“Why is the article so mean-spirited? Why does he hate Hugh Jackman so much that he bursts into tears when hearing him sing? Is this guy okay?”      Not just that, but seeing Sanderson’s 15 year old son salt his Yakisoba makes him CRY. So either

I like Sanderson’s books, they’re definitely popular because they’re accessible and competently delivered as opposed to dazzling the reader with prose but there’s no shame in being the MCU of fantasy books.

I still hope they will finally announce an orange box sequel with all the 3 releases in it. that way they can still avoid releasing any 3's as it will be Orange Box 2.

I’m still mad they cut Ellie’s follow-up where she says: “I guess we are The Last of Us.”

I find it especially weird that a guy who famously worked at a video store is so hung up on the theatrical experience.

First off, it is impossible to know whether the cure could actually be replicated at all. That is not how drug development works, and no credible pharmacologist in history would say “I can 100% make this work in other people”. At best, they could judge the relative likelihood of success based upon similar drugs, but…

If you consider that real life, trained and capable infectious disease researcher would start not with dissection, but blood samples and biopsies, you get some nice clean answers:

The dude must be a fantastic actor to hide how he’s such a whining infant all these years.

seemed to be the majority of criticisms. The only complaint I had about the show was the finale, with two major beats/moments seemingly playing out better in the game due to its pacing, the original actors’ work and ultimately the medium itself: going through the hospital scene instead of watching it has the dissonant…

I hope they make it even more sapphic than Part II already was. It really pissed off a certain kind of people to my amusement. 

I don’t really understand the anti-Joel aspect that people have (though didn’t play the game):

1) what certainty do we have that the Fireflies would be able to extract ‘the cure’ from Ellie successfully? What certainty do we have that ‘the cure’ would even work as intended if successfully extracted? Yes, Joel…

The real solution to that of course was to tell a story with completely new characters in the world and in the same vein in terms of attempts at prestige storytelling. Further exploring Joel and Ellie’s story forces answers to questions that were best left to be pondered. Also just, yeah, a part of what made TLOU so…

The ending to TLOU is fantastic, but the setup to the ending is terrible. It’s really where this game stumbled. Because Joel’s reaction is absolutely something that is meant to be seen as dooming the world, but also as something absolutely reasonable—a father saving his daughter. The problem is that really horrible…

Focus more on characters, less on what those characters are slated to do in a crossover movie that doesn’t yet have a script.

I like how people have watered down the meaning of “outrage” to the point that it’s now just used to describe anyone having any point of view whatsoever.

It’s the same exact narrative that crypto bros were using to hype NFTs.  Anyone who was against NFTS were old or part of the elite and trying to keep “everyone” from making money.  The stuff for AI sounds similarly the same.

At least you acknowledge that it will make artists obsolete.  Why you think it’s a good thing is beyond me.

Oh, did I say that? I meant “steal from passionate creators who built their own skills and call it your own work”, hence the “War on Artists - because they’re ‘privileged’”.

Wow.

I never thought I’d see a map of the states showing where a video game character was banned in competitive play like it was a map of abortion bans.

Next it will be were Tik-Tok is banned.

What a time to be alive.

No, but you should feel badly about yourself for this post.