Farewell Kojima.

What is a convenient way to play MGS1 these days? I’m without a PS1 or 2 at the moment. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

It hardens what I thought about Dinklebot: It’s not the actor, it’s the direction. The result is exactly what Bungie wants, and what Bungie wants sucks.

Accept buzz isn’t flying. Not to his standards anyway. Buzz delt with his sense of self. He accepts that he’s a toy, and not the space ranger he thought he was. His flight is symbolic.

It’ll be the idiots who can’t hold their wad. You know the people actually breaking the law and making it knowing full well they’re infringing on the rights.

I don’t see Buzz Lightyear’s flight as breaking the rules of consistency. To me the point of the story is that Buzz thinks he’s *more* than just a toy and that Woody resents that optimism.

“Compelling” is a subjective term, but I don’t think any of the girls are given as much development as Woody, Buzz, or any of the villains. The one who comes closest is probably Bonnie, who for my money ends up being more interesting than Jessie. Though Jessie does get to be the focus of the terrific Halloween special.

Personally I don’t see that as flying as much as gliding.

Jessie is barely compelling in the movie that introduced her, and never again after. Barbie isn’t compelling ever - she’s a cultural reference gag.

Fan have all the time they want to make something “perfect”, whereas for the anime studios, it’s “just a job” and they have to work on tight deadlines and budget. Of course, it’s not an excuse for poor quality animation, but it does explain why fan art can be “better” than the original material

I hear that isn't true. Animators don't have the luxury to just sit around and mess up animation projects. They're underpaid and overworked and hurried. They can't trudge through that without a ton of passion of the craft. It's not as simple as 'fans care more'. Because I don't think that's fair to the animators.

Iron Man’s origin can shift from war to war, and Captain America is simply frozen until modern day, making their origins timeless.

That’s why this fight is completely contextual. Also what would really happen is that Superman would say Hi, try to befriend Batman before ever actually punching him, and they’d be friends. Because they totally both have the no-kill thing going.

*Bad* Batman stories show him as completely unemotional.

That’s not particularly true, even within the comics or the animated tv show. What makes Batman interesting isn’t that he’s some hyper-competent superhero who always has a gadget or spray repellent to save the day, it’s that underneath all the martial arts, the costumes, and the masks is a (flawed) human being. And…

In that case I think it had less to do with The Joker and more to do with Heath Ledger’s performance.

I will be upfront. Batman has been “infallible” and “too cool to fail” for a long time recently.

It was the same problem in the Dark Knight trilogy in that as soon as they introduce Joker as the main villain nothing can live up to it, especially when they were played so well.

Am I the only one that feels that they dulled him down so that he “fits” into the standard video game protagonist narrative? Stoic, technically badass, but little to no emotion, and doesn’t really express ANY of his thoughts on things happening to him?