I mean, it’s weird to me to just blame Twitter and “online journalism”, when the primary journalistic source I immediately think of when you say “wrote an article about how a random divorced 31 year old guy who works at the Olive Garden in Grand Rapids thinks...” is absolutely the New York Times, possibly the most…

“I mean... these are major characteristic of many people on the spectrum.”

“The issue with the Russians objecting to the missile shield that was said to be a counter to a power such as Iran was back in the mid 2000s.”

Apparently so, astonishingly.

“Possibly more than enough to prevent damage from that avenue.”

That’s still a lot less bad as an experience than people actually being unpleasant, though, especially as a surprising number of people just won’t get that negativity is intended or be unsure. All you really need to do to make people who want to grief with positive stuff cry is make it so stuff can’t be spammed.

Yeah I remember The Rani was a common theory way back when.

“okay open world FPS with great graphics”

To be fair, it was released in a better state than, say, Skyrim was released.

I mean, you jest, but it’s largely true.

“The story, the combat, the character building, the world, the driving, everything about it was okay.”

“The launch version of CP2077 had far, FAR, fewer bugs than any Bioware/Bethesda game, even in their current updated versions.”

I liked 2077 the whole time, but let’s not re-write history, mate, 2077 was widely panned, and a lot of people (including some journos) expected that CDPR wouldn’t be able to get people to have any kind of positive opinion of it, because the launch was so bad, and the issues so significant.

I think he’d do a great job if he didn’t consider it beneath his dignity, which he might!

“We still have room for character driven stuff that is more street or country level issues.”

AFAIK we haven’t had it confirmed that they were due to COVID, have we?

I don’t think Missy was all that she could have been. Michelle Gomez is never not great, sure, but the character was too twee (even for Doctor Who), and lacked an essential part of the Master’s character, that being his sweatiness and desperation. She was just too collected, too together, and that’s down to Moffat’s…

I’m sorry I don’t believe for one hot second that a younger writer wanting to prove themselves wouldn’t jump at the chance of showrunning Doctor Who.

Gatiss would have been a total disaster imho. He is a writer no self-control whatsoever, and utter self-regard. He also can’t act for toffee, yet has been cast in loads of things because he’s mates with a lot of people (I presume he is a cool dude IRL), and I strongly suspect he’d feel the need to make himself a…

Re: Secret Invasion, I get that but I just don’t get why they tried to pull it at the same time as messing with all the multiverse stuff. It’s already so complicated they’re losing some of the general audience to “who cares” (which is bad, because the same audience followed along just fine previously), and this is a…