Wow, deep cut.

Ooh, he hit all my criticisms of open world games. “How can you tell a main story if the player can do whatever they want?” “a mass murderer of people who are trying to live there, 99 percent of whom are bandits.” That’s basically Bethesda’s problems in a nutshell!

I take it this is Diplomacy, but with an ultimate goal of producing enough of a resource rather than controlling enough territory? And maybe without the “everybody negotiates then announces their moves” format? Interesting...

Just finished a few weeks ago. My expectations were maybe a hair too high, but I still really liked it. Stray thoughts:

Yeah, you’re right. I should think about why Logan worked for me and Ant-Man mostly didn’t.

Yeah, I liked Winter Soldier and The First Avenger a lot—a bit more personal, at the same time that they were great Superhero Saves the World movies. They’re near the top of my list for sure. I’d probably put First Avenger above Winter Soldier, though I gather most people would disagree.

I still need to see Homecoming! I haven’t seen that or Ragnarok, and I gather I’ve missed out on two of the absolute best. Think I’ve seen everything except Homecoming, the Thors, and Strange, M.D. So Logan could definitely still get bumped from my top spot—though if Black Panther didn’t do it, I don’t know what will.

I dunno, for me the best Marvel movie isn’t an MCU movie at all. I’d put Logan slightly above Black Panther, and I’m guessing most people would at least put it in their top 5. Will the MCU ever start doing small stories that aren’t about world-shaking clashes, or is that just never going to be in their repertoire?

Just score it E-Manfred

You can easily improve on Solitaire, though, and most solitaire games do. About 10-20% of games are unwinnable, no matter how well you play. That’s not a sign of a good game!

Deleted Binding of Isaac as quickly as I could after hitting 3,000,000% (full completion on all three save files). Did not want to take the chance that I’d keep playing anyway.

The mellifluous announcer saying “a decisive pummeling!” and “ghoulish horrors - brought low, and driven into the muck” seemed a bit derivative too.

Exactly. It was indistinguishable from dozens of feel-good league ads that NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL run every single year for Opening Day or the finals. It was a weak crop generally, but even so I’m baffled that this even got nominated.

Yep. I feel so bad for Lost Property Office that it was kept out because of this garbage. I catch the animated shorts almost every year and Dear Basketball was at best the second-worst I’ve ever seen. (“Prologue” might have been worse, but there’s no way I’m going back to watch it again.)

Nah, it wasn’t the “redemption of a racist” plot line that made me hate it, or even the totally casual way they used the black residents’ suffering as scene-setting and punchlines. I thought it was badly made (tonally all over the place, weirdly edited, mostly uninteresting to look at), badly written (characters whose…

Can’t argue with that, and Francis McDormand was definitely the best part of the movie for me.

Kinja is gradually over filling with my posts saying Patrick Stewart should have been nominated for Logan over Harrelson (or, to be honest, Jenkins).

Oh for sure, I have no doubt that Crash is absolute fucking garbage. I just need to believe that movies as bad as Three Billboards only come around once a decade.

I haven’t seen Crash and hope never to see Crash and also am confident you’re being unfair to Crash.

I haven’t had a group leave a movie that divided since Dancer in the Dark. Two of us loathed it, one thought it was a masterpiece, two thought it was fine.