You say “unnamed elven attendant,” I say “Figwit got a minifig!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit

“A basic rule of good series writing is to keep in mind that any installment may be someone’s first — or that any single series in a shared universe may be the only one that a viewer or reader cares about following.”

I’m in America. Orlando is nearly 3,000 miles away from me. Even Anaheim is over 1,000 miles away. Trust me: unless you happen to live in one of a tiny handful of metro areas, you’re going to be doing a LOT of traveling, and nothing is cheap.

You got one thig wrong.

elicit: evoke, draw out

I just want the minifigs.

Because weebs.

Yep. Portal fantasy is the typical western term for it, and frankly I’m pretty sure every culture’s got examples somewhere. The idea’s old as dirt and just as easy to find everywhere you go.

If Wes Anderson’s doing it, I want stop-motion animation of action figures in a fussily intricate diorama.

Speaking here as someone who’s been laid off by Microsoft more than once (and eventually replaced by AI in one notable case), who’s struggling again to find work, and is running out of money:

Reminds me of how I once accidentally freaked out a guy on Twitter by commenting about the bookstore he posted a picture from, which I recognized. Oops. It wasn’t rocket science, though: he worked at Valve, they’re in downtown Bellevue, I worked a couple blocks away from there and a block away from the store, and the…

It’s faithful enough to the source material that spoiling the series is kind of a moot point (like, sight unseen, I can virtually guarantee what the last word of the show is), so I’m pretty sure they considered “okay, how well did the adaptation work as a whole?” to be more significant than trying to be secretive…

Expectation: You found six people on Twitter with a fetish.

Basically, it’s based on League of Legends lore, which is a very different thing from being based on the League of Legends game. It still impresses me that they made such a good series out of it — and it’s genuinely a stunning series — because Lore(tm) is not synonymous with narrative. You still need writers who know…

For some perspective: according to the post I just read on their site, Supergiant has fewer than thirty people on the Hades team.

Well, if you want to properly use Arial Black, you have to license it from Monotype, or else you’re looking at font substitution.

The other is that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is really the only book in the series that anyone’s invested in. The others are going to fall flat almost no matter what you do.

Suddenly all I can hear in my head is, “WHERE IS CHARLES LEEEEEE?!?!!?!?”

Please learn the difference between “fired” and “laid off.” No one who’s been fired still gets severance pay. “Fired” means “it’s your fault, get the fuck out.”

I’ll tell you what: I will give credit to the guy who intercepted the can, because he was on the ball.