Yeah, this is a 90s mall. The environment designers are in their mid-20s, so they don’t realize how different the 80s and 90s mall aesthetics were from each other. Even the arcade in this has a decidedly 90s vibe. Arcades in the 80s looked like what everything else looked like in the 70s.

Since there seems to be too many creators and not enough players, what needs to happen is for Dreams to lean into that, and position itself as a proper game engine.

Is this more like Skyrim - an initial buggy mess, but should not be missed once the bugs are ironed out?

It may reflect Gadot’s limitations as an actor

If you went out to dinner and asked the server how good the ribeye was, and they responded with a long diatribe about how eating meat is bad for the planet and that the rancher they get the meat from is a real asshole, would you find that helpful?

Seeing how there are a bunch of commas and ‘or’s in there, if you want to boil it down, you can also write it this way:

This is you.

I’m unsure you understand what the word “propaganda” means

This in insane. If Harry Styles or Tom Holland (or Bernie Sanders, actually) were caught wearing those shoes, everyone would be remarking how fun and cute those chonky flops were, asking each other where they could get a pair of their own, and shouting from the rooftops how innovative that person was for inventing “Hyg…

I agree in principle, but this wasn’t a cool secret, it was part of the PR campaign for this game.

it’s ignoring another—potentially the most—important factor in people’s limited interest [...] the price

You have been reading about them forever. Avatar came out 11 years ago. In that span, 21 of the current 23 Marvel Studios movies were released.

Avatar 2 won’t be out for at least two more years, by which point as many as 8 more Marvel films will have been released.

known Democrats Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton

DS9 ... did not get really good until it started aping Babylon 5.

I get the feeling that you’re dug in on your feelings about this show. It’s a shame because the whole point of the series is to sell the idea that the Federation was Camalot.

No production of Star Trek has ever so much as been aware of the existence of Babylon 5, which is probably the funniest thing about the constant charge from its fans that Star Trek is its mutual rival.

There’s an official tie-in book series about those temporal agents if you’re really interested.

“All time travel technology was destroyed after the temporal wars.” Hey, that sounds like a pretty cool story, why don’t you do a show about that.

My favorite thing about David Lynch is that he proves you don’t have to be a world-class asshole in order to be a world-class weirdo.

I thought it was a fun harmless gag, but I assume the reason it got pulled is that Xbox has been leaning really hard into a “play nice with others” brand strategy, which includes responding with kind words of encouragement to people on Twitter who say they’re getting a PS5 instead of an XSX/S this gen.