They have no one to blame but themselves. They fucked up Avengers, and people took one look at Guardians and said “no thanks” (myself included).

“They have locked the gates… we cannot get out… mascots… mascots everywhere… their eyes, always watching… we cannot get out… the song plays constantly… we cannot get out… always the same… M-I-C… they “see” everything… K-E-Y… why won’t it stop??? M-O-YOU CAN’T LEAVE!”

What’s frustrating is that are simple and efficient technologies that would just completely prevent a lot of these issue. Zero copy binary serialization formats like Cap’n Proto, FlatBuffers, or SBE would provide essentially the same performance characteristics while eliminating a ton of the worst security…

I’ve read all about these NFT metaverse ventures, and I’m yet to understand how this actually has anything at all to do with videogames. How is this in any way fun and/or challenging.

I guess it was too much to hope that their efforts stuck to their own stupid little ecosystem. Their NFT guy (I forget his official title and he sure as hell isn’t worth the 20 seconds to google) is probably damn proud of his little scheme here.

Everything is awful.
Everything sucks and is totally lame.

D.A.R.E.s problem isn’t that the show is promoting drugs use (it doesn’t) but that they are showing drugs being accessable and easy to get anywhere for kids. And making it seem like everyone in the world wants to give kids drugs is their gimmick. 

You know, until Rise of Skywalker, I would have told you that Nemesis - a film probably best remembered now for casting Tom Hardy in 2002 - was worse than any Star Wars movie. 

Hmm, I’m not sure I agree with that. TOS had some multidimensional mumbo jumbo that meant dilithium had stored energy that could be depleted, but from TNG onwards the only degradation of dilithium was through decrystalisation.

Most of the “science” involves tech powered by magic crystals

Agreed. When I want to get invested in a moral dilemma, I watch Star Trek. When I want awesome spectacles, Star Wars. And when I want campy weirdness, Stargate.

(And when I want all three, I watch Farscape.)

Two-thirds of the way through the Echo series, they’re just going to drop in a few episodes starring the Mandalorian.

I like the idea of some Star Wars superfans being unable to not answer the “It’s a ___” clue with “trap” and thinking that must mean that the correct answer to the other clue is “Star Trek.”

In my opinion this is simply an outlet for a growing frustration that a beloved franchise is still getting entries where much of it seems so half assed. I believe people would be overjoyed to get a Pokemon that feels like it swings for the fences like Smash Ultimate, or would be content if it stayed in safe territory…

I love the Netflix Marvel shows if only for attempting to have a different tone than the films. Hawkeye was loads of fun, but it still felt like the same “product” as the movies if that makes any sense.

My god. The SAME people? Can’t they get new people to throw original hissy fits?

You doubt my authority? This card is just two punches away from a free frozen yogurt.

All of that would be overshadowed by GOP fake criticism (like blaming this administration for all the obvious repercussions of supply shortages that arose naturally from the end of extended Covid lockdowns and travel restrictions.) Not to mention their latest straw man - CRT. That’s all it would take to beat the Dems…

You can’t really look into the present though.  As soon as you start looking, it’s already in the past.