Minecraft is not a game based on realism. Not even close. Fan backlash because “in real life fireflies are harmful to frogs” is PETA levels of ridiculousness. THEY’RE NOT REAL FROGS.

OK, but why? Minecraft isn’t a nature simulator.  This a game where exploding column-shaped animals and skeletons riding giant spiders are ubiquitous parts of the ecosystem.  I don’t see what the problem is with frogs gobbling up fireflies.  That makes more sense than giant bat-things that attack people who are…

The Ready Player One movie made me officially sick of pop-culture references

Have you seen the Droogs in Space Jam? The movie was bad enough, but including characters from A Clockwork Orange was definitely a weird choice.

God I hate Funkos. Oh, you like Thing A? Well, here’s a chunk of injection-molded plastic that sorta looks like it. At least with actual toys there’s the possibility that someone will play with them.

A nostalgia-laden dystopia with massive income inequality and a culture focused on POC erasure that only exists to serve a billionaire’s massive nerd-boner ego? Shit. You might be right.

A character from Game of Thrones being in a game for kids is just so fucking weird.

Very well-placed Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny reference.  That’s one piece of meta nostalgia I’m glad someone still remembers.

the fact that Ernest Cline predicted our most likely future is lame. Lame, I say.

I blame Funko Pops and the inexplicable popularity of Ready Player One.  

This feels like a particular issue with Warner Bro.s, who have a habit of throwing ip at the wall/smashing it together with no real grasp of what makes their individual properties special.

The inherent goofiness of the game in questions does nothing to negate this particular criticism.

I was a 90s kid. When shaggy punched bugs bunny it felt like i got punched by corporate America. Fuck this whole thing so hard.

Sometimes writers need to dig deep into their big bag of language to come up with the perfect polished phrase to express a guttural/emotional idea, and sometimes words like “cheap and shitty” convey exactly what was needed with poetic simplicity. Thank you, Zack. It all does feel more than a bit cheap and shitty, all…

They’re mostly steering clear.  Her being equally if not more guilty than him doesn’t sit well with their “Women can do no wrong” stance. 

yup, why the root is even commenting on two white people who very clearly hate each other is beyond me.

I’m really not liking what the future holds ahead. 

Oh because China is bad, I get it now!

But was that point made in good faith?

Is it weird that I want the “no watching after 10:00pm” rule to come to the USA?