The MCU keeps trying to make new starting points and things just keep happening. Deaths, covid shutdowns, contract disputes, strikes, characters held for ransom, domestic disputes, actors dropping from projects, dropped projects, rewrites, directors leaving projects, directors seeming to purposely sabotage the…

I think Kamala is one of the better characters in Disney’s MCU, she’s lodged in a weird spot in the timeline tho.

If you don’t like a series of movies, no one’s forcing you to watch them. I’ve consistently enjoyed most MCU products, even some of the shows, and I think there’s a ton of group-think about Marvel itself coloring the reception to its individual products. The Marvels and even Quantumania very much included there.

I get…

You saw Bollywood planet coming? The body switching that was the movie’s focus: what Marvel movie did that before?

Yeah I’ve been down on a lot of Marvel lately which is why I was so surprised when I saw The Marvels and thought it was the best of their recent batch. Maybe benefitted from low expectations, though

The Marvels was far, far better than Quantummania. The Marvels felt like “old school” MCU in a way that many other recent movies have kinda lacked.

Has there really been a decline in quality tho? None of the recent releases are any worse than the average release pre-IW. Some have still been amazing, some are just average, but that's always been true in the whole of the MCUs run. Not every release has to he better than what came before.

waiting two to three years to play exclusives that may never arrive, and saying that’s an objectively better approach to gaming than buying games when they’re actually at their peak culturally relevance, is certainly a choice. i’m not sure i would recommend that to your average teenage gamer, though. it honestly only…

As I’ve said multiple times since this generation started up, Microsoft has given me literally zero reason to buy an Xbox. I’ve had every generation of PlayStation since the original, so it was already my “default” console, but I am not inherently anti-xbox; I loved and still have the first one. However, since I…

I feel like a PS5 is the only logical console for a PC owner to have. Any Microsoft exclusives are already on PC, so if you want access to the most games possible, the PC/PS5 combo is the best set. Despite also owning a hilariously overkill PC because of my job, I still use and love my PS5, but that’s really just…

This isn’t the end of exclusivity. This is (potentially) the end of MS exclusivity. Sony will continue doing exclusives into perpetuity because it’s been working for them and they have no reason to change unless their market share starts to drop.

Not for Nintendo or PlayStation who with the Switch and PS5 stopped selling consoles at a loss. 

I have a PS5 - I don’t plan on buying an Xbox, ever. Sorry, not sorry. I had one, once - a first-gen 360; it was nice, but HELLA noisy. It never died of RROD as long as I had it either. Those things are not a problem anymore I hear, but I just can’t justify buying yet another damn console which does the exact same thin…

One thousand games come out every year. Let us have something truly weird and visionary. “Artsy” as you put it. We need it.

I really disagree, I think there should be places in the industry for artistic expression and experimentation. Not everything has to be a cookie-cutter gameplay experience. While yeah Death Stranding wasn’t for me for the most part I appreciate the effort to try new things and I think we should encourage more of that…

I think you’re missing the point.

I really hope this lawsuit (or one of the hundreds of others) is successful and sets a legal precedent that AI can only be trained on work that is explicitly licensed (and paid for). I suspect it may be too late to stop the inevitable tide of shit, but it would be some protection for artists.

Why do all of these companies post record profits and then lay off the workers instead of cutting execs’ salaries? You still havent answered that.

We’ve been gaslit by pro-acquisition people over the last two years that “capitalism wont do the thing that it always will.” We have been spun a tale about how this merger will result in improved job security and that regulators like the FTC should be defunded for daring to oppose it. Dissenters got dogpiled.

I love Kasuga, if he was real I would want to have a beer with him, that could never be achieved through a series of dismissible text boxes.