Yeah, I mean GTA that’s kind of the joke (leaving aside whether you find ‘the joke’ funny), but when you are trying to make a game where the characters are schoolchildren (or at least affiliated with a school), using the same lack of a moral compass just makes it feel like you’re just palette-swapping any old “kill…

I am perfectly aware of all of those incidents. None of them rose to the level of “news story” like, say, Serena Williams yelling at the ump.

I’m really trying to not get my hopes up, but this honestly looks great. Like I can picture a board state for all of those fight scenes. “I jump into the gelatinous cube” is exactly the sort of thing that would be a running joke in a D&D campaign.

Yeah, if he’d thrown it *at* somebody, or physically or verbally assaulted his opponent (or anyone else), sure. I mean, it’s obviously not a good look, and he’s probably embarrassed about it, but what exactly are people suggesting should be done?

Except none of those are stories, those are all shit that happens routinely at sporting events.

I remember that. I think the angle was “this is *so* weird nobody would make it up”

Yeah, I really enjoyed Knight and Day. I’m not going to call it a great movie, but Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have charisma to spare.

Did he agree to that photo being taken? I know very little about Winehouse and her relationship with her father, but that photo feels really..icky.

It’s fine to take it seriously - it’s that he seems to think that being serious means “method acting” as the Joker (sending dead rats to co-workers) and Morbius (evidently insisted on being ‘disabled’ the whole time on set leading to 30-40 minute bathroom breaks).

I don’t think he’s incapable of being good (people speak highly of his Mark David Chapman portrayal though i haven’t seen it), but it feels like he’s treated like he’s this irreplaceable unique talent who is worth putting up with all his bullshit, and I just don’t see it subjectively, and objectively I don’t see…

His whole character just seemed superfluous frankly.

I just don’t understand why people keep casting Leto in things. From all reports he’s nightmarish to work with and everything he’s been in recently has underperformed. 

I mean, his comedy records were *amazing* and it makes me angry when I think about how I won’t get to share them with my son (who at 10 would probably be a good age for them). I don’t care for sitcoms much, so I never really watched The Cosby Show, but it is certainly fondly remembered by many.

Been a long time since I read these, though the article writer probably could have stood to talk to someone who did. Amber is not a “planet”, Corwin’s “early days” are not spent as an amnesiac - that’s just where the books start - he’s already thousands of years old.

I feel like Robert Asprin’s MythAdventures books could make a good adaptation (either live action or animated). I also kind of feel that way about Matt Wagner’s Mage, though maybe there’s less in there than I remember since I haven’t read it in like 20-30 years.

More than the “wrong direction” it felt like they just took it too far in *every* direction. Like I enjoy movies that mess with tone, but whiplashing from “this is a movie with silly screaming goats and Thor has a big dick jokes” to “this is a movie about processing cancer, loss, and the inevitability of death” was…

Aww, I missed that Charles Robinson had died (and only like a month away from Markie Post). Man, that makes me feel old. (to be fair I am 49).

I mean I really enjoyed him in Fletch and I’ve found him appealing in lots of things. None of which excuses the fact that from the preponderance of evidence he’s a huge asshole.

Did this come up during Ixilan, the Magic the Gathering set that featured both Pirates and Dinosaurs?

Yeah it kind of straddled the line between parodying that idea and embracing it.