Fascism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. The former often exists to protect the latter.

Well, it did happen in AU of Early 20th Century Not-Germany.

Unacceptable. When I purchase a Mickey Mouse game I expect murder.

Pretending to enjoy a crappy licensed game to own the libs.

Neither Jedi or Zelda lost half of their player base in less than a month, which is what happened to Hogwarts. Those figures are exceptionally bad.

Because high player counts tell us the difference between games that were popular because they were actually good, and games that were popular because they were attached to a famous license.

Kotaku has been doing “Six months later” articles for major titles for years now. There are dozens of other examples. Red Dead 2, Eldin Ring, Genshin Impact, virtually every big game released in the last 5 years or so has gotten an article like this.

Yeah, but it didn’t drop off in six months, it dropped off in three weeks and stayed that way. The game was sheer mediocrity and the numbers back that up.

“Six Months Later” is a regular Kotaku feature that this site has been doing for years.

So, they’ll treat it like every other major release this year, then? Oh no!

You know that animated shows can be different from each other, right? Did the 70's Animated Series feature a completely new cast of characters and setting? Did it feature an ongoing story arc? Was it the first Star Trek show with no human lead characters?

Dale would never believe any of the MAGA conspiracy theories because he’s already four conspiracies deeper than anyone else.

There’s an episode where Luanne joins a cult without really understanding what their beliefs are (she just likes that everyone there is nice to her) so I would definitely buy that if anyone in the cast would go MAGA, it would be her (but she’d be back to normal by the end of the episode.)

“Anything could be Star Wars” sounds like a really liberating pitch, honestly. With an entire galaxy to play around in, you could tell almost any kind of story. Just put in some familiar aliens or some references to the Force or the Empire or whatever. You don’t need more than that.

Star Wars has its own section at Disneyland.

I feel like the article didn’t articulate itself well in defining “moving forward.” Even though Strange New Worlds takes place in the past and features Yet Another Spock, it feels new because of how it’s written and staged, and because it’s willing to experiment with story types that previous shows haven’t attempted.…

You think Kirk singing is new? He sang with Spock and McCoy in Star Trek V.

Dale was the standout character in a show full of standout characters, somehow the most cartoony member of the cast without ever feeling so over the top that he didn’t fit into King of the Hill’s down to Earth style. Hardwick always seemed to know just how far to push a Dale joke to make him seem ridiculous but never…

Art is not created in a vacuum, but only someone who has never created anything in their lives would think the ONLY source of artistic inspiration that can exist comes from other art. Or that inspiration and influence are anywhere near the same thing as copying.