I got emotional reading this and I don’t even like Pokemon and haven’t seen an episode of the show since, I don’t know, 2003 maybe?

Stupid dumb emotions.

Blackbeard is also a garbage person, though, he just gets more sympathetic framing by the narrative. It’s Stede who is the odd-man out here: Izzy and Blackbeard are, toxicity wise, perfect for each other.

Io9 is about nerd shit. Nerd shit is gay. QED.

Oh, yeah, everyone here keeps thinking I think Logan Paul deserves to get away with it. Fuck no, fuck that guy, he’s a fraudster, he deserves far worse that a petty 4K fine. But the people who gave him money after the first fraud???? Those are the people I cannot see as victims. It’s not like he put on a moustache and…

Logan Paul committed fraud. He deserves to be punished for it. But anyone who gave him money for the second fraud had all the information they needed not to do that. They’re not investors, they’re just gamblers, and we don’t go around rewarding stupid gamblers unless they run banks.

Treating stupid gamblers like stupid gamblers is not warping the cause of justice. The first time Logan Paul ran a scam, those people were victims - unwise in investing in Logan Paul, maybe, but still victims. The second time? No. You gamble investing money with someone publicly known to run scams, you’re not a…

I’m not running a defence of fraudsters: everyone keeps acting like I don’t think Logan Paul committed fraud. He absolutely did.

TWICE.

TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!

It is open goddamn fucking knowledge that his first crypto scam was a scam. So I stand by my points: anyone who gave him money the second time is not a victim. They’re…

Uh-huh.

Man, Wind Waker looked great when it came out. It looks pretty great now. I love it when a game focuses on looking interesting more than 1:1 recreations of people looking muddy and miserable. At some point the pursuit of graphics just became an end to itself, and it’s very dull.

So a few months back Youtuber Coffeezilla ran a much-praised video series documenting the failure of Longan Paul’s egg-oriented NFT ‘game’ scam. It included lots of testimonials from Logan’s Paul’s victims, sharing their stories of how they were scammed and the money they lost.

The problem with that video series,…

Vader being ‘super powerful’ is a shitty retcon of the prequels. You watch A New Hope he’s just a thug.

My biggest problem with The Orville is that it keeps proving that CBS’ entire approach to what the tone of Star Trek needs to be in order to provide storytelling in the 21st century is just... wrong.

It’s just wrong. Also, bitter Patrick Stewart who argued that Picard has to be that crummy because people wouldn’t…

“Someone got knotted by Goofy,” Gizmodo writer Sabina Graves mused as they cast an eye down their list of potential article topics, “—but whom?”

Mega Man Legends had a dual-timeline sword phase mechanic and an ocarina-based melodic teleportation mechanic?

Who?

I bailed on Star Trek Picard somewhere during the bitter grimness of season 1 had Picard limping around a Borg cube with a Romulan Guilt Ninja and The Best Robot while Hugh got sidelined. So I am mad I am tempted to get caught up just because headlines keep enticing me.

SPOCK DIES?

“The dude bought 866 Wii U games” all of which were still being sold at their original market rates of 70 dollars.

I agree with everything you say except when you lay Braveheart out there like being in is the apotheosis of your (otherwise excellent) rhetorical points.

It’s a terrible movie.

Glad to know HFW has a climbing guide. I am playing through the first game and the climbing is, by far, the game’s worst element. Coming off of something like AC:O or Shadows of War you’re already used to a ‘climb everything’ mentality and keep being deeply irritated why very climbable looking things aren’t climbable,…