It opens with one of the most brutally emotional scenes in all of the MCU, and then spends the next two hours pratfalling every thirty seconds as though it’s afraid the Ragnarok fans were in danger of walking out unless placated with that Waaaacky Humour they love so much.

It is, in short, a tonal nightmare. Ragnarok…

“or relegate co-host Sydnee Goodman to a side stage where she hands out the small awards like best esports coach or favorite community.”

Please tell me you made those up.

That’s a really damning point. A massive world full of things to do and I’ve yet to hear anyone tell a particularly scintillating anecdote about it.

People who played it had fun. But not seemingly memorably so.

Yes, but when they do talk about the gameplay they don’t seem to like that either—they preferred the team composition of O1 over O2, and/or don’t like that X Y and Z was nerfed. It’s not just articles: I don’t hear anyone talking about anything they enjoy about Overwatch.

Real question from someone whose never played OW and has no skin in the game: I understand the sunk cost fallacy but why are any of you still playing a game seemingly no one ever, ever says a single positive thing about? Why are you still putting time into a game that seems so contemptuous of you its audience? That’s…

I don’t want it on my phone. I want it on my computer, where it will actually be useful.

What, there’s no category for ‘game that managed to completely meet everyone’s expectations both positive and negative?’ No award for ‘game that contained not a single surprise’? Voted number one in the category of ‘sure is the kind of game you’d expect this company to make in 2023 without any internal shakeups or…

Esports will never, ever, ever find mainstream success until they look more or less like sports do now: the capacity to sit down in a moment of leisure and turn on a match and even if its a sport you don’t know you can A) tell very quickly what the goal of the teams are without having to know a single arcane rule…

On the far side of seeing Across the Spider-verse and Guardians 3 in the same day (Guardians After Across) I’ve formed the firm impression that I don’t ever want to see a Fantasy or Sci-Fi movie in ‘live-action’ (read human actors standing around ugly CGI sets) ever again.

I don’t wat to see some Hollywood ponce be…

CJ was a fairly blank slate (BUT MOOOOMSZZZ) but the people around him were really compelling—the villains were people whose betrayal cut deep, whose ends felt good, and the side characters were folks you cared about.

Everyone in 4 is depressed, everyone in 5 is an enormous, foul-mouthed asshole who sucks the life ou…

Me every day.

Not to a public Twitter, mind, I used a hidden account, but it was the easiest way to put a screenshot on my computer to use them in blog or Discord, the alternative being labouriously stiking it on a USB stick and transfering in mnually.

That sucks, and this sucks.

Not on the 4. Not that I’ve ever noticed.

I’d have liked the character switching more if the charters weren’t so dreary.

“If your local movie theater kept being lazy and showing every movie out of focus and with bad sound, you’d stop going.”

Mine does do this (and they turn down their projector bulbs so its harder to see their 2K cameras can’t play 4K footage) and while I’ve stopped going, other idiots still do.

“it’s almost impossible for either new or lapsed players to jump back in without getting completely lost.”

I made two attempt to get into Destiny since 2020: I have never met a game that was more actively hostile to new players and the new player experience. I don’t mean the playerbase, I mean the game. There are…

Man I miss Critical Miss.

The Democratization of Art in Action.

Is he a dick in the track (which, damn, dates from 2008 back when being hateful to minority groups was considered edgy) or just a dick about trans people generally - he always seemed the most liberal of the group, Mike was always the conservative one.

I feel like the devs should have sunk ten hours into Mass Effect Andromeda to anticipate every problem their game was going to have.

They just made every MEA problem but on a bigger scale.

My falling out with my best friend of many decades co-incited with use watching the first of the NEtflix seasons together and I’ve... never gone back. MSt3K was such a cornerstone of our friendship and I don’t know how to approach it now without feeling pain.

None of which is the show’s fault, but there it is.