Eh, I think they’re letting themselves off easy by reaching back so far (Look everyone! Weren’t the 60s retro?) If they had chosen their ads from 80s-present, and acknowledged they still have a huge problem with objectifying women for sales of shitty beer, might have been interesting, but this is too safe, too little.

Congratulations, you just won a No-Prize!

I hadn’t seen that account before, but it is SO GOOD!

I think that Stan Lee = Uatu the Watcher is a good explanation for it and then everything can just kind of make sense.

The kids don’t know what it was like, but you’re absolutely right. They don’t know what a desert it was, being a fan of some genre or property. How you starved for anything that even resembled the fantastic — or to meet other people who shared the same interests.

Are you the one behind this Twitter account? https://twitter.com/notofeminism?lang=en

I was going to make a joke about how Stan Lee was really playing Uatu the Watcher in the Marvel films so I googled to see if Uatu had already appeared (I thought we’d seen a Watcher in a montage or something) and of course there’s already a Stan Lee = Uatu fan theory, complete with explanatory youtube videos and an…

It gets better. In the Marvel Universe not only does Marvel Comics exsists and publishes the same comics as our world, but said comics are legally admissible in court.

It’s a complex history. Designers and Dragons (a four-volume book set) gives a decent overview of the people involved and the basic legal battles from the 1970s to sometime post-TSR. I hadn’t followed the blow-by-blow after Gygax’s death, but it looks like a situation where there’s no “good” side: Gail sounds like she…

I think it was in pretty bad faith of him to get your hopes up over it knowing that he didn’t have the creative rights and freedoms to pursue the project, though. If he knew Gail would take issue with it, he could have mentioned that at any point before he had nearly convinced you it “sounded like it was a go”.

I get…

Good article, though sad... Either Gail is becoming paranoid and delusional, or she’s been continually victimized since Gary’s death. Either way, my heart aches for her.

Cecilia, you are undoubtedly the best working games journalist out there.  

I’ve had so many discussions about malls recently and the dream is to either:
1. Take those empty stores and turn them into studio spaces for makers who want both a studio space AND a retail presence.
2. Take dead malls and repurpose them into dorm-like shared living spaces for the HUGE aging Boomer population. They’re…

no, but that sounds amazing!

Have you seen the Pokemon fanart where someone meets the final trainer and it’s her on a throne and 2 corgis?

I clicked on this whispering “please be a post about corgis, please be a post about corgis” and was very disappointed.  I would have also accepted a brooch-related post, as well.  

Show. Us. The. Corgis!

I, for one, am only going to post positive comments like #QueenThicc and good natured memes. She is, after all, famous for her sense of humor.

God Save the Queen.