I mean, definitely, the goal is to help with play, for sure.

I wrote a LONG block about my philosophy on character design (built around the important rule: your backstory don’t mean shit):

At the risk of this sounding like “git gud”: the RNG plays a relatively small role compared to positioning and cover destruction. Any time I’ve gotten fucked by the RNG, it’s because I was taking a risk I shouldn’t have taken. I mean, yes, it sucks when you see 90% to hit and miss. But knowing that you had a chance to…

I would argue this: discussing canon is only interesting when it’s unsettled, when the source material has failed to provide a meaningful or interesting answer.

I understand how the control scheme works from playing earlier games, but I’m a little disappointed there’s no controller support. I’m a couch gamer, and I really do want to play this, but now you want me to go get a _mouse_? I left my mouse at work when everything shut down due to corona virus.

The Travelers episode “17 Minutes” is a really exciting riff on the time loop, rooted in how time travel works in the series: you overwrite the mind of someone living today moments before they die, and hopefully prevent their death and continue your mission. In “17 Minutes”, the mission fails- again and again- and a…

I can make my inner child cry… pretty much all the time, actually. Sure, it’s only one little kid, but I think I should get points for constancy.

I don’t know why I found that so affecting. Like, I’m pretty chill overall about this whole quarantine thing, it’s not actually much of a disruption or source of worry for me, but still, goddamn, I get teary at this.

> One of the devs in the video explains that everyone was too nervous to touch the code, otherwise, something might break

While it wouldn’t be a Batman comic series, I would 100% watch/read a thing about the dispatchers who organize a comic super-team and get them out in the field where they need to be. 90% of it happens in a call center, all the superhero action happens off camera, and I am in.

I think there’s a missing class that sorta falls between some of the classes on your list: the industrial space motif. Alien and Aliens provide the best example of those: the tech isn’t mirroring real tech, but it’s clearly built to give us a sense of an intimately used future, made to feel “real” and “lived in”.

The reveal is dumbfuck nonsense which pretends to be interesting, but isn’t actually interesting. Like, it’s an alteration of the lore of the series, and a significant one, so that seems like it should be important, but on the other hand… it doesn’t actually matter. The Time Lords are extinct (again), so whatever the…

Also, can we pause to appreciate that the big “reveal” of this episode… doesn’t actually matter? It has zero impact to the episode beyond creating some mild tension about how the Doctor would react to this identity crisis. That identity crisis manifested in a few sad looks before the Doctor’s (admittedly great)…

The best part about Doctor Who continuity is that it doesn’t exist. So when there’s some dumbfuck plot idea, like the Doctor is the original Time Lord and has had their mind erased multiple times, you just have to wait a few years before everyone forgets about it.

It is! He doesn’t become a full-on regular until S3, but he makes some appearances during S2. And he is fantastic.

His show got cancelled, but he was so good at it that they found a way to make him a series regular on another show just so that we could enjoy him. Constantine is one of the best parts of Legends of Tomorrow.

Really, your fantasy entry is Harry Potter and not the ultimate sick-day fantasy movie, The Princess Bride?

It’s still bumpy, but when the humor works, it works. My favorite gag was when the mission control lady was meeting with the NASA lady and you get the, “Uh, it’s asking for a password?” The awkwardness of the timing made something which was not-a-joke totally hilarious.

In my defense, it was an 8:30AM class and I was only taking it for the gen-ed credit, so mostly I just wanted everyone else to be as miserable as I was.

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