Not just insisting this, but then also getting needlessly aggro and personal when someone says otherwise. “If you’re not getting it you’re just too dumb!” or whatever.

I just think it’s easy to bag on Howard for whatever supposed weaknesses you see in his work when you ignore how overwhelmingly popular and beloved Skyrim is.

That’s all well and good but I haven’t bought 5 copies of Oblivion or Morrowind over the years, including a virtual reality version.

While that whole news item is very possibly a bunch of b.s., I would also invite you to recall that Mad Max is not the sole lead of Fury Road and it’s pretty damn good.

I think it can’t be overstated either that a lot of us are suffering from stakes fatigue. I had fun with the MCU until around Phase 3 (or basically what the MCU calls the Infinity Saga). Then it just started to feel like nobody was ever in real danger and the only reason we were losing characters had to do with actor…

You do realize that you killing a race who were going to be killed by a third party is still YOU KILLING A RACE, right? It's no *less* a mass murder just because "the bad guys" also planned to mass murder. Especially when you are presented with non-mass-murder options.

If you're unwilling to engage a narrative on its own terms then that's a YOU problem.

If you can explain how physiology is not hardware and consciousness is not software, WITHOUT relying on religious dogma, go right ahead.

And FWIW, I can very much see how she might have felt more okay doing that than another performer given her experience on X. Mia Goth had a lot of creative input on the film so I’m sure Ortega saw that and felt empowered to be a co-creator on Wednesday. But importantly (to me, admittedly I’m biased), Goth shared a…

Oh, agreed. I don’t like Destroy but I don’t think it’s “wrong”. I just also bristle when the conversation becomes an Ethics 101 class. Especially when that involves bad analogy.

I think her instinct was perfectly fine. What I strongly objected to was the fact that instead of accepting that the show’s interpretation of her character differed from her own interpretation she improvised a scene while filming it to suit her interpretation. If she wanted creative control, as Norton had, she should…

According to *her own statements about what happened*, she improvised dialogue in a scene to change the direction of the character because she disagreed with the showrunners and writers about the characterization. It is not a terrible thing IMO to feel responsible for a character, to feel a degree of ownership. But at…

Fair.

I think that’s a fair read of Norton. He’s a pretentious jag. But I tend to give him a pass on that because the attitude comes from caring about the writing of a film. And any time he’s gotten his hands on the script of a film it seems to come out pretty well. So sure, he’s an asshole who has a very high opinion of…

Honestly, although I quite enjoy it I would probably agree that my response was hyperbolic. I just think that a LOT of people have really shitty opinions about it out of weird misguided loyalty to what would eventually become the Disney-owned MCU. And I hate the idea that just because Edward Norton gave a shit about…

Because it’s funny. Duh.

No worse than revolving around endless incredibly obvious dipshit trolling I suppose.

Gee, why would a movie about a man infested with deadly radiation whose inner torment possesses his mind and body, physically distorting him into a grotesquerie, be serious?

Do you smile and think back to TIH because it was actually quite good and actually had some creative direction as opposed to the IP synergy horseshit that they currently are trying to shovel at us as a “connected universe”? And the actor playing Banner had an actual artistic take on the character and the narrative and…

Brief tangentially-related aside, I wish we wouldn’t even talk about AI as much when it comes to the actors, because the problem isn’t truly with generative AI or machine learning models. It’s with actors’ likenesses.