Pretty sure the Inquisitor Fortress and its interiors are directly lifted from Jedi: Fallen Order. I am not sure how much design work is actually Cherniawsky and Chiang’s, there, but I haven’t played the game.

This doesn’t even begin to cover the minor yet incredible irritation of having to launch, log-in, and sync four or five different video games in the course of a day, and the inherent instability of trying to get that to work for a large and global player base.

We already have websites that want you to link to your…

They mean internal time gap within the context of the show (i.e. jumping ahead to 1988 since the kid characters are aging so much). They don’t mean ‘between-season production gaps.’

My uncle was a CGI guy on Mars Attacks so as his favourite nephew I ended up with some nifty crew-only swag. I remember the movie fondly, especially at the end where the only remaining members of the civilian US government are the First Daughter and three Congressional mail room clerks.

Don’t know why that’s the bit…

That’s a really smart way of looking at it - I should have considered that from the first.

Hot take: Star Trek V is a better-directed film than IV.

IV is the funnier, more likeable movie: I would always rather watch IV than V. But on a technical level, IV is not a well-made film: Nemoy’s direction is sloppy, the cinematography is weak, its reputation rides almost exclusively on a good script. V is a dumb…

I feel that, just like 2001, it is the kind of movie you have to be in the right frame of mood to enjoy. There are films I can throw on and watch any time, any place. Not so 2001 or TMP. But at the right moment you can appreciate it for all its quirks.

This was nauseating to look at. So choppy it made me queasy.

I only EVER hear about this “the Dallas Cowboys meets Supreme meets MTV” group when somebody in it does something appalling.

There is never a headline of ‘FAZE Clan rescues critters from puppy mill” or “FAZE Clan exposed anonymously donating to worthy causes” or ““FAZE Clan act like ordinary people who have to engage…

I’m enjoying this far more than I would Cassian Andor And Friends or Let’s Fill-In Literally Every Solitary Second Of Every Character’s Life: The Series,  regardless of runtime, I’ll tell you that for free.

“Nicer looking” is entirely subjective—and I’d argue ‘we added a bunch of visual ‘upgrades’ that your system will struggle to render smoothly ’ is more of a lateral move.

It’s... interesting, but as someone with a visual impairment I generally only see these kind of improvements with one eye closed and my face pressed to the screen— e.g. ‘oh, so it’ll be slightly hazy with more shadows, now.’ That’s obviously a personal issue, not one that affects all users, but it does mean I usually…

I just picked up the game on sale a few weeks ago. At... what, less than four years old I don’t really grasp what there is that’s going to be ‘remastered’, though I am sure the tech industry can generate yet more pointlessly higher res resolutions for the nine sociopaths who have both the capacity and the desire to…

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The last episode felt too long for me only because I did not really care for 001's backstory and the reveal of his identity of Vecna left me cold - I think giving the villains a voice this season has been a huge mistake, they have always worked better as strange unknowns from another world.

Also, it didn’t make any…

Marines in Stranger Things pretty much act like marines in real life: they stand around looking tough until actually called upon to succeed at something, at which point they fall to pieces.

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I did something recently that I haven’t done in years - I read a bunch of comics, and specifically I read Squirrel Girl and Gweenpool, and was so delighted by the both of them (the latter starts off rough but has this fantastic progression so taht by the end you understand Why It Was like That at the beginning). More…

Also, yeah, when they ‘fixed’ Barbara back into Batgirl it sucked ass, along with minimizing Cassie Cain because let’s be honest DC Editorial dipped its toes into diversity and then said ‘that’s enough” and the last twenty years have seen DC essentially completely ceded ground to Marvel in terms of doing anything…

“We don’t need completely disengaged, probably a little addled Harrison Ford reprising roles from 40 years ago ffs.”

This was the entire premise behind Star Trek: Picard.

And it was proven to be a wretched idea.