And her I was thinking that scene was Thor showing his displeasure at being forced to count up how many stones there are in Wales.

I was thinking more along the lines of Keyser Söze from “The Usual Suspects”, but that works, too.

The Ewokalypse is upon us!

enigmatic eggmatic villain Solas

The thing about Dragon Age 2 is that, yes, the game was rushed and it felt rushed for many critical elements of the game. That being said, I thought the stuff it did well, it did very well. The way the story was structured, with Varric telling a story happening over multiple years, was exactly the kind of experiment…

Maybe I’m in the minority, but my issue with DA2 wasn’t the scope. Following the story of how one person becomes this sort of legend mostly by being semi-capable and being in the right/wrong places at the right/wrong times was great. It’s just that the short dev time meant I was doing everything in the same 5 room…

Caught wind of some early rumors on the story. Apparently, it takes place thousands of days after the events of Dragon Age Inquisition. You’re part of a band of folks placed on boats and shipped off to unknown lands to preserve mankind in case the rift stuff goes south. You’re the son/daughter of a Roadseeker, and you…

So one of the reasons I became a fan of Bioware to begin with was my fondness for single player RPGs with choice and consequence and well written NPCs. I simply do not see how that sort of thing is compatible with a “live services” approach.

I have to say I think in this case that you’re being overly critical about this episode in so far as the depiction of the lynching and the position of the black gods.

This is awesome to read about—I love love love hearing about game production, even when the game in question doesn’t have a strong place in my heart. I’d always found it fascinating how you can see the origins of Mass Effect in KOTOR in many ways. I’d love to see a new Star Wars game in the vein of KOTOR, albeit with…

As it happens, both the writer and the director of this episode were black; but IMO assigning moral rights to artistic expression on the basis of ethnicity would constitute a bizarre reinvention of apartheid.

I’m pretty sure at least a quarter of the time after he makes an innuendo, he looks around at everyone smugly with an expression like, “Eh? Eh? See what I did there? Get it? Eh?” Which is just great, because it’s usually met with eyerolls or other exasperation.

Christ almighty, I wish Disney cared about having a coherent vision before going into the sequel trilogy. As it stands, this is like a comic book with a new creative team for each story arc.

I’d love an intermission ad where a bunch of Skrulls transform into singing concession items and sing “Let’s All Go To The Lobby.”

There’s actually a whole section on this in Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel (not the Black Panther castration part). Temperament played a huge role in which animals have historically been selected for domestication. Temperament is the reason why no one’s riding zebras.

Evans will always be Captain America, no one can play Steve Rogers but him. He is the modern day christopher Reeves/Superman. Several other actors have played Supes, but for various reasons they all fail the Chris Reeves year, except maybe Melissa Benoist.

Not a scene with Cap himself in it, but I really love the whole sequence in the car with Nick Fury. Because, technically, it’s a challenge making an action scene based around an actor who - while fantastic - is not as young as he used to be. And that scene was SUCH a great response to that challenge. It’s proper,…

I would agree that Chris Evans was an inspired choice as “Cap”.  Even I was hesitant as I didn’t see it when watching him quip as Johnny Storm in the FF movies.  Now, I can’t really see anyone else as well suited for the role as he’s proven himself to be.  He’s got the look, the physicality, and the earnestness and…

This.  We can create an old persons club where we don’t see each other at all because we’re playing single player games alone, as the universe intended.  Glad to be a part of this movement.