It’s because on the internet, everything has to be either the best or worst thing ever.

It’s kind of nice that there’s less of a monoculture than there used to be.

Cookie Clicker’s legit.

I think to some extent the bizarreness of comics books comes *from* the world changing with superhumans as a part of it.

Honestly, you didn’t really miss much. It was very much a generic TV drama that vaguely gestured towards superheroes and comics as a concept. It felt fresh and compelling at the time, but genre TV has gotten much more *confident* since.

It’s a pretty serious indictment on how enshittified mobile gaming is when the marketing budget vastly outstrips development costs.

Mobile game ads in general are famously weird. They remind me a little of bowling alley animations.

Yes it has. Also old media.

“Then there’s the image on the poster itself. Clearly, that’s a lightsaber with a trail of blood. Pretty violent for Star Wars, don’t you think? But is it the Jedi doing the killing? Someone else with a Jedi’s lightsaber? There are so many questions.”

The problem with The Witcher wasn’t that the plot deviated from the books, it’s that there was a mandate to dumb it down and lean into shallow character drama. In other words, the fallacy that being a TV show necessitated a particular deck of tropes.

ikr?

I think it's supposed to be sarcastic, but AVC isn't deft with snark like it used to be.

I’ve seen a theory that the tags are automated/autosuggested.

“Just pointing out hypocrisy” is another way to say whataboutism. Things don’t stop being a problem just because there’s another, similar problem not being addressed.

There’s a pretty common attitude that all manner of atrocities - murder, torture, rape, even war and genocide - are fine as long as they happen to the “deserving”.

Sometimes you see a headline you wouldn’t have randomly predicted, but that also comes as absolutely no surprise.

Would have been nice if the article actually included these characters, instead of just a bunch of links.

If there’s one thing that’s good at moving forward it’s a juggernaut.

It’s because “Marvel bad” is easy ragebait, and has been since the Scorcese thing kicked off.