If I’m following this correctly, she went on a podcast where she accused Huerta of sexual assault. She felt the podcasters treated her unfairly, and tried to revoke consent for appearing on the podcast. (It’s possible that the contract she signed to appear on the podcast gave her a right of approval over the release…

They rewrote the other characters dialogue, too, so it blends in. If you’d never played the original, you’d never guess that Isaac didn’t have any voiced lines in it.

It makes for some interesting changes in how stuff lands. The idea that your character is an engineer, not a space marine, is cool, but in practice, in…

Nah, those folks all got paid already. They don’t get anything extra from people buying the game at this point.

Well, job security, which isn’t nothing, but if the choice is “pirate or don’t buy at all,” they’re out on their ass either way

I’m not defending this particular book (which I haven’t read, but that minstrel pose looks pretty bad) but the idea of an advanced species taking a pre-sapient animal and experimenting on it until it becomes fully sentient is a common sf trope. David Brin’s Uplift series is based around the concept.  We’re probably…

Years back, I was working at Eidos Entertainment, before they got acquired by Square. I got invited to a pitch meeting once, where they were presented a couple different concepts they had for titles, to see what would generate internal buzz.

On of the ideas was to bring back the Thief games. Yay! I loved the Thief…

“ I’m pro-life/dem but I got kicked out years ago because even though I vote straight dem because of my belief I wasn’t good enough.”

You can’t get “kicked out” of a political party, so exactly what were you “kicked out” of?

“But even worse than making the Iron Giant fight people, this is just another example of how all of pop culture—all past films, TV shows, and characters—are being slowly merged together into a giant gray mush that some call the multiverse, but I find really boring and sad.”

For real, though - that’s how human culture…

“...he scumbag who’s own state trying to recall him...”

That’s generally how that works. There’s not a lot of avenues for states to recall the governors of other states.

Anyway, the recall was always a joke. It never would have got on the ballot in the first place, because they didn’t get enough signatures in time, but…

Maybe, maybe not. I played Deus Ex when it came out back in 2000, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard this term. What’s the difference between an immersive sim and an RPG?

First time I’ve ever heard of Deus Ex referred to as any kind of a sim.

She got melatonin and melanin confused, and thought taking a sedative meant she got an n-word pass.

Because it makes him look extra pathetic?

Because a lot of people, when they want delivery, will open up the delivery app first, and decide what they want to order from the list of available restaurants.  If Pizza Hut doesn’t show up in the app, people don’t think to order from there, and the restaurant gets no sale at all.

These guys always go on about “comedy requires risk,” then get pissy when their show gets cancelled.  Guess what, buddy?  You can’t have risk if there aren’t consequences.  If you can say whatever bullshit you want and nobody ever holds you accountable, what “risk” are you actually taking with your comedy?

I’m not a psychologist, and I’ve never met Rose McGowan, so this is a super useful take, but:  I wonder if she learned to process her trauma by attacking Weinstein, and now that he’s in jail and has no career, she doesn’t have any way to process her trauma any more, hence her lashing out at anyone with even the most…

This will certainly prevent me from voting for Hunter Biden for re-election in 2024.

Is that Drax, or Uncle Fester?

This list would have been more visually impressive if there weren’t a banner ad after every fifth entry.

I keep misreading this headline as “Aaron Sorkin reportedly in ICE custody.”

Yeah, I’m 100% down for a wealth tax, but, “Space exploration can wait until we’ve solved our problems on Earth,” is the same as saying, “We’re never doing space exploration.”