You can run straight past the swamp on Torrent. Cut straight through from the entrance, or hug the right wall, and you'll dash past everything. It's if you go left into the area with the birds that it gets dicier, but that's a dead end anyway.

Portal fantasy is arguably lazier and more generic.

This is exactly what I was saying when that episode of Game of Thrones came out.

This is AVClub, they’ve been worse than Kotaku for years.

Sports fandom's also pretty ridiculous though.

I like the implication that he rebuilds his car between each film. Remember it gets shredded in Fury Road too.

Are you trolling?

It’s called juxtaposition, it’s a pretty common device.

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.