So half “Oh right, we should probably give some backstory to this character even though she’s already dead” and half “Here’s sort of what we were planning for the rest of Clone Wars.” I’m on board.

I assume they have it written into their itineraries.

Wait, so there’s an actual female Silver Surfer in the comics and we’re supposed to care about morons that want to complain it’s not a male in the movie?

Reminds me a bit too of when Bruce Willis made Die Hard. The man was known as a romantic comedy lead from Moonlighting and it was deemed a huge risk to put him in an action movie that Sly and Arnold had turned down.

We can take this back to Michael Keaton playing Batman

It’s gonna be funny to watch like most of a year of internet weirdos absolutely melting down about this only to have the movie come out and she’s just part of the setup to establish that this FF is from an alternate universe or timeline or whatever. I think it’s safe to assume every dumb goober on the internet is…

You’re for sure not alone. I got the exact same vibes from the conversation with Gin, and then with Blackthorne’s outburst. I believe the showrunners are smart enough to trick us with fake vibes, but at the same time, vibes are vibes. 

I understand why you picked up blackmail, but that wasn’t blackmail, that was her negotiating her services to help his plan.

I think you’re 100% correct about Gin. Toranaga seemed ready to leave before she brought up his plan, or lack of one. Also, I have to assume the failed assassination attempt was Idiot Son’s idea. He was talking about it in the hot springs before being overheard by Saeki.

So just because I have read a few recaps of this episode now and this seems to be mentioned in none of them, am I insane or is there way more to that conversation with Gin and Toranaga than people seem to be noticing?

I guess because I am not playing the game right now and it has not happened to me, but this mechanic sounds funny.  Yeah it can screw you over but it at least offers a suprise in the world.  To many modern video games are afraid to suprise you

So we commenting again?

“She also said at the time that Cohen encouraged her to put her finger up his butt in the film’s final scene...”

Yeah, it’s basically in free fall over there . Apparently the herb in management wants to pivot away from games etc news and instead produce “20 game guides a week” aka chagpt scraped long drawn out sideshows of things that should only take a paragraph. Which makes zero sense at all to ANYONE with half a braincell.…

He did the same thing to Deadspin as far as closing down the entire comment section when they started smack talking him, which he just sold and is no longer part of G/O media.

I’m sad because I was ungrey’d there but the tldr is another leader stepped down because the herb is shifting kotaku from a website with gaming news to a website with a 50 game guides a week quota.

There was a story about Larian Studios that ended up having a slew of comments shitting on Spanfeller (as one does), and this morning the comments just disappeared altogether. Appears as though they took the easy way out.

I can see a lot of people saying “He’s just a white savior” dismissively without having read it and not getting that it is part of the point and I am sure that gets old fast.

I can’t argue with that take and in the end Paul comes off as a tragic hero.    I just argue it’s more nuanced then the typical “white savior” trope 

The pre-teaser thing is because of social media, where someone’s scrolling through Instagram or Tiktok or whatever and is likely only going to look at something for 3-5 seconds before moving on. So they do a super-quick teaser. I suppose that there’s similar quick behavior on YouTube (via mobile) which is why they do…