Really tragic and upsetting story. She is somewhat lucky she apparently had good lawyers & the prosecutors wanted Raniere more & she was smart enough to take the deal & testify against him.

The article is atrociously written, but I think the “bad-faith acting” thing was intending to refer to the bad portrayals Tucci mentioned, rather than saying that any straight actor playing a gay part is inherently doing it in bad faith. (Not objecting to the overall point you’re making, but just trying to clarify…

They do seem to have a failing high-schooler’s grasp of social issues.

Yeah I agree with this sentiment. Sexuality is such a spectrum and nuanced - not just a binary - that I believe it’s disingenuous to say he can’t play gay because he doesn’t identify as gay; there is something that we can all pull from. You can also make an argument that rich actors shouldn’t play parts of poor…

I don’t know anything about this specific author, but I’m fairly certain AVClub has outsourced a lot of its writing (including some TV reviews) to high school sophomores who are a few points away from a D- and need the extra credit.

The only logical conclusion is that Stanley Tucci may only play the role of Stanley Tucci. 

While Tucci didn’t elaborate on this particular form of bad-faith acting...

So if a card is taken right out the pack, and then taken right to Professional Sports Authenticator, but still not given a perfect rating, is the only way to get a perfect rating is to literally pluck a card from the printing press? Never open the pack and then all the cards inside are perfect?

Honestly, if you paid money for the Gollum game, you deserve the Gollum game.

But Daedalus didn’t fly too close to the Sun, it was his son, Icarus.

Yeah, as much as I would like to hypothetically get a loan and buy this off him so I could run my own game store, there is a reason why he is straight up selling it, instead of hiring someone to work the store for him. It isn’t profitable 

To be fair, you still gotta be in the flea market space. And while I love Denio’s and Folsom Flea Market, that’s a massive asking price for an iffy area.

“So what you’re telling me is that Daedalic...”

Gotta love manufactured scarcity.

A real fan would take the card and cast it into the fire.

SHIRE!!!

Coolest part is that a real customer cracked it from a pack. The card store / hobby shop it was bought from has been tweeting it this morning. The owner is still anonymous.

CAST DEVELOPMENT INTO THE FIRE!!! DESTROY IT!!!

That damn pet thing looks too much like the pet thing from GOTG 3. Both based on axolotls.

Certainly doesn’t feel innovative with the source material.. leaning heavily into adapting the tropes, ticking the boxes, recognisable aliens and visuals.

Almost like they have taken all the cues directly from the various movies and jiggled them a bit.

But I’m oddly I’m okay with that based on the trailer. Reminds me of…