It really wasn’t. It was a shell game with an Abrams-style mystery box that contained nothing but the most anodyne BuT WhAt iF ThEy’rE PeOpLe narrative and a heavy dose of post-GoT ‘sexual violence and gore mean a grown-up show’ that was already played-out in 2016.

Westworld season 1 just did a much better job at…

I’ll use one more: what it is your fucking problem you little nasty turd?

“The Fallout TV show is being led by Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan”

Not a good sign.

Rewatched Villenueve’s Dune a few days back and like dit even less this time. It’s a gob-smaking visual masterpiece, an extraordinary work of visual medium, but it completely drops the ball on characters. Jessica spends the whole film either crying or about to cry, Pieter, Thrufir, Gurney, and Yueh (THE DAMN TRAITOR)…

Replaying ME1 is a weird experience because it’s a lot of ‘ME3 sure will never follow-up on any of this, huh.’

There’s been this weird, faintly desperate trend to rehabilitate MEA’s reputation—and I understand it probably runs better now on PC than it does on my PS4—but the game is just bad. It’s full of interesting ideas executed astonishingly poorly, wretched QoL problems that were easy fixes[1], and a lack of any sense of…

I don’t think I did? Since I don’t disagree with that statement? Nor did I write anything contradicting it?

It’s okay to deadname Twitter. It’s a corporation not a person and we don’t have to respect its decision to choose a new name because, again, it isn’t a human being.

We are facing don a people whose problem is with a system, but a system they are fundamentally unwilling to meaningfully reshape or change, and so they blame everything else.

It’s like if you threw people out of the an aeroplane in a heavy cloud bank and after falling for a while they can see the ground that they are…

Oh thank god I’m not the only one perplexed.

Some years ago I had both my eyes held open with mechanical devices, was given a lot of pain killers, and then watched as surgeons scrapped the sclera off my eyeballs with scalpels.

It was not an experience I am in a hurry to repeat.

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.