Having recently gone back to play FFXI, I really have found it to be fantastic; in particular I absolutely adore the trust system, and the story is really strong. Honestly I think the biggest issue with FFXI is that its UI and user interactions in general is very clunky, too many clicks for simple actions and…

One of the biggest issues with criticism in general is how many people confuse “I don’t like this” with “this is bad”

To be fair, its entirely possible that its not the actual animation thats expensive but the contracts with studios for a show that is now in double digit seasons. The reason most shows, even the popular ones, rarely reach double digits is because contracts are often written to bump pay each season and then contract…

Honestly, I want to know how many times Disney THEMSELVES have actually announced these characters as their “first gay characters”. Every time this happens and you follow the articles to the source, it generally ends up being either a commentator, like a columnist or a reviewer or a twitter person, declaring it the…

I’m mildly excited but I’m expecting this to be very clapter (“message-driven comedy that inadvertently prioritizes political pandering above comedic merit”, to quote one definition) heavy, as that seems to be Apple+’s brand. Its not that hes not a talented comedian, but clapter’s strength is its mad libs nature; take…

Its even worse because the AV Club heaps scorn on people using the “gotta make rent” explanation when its for something they don’t like

Remember when people were excited for more Rick and Morty?

Its all up for free officialy on Youtube. It starts with what seems like the same low stakes of the original Build Divers, only to keep layering in nuance and ideas until its full Gundam

Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise is actually pretty damn good, speaking as somebody really dissapointed by the original Build Divers. It becomes more and more Gundam as it goes on

Its missing a link: It tended to be a result of corruptions of old shitty facebook memes that are formatted like
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY
WHERE WOMEN LIKE ASSHOLES AND IGNORE SMART GUYS
and shit like that with somebody having a Deep Thought on top of it. People made fun of it by cutting out the bottom of the meme, leaving it…

Hit the nail on the head here. This is also why it can so often seem to work in counterintuitive ways or to seem to fall past the actual stated issue, because its fuflfilling deeper psychological and social wants and needs the actions can tend to focus on those first and the issue second

To be fair, there is something to be said about desensitization, especially in our media-saturated society. A crucial aspect before acts of mass violence is a feeling that the people being hurt deserve to be or at least there is no major problem with doing so, therefore there is an argument to be made that…

The thing is, I think Scorsese i pointing to an issue that people have been talking about for decades, the feeling that only mass-mass-market media gets to be made nowadays, that Warner Brothers is uninterested in giving decent budgets to up and coming directors as opposed to inflating the DCEU budget by another 8…

I’d argue that Google got those projections and knew what they were supposed to deal with, but Google and alot of Silicon Valley tech firms seem to be built on myths of creative destruction and the idea that if you enter the market in the right way and have the right selling points, every obstacle that the traditional…

I’d argue even Netflix is going away from the binge model, increasingly they are releasing half-seasons (See Bojack’s final season getting cut in half and released with a few month gap) or releasing extra specials outside the regular seasons in order to get more engagement for the same amount of content. For as much…

I think the problem is that “games as a service” has been used to justify alot of bullshit (See terrible launches like Anthem or exploitative microtransaction policies like, well, everybody) but, the thing is, that bullshit is not itself a result of GAAS. That bullshit is a result of other issues and skewed…

I’d argue the “shady as shit” and “massive power” are inextricably linked

Alot of this is the death of the mid-budget game. Its similar to what has happened in Hollywood, where there used to be a middle area of mid-budget movies that had money for some special effects and such but was not targeting a blockbuster audience, flanked by the microbudget indies and the big budget blockbusters.…

I think theres another aspect/variation, especially with stuff like The Great Gatsby where it has a loud reputation, and its that when people base their identity around reading, they begin to see their taste as representative of themselves as a person, of their intelligence and thought and discernment, and so when…

God, the cancellation of Ducktales is a genuine tragedy. If it had come out just a year or two later it would have been prime D+ material, but it ended up too tied up in cable bullshit.