Supergirl is canonically 5'5" though (in the comics).

It’s one of the most legit things to be mad about, though, let’s be real. Fans often get into incredible snits over nothing, genuinely meaningless changes to characters (like ethnicity or height where it’s totally immaterial to the character), but Reacher is a very one-dimensional character, and that single dimension…

Supergirl isn’t canonically tall, she’s 5'5" and so is this actress so she’s actually spot-on casting height-wise. For once fans may rejoice at a canonically height-correct casting.

In theory there should be a “big difference”, but in practice, it’s less clear that there is, and it seems to me more like people will make excuses for some games, but not for others. Which is fine, I guess, nobody has to like all games, but it’s a weird and unreliable double-standard.

It’s definitely good to hear they mentioned Vermintide. One of biggest criticisms of Bethesda is that they seem to be almost completely unaware the rest of the games industry even exists, in interviews - especially Todd Howard. I think this is a huge part of what holds them back - the leadership doesn’t seem to have…

Are they selling boosters, though? It kind of sounds like not but maybe I missed something?

I 100% guarantee that every single person who starred this post buys a full priced game with microtransactions within the next 12 months. Probably within the next three in most cases.

I don’t get why they didn’t prioritize making the combat look and feel better. It was the biggest criticism of Bethesda’s games (melee combat is dire in all of them), it was an issue in The Outer Worlds and it’s clearly something that needed fixing. Furthermore, games like Vermintide/Darktide show first person melee…

That’s a fusion reactor of a take.

The fuck are you talking about? The only RPGs which don’t have “missable” quests are some totally linear JRPGs - and even most JRPGs have missable quests now (FFXVI sure does).

“Lessened the originals”

TROS is very bad and yes very bland but TFA and TLJ are not. Similarly the worst film in the PT by some margin is AOTC, which is borderline unwatchable - a worse experience to watch than TROS, which is saying something! It's also highly bland and forgettable.

You want them to write out "sci-fi, fantasy, horror and adjacent” every time? I suppose"speculative fiction" could work but it's clunky and causes endless debates where "genre" just angers a few axe-grinders from the deep internet.

No.

There are some weird axe-grinders here who like to pretend "genre" isn't used in the way it's actually been used for decades. It's very odd and very anti-social/internet brain behaviour.

Living up to your name in a good way!

Yeah and furthermore, those fans are kind of THE WORST, particularly because so many of them are Gen Xers with a very proprietorial attitude to Star Wars. The split on reaction to TLJ mirrors this to some extent, in my experience. Of people I know IRL, all the ones who just “like Star Wars”, but don’t engage in Star…

“their overall Story is great”

Mando has terrible pacing, even within the episodes (but also across the episodes). The majority of Clone Wars episodes have bad pacing (much less so Rebels, weirdly). Andor didn’t really have bad pacing but it sure wound people up with the whole “two episodes before anything much happened” structure being repeated…

“I mean, if Filloni had ignored the Prequels era for having also sucked, we would have missed out on a lot of cool star wars stuff, right?”