1000% agreed! Shatter your idols, and then you’ve got a chance to make something really interesting...

If Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring was made today, in the year of our lord 2023, you *know* nerds would be screeching up and down the hills at the “disrespect of the source material” for Peter removing Tom Bombadil from the movie. They’d find the first woman’s name they can in the writing credits and harass her…

Unless I misread the article, it’s more he’s responding to the neckbeard talking points around “woke writers who hate the books” by noting there were drafts which more resembled the source material.

I mean. We probably shouldn’t respect the source material. It and it’s author are pretty shit. 

Right, you’re creating a new thing, let it be new. Be creative with it. When you’re adapting The Witcher for television, make the changes that make it translate well to the new medium. Don’t kowtow to the irrational fans who are so stuck in the past that they demand all new things spoon feed them the exact same…

Exactly, part of the reality that I don’t think a lot of people understand is that transferring something from one medium to another is an adaptation and things are going to shift due to the different constraints/freedoms of those mediums. take any comic book movie fight scene. while a comic may have some action…

I want to know what people mean when they demand creatives “MUST respect the source material” because honestly I reject the idea that anyone adapting a creative works should have to do that. In fact, there’s lots of examples where deviating from source materials have led to better works.

Imagine the concept of some people having fun differently than you do, and not being a douche about it

Back when I played CoD online (whatever years MW1/2 were new) it was just full of screaming, racist 12-year old boys. Any time I played outside of my friend group I just muted everyone. I don’t want to hear that, or the guy who just breathes heavily into his unmuted microphone, or the guy who’s blasting unintelligible …

Hey, my mom’s hometown!  An absolutely charming little place in a beautiful part of the state.  Next town over is the world-famous Muscle Shoals, home of the recording studio of the same name (and founded by two of my dad’s childhood friends).  Good choice, Lana.

Did it? I mean i finished it three times. And recall alot of freedom in buids doing the campaigns. Neither did i have to respec  or recall doing a lot of crunching except for one fight on honor mode

Enormus amount as in “it still happens sometimes, like other effects” or “it’s not every combat now, it’s every other combat”? I’m asking for clarification because back then, while every review I read mentionned the preponderance of environmental fire effects, they did not convey that this was the reality for almost…

I have a question for those who’ve played the game in early access recently: how is the combat? More specifically, is everything on fire, all the time?

When this was announced and realeased in early access my thought was oh thats cool ill pick that up on sale sometime I guess. After all the press and amazing stories Ive been hearing the last couple of weeks, This is now a day one purchase. Finally I dont have to be the forever DM and can actually play as a character…

I always like to ask when people say they liked Div2 I'd they acrually finished it or even the second act. I pushed through, but in my social circles no one but me actually finished the game or spent. Ore than 20hrs in it. It was more an impressive RPG tech demo than game to me. And while I have played the BG3 early…

I’m really hoping this game scratches my RPG itch in the same way Divinity: Original Sin 2 did when it first came out. Larian’s track record has been stellar to this point.  Can’t wait to play some coop with friends!

You are completely (willfully?) ignoring the fact he was coercing her to change her life. He wasn’t setting healthy boundaries *for himself* he was attempting to exert control over her behavior, communication, and job to make him feel better. Healthy boundaries would look something like “Hey, I’m not sure I can get…

Dudes love that shit. “I love your free spirit”. Then the woman exhibits said free-spirited behavior.  “But not like that.”

My favorite dumb potshot from the recent craze with “therapy speak” has been the “It’s not my job to teach you” line. In almost every context I see it in, it makes the speaker look dumb, even when they’re addressing legitimately bad behavior it makes them look dumb.

Probably not a good idea to date a surfer chick if you get jealous of guy friends.