Futurama is a good comparison: Relentlessly funny, but never at the cost of the stories its trying to tell and the characters you care about.

having been framed for the destruction of the Pakled homeworld

top-tier characters Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and the Hulk

I don’t disagree at all with the “doing it right” part of your argument, I”m with you, but it really shouldn’t take much effort to get there. I’m fine with them hiring some generic social media management firm to handle it.

Speaking as someone who frequently uses and actually likes Twitter, and benefits from it in a professional capacity (I’m a game developer!), the publisher of Madden being good at Twitter just doesn’t matter as much as Twitter users like to think it is.

Um, the article is not about the fickle internet outrage machine that will forget it in 48 hours, it’s about how the tweet actually offended thier employees who won’t forget about it so quickly.

It seems wild that the official Twitter account for one of the largest video game publishers in the world isn’t run by people who have a working knowledge of video games and the industry

an important and exciting untethering of MCU films from their obligations to a larger mythology—even if this one almost certainly carries much significance for the future.

It was emulation friendly. Extremely so.

I’m tired of people shitting on Ouya. It was real, it did exactly what it said it would do, and failed in the marketplace because it turns out no one actually wanted a cheap console.

some of your favorite—or least-favorite—games.

She doesn’t “die in childbirth” from some medical complication, or as a result of previous injuries, she dies of a broken heart. This isn’t subtle, it’s in the text of the film.

This is not a new practice or really that paranoid. Yes it is how studios prevent people who work on a film from selling their “advance” copy, but the practice predates torrents.

the Enterprise will need to send an Away team in

According to Horak (in today’s Ready Room interview), he always knew he was hired for just the first season.

Noting the almost complete lack lines spoken by Sam Rockwell in this trailer, surely a sign that his accent is pretty bad in it.

I seem to remember reading criticism about Moss’ affiliation with Scientology in The A/V Club, so I looked it up:

https://www.avclub.com/elisabeth-moss-on-how-the-handmaids-tale-aligns-with-he-1833916022

All that said, Sonic Frontiers still has a lot of time left in the oven.

Star Wars continuity was permanently broken in 1999, so why would anyone writing in that world bother fruitlessly trying to fix it when they can just play in the world as it exists now?

My major nitpick for this is that the lengthy “previously on” which summarizes the entire prequel trilogy in a single supercut, while neat, completely gutted the impact of the first scene of the episode, which itself does a great and complete job of establishing the context for the series.