I don’t categorically hate Microsoft products, and I’m definitely not a Sony superfan, but when this gen of consoles were new, I wasn’t going to be able to afford more than 1 of them, and Microsoft was saying and doing ALL the wrong things. They walked back a lot of the worst decisions before release, but not all of…

...once this is all over—assuming we’re not all nuked out of existence—they’ll have their money and their good looks...

I am comfortable wishing ill upon them. I have no intent to enact it personally, but if I were the praying sort, I would pray for them to develop embarrassing and uncomfortable health problems. Massive boils on their noses, say, or severe and debilitating hemorrhoids.

Well, I’m SO glad to know they ruined Captain America for no good reason. That just makes this mess even more maddening.

Secret Empire isn’t meant to be read as political commentary despite the current “heated debate” regarding fascism in the US.

I like having them around the Marvel universe. They’re essentially unique, in that they’re a literal family (lots of teams play up the emotional bonds between their members, but they’re usually not actually related), which can bring interesting dynamics to the table. And when good writers actually are handling them,…

The FF have been in a decline, popularity-wise, for a long time, actually. Some of that is because, since they’ve been focusing more and more on the characters they own movie rights for at Marvel Comics, they stopped putting their ‘A’ talent on FF books (back when there were any), but some of that goes back further,…

and somehow make Reed Richards not an asshole.

First and foremost, all the applause to Patty Jenkins - that was a superb response.

It’s clear that they thought they could shortcut to the big moneys. The problem with planning out multi-movie franchises is you have to make some pretty long-term decisions, and then you’re stuck with a lot of them even when it starts to become clear that mistakes were made. And if it isn’t quite clear A: that…

I’m not sort of expert on the internal politics of Warner Brothers, but I seem to remember hearing that there was some really bad blood between the TV and movie divisions for a very long time. Like the guy who ran the movie division hated the TV guys (or the whole television industry) with irrational passion, and he…

Patty Jenkins, who was somehow not signed to a multi-picture deal, is currently in final negotiations to return as director. Probably with a much-deserved raise.

the studio is looking to get into more comedy shows in the wake of The New Warriors

The real tragedy to me is that I think it was a good game in most of the same ways the original was, but with much better gameplay. It served to lay down a foundation for future installments that could have built on it in really interesting ways (which the original trilogy mostly failed to do by focusing instead on…

MIGHT have bought this close-ish to launch - I got the first one late and on sale, but it was quite fun - but the microtransaction stuff is a huge turnoff. Also the “Shelob is a sexy lady” nonsense bugs me.

Which means you (and me too, it must be said) pretty much aren’t their target market. Nintendo made a very deliberate choice a long time ago to stick to being a “family friendly” company. They very occasionally let 3rd parties make more adult-oriented games for their platforms, but they pretty much never do it…

Adam Wingard said the controversy caught him by surprise. “It’s one of those things where it’s a good conversation to be having, and it wasn’t one we were really expecting,” he said. “It wasn’t until Ghost in the Shell cracked it open [that] it became a conversation.

He kinda did, when he played The Trickster on the 1991 Flash TV show:

So, serious question: did something happen to Bruce Timm? Is he ill, or receive a nasty head wound within the last few years? I don’t understand how the guy responsible for so much of the wonderful DCAU keeps making such terrible Batman movies.

Yeah, I’m with you. I like the character of Kenobi - McGregor’s performance of him was one of the few good parts of the prequels, and they did interesting things with his character in Clone Wars - but his story is told. Based on how he ends in RotS and what happens in his appearance on Rebels, his life during those…