The not discussed but particularly surprising and cool thing re saves in BG3 is that you really can save virtually at any time, including in the middle of conversations, which is part of why one ends up with so many quicksaves.

“when it’s not coming out of the mouth of Rudy effing Giuliani” - Indeed. It’s like being sexually harassed by some sort of ghoul or lich.

Yeah, and even if The World’s End is “more challenging” to the audience it’s not exactly challenging. The biggest challenge it offers is that it’s kind of boring. Whereas Hot Fuzz has the distinction of being a comedic masterpiece.

I’m kind of in a bind there.

Which skits do you think were misses?

“I watched a few of the Tropes v. Women in Video Games videos and it was very mild and friendly. The way people responded, you’d think she was a politician passing a law to ban breast jiggle physics and anime body pillows.”

I honestly think Adam Driver is well-advised to stay away from the Fantastic Four movie. Whilst he’d be good for the role (and has a lot of very thirsty fans, god bless ‘em), we’ve got abundant evidence that FF movies are going to crash and burn, and casting a strong lead won’t stop that. I’m really unsure why Marvel…

Re: fat vs starving that’s a bit of a myth re: the middle ages (it becomes more true in the early-modern period). Historically that wasn’t a money thing - a lot of medieval peasants were relatively fat because of their diet, which was extremely high calorie and high-fat (often 4000+ calories a day of largely grains…

“Wamda” - I know this is a typo but this is her name now.

I don’t think a couple of exceptions disproves the general trend. You say:

People are clearly struggling with the concept of protagonist, but you’re correct.

Ever since I read LA Confidential back in the day I’ve favoured “shitbird” myself. Not gendered, not attacking anyone for disability or sexuality or the like, and yet fabulously insulting, people really don’t like it.

A vivid image.

That’s exactly what they’re planning to do. They’ve said so.

There’s a bit of a pattern of this with recent MCU writers and directors.

Exactly. It all seems to trace back to one “My uncle works at Nintendo”-type source, but because it fits people’s biases, they immediately assume that it is 150% true and some even in fact start actually elaborating on it, making up additional stuff.

That’s just an inferior version of the comic, though.

Right? My brain was like “What, Mask of the Phantasm!” expecting it to be The Dark Knight or something, but then it was Mask of the Phantasm!

I mean, you’re proving my point re: vast ignorance, because you’re unable to comprehend how shit your viewpoint was, and how, after “20 years” you knew literally nothing about your subject, and just hear wah wah waaah waah wah wah wah not a liar wah wah wah, like I’m an adult and you’re a child in a Peanuts comic.

“actually incredibly reasonable demands” - Correct and it’s truly insane that Iger is trying to characterise them otherwise.