of having to make a stand one way or another)

Surprised to see “Friends” on there. In table play, it’s universally regarded as situational to the point of being useless because DMs can easily say “ok now your reputation with this guy and possibly this entire area is now ruined, forever” all for just getting advantage on a check. Not having played Baldur’s Gate, I…

I had always just assumed that a Viking choir was hiding just over the hills somewhere, bellowing any time a dragon decided to show up and be a pest.

Rookie mistake