My casual understanding of Thrawn (having no familiarity with him from books or cartoons or anything) is that the huge threat he poses is that he’s this supernaturally gifted strategist and game-theorist. You don’t want him as your enemy in any situation, no matter what advantages you think you may possess.

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Exactly. Either deliver on the hype they built up, or subvert expectations. They opted for neither.

Entirely new galaxy? It looks like they just brought Jawas to Scotland.

Very silly that Star Wars makes a big deal out of going to an entire other galaxy and they have desolate Earth-like landscapes, cute little nomads with funny voices, junkyard hover cars, and literal stormtroopers there, too.

I’m partially with you in that it’s just a game show, but wasn’t Squid Game an indictment of winner-take-all class warfare and oppression under capitalism? Expressing the “natural conclusion” of that sick idea as a game show/competition where mobs of low income people are pitted against each other seemed like a…

He apologized and wants to make things better, and instead people were like, ‘No, you can’t.

No, I did mean to say “racist.” The Wizarding World as an IP isn’t much more transphobic than the average fantasy world, but it is pretty racist.

Not every trans person is a political activist. They can make the same ethical judgement errors as anyone else. Trans people are just people, and like a lot of other people, many love Harry Potter.

I haven’t seen Clone Wars or Rebels, but I’ve read enough io9, etc., over the years to understand the basic gist of the character and backstory so I’m confident that I wouldn’t get lost, but knowing that the show as it kicks off is “Rebels, continued” makes me a lot less interested in watching it. Like, it gives me…

So, this is merely the “next season” of Rebels, then? Great news for Rebels fans, I guess, but I wouldn’t say that’s quite enough to justify this as a new series.

Exactly this. Games are not aluminum siding, they’re works of art (even AAA ones). If a game doesn’t satisfy you, you didn’t like it for any reason, or you didn’t read the reviews and weren’t aware of its shortcomings, you don’t get to make a warranty claim.

Yes, $70 is no small amount, but the amount you get for that $70 is absolutely insane. Forget Baldur’s Gate 3, even in the case of a buggy game with a “mere” 20 hours of content, $70 represents one of the best values for money in the entire history of value or money.

Interesting, I’m obviously missing a bunch. I do watch Only Connect, but apparently I only seem to watch the XL version of QI on YouTube. I thought “XL” meant it was like, 5 minutes longer, not 20 minutes longer!

I have no doubt that the game is mediocre, bad even (I don’t care if it’s GOTY, I’ll never play it), but that exact drop off pattern is a very common for single-player games, both bad and good. The more successful a game is at launch, the steeper the drop off and thus the worse it looks at first glace.

Wot is Love’s Labour’s Lost, innit?

All the stars for you.

It’s interesting how British game and panel shows are almost all 1 hour long.

Yeah, and that chart pattern tracks with the lifecycle of most other AAA single-player games, and the lifecycle of all hype-driven pop culture releases (movies, music, TV shows) generally.

the show regarded the Federation as reliably The Good Guys until DS9