“I didn’t realize we made someone feel bad because I couldn’t see her face,” doesn’t really hold water for me, because the entire smug, self-satisfied, smarmy tone that they had was clearly intended to make someone feel bad.

It’s not so much speed, I think, as much as coordination. Williams and the puppeteer needed to be in sync, they needed to have the same comic timing, they needed to be an extension of each other. Williams wasn’t just fast, he had a very specific pacing to his delivery and was a notorious ad-libber.

Unlike Barry and Iris, when two annoying guests hijack their wedding to also get married at the same time, nobody in the Waverider crew would take that shit.

The really funny thing is that, in any other year, you could say, “right, but it was the best zombie heist movie of the year! And also the worst!” but it came out less than a year after Peninsula, which was a much better movie!

I’d argue that the code quality in an open product is probably better than the code quality in anything EA does.

Exploits and cheats would be the big money, especially for games that are competitive.

Right, but if we haven’t seen every iota of everything that’s ever happened to him, the story still has gaps. Don’t you wanna see how he got his hat?

No, what I’m saying is that a self-congratulatory “I’ve done something EVEN WEIRDER THAN ANYTHING ELSE!” isn’t really selling me on it because it doesn’t sound true. It sounds desperate.

I love Waititi, but this really sounds like a mad scramble to say “we’ve got nothing, so I’m throwing shit at the wall, and here’s hoping it works!” Maybe it’ll be great, and I hope it is.

What you’re telling me is that these terrorists should have put some stakes on a plane.

I’ll rate this as “a good start, and we’ll what the follow through looks like.”

It’s not really about “permanent social and economic living death for anyone”, it’s about assholes. Do you want to hang out with assholes? Do you want to work with assholes? Assholery is contagious, it rubs off on you. And if you are an asshole who’s getting shunned, there’s a simple fix: stop being an asshole.

But until the last minutes of the film, Lloyd neither ran out of scenery, nor mobsters, so the line doesn’t work.

Gods, I’m super excited for the next Superman and Lois episode, and I’m bummed that it’s not for three weeks. That’s the kind of show where I find myself saying, “Oh good, the superhero punching is almost over, and we’re gonna get a scene of Clark and Lois talking about how to raise their sons.” And the punching is…

That was my first thought, too.

Nate Plisken was the best throwaway gag in an episode packed with great throwaway gags. But yeah, the Avalance stuff was executed sweetly, and also creates a delightful inversion of the “bury your gays” trope.

This is a movie that would be utterly forgettable if not for Christopher Lloyd. No offense to Odenkirk, he does a lot to elevate the film, but it’s Lloyd who shows up to chew scenery and blast mobsters.

I mean, they want a lot more than that, too. It’s necessary for a competitive scene, for being able to hand out bans, etc. And yeah, they probably want to a/b test things too. And for sure, in modern gaming, having constant changes and updates is a big part of how you keep players hooked.

“Always needs an Internet connection” is bad. Terrible. But even setting that aside, the whole “publisher runs the servers” thing bugs the hell out of me. Now, I’m old enough that I’ve done FPS multiplayer via null modem cables and just like, regular modems, so maybe I’m biased. While having “official” servers seems…

It was disorienting to hear my name in the trailer so much.