They’re also raising their subscription cost by 50%. Not great timing! https://www.businessinsider.com/moviepass-will-raise-its-monthly-price-and-limit-your-ability-to-see-big-upcoming-movies-2018-7

The Pythagorean Theorem is a² + b² = c². You can’t know it to the nearest decimal point, because there are no decimal points...

Claiming that “the plot would hardly be changed at all if you removed Freya from it” is absurd. She’s the thematic mirror to Kratos, an example of what happens when you decide to “protect” your child by removing their own agency and making major decisions for them. That struggle is the primary conflict of the story.

I…

I think Uncharted 4 handled it pretty well. Loot boxes were only available using currency that you earn by playing matches and completing challenges, and if you wanted a SPECIFIC skin/accessory/animation, then you could spend real money to unlock it. It didn’t lock out any gameplay, gave the average player enough…

This is a problem with older TV shows coming to DVD/streaming, but now companies license songs in perpetuity because they know that there’s a home video/streaming afterlife for them. With GTA IV, this should have been apparent from the start, and it’s absurd that Rockstar did a temporary license.

This is one thing I…

Yeah, I wonder if a lot of reviewers are just more lenient when it comes to storytelling in video games. Hard for me to say until I’ve played it, though. I’m just hoping for something interesting that I can play with my wife.

For what it’s worth, this is the most negative review I’ve seen of A Way Out. It’s sitting at an 80/100 average on Metacritic, so a lot of people are digging it http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/a-way-out/critic-reviews

I saw Gimple at a PaleyFest last year, though, where he said the same thing about the previous season’s finale: it was going to be the start of what the show would be moving forward, or some nonsense. Then nothing notable happened in the finale. I think they’re kind of BSing while spinning their wheels.

They did, though. They’ve been following the comics relatively closely for a while now, and Carl had a significant arc moving forward. It’s actually going to be far more work for the writers moving forward WITHOUT him. It definitely seems like the reason they killed him off was because they didn’t want to work around…

I agree with you in general (I wouldn’t start watching a TV series in S7 and expect to know exactly what’s going on), but in a game called Kingdom Hearts 3, aimed largely at kids who like Disney movies, the 7 games of extraordinarily convoluted backstory thing is a bit of a problem. It’s not apparent when looking at…

It’s wildly convoluted, though, and kind of insane that people have to play 7 games originally released across 6 platforms to have a vague idea of what’s going on in a Disney-Final Fantasy crossover.

It...kinda does? Not in a satisfactory or interesting way, and the whole thing totally breaks down when you consider this movie is set in the future and the original Cloverfield isn’t, but it DOES give some sort of origin for where the giant monsters might have come from.

That was what was crazy to me. They so half-assedly tried to shove this into the Cloverfield universe that they didn’t bother to reconcile the super-high-tech futuristic space station with the obviously-mid-aughts Cloverfield.

The only thing he’s directed since Ghost Rider 2 is The Vatican Tapes, sooo...not much http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004410/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Happy! just got renewed for another season, too, so it’s a good day for Brian Taylor fans http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/29/syfy-renews-happy-for-season-2

...yes, Brian Taylor fans DO exist, and there are dozens of us!

Giving an award for Best Director is kind of like sampling dishes from dozens of restaurant and then giving out an award for Best Management. Direction is obviously a major component of a film, but it’s not as simple as “who used the camera best?” or “who was best with the actors?” It can affect every aspect of the…

Note that he didn’t explicitly deny calling Haiti and others “shitholes.” He denied saying “take them out,” which I’m pretty sure wasn’t the major point of contention.

Yeah, it’s possible to have a continually evolving arc while mining drama from micro-arcs that don’t bring everything back to square one. See: Breaking Bad.

Seriously. I’ve had that issue with Firefox on several different PCs, so it’s not just an inter-op issue, either. Firefox keeps data from closed tabs in its memory, and in work environments, where I’m opening/closing tabs frequently, it’s caused my browser to completely crash at least once a day. I’m on Chrome almost…

He’d just label it an “opinion piece” and ignore it, unfortunately.