FF14 does a very good job of making your character feel incredibly unique and that you are the protagonist changing the world as they go through it. Its even good at giving you lore appropriate excuses for why other players are in content with you if you really need them. But I also feel like its a good example of…

101 did open. That was how the main character and their dad entered the vault. The whole “We’re born in the vault, we die in the vault.” was the thing they added after to stop people from going out or interacting with a world the Overseer thought was too dangerous. That being said, it wasn’t control, it had its own…

BG1 came out on 6 CDs. It was not uncommon at all to need multiple discs. I remember being impressed that BG 2 was down to 4 discs.

Agreed about Conan. He captured that “cunning lean stalking panther” vibe of the Conan from the books so well. Movie wasn’t amazing but I thought it had some good bones to it and could definitely be expanded upon.

Yeah its the difference between muscles you use in activity and muscles you put on for show. Reminds me of when Arnold was doing Conan he had to lose a little muscle mass and they had to redo some choreography because the muscles he had actually made it harder for him to swing a sword and do the kind of stunts they…

Yeah him as Bowser has been his only really big success recently, though admittedly its very big and gotten him a lot of attention. He’s actually done way more weird small projects the past few years, which I think worked out a lot better for him than the blockbuster comedy shit that he was in for so long.

Yeah god, the amount of importance DS9 kept trying to put on Kira and Odo’s relationship always made my eyes roll. I liked it fine as an unrequited romance, and liked it a lot more when it seemed like Odo was moving on and just acknowledging that he has very underdeveloped emotional maturity. But turning it in to this…

No that looked like just some generic scavenger. Some chunk of the movie seems to take place in that TVA wasteland (or some variation of it.)

This kind of Hollywood nepo baby stuff doesn’t require the parent(s) to be uber famous. Just having family that has been in the business forever means insane amounts of connections. Honestly people who have well known working actors instead of mega stars are probably more inclined to be nepo babies because working…

I think all the actors playing the villains in that movie understood what kind of movie they were making far better than the heroes. Arnold, Uma, and even John Glover’s little mad scientist part were all just so delightfully unhinged.

Humans are naturally religious creatures, and we will engage in religious tribalism over basically anything. Fandoms for games, movies, comics, sports, politics....doesn’t matter. It all basically comes down to the same behavior and there will always be people who make anything a core aspect of their identity and then…

You’re definitely right that they balanced it way more than you would expect. Especially based on how video games were in that era. When I talk to some people about the games they seem to only recall Batman as an ultimate badass “one man army” counter insurgent, but when I replayed them recently there was a lot more…

Bezos has never left Amazon, he runs a few other ventures but he’s still the executive chairman for the company. The bridge was not Bezos, but the company that built Bezos’ ridiculous yacht that needed to disassemble the bridge to get it out of the harbor. The company didn’t follow through with the request once there…

Ugh, Schlotzky’s. I never had the OG one, though my dad did. He travelled a lot and finding places like that was always his hobby. I do remember it when it was a small chain though, and I really liked it. Even my dad said good things about it (for a chain). But once it went really big in late 90s, early 2000s, it…

His Soval was such a fascinating character. I wasn’t a huge fan of how they did Vulcans at the start of the series, but by the end I loved them, in large part because of all the complexity and nuance to Soval.

It doesn’t look like he actually kept hardly any of the money. In the end he was being contacted by the bank asking him why he hasn’t withdrawn any money, and was back to using his line from the beginning about borrowing money from people. Other than using some to go see his daughter, it seems like he gave most of it…

Oh definitely, something where they can explore the corporate espionage, the ethical dilemmas, all that in a mini series would be great and they could get away with it leaning more in to the scary aspects that the original movie had (at times) would be amazing.

It is unfortunate but I kind of get it. The original JP movie and those versions of the characters are just too well known and too beloved that anything closer to the book versions would probably put a lot of people off.

I mean yeah, from the first moment you meet her how can you not? Then after the food scene? God so precious.
Incidentally, how fucking good are they at animating food the past expansion? Fucking hell that made me hungry.

I am absolutely ready to commit genocide for Wuk. All hail our precious little kitty bean queen.