The swapping Chinese characters with gibberish and whitewashing the cast didn’t help. When the original casting was announced there was an immediate backlash from fans of the show, who made “Racebending” a buzzword.  Not that Hollywood learned its lesson in the least.

I’ve seen that version. It is raunchy.

Yeah, no, sorry. It’s not simply mediocre. It’s a terrible adaptation AND a terrible film on its own. It’s directed like shit, written like shit, and edited like shit. Everything it decides to change, from the way bending works to the pronounciation of character names to the limitations of firebending to the setting…

They screwed up the pronunciation of the main character’s name.  I don’t even know you screw up an adaptation that badly.  Imagine you’re watching the Star Wars sequels, and Rey keeps referring to that old Jedi as “Lick Skywalker.”

All of which, of course, would not even matter if potential locations had to meet minimum standards like “won’t allow censorship of nominations” and “don’t criminalize being queer.”

Even the way Chengdu got the convention is dodgy. Members vote on where the convention will be and anybody can buy a voting membership for not a lot of money. Apparently, many of the votes for Chengdu had identical handwriting and came from the same mailing address. The committee noticed that, but chalked it up to the…

Not exactly. It’s more the equivalent of Hollywood movies taking it upon themselves to make sure there’s no content that would be objectionable in China so it can play in China, except the people who took it upon themselves were incompetent and were just “I dunno, the book mentions China, it could be a problem, let’s…

Typo alert:

Yeah. You can like or dislike where they went with Part II, but I don’t know how anyone could play it and think it isn’t the result of a very clear vision of what they wanted to do with all of the characters.

Uhh. Did you actually play the TLOU2?

Whenever somebody rolls out the word “objectively,” you can be sure the subtext is “don’t contradict my opinion.”

but JJ abrams, who directed that mess, doesn’t get any flak for it. 

It baffled me while playing Bloodborne, how a game that people kept telling me was designed around the need to “get good” was so unfriendly about letting you get back into the boss fight right away to keep practicing. Instead, a boss could kill you in a few moves, then you had to trek all the way back to try and learn…

Saying “no games should have an easy mode” is gatekeeping. Saying “it’s fine this game doesn’t have an easy mode” isn’t. Look, I’m of the opinion that it’s fine that From games don’t have a difficulty selector, because I think we need to let creators be free to do what they want (as long as it’s not actively harmful -…

It is gate keeping. You are judging by your skills. And who are you to tell someone else how the difficulty makes a game less satisfying?? What is hard to you may be easy to others - or may be impossible. I long ago swore off any souls types games. No matter how much the setting or story appeals to me i have no…

“I don’t like games having difficulty options” are saying they don’t want the choice to be there. The choice being there does NOTHING if they chose not to engage it. The choice NOT being there affects everyone else who would have engaged with said options... so its gatekeeping. Who the hell are YOU to dictate whether…

It’s not gatekeeping to say “I would prefer an experience custom built by the game’s director.” It is gatekeeping to say “Developers who had difficulty settings are making a mistake.”

There’s a huge gulf between “I like X” and “people who don’t like X aren’t real gamers”

They literally said the word “Personally”,…

Having an option does not make a game worse.  That’s gatekeeping.  You’re saying that if someone can’t keep up with the difficulty YOU are comfortable with, they shouldn’t be allowed to play the game.  Other people having the choice to lower or raise difficulty has no effect what so ever on the difficulty you play on.

His sister is kind of hilariously insane in Andromeda, too.

There WASN’T anybody by that name.