Having seen and loved Nomadland, The Eternals continues to baffle me as project that was just completely bungled by giving it to Chloé Zhao. It misfires on every level: from actors to director to writer to executive oversight, not one person seem to have a solid handle on the material or real sense of what they were…

Is Secret Wars the one set-up by the TV show that was seemingly universally despised?

No.

Given how much I loathed 90% of it it I’d love to know: what made Guardians 3 work for you?

Oh no!

Never heard of it.

“This might be a personal hangup, but it is so risky to declare a character a good writer, artist, etc., and this show does it a lot. None of the fake art is particularly good and some of it looks or sounds dreadful.”

I’ve never been able to get trhough Sense8's first episode because it declares the German girl to be…

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 fake oriel window is going to haunt me.

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…

How super-serious and dull this looks.

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…

A sa Canadian who can’t afford data using an old second-hand iPhone someone kindly gave me to replace a dead phone, fuck iMessages. I’ve had very important conversations never reach me because Apple has some baffling fucking bifurcated bullshit for rich people.

This is, as I can’t stop repeating, the plot of Connie Willis’ 1995 novel Remake (or, rather, the set-up to the novel), a novel I insist everyone read for how shockingly prescient it was.

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…