Ok, it’s fun to bag on Allen for myriad reasons, but the whole “Tim Allen was a rat” thing is the weirdest most performative faux tough guy shit that gets pulled out from time to time.

Because the employees that gave the press this information are explicitly giving her a “free pass”. For the press to do otherwise would be to distort their words.

You can not like Clarkson. You can’t make the people this information is coming from not like Clarkson.

“that only a computer can do”

Prove that, and you have an argument.

Nice beaver!

“Hardest” is relative. None of them are that hard to level, especially if you just stick to tier I. But all the other classes have far more inherent range and mobility. As well, you have to build and maintain the Barbarian’s core resource much more in a way you don’t have to for most other classes, and it requires…

The general consensus is that Barb is the hardest to level but ends up with the most power end game. This makes a bit of sense, as Barb has more weapon slots to fill. So while you’re struggling to get ANY items near your level, it can be a slog. But once everything is at your level, Barb gets to put more unique…

That should work fairly well. Just make sure you have SOME form of mobility/escape (i.e. dash, stealth, shadow step, or reverse-look caltrops), and you can probably keep some form of that build til end game.

And his name is Russell Crowe. Sailing and Singing and Being The Same Guy In Every Movie Around The World!

Film Venom worked because Eddie Brock, in that version of the character, really, really doesn’t want to be doing what he’s doing, but does it solely as a hilarious best-I-can-do compromise with a maniacal space alien. This is sub-Crow level bullshit, and all respect to Brandon Lee, but The Crow was merely ok to begin…

It also EXTREMELY punishes build experimentation from mid game on. The expense of skill and paragon resets (as well as socketing and aspecting gear) is so onerous that it seems they all but expect you to pick and keep your build from about level 55-60 on. Which, if the XP curve stays as it is, is about 2/3rds of the…

“Companies are regularly bought when successful - indeed it’s the most likely time they get bought.”

THIS.

This is the biggest counter to the “Embracer was trying to be a good steward of struggling independents, lay off” argument. At best, they assumed it was going to be good for their bottom line. That’s how capitalism…

It’s fine to be equanimous. It’s also fine to recognize when some things are good in spite of some of their supposed “creators” than because of them, or that they may not be involved at all other than being higher on the corporate hierarchy than the folks actually making the thing. It certainly can be too simplistic…

“The many novels/storyline that used the character of Luke Skywalker had to be approved by George Lucas while he was head of Lucasfilm, so we can assume that was how he saw the future of Skywalker and how he would’ve described Skywalker to Hamill.”

That it is absolute utterly false nonsense. There’s no fucking way that…

Not to mention that 20 years is actually a long time, especially with large social upheavals in between. How much longer ago do pre-COVID things seem now?

I think she’s precisely and carefully thinking it.

Microwaves are, by definition, not infrared, i.e. what we feel as heat. Indeed, this is likely the coldest kind of power we could produce, because all of the actual heat on the production end is and will remain outside of the atmosphere, which is necessarily the opposite of any ground based production, including…

And they all got critiqued too, for good or ill. Yet no one batted an eye, pretended it was bad form, or tut-tutted that critics need to lie about or mitigate their experience with a mediocre kid’s film just to satisfy some ludicrous presumption towards necessary shittiness in films that are rated G. Lazy is lazy, and…

They don’t have to be reaching deep into the historic roots of drag because it’s been an evolution that is itself reaching deep. Unless you’re presuming the myriad drag queens still basing their looks off of any number of 1920s divas are only copying another queen who serendipitously stumbled upon the look last year. B…

This is a movie that was shown at Cannes, a festival devoted to excellence in film. We really want to go down the “Critics should not critique things at a festival mostly attended and reported on by critics” line of criticism?

You mean, the Deceptacon with two wrecking balls clanging together and we’re told to laugh at it by beloved independent film actor John Tuturro saying “I am directly below the enemy scrotum”?

I was reminded then of the episode of MST3K that riffed on Marooned, and John Sturges’ name came up in the opening credits, and…