Good article Cecilia, but I can’t match your cynicism on this one. We’ve been fighting to get more inclusive games that are about more than the archetypal white male protagonist and his flighty damsels for years. So if a diverse cast and optimistic setting was a marketing decision, and that’s what sells games like…

Kaplan actually talked about the Omnics in that context: “We’re also fortunate because we can use things that don’t exist to make certain statements. How our characters feel about Omnics is a great example. Omnics are this nonexistent and present-day almost-race. We can make a lot of commentary about what’s right in…

The pattern drafting and seamwork are amazingly spot-on. Everything about the cosplay is really incredible and screen accurate. Which makes it really glaring that the triangle face makeup is straight up wrong.

Absolutely agreed, Blizzard made a high quality game, in other news water is wet.

It’s a well-polished Blizzard game that has a much easier barrier to entry than a lot of other shooters and multiplayer games. For better of for worse - Blizzard is the king of the well polished, accessible experience. I have never seen an MMO run as well as WoW does. It just works. Doesn’t mean it’s the best(and…

Dooms multiplayer wasn’t that great, most of what made Doom so good was great level design for its single player. And in terms of variety, I find playing different heroes in Overwatch has more variety than Battlefield. Overall, Overwatch seems to have nailed the gameplay aspect in a way that other FPS games haven’t…

...it wouldn’t be the first time.

Yeah, those 25 million players are totally playing an overrated game!

Ingruber was thought to have been a CGI’d young Harrison Ford in The Age of Adeline. I thought so too when I saw that film. Criminal that he wasn’t even shortlisted.

It’s pretty obvious they went into this with Alden as their choice. He doesn’t look or sound like Harrison and is a hand shorter to boot. I feel bad for all those other actors who wasted their time when the fix was in. I’ll assume Anthony Ingruber might legitimately not have the acting chops, but he’s a dead ringer…

They literally announced Thrawn in Rebels yesterday.

THRAWN. IN CANON. IN (arguably) THE BEST STAR WARS PRODUCT OUT THERE.

Star Wars has an amazing collection of EU characters and stories that Disney owns the rights too and the best they could do is a Han Solo origin story...Dah fuck????

I’m probably one of the few that says this:

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but how is it terrible with it’s terrific reception amongst the audience in Europe? The voices of greatness can be heard all over the internet. I plan to see it this weekend and it sounds like it’ll be a blast. I’ve heard very few bad things about this film. A few mediocre things but they…

All of that is correct, and yet, we as an enlightened society, are allowed to call them out for being the pieces of human garbage they are.

No. You can be ‘young and stupid’ and ‘funny and edgy’ without saying disgustingly racist things.

This is what’s wrong with America right here. This. Not Bristol Palin herself, but what she represents — the fact that so many stunningly, proudly pig-ignorant, determinedly undereducated, information-resistant people think they know enough about anything to tell others how they should think and behave.

Thank god someone in this country is will to ask the question “but how do white people feel right now?”

Hey, the police made a mistake. Okay, a series of mistakes. Stupid and racist mistakes. Over several hours. Can’t we just let that go already?!?!

Yes, Bristol, you’re absolutely right. The police who dragged a 14-year-old out of school in handcuffs for building a science project and subjected him to hours of racist interrogation without allowing him access to a lawyer or his parents are the real victims here. The police and white people everywhere. Can’t put…