Ah you may be right about Anton. I choose to believe both. 

All I asked of this final outing was that they end on something better than Nemesis, and they certainly managed that. The fireworks were rather silly in a “Doctor Who” sorta way, but the character work was all great.

The renaming of the ship felt like one tiny step too far. While I never much liked the name ‘Titan’ it…

Very excited. 

I’m so glad we have fully departed the era of the weird Discovery Klingons.

Thank fuck it’s only a movie. Only 90ish minutes of “FASCISM IS SEXY WHEN IT’S DONE BY A GIRLBOSS!”

Important to remember that James Bond as a property exists to sell underpants and aftershave to ignorant 50 year old dads. Making him too young will alienate this target demographic.

I mean the Bible is fine with a thirteen year old being told she is now pregnant by her father. You can justify basically anything if you pick the right passages.

I recognize all the flaws and think it probably should go, but I will miss hatewatching the stage shows back to back.

The peak for me was the rise of motion controllers and the endless presentations of men in office attire trying to make mime-snowboarding look cool.

The pacing and structure felt rather odd this week. I have a theory (and it’s only a theory) that next week will reveal a different POV of these events. The scene with Picard and Bev loudly discussing the murder of a prisoner so that she can hear felt very strange indeed.

Who got the Golden Arm in the divorce???

RDJ is one of these guys who likes to test the waters on an idea before quietly abandoning it. Every few months he’s rumoured to be doing something that never comes to fruition.

Remaking Vertigo seems as unlikely as remaking Citizen Kane. The entire value is tied up in the direction. 

It must feel embarrassing if your game scores: NONE for “Themes”

I was disappointed that Noah Hawley’s adaptation of Cat’s Cradle never seemed to materialize. The Fargo episode “The Law of Non-Contradiction” seemed to be a deliberate audition for it.

Funnily enough “I went to a school called Better Call Saul university!” is exactly what I told the cops after I got thrown out of that care home.

Also worth noting that the codebase for the original games went essentially opensource a little while back. A supermod called “STALKER: Anomaly” unifies the world of all three games into one singular sandbox, and is available entirely free from MODDB.

I probably wouldn’t recommend Anomaly for first-time-players, though…

The first STALKER game suffered at least three leaks during its development. While it is painful, it is also quite survivable in the long run. Russia basically legalized software piracy shortly after the war began so I’m not sure how surprising and scary they think their demands sound.

Detectable in the geological record.

Welcome to the Funkopopocene!

Half-Life fans(?) have been known to harass developers and intrude upon their personal lives in the past. It is prone to the same obsessive sleuthing as true crime and conspiracy communities who believe they can solve the problem by stealing someone’s trash at 3am.

“Inspired by” lmao

At least they are pushing forwards with the world rather than doing a reboot or remake of either the original movie or the 2011 movie.