Are you kidding? Loki’s unorthodox villainy is what makes him so great. Regular movie villains are so mindlessly, single-mindedly villainy that they almost infallibly end up dead as a doorknob by the end of the movie. Except for Lex Luthor, who was a ridiculously comical and inept figure, and thus managed to return…

Narcissism could be considered both Crazy and Cocky. And I do believe Thanos, being titled the most powerful being in the Universe and not the Galaxy(stated in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie), could be fairly narcissistic and therefore, both crazy and cocky.

Given that they talk about how he will be the biggest and badest villain yet, that is an exceptionally low bar to get over.

I swear, if they screw up Thanos, I will snap my fingers, and half the staff of Marvel Studios will simply cease to be. Crazy, not cocky. Crazy, not cocky. Say it with me.

Glad this made toppings comment.

This is certainly true. His moving Little Ceasar/Olympia Entertainment’s HQ to the Fox Theatre & renovating that old, huge ornate theater provided a positive anchor downtown (or near downtown, anyway) when the business district literally looked like a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the late 1980s-late 2000s. He also…

I’m also not sure why he always gets credit for turning the Tigers around or why I was supposed to feel bad they never won the WS. He bought them in ‘92 and treated them like the red headed step child for over a decade. It was only when they got historically awful that he was shamed into actually putting a decent…

Nice to see that he was given his due to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars while the city was bankrupt.

Dammit. I had a joke loaded and ready to go. However, I must bow to your greater one.

Say what you will about Illitch, but without him, all the Downtown Detroit teams would have went suburb years ago.

Rest in Pizza-Pizza

Yep. That’s the corporate world.

Tell me about it. Though I’ve never in the gaming industry, the film industry is no different. “Thanks for helping in creating this stellar movie but we’ve got to let some of you guys go”. Oh, let’s not let go of the junior artist, the senior artist cost too much to keep ... so see ya and good luck!

You don’t need to guess. That is EXACTLY what happened. It’s standard operating procedure with Activision. Drive people to near insanity to meet deadlines with financial goals that are impossible to meet. (How could a new IP in the franchise compete with BO3?)

Standard practices across corporations unfortunately, which is why I people buy into the lie that lowering taxes on corporations will bring in increased pay and jobs to the little guys. HAH. Reminds me of an article I read somewhere... maybe Gizmodo.. about employees not actually realizing how much of a difference…

Hey - you sound like you’ve worked in the corporate (sourpuss) world before!

That statement is missing a couple instances of ‘innovative’, ‘disrupt’, and ‘engagement’, but with a few tweaks I think that kid will be ready for his SXSW speech.

I think you’re entirely right. Everyone seems to have a different take on who the Bajorans are, depending on what oppressed group they identify with. Which is probably a sign that writers did an excellent job with them.

I thought that was the point of them. To embody the idea of an oppressed people struggling to get out from under foot. So much of their culture is just taken from cultures that experienced similar genocidal oppression. Seems like it was done intentionally sot hey would be relatable for those they represented.

The fact that the parallels are transferrable and changing based on the audience is possibly the most interesting part about it.