Look, I live just around the corner from the former Homestead Steelworks and generally think “yes, taking over the steel mill and sniping at the Pinkertons as they try and cross the river” is all, in all, a net positive for the world.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but the idea that body cams are for accountability and not for creating a technical solution to a non-technical problem so that we don’t need to address the fundamental problems of policing is laughable. Like, I understand that bodycams are symbol of Doing Something™ about a Serious Problem™,…

> For now it sounds like a version of Far Cry publisher Ubisoft’s frequent claims that its games aren’t political, combined with “please trust us.” Given how rarely games do end up approaching serious topics with nuance and sensitivity, however, trust hardly feels owed.

No it doesn’t. It sounds like “we acknowledge…

I’m holding still and awaiting calibration of… the nozzle.

The movie is colorful and the action is legible. The “money shot” moments are spectacular. By dint of contrast, I recently watched the Nic Cage Gone in 60 Seconds remake for the first time. Now, I’m not particularly a fan of the original- it’s a fun collection of car stunts, but hardly a movie. What killed the remake…

Jesus Christ. It’s absolutely standard for bank failures to sell the bank’s assets in an attempt to make the depositors whole, because it’s absolutely vital for the functioning of the economy for people to be able to trust that they can put their money in banks. That’s part of the whole FDIC process: the Fed provides…

I mean, I definitely wouldn’t expect it to pan out into a big budget feature, but definitely one of the many smaller budget projects for streaming networks.

> As a guy who managed to oversee an entire corner of the DC universe, including multiple shows, was he only using it all as stepping stone?

Sure, but Cannon films gave us such cinematic classics as Death Wish II, Invasion USA, and of course, the timeless classic, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. So yes, simpleminded viewers, hack writers, greedy producers, and absolutely no quality whatsoever. 

high schoolers who think that hotboxing their mom’s Kia Sorento makes them cool

I can hear Natasha Lyonne say “Oh, and one more thing,” in my head, and it sounds right.

I mean, the early rumors surrounding the show was that Natasha Lyonne was going to star in a Columbo reboot.

I’m not really talking about the changes to the OGL, though that’s it’s own thing (I mean, $250k isn’t enough to run even a small business on- the original intent of the OGL wasn’t to pander directly to hobbyists, but to create a business culture centered around D&D products). I’m talking about the move to a…

Here’s the fundamental problem that I don’t think Hasbro throwing money at it can solve: it’s a content management system, and nobody’s invented a CMS that doesn’t suck either. I think it’s just a difficult problem that doesn’t have a good solution, just different degrees of shitty. A certain amount of shittiness is…

A lot of things that come from AAA studios also suck, and they’re frequently trying to build games that follow established patterns. Nobody’s made a good VTT yet. Doing it 3D doesn’t really address the real problems of a VTT, and actually makes one of the main problems worse: custom content. Pictures are easier to…

Maybe this will be the year where we get a VTT that’s better than google docs and trusting players to roll dice on their own, but I doubt it. I’ve reached a point where I will never run a game in Roll20, because it’s hot garbage. Foundry is better, but still cumbersome as hell. Honestly, every attempt to make the game…

I’d argue that a fantasy setting is inherently not medieval. This one seems to be just “medieval with zombies”. Not saying that makes Vermintide bad, just it’s a different vibe.

Medieval Four Player Co-Op Zombie killing?

1/25 of 0 is still 0, so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.

The thing is that Chibnall’s episodes were honestly usually just mediocre. Like, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: stupid, kinda fun, but absolutely empty. Frankly, the scripts for the entire Whittaker era were mostly mediocre. I mean, there were stupid things like trying to resurrect the Cartmel Master Plan, and introducing…