DEFINITIVE LIST OF CINEMATIC UNIVERSE GIMMICK ORGANIZATIONS:

Dark Universe: Presidium

The answer isn’t THAT unclear. “We’ll honor all existing commitments,” so if there’s a contract somewhere that says this year’s CoD gets to be on PS5, then it will be. But anything that doesn’t fall under a preexisting commitment is going to be Xbox exclusive. And eventually, there will be no commitments left that…

I think we’ll see a more immediate impact from the Activision sale compared to these other studios. I mean, Bethesda taking forever to finish a new title is nothing new, so we’re probably still a few years out from when they unveil Elder Scrolls 6 as an Xbox exclusive. But Activision is basically a factory designed to…

Joss has been in a Hollywood bubble his whole life and I think it’s led him to think that people find his snarky “just kidding, not really” asshole routine charming, when in reality people put up with it because it was his name (or, when he was younger, his dad’s name) on their paychecks.

They’ve surpassed them in number of seasons, but at the current rate, Disco will need to run for at least 7 seasons to surpass the episode count of the original series (which seems pretty likely at this rate.)

Capitalism rewards risk-taking, you guys. That’s why CEO’s can devalue and embarrass their company their sheer corruption and incompetence, get bought out and still expect a $300 million bonus check for being fired.

Well, Peter Parker isn’t widely associated with multiverse hijinks, but Miles Morales certainly is. Comics Miles is literally from another universe and got tossed into the main comics reality when his universe blew up.

I love how Lower Decks’ visuals are funny but the music is totally on point. They don’t try to be wacky with it, instead they give us the best Star Trek theme since DS9. It sends the message that, “yeah, this is a comedy, but it’s still Star Trek.”

I don’t recall many dragons or ice zombies in the War of the Roses. Game of Thrones took inspiration from real events, sure. But so did Star Wars. Doesn’t mean it’s meant to be realistic.

“If it didn’t happen or it couldn’t happen, then I just wasn’t interested, because I would lose focus.”

Maybe she should talk to her friend, the flying space alien with laser eyes, about how implausible her outfit is.

If it worked like an NFT, you wouldn’t buy a car, you’d buy a link to a website that tells you where the car is parked. And you would be able to go there and look at the car, but not actually drive it. And also anyone else passing by could look at it too. But they wouldn’t bother because there’s thousands of cars that…

Now I understand why Konami doesn’t make video games anymore. Why fucking bother spending years developing quality software, when some chump will spend the inheritance grandpa left him on a jpeg that anyone with photoshop can throw together in five minutes?

The Xbox One had a crappy launch and sometimes that’s all it takes to doom a system. And it really struggled in the exclusives department.

And yet I find myself playing it way more than the PS4 these days. Why? Game Pass. Still the best deal in the industry, and more than worth keeping an Xbone plugged in for. With…

Aside from Ratchet-Clank: Into the Ratchetverse, I can’t even think of any interesting PS5 games that aren’t also releasing on PS4. ARE there any? It just seems like a console that doesn’t have a good reason to exist aside from “well, it’s been a while since the last one of these.”

I think it comes down to timing. Encanto released during the Thanksgiving release window and I think Disney’s strategy was to grab those holiday audiences at the theater, then pull the movie unto D+ for families to watch over Christmas. It seems to have worked really well. Turning Red is releasing in March, which has…

Wait, the Tuskans were the sand people? All this time I thought they were two separate groups. Mostly because that’s how little I care about Tatooine.

Seriously, Lucasfilm, there are other planets! Literally hundreds of thousands of other planets because that’s how a galaxy works. In A New Hope Luke was desperate to…

Maybe we just didn’t need two Star Wars shows about Armor Guys? Maybe one Armor Guy (and his baby) is enough?

And that’s not even counting the people who survive Covid but have to deal with long-term health problems, or the folks who end up with crushing medical debt after a visit to the ICU.

Fun detail: not only is Cypher one of the most important people on Krakoa, he got married! His wife speaks an unknowable language and is the only person Doug has never been able to instantly understand...which is exactly why he’s attracted to her.