My dude, the latest movie came out 14 months ago. This is like dismissing someone being mad about The Book of Boba Fett because Star Wars is a “45 year old franchise.”

My guy, it’s still happening. They’re still making it in the present day.

Not that it’s really relevant, because I will also fundamentally never…

I know it’s not: Japan put EVA on kid’s lunchboxes for some bizarre reason (see also WB putting Arya Stark in the new for-kids punch-em-up game alongside Steven Universe and Shaggy). I am addressing the language of this article, which is presenting this as a tragedy.

And also, again, it’s not a tragedy because all this…

Call me when a franchise with meaning and clarity gets shat on: then I’ll take umbrage.

As someone who has now seen every bit of NGE, television and movies (except for the recap film Death & Rebirth), I speak very firmly when I say: this franchise does not in any way shape or form earn your veneration or respect, and we should all celebrate its pretentious bullshit being made to do stupid video game…

I made it just for you!

Like so?

That has to be a typo: Shadows of War is, mechanically, a far better and more refined experience.

I mean narratively they’re both awful, the second one is just somehow even less coherent, but so long as you don’t pay attention to the almost delightfully stupid cutscenes featuring the two most generic broody manpain men to ever grace the screen, as a game Shadows of War is far better than the first.

It mirrors the…

No, it isn’t. Economic disparity is a cause for despair and is thus an intensifier of all sorts of problems that can certainly drive people towards mass shooting events. But despairing, screwed-over poor people in my country haven’t loaded-up on firearms and gone to blown the brains out of fellow poor people in mass…

Friend, I’ve been having a nice, deep reading of Das Kapital lately. I was tickled pink when Marx went off about the same kind of problems with capital reducing exchange value down to meaningless quantitative data points, as its similar to a complaint I’ve been voicing for a few years now about the inherent uselessness…

“Unreasonable easy access to firearms.”

There. I made a much more relevant point and only needed five words to do it.

A couple of years ago (Pandemic has made the number screwy because people simply went to less places and schools were actively shut), I pulled all the shooting death numbers that the CDC collates and really just tries to sit with it for a while. I think just crossing the bridge between Windsor and Detroit - going from…

As someone who has been fucked over by capital and capitalism (i.e. an alive person), you hear the siren song of ‘this is how you can finally gets yours!’ and the temptation is so strong, even if the game is always rigged, maybe this time I can be the one who wins from he rigging.

And if I can, are you also perhaps a distinguished ape art connoisseur?

I was so excited for way of the househusband, and found its ‘stylized’ animation style of ‘not animated very much at all, actually’ so off-putting I couldn’t get through it.

Yes, it is a choice that the animation company made.

That does not make it a good choice.

(Also, don’t bother watching Komi on Netflix, as it…

As someone who just gave up on trying to get through Mass Effect Andromeda, a game that 100% should have been pushed back at least a year because shipping it on the inflexible release date produced a disaster that killed a franchise - good. If games need to be pushed back, they should be so.

True Elden Ring Lord ‘Let Me Solo Her’ Kills Malenia 1,000 Times

It’s a very simple fix, one that could save so much needless confusion.

I’ve been playing Mass Effect Andromeda recently and god what a disaster it is. The problem is that it’s a lot of really cool ideas and concepts repeatedly executed in the worst way possible, leading to a game where you jus runt around quietly screaming because why would you make your game like this? And it is, you…

There are some genuinely phenomenal moments: the famous bottle scene with Garrus, the curing of the genophage, making peace between Geth and Quarians, that conversation (if you pursued her) between Liarra and Shepard about little blue babies.

But what makes those scenes work is that they are all based on the primacy of …