GROOBERSON!!!!!!!!!

“So there’s no issue with cash-grabbing studios beating nostalgia properties to death for profit”

In Bob Iger’s memoir, ‌The Ride Of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years As C.E.O. Of The Walt Disney Company, the former C.E.O. discusses George Lucas’ disappointment with J.J. Abrams’ ‌film, citing a lack of “visual or technical leaps forward.” Iger agreed with his assessment but thought fan reactions were,…

If you thought the author’s biggest beef was giving the fan surrogate a silly name you didn’t read the article very carefully.

“Also, what in the fuck does giving back to the fans even mean, especially with Ghostbusters? It was a a strange and silly horror-comedy that already had a sequel WITH THE ORIGINAL CAST no one liked, and then you approach it like you’re adapting the fucking Holy Bible.”

What bothered me about Lowery in Jurassic World is that in-universe his love of the original makes no sense. It was a theme park that fell apart on the first test run that resulted in the deaths of several people. There is nothing “legit” about it. 

Interesting perspective I hadn’t thought about before! Marvel does this too - Ant-Man and Spider-Man are both introduced as fans of the Avengers IIRC. Even Bond had this a bit and at least flipped it, with the bad CIA agent introduced as a fan of Bond (which is silly since he’s a fucking spy and his exploits shouldn’t…

Galaxy Quest was a successful way to do it.

I mean, does it really matter though? This film is only getting made because that nostalgia audience exists and will pay money to see it. The people who really want to see a sequel decades later tend to be the ones who’ll pay to watch anything.

Great article!

Afterlife definitely contains a lot of fan service, but I’d strongly disagree that Gary is a fan surrogate — he’s the only sane person in the entire town. Everyone else somehow forgot that ghosts turned out to be real. It’s like if you lived through 9/11 or the JFK assassination, wouldn’t you remember that?

And don’t worry everyone, we kept the sexual assault by ghosts on the people they’re possessing. We even make it part of their romance. And if you want to see Paul Rudd’s character meet the Ghostbusters he loves so much, he doesn’t really. And if you liked it in the 80s when you had characters like Data who don’t…

And it's really bad. 

Cloud uploads make retrieval trivially easy on any device. There's no reason to use a thumb drive. 

Sitting here with my Switch: " we finally got Bluetooth headphone support!" 

“More stock or a reasonable way to limit scalping, like making you have an xbox live account in good standing with X months of payments to order a console.”

Wait what, you can’t copy screenshots to USB cards?
The screenshot feature is basically useless to me on the PS5 because I have to do just that. The fact that I can’t just upload it to my FTP or mail it to myself or something makes it way too annoying to get it to a computer. But..Series doesn’t even have that? O_O

Also,…

If you connect your Xbox 20th controller, there is a dynamic theme waiting for you. They also added a new XBOX 360 dynamic theme as well. I’d love to see more, especially holiday themed ones with ambient sounds.

I feel we haven’t seen the last of backwards compatibility, Microsoft said they were done after the last batch of games and they gave us another.

sort of? they announced there wouldn’t be anymore big batches as they reached the point that licensing and hardware limitations for the xbox one limit the number of games that can be added currently though they also said they were still working on ways to improve the emulation so likely we’ll see some games here and…