Of course it is.

“and learn fight choreography with heavy swords.”

Well that sounds like a failure of the choreographers and the armorers to produce actor-appropriate props.

Given how fucking awful both my cinema experiences were for Barbie and Oppenheimer, I’m not sure why I’d ever go to the cinema again.

“The old Druidic belief embodied by wise, gentle Merlin/”

So I know with this one sentence this adaptation has completely fucked everything up.

I am so torn here. On one hand, fuck anti-mod companies. On the other hand fffffuuuuuuuck AI.

The problem is, of course, that Star Wars as a media franchise has spent almost every waking moment since Phantom Menace showing the Jedi as useless, myopic dipshits and yet doesn’t seem to realize that it did so. So it keeps pushing a Jedi narrative because the Jedi are Heroes, even if their demonstrated reality…

I’ve tried to get into Destiny 2 a couple of times and it always feel great mechanically but is otherwise the most hostile I have ever seen a game be to new players: a flat and total uniterest in any form of onboarding, familiarization, or getting you to care about... whatever it is that’s going on, exactly. And the…

Yeah as far as I can tell the film is identical to the one I saw in the theatre. That TikTok posted above where they reveal they... improved the edit of the film by removing a line I didn’t even have in my version and which feels totally unnecessarily? Wow. Scandal.

I mean when I was a kid the home movie version meant…

That poster/cover with midriff-fighter-traced-from-porn is so generic, boring, and downright tired in its eighties pulp cheesecake blandness I think they owe us all $300,000 grand for making us look at it.

That’s fine. I don’t remember him being in those movies anyway.

“How many times do you watch a trailer and go, ‘Oh my god, this looks so cool!”

Almost never. The art of trailer-making is dead.

“which itself almost fell apart in 2019 as Spider-Man: Far From Home was becoming a billion-dollar theatrical success

Which is still weird because Far From Home was really crummy.

Kotaku keeps making these ‘is anyone still playing’ articles for single-player story games and it’s baffling.

A franchise that was thriving wouldn’t have cancelled Prodigy, its only unalloyed good entry in over a decade.

Ican see the art, my dude. It’s right there. It’s not good.

If only Mass Effect Andromeda or Subnautica: Below Zero let me do the same...

Like cum through the anal tract, these are the Lays of our Dives.

It sold 2.6 million copies at last count.

I think Disco Elysium is a fucking masterpiece but there’s this very strange idea that its an obscure indie darling and not a monumental success that was plastered for months across all the gaming journals and has a massive fandom.

“Nolan, who is so into analog recording that he made IMAX figure out black-and-white 65mm film” and then spent three hours proving himself a poser who couldn’t make the black and white footage look any better than an instagram filter because he didn’t know how to light, stage, or set-design in such way as to play to…

Emilia didn’t need to be told she would become ‘evil’ you know it by book 2 and have it demonstrated in book 3: Daeneyrs is in way over her head, knows far less than she thinks she does, and is doomed by her own ignorance and hubris.