The Godfather isn’t “fun”. You probably won’t find that word in many of its reviews either. Clearly this review is extremely positive. Do you dispute it?

I feel the same way but somewhat oppositely, because there IS an elephant in the room with Nintendo’s licensed projects in terms of consistency and longevity, one that essentially fills that 29 year gap, and it’s Pokémon. Yet it only gets obliquely referenced with Detective Pikachu, which the article seems to position…

Nah, I’m on the Steam version. Older i7, but 8 core, 4 Ghz. Play Wonderlands at max graphics fine, (and boy, is THAT is an example of a truly unoptimized video engine: at least Vampire Survivors never memory leaked both my RAM and GRAM to capacity).

And it’s not really an “issue”. I’m just describing what seems to…

Hm. Maybe that’s part of the lag: is there an animation to the conversion? I do know that late game simply being more fastidious about picking up XP drops my lag by a ton. It’s of course anecdotal, but it is repeatable for me.

The framerate really only bogs down if you stop collecting the XP crystals at the end of the game. The game tracks them as objects no matter where they are on the map, as opposed to enemies and projectiles, which despawn off screen or on timers. You can start to stack up tens of thousands of them, and they bizarrely…

Or to be honest, it’s simple JOB protection. I can not imagine searching for other jobs on a corporately managed IT system and not expect to get a call from management at some point. It’d probably be considered less egregious to be watching hot-tub streams on Twitch on company time.

...except this employer is explicitly forcing his political views on his co-workers. In that literally discussing a different political view than his own is actually grounds for firing.

The people that sneer at triggering are often the most triggered. The people y’all sneer at are simply saying “Stop being an ass”.…

Nah. A dude who perhaps reasonably became a huge litigious problem for another company no longer understands the difference between reasonable and unreasonable, and the CEO of the current company he’s at loses no money blowing smoke up the dude’s ass, and stands to lose a lot if he doesn’t.

See: Ferdinand Porsche, 1934.

Because an exceedingly small amount of the Steam population actually uses Steam wishlists, and they’re the folks for whom gaming is a lifestyle, which further predisposes them to see “early access” as being part of a cool community rather than exploitation.

Yep. It’s “we’re a family here” twisted to appeal to gullible millennials who didn’t think “early access” was exploitative enough.

Should have put it in quotes because it is such a cliche. I pretty much wholly agree with you. But Dunham gets REALLY shit on in a way some of her, yes, less talented compatriots don’t. A lot of dudes get ignored while Dunham gets piled on. Almost like there’s something else hiding in the criticism. A permission to…

They are normalizing and amplifying, at absolute best, attention seeking behavior from someone who needs a good ol’ intervention, and only because it’s entertaining to talk about, where the focus is on how “zany” it is rather than how concerning it should be, regardless of the damage amplifying these stories in such a…

Take your goddamned star, little buddy.

“latest PR catastrophe”.

See, this is the kind of motherfucking reporting that got Trump’s fascist attempts at stealing the election called “gaffes”. Minimizing crimes as tactical errors that will read poorly on Twitter instead of, you know, CRIMES?! Really, y’all?

The dude is a cult leader spiraling out of control…

White women absolutely do get more shit than white men for white privilege and white blinkeredness because the “women” part drags them down a level of the social ladder, and it’s absolutely something to be watched for. Yay intersectionality. That we treat Lena Dunham simply writing what she knows at the same level of…

You learned a thing and decided it is prescriptively the only possible definition because “well actually”-ing pleases you. Stop it. The folks that roll their eyes at you aren’t plebs, they just don’t like preening jerks who think the 2nd definitions in dictionary definitions are subordinate instead of equal.

Simple. Pull Adam McKay out of his own asshole, get him back in Big Short form, and have him do The Big Short treatment to Capital Without Borders. 

Have it follow specific wealth managers, and describe how folks maintain the system of ultra wealthy people by turning the maintenance of their lifestyles into cottage…

The bigger problem is that the narrative of Mario is ultra thin, and all that star power stacked on top of it means that the Mario-ness of the Mario film might not actually be that important. Which to be fair, might be an important thing to do with a movie, considering that the narrative is indeed so thin to begin…

Especially post-pandemic (I mean, we’re not, but you know what I mean). All the theaters are EXTREMELY low staffed. I’ve had recent big multiplex experience where they started showing the wrong movie in the wrong theater, and while they were able to restart the right file, they struggled to figure out how to…