Crucially it also taught that logic divorced from empathy is useless (although it did perpetuate the myth that emotions are illogical extend of a key component of logic). But yes, more than anything Star Trek often called pilloried as being the show where people sat around and talked instead of having exciting action,…

I will go to my grave insisting that Cracked was better than MAD, even though my bias was entirely down to the fact that my local IDA only stocked the former. Well that and the old Cracked dot com was hugely formative for me, and greatly missed. Not the zombie site it is today (thanks same group of media vulterism…

Sorry I use cable in my usually shorthand of ‘having TV that worked at all.’ I grew up in a valley in rural Canada: if you didn’t pay for ‘cable’ (even if that was just the basic package of channels 2-29) you got 2.5 fuzzy channels via an antenna or a satellite dish. I’m old enough to remember when Canada got proper…

They were ties, weren’t they. My Pokémon cards were the parody ones they printed in Cracked magazine.

Yes, I had the off-brand off-brand cards. They were nothing but reprehnsible puns. ‘Geodud’ is the only one I can remember. Comedy gold.

That’s because there was no trilogy. Seriously, that’s emerged in the years since Rise of Skywalker was such a disaster: there was no plans, no wider story arc, Rian Johnson just got handed the keys to a sequel and told to write one with no guidance (in much the same way JJ Abrams chucked the pilot of LOST at a bunch…

Pokémon got big in the 90s when I was a kid, and it was the first show that really drove home how much poorer I was from my friends, as it was a product that was so aggressively monetized across multiple mediums that to ‘get it’ you had to hav a gameboy, buy the cards, buy the little toys, and be able to afford cable…

I try to be fair because, hey the first season of The Next Generation  is terrible. Second Season’s not amazing either. The first season of Deep Space Nine is tonally all over the place and features some real dogshit episodes. Not only is the first season of Voyager rubbish it has an achingly tedious pilot (and I’d…

Hey, I hear Strange New Worlds is pretty decent. And Lower Decks starts with six of the worst episode of television, six just abysmal Rick and Morty clones... and then to my shock and horror, like a switch being thrown, episode seven was good? And then I liked eight? And then I plowed through the first and second…

Preach.

(I hear Strange New Worlds is great, just have’t checked it out.)

Insurrection is better than all of Picard, and Insurrection is terrible.

Best way to close out the Kelvin timeline is to have it collide with the ST: Picard timeline and vaporize both.

You’re missing out, it’s the only good Star Wars film in decades. It has a terrible second act and it’s still great.

There’s so much awful in that film. The two worst that stand out to me is the Enterprise falling out of orbit from the Moon to crash into the Earth because the engines turn off in the space of about four minutes, and taking one of the most iconic and moving scenes in all of Trek (Spock’s death), and doing a role-revers…

“Besides, as Picard reminds us, Trek is simply better on TV”

No, it really fucking didn’t.

Wakanda Forever also looked like shit, though, ;t’s be clear. It was the worst-lit Marvel film since Captain Marvel, the loss of the first movie’s extraordinary cinematography showed in every bland frame, and don’t even get me started on the mediocrity that is that giant boat fight at the end.

Will it finally fix the bug that’s made me unable to change the paint job on a variety of buildable items for the last year? The one that a dozen bug reports never got are response to?

Especially since in english it is the acronym for Garbage In, Garbage Out.

“The site... allows anyone who has played a game to give it a rating”

No, it doesn’t. It allows anyone who makes an account to rate a game, whether they have played it or not. It has no way of judging that criterium.

I think that’s why I loved though: it was in every way a weirder and more ambitious game, and every civ game since felt like it wasn’t even trying. (Plus. modern version of it would have been able to patch itself and fix some of the balance problems.)

But then I feel the same way about Morrowind and every Elder Scrolls…

I wouldn’t call the villian from Thor Love and Thunder Thor’s nemesis. He was just some guy whom Thor had a single conversation with once. He did not even have any personal animus against Thor.