Judging from those chubby cheeks, I expect there will be no russian into action from these guys.

Yeah, Carano was just in 7 of the 16 episodes during her two seasons, so definitely a guest appearance sort of thing. Katee Sackhoff might have been bumped up to ‘starring’ role for S3 as she was in every episode, but that’s the only exception I can think of.

I thought Carano wasn’t actually fired, but simply just didn’t get her contract renewed. She was definitely let go between seasons rather than removed from the cast during production, and the official statement from Lucasfilm stated that “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for…

I remember when I was twenty, trekking out to Toys R’ Us in a snowstorm, so I could pay $75 for a copy of Shadows of the Empire for the N64. That’s 1996 dollars, so that’s like $150 today. And you know what it is that drove me to do that?

“the overarching majority of people I talked to”
“Most people out in the real world I talked to”
“The vast majority of people I talked to in the real world”

My dude is out there doing more exit polling than the Associated Press.

Giving a scalper two hundred bucks for a fucking thermos...

Gen X gamers are the Boomers of Kotaku at this point.

Huh. I thought the name looked wrong and went to check, didn’t realize she uses an English phonetic spelling as her stage name.

maybe because he felt bad about dunking on Sullivan’s appearance

In general, getting older sucks. My back hurts, I need bifocals, my mortgage rate is ruinous, etc. One of the few upsides to being an old is that I’m blissfully out-of-touch with various shithead streamer shenanigans. What little I know is what shows up in Kotaku headlines, and I swear they always sound like…

All of which can be done well, but has been done for 50 years in the comics now.

That’s the ceiling. At level six, you can deliver four attacks without a spell slot. If you bumped Charisma a Sorc4 and every hit should land, that’s an epic 38 points of damage at a level where other casters are delivering less than a third of that. Even a pure sorcerer using a Quickened Fire Bolt is only averaging…

That’s good, but the real killer is the sorcerer’s Quicken metamagic. Cast Eldritch blast with your action, use two sorcery points on Quicken and cast Eldritch Blast *again* as a bonus action. At level 17, you’re throwing around eight blasts a round for seven rounds without using a single spell slot.

Getting a bit salty over those nat 1s...

Chris O’Dowd? Meh, he was a dick to my wife at the Dublin Airport.

And I don’t even think you can buy the DLC yet.

The only series I’ve really enjoyed have been WandaVision, particularly the inventive retro television concept, and Loki, which had several characters I really enjoyed. The rest of the shows generally just felt to me like Marvel versions of the CW Arrowverse; not a lot of stakes, not a lot of spectacle, and…

I wonder if Kevin Feige watches shows like this and actually thinks “this is good stuff!” or if he’s just phoning it in at this point. It’s hard to believe that the guy who engineered a decade’s worth of can’t-miss, smash hit films is signing off on this parade of blandly unremarkable MCU D+ series.

That’s Cincinnati; the state fair is in Columbus.