I think it will be fine. I was skeptical about uncharted 4, but it ended up being a really good game instead of wearing out its welcome. I’m actually super pumped to see Nadine and Chloe have their own adventure, and I don’t think they’ll do a disservice to The Last of Us either. I’d also love to see more original…

I am transported back to the early aught’s in my high school theater club, truly. So many artistes.

I don’t know if that is necessarily true. Companies like Naughty Dog have made an indelible mark on gaming by telling amazing stories.

Pretty much exactly. Cindy isn’t even all that bad as a character. She’s helpful and smart, but her design and animations made specifically as wank material are just boring, overdone, out of place and embarrassing.

I found myself wishing there was some DLC to get her some actual mechanic’s clothes. Her personality is fine, the design just looks so stupid.

She feels so incredibly out of place. She looks like she walked off the set of a volleyball game, not final fantasy. My eyes rolled so hard they fell out the back of my head. Her character isn’t even all that bad, she’s helpful and nice although she does that weird bouncing bow motion far too often, which no one…

Pretty sure the “spoiler” is that Aeris dies, which if anyone doesn’t already know after like 20 years I would like to buy timeshares to the cave they’ve been vacationing in. So no worries about 15 spoilers.

It’s a fake chest, the actor is actually underneath the table.

They knew that “something” would come out of his chest, but they didn’t know it would be huge and burst out like that spraying blood. The script was vague. I’m not surprised they jumped with genuine shock.

Looking at the producers, writers, and staff listed on imbd, this looks to be a Hollywood movie with a Chinese director and Chinese actors, rather than a Chinese movie marketing to the West.

It’s not really a Chinese movie. The bones of the movie are Hollywood establishment. It’s written by pretty established Hollywood writers (pretty much exclusively white men), including some involved in famous white-savior and whitewashed movies like The Last Samurai and Prince of Persia. The producers are mostly white…

Pork pie is the beeeeeeeest

People who aren’t Italian are using Nonna? That’s unusual. I’ve seen families who both go by Nonna/Nonno/Nonni even when one of the grandparents isn’t Italian, for consistency’s sake. But not someone claiming it when no one has Italian heritage at all.

Haha, one side of my family is ethnically French Canadian as well and Mémère/Pépère have survived. Possibly because we were closer with my Mémère and Pépère growing up than my Grandma and Grandpa, so it feels more affectionate. Along with pork pies at Christmas, those have stuck around.

Weirdly, my all-Italian mother-in-law chose to be called “Grandma” instead of “Nona” because Nona sounded too old to her. All about perspective I suppose. Nona sounds interesting and like a nice throwback to heritage while grandma just sounds old to me. But for her, Nona was her old wrinkled grandma who immigrated…

Exsqueeze me, he made a bed by chopping down his own tree with an axe and then carved it himself in the woods. If that isn’t hipster I don’t know what is.

I’ll take “Papa” over calling parents by their first names any day.

I’m so grumpy about it I’m going to go replay both Bioshock games for a nice break from all this political stuff.

Tiny houses really only work if you have easily accessible community spaces in which to get away from one another. People like the draw of a tiny house but forget that harmonious living in small one room spaces with multiple people requires extra space elsewhere.

Two things that would drive me crazy is that there’s no escaping mess. If the kitchen or living room is a mess from dinner/children, you can’t say “I’ll get it in the morning” and retreat away somewhere more pleasant. If one thing is messed up, your entire floor is messed up. Second, everything has to look the same…