This isn’t the first time it’s happened. I think it’s actually kind of smart for the consumer, oddly enough. Now that we have choice between the convenience of digital copies or the tangible value of physical copies, offering a collectors’ edition without the game gives the player choice in how they want the game…

Seriously, and I don’t see enough people talking about it. Disney, in their infinite wisdom, should have had one person running the entire trilogy from start to finish. Regardless of directors, one vision. But what we got was JJ (the Star Trek director? really? They’re completely different! WHY!?) writing a story that…

The biggest problem with TLJ is that it was mostly pretty boring. 

Disney only understood Star Wars in terms of OT nostalgia. The Force Awakens indulged that nostalgia; The Last Jedi subverted it. But both movies were dependent on nostalgia as the foundation. That was the only “plan.”

Yeah, that was my biggest problem with TLJ. It didn’t subvert expectations for any reason other than subverting them. Luke throws away the lightsaber! Snoke doesn’t matter at all! Rey’s parents were nobodies!

But, the hill I will die on time and time again, the character assassination of Luke was just completely out…

The problem was a lack of clear direction and a planned overall arc for the three movies. That exacerbates the issues with each one of them.

I think on some level we’re a little more aware of colonialism, and the trope of a white storyteller making a movie about colonialism as if it’s some abstract concept feels kind of outdated

I don’t think it’s so much that Cameron is a “white storyteller” as much as it the story of the first one was based on the dated “white savior” trope. The Na’vi were doomed before white guy Jake (okay in a fake blue body) showed up to show them how *really* to be a Na’vi warrior. And naturally he’s just better at…

A year ago the hate was about not wanting an accent.

Yep, it’s fine, but Kotaku will bring this up from now until April, and probably well after, for cheap clicks.

First, it is an awards show. This is the sort of thing where you probably should dress up a bit if you’re expecting to be on-stage, joke of an awards show as it might be.

Just do raids

The Overwatch thing is giving me an existential crisis. I want to be a principled person who doesn’t support things like putting heroes behind a paywall/timegate. I also badly want to play this new tank that’s coming out.

It took me like three weeks to get to the battle pass level that would have unlocked Kiriko in…

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It doesn’t need to be said yet again, but Ye is demonstrably stupid. Hitler never invented a damn thing, never provided any benefit to society. Ye is confusing the probably Telefunken-made Neumann CMV-3 condenser mic clone as being “invented” by Hitler because, well he’s an idiot. Georg Neumann invented the “bottle…

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in getting rid of all these key staff, he’s pissed off the advertisers and needs to replace them with people spending $8 a month for a blue tick. Only new he’s realised that around 50% of twitter users are on iOS and he will have to pay Apple between $1.20 and $2.40 a month.

The problem is it’s not really a de-aging filter, it seem to basically just be a wrinkle remover.  I don’t think they look particularly younger in the after shot.  Their skin still hangs on their face like an older person.  Their facers are puffier like an older person as well.  It’s not slimming or tightening the…

The old-ifying looks pretty great, but the young’n-ing is kinda weaksauce, in my very humble opinion. That level of smoothing tends to scream something’s not right here! and resembles, to my eye, a sort of gauzy Kardashian filter. Young people are generally smoother, it’s true, but they’re not all glossily perfect…

How was it remastered for 3D? The answer is alway ‘badly.’