I feel like the new film grasped the scope, scale, and stifling baroque stagnation of the Dune universe, but whiffed every single emotional beat in the novel. every potential moment of human connection is rushed through so quickly to get back to some jaw-dropping visual that you’d be forgiven for not realizing the…

This show has an almost comical disregard for anything Issac Asimov was trying to do with Foundation. it is, in fact, the kind of adaptation that can only be constructed by someone who either literally didn’t understand it, or got executived into ignoring it.  

When I worked for a company that did online articles, I would always have to go back and revise them to make sure we were hitting of SEO targets no matter how burdensome it was on the flow and tone of the writing. Mario Maker is fairly anodyne, really - it’s when you get burdensome corporate jargon phrases that you …

“... if you’ve been out of the loop...” It’s not so much ‘out of the loop’ as it seems to be impossible to keep up with the specifics of every single daily inappropriate behaviour scandal(s) of male streamers and content creators.

Picard is that horrible, though. It really, really is. Disco is just... blandly forgettable modern ‘prestige TV’ crap (tits, swears, and dead gays), but Picard is genuinely reprehensible. DS9 showed us that Star Trek’s utopia could be complicated, Picard believes its impossible and should be dragged through the mud…

The idea of calling a show as cynical, vicious, and bitter as Picard ‘good’ while still appreciating DS9 baffles me.

Let us hope they tell stories with games other than 5e, a perfectly decent game system that is being tortured to death by people contorting it bizarre shapes so that they can tell the stories they want to tell without a legion of their fans throwing babyish hissy fits for not playing 5e, the only game system those…

... oh, you’re not talking about the Julie Taymor, Anthony Hopkins Hsakespeare adaptation Was real puzzled there for. moment.

I didn’t read it as sarcastic, more resigned. Let me put it like this: one of the best MST3K episodes has several school shooting jokes because in the 90s school shootings weren’t a daily occurrence that the state was seemingly powerless to stop. They were rare: so rare that one could be flippant without it being read…

You fry-up a pan of bacon and pecans, take them out of the pan, brown Brussels sprouts in the bacon fat along with a generous helping of maple syrup, roast for thirty minutes, add the bacon and nuts back in, add a little more maple syrup, and put back in until things start to get carmelized and crispy.

If people aren’t…

It’s very likely. Are you getting the help you need?

That’s really interesting, because over the course of the movie I didn’t connect with her arc until after the movie was over and I dreamed-up five better versions of it while putting my coat on.

Filming the entirety of Ironheart’s homemade suit in near-total darkness so you can’t see it clearly for a single moment... this film has dethroned Captain Marvel as the hardest Marvel film to comprehend visually because it’s so poorly lit and framed.

Or, hear me out, we could just throw Rogue One in the garbage - where it belongs - and just let Andor do it’s own thing, with its fun characters, great worldbuilding, and a freedom to not be suffocated to death by the same fucking prequelitis that renders so much Star Wars content masturbatory Funko-Pop factories.

Ther…

Joke’s on you I can’t afford PS Plus.

Hrmm. Alright. I don’t think I agree with that line of reasoning, but I understand it. Thank you for humouring a snippy internet rando.

“Paul, who’s been on something of a redemption arc these last few years following the “suicide forest” fiasco in December 2017"

What possible sequence of events could have occurred for you to put forward the suggestion that Paul has been on ‘a redemption arc’ beyond the bare minimum of not going back to a suicide…

The loss of Chadwick Boseman is so great it does nothing but harm Wakanada Forever, a film whose good moments are all small, thoughtful, and emotionally introspective, and goes to utter shit every time it has to cram a big superhero plot alongside. There’s a far superior 90 minute movie called Wakanada Forever in…

That’s not Michael Imperioli, that’s Peter Capaldi’s cousin Vinnie.

It’s over $900 here in Canada so your definition of ‘easier’ might differ from mine.