The version on screen is a CGI recreation based on the physical costume they made, I think? Commentary says it’s fully CGI, but there was very definitely a real costume.

Not sure. 2.0 was the released version with CGI and re-dubbed dialogue, but I don’t know if it was the SAC cast. There’s soooo many versions, it’s hard to keep track, and brief googling wasn’t turning up a definite answer.

Not sure. 2.0 was the released version with CGI and re-dubbed dialogue, but I don’t know if it was the SAC cast. …

Not sure, that was Ghost in the Shell 2.0, but they might have used that dub for this release as well.

Not sure, that was Ghost in the Shell 2.0, but they might have used that dub for this release as well.

Apparently there are basically no special features, and it has a substantially worse Japanese audio track, a somewhat worse English audio track, and no other languages at all, compared to the DVD Special Edition this theoretically is supposed to surpass.

Apparently there are basically no special features, and it has a substantially worse Japanese audio track, a…

It’s... just a guy in leather armor. Not sure how that’s even in the same league of campy as a guy in a literal gorilla suit.

Except, reading over the design and gameplay, it IS tied to a single property: it’s filled with Mario Kart references. It’s basically trying to be Mario Kart: the Monopoly.

It’s ultra-campy. Right up there with Rhino’s traditional outfit. Sometimes the comics have made that stuff work, but it really wouldn’t translate well to live-action, racism baggage or not.

That’s a very interesting way to put it. So basically, they ought to put themselves under the microscope, to make sure they’re seeing what they’re doing from other points of view that don’t have the benefit of insider production discussions?

More movies should do that.

I was referring to the “Gamer” part. Mario, Nintendo, Mario Kart... there are a whole host of names that have better name recognition than “Gamer”.

Monopoly Gamer also sounds like it has discarded significant portions of what actually makes Monopoly Monopoly. Not enough of them, but still, I guess after over a hundred years someone may have found a variant that isn’t irredeemably terrible.

That name is awful though; it’s basically Mario Kart Monopoly. Why…

People have been getting excited and/or talking about upcoming interviews long before anyone thought up “millennials”. It’s just more visible now because of social media.

So that’s why the Donottouchi fashion line flopped.

“True” ringworlds can’t have stable orbits. Unless you’re referring to a smaller habitat ring, rather than the standard heliocentric type like the eponymous one.

That said, while it’d be an interesting explanation, I can’t help but feel like it would cheapen a lot of what has happened. I’ve seen too many…

According to an interview I read, the creators said they used that song in the ending as a way of disorienting the audience as much as Jaime had just been disoriented by losing his hand.

On the one hand, yeah, kinda works, but on the other...

Well Conrad would be very dead and she’d have a very fractured wrist. I think she still wins overall, though that would be very, very bloody.

Yeah, that’s a great way to no longer have the privilege of ordering food. It’s a shame that it metastasized into the entire culture there.

The rule in places I’ve worked is that the person picking up the food tells you how much you owe them. Even then, it can feel shitty.

This started to happen with the Domino’s I frequented in college. It was a bit alarming when the delivery guy finally learned how to pronounce Hugo Chavez.

A lot of the worst atrocities happened after the war of independence, not before. Britain was, unusually, the voice of restraint in actions taken against the natives; it wasn’t until America was well and truly acting on its own that you had Jackson and the policies of extermination.