Years ago someone was sharing a picture online of Hitler holding hands with a kid, and people were upset. Why try to humanize Hitler of all people? But that was the point, to humanize him: not in order to sympathize with him or get people on his side, but to show that he wasn’t a demon, not a mythical monster or…

Yeah, that’s the case for pretty much everybody. Human beings like to reduce things to a single metric, but no one is actually 100% good or 100% bad. It’s weird to think about, but it’s entirely possible for someone to have a monumentally positive effect in one space but have a net negative effect overall. There are…

Ha yeah, my reaction to people talking about this who don’t know his work is essentially that monkey puppet meme. It’d be like if someone heard a famous movie director they didn’t know died so they watch one of his movies and it turns out to be a torture porn horror movie more brutal than anything they’ve ever seen.

Well no one ACTUALLY cared about ethics in game journalism. It was just an excuse smug assholes tried to hide behind even as it made them look painfully stupid.

Actually, it came out awhile back from insiders that Trump hates his supporters, that he saw them as the lowest-value people and both made fun of them and complained that they were all he could get. He loves that he can scam stupid people, but he hates those people and wishes he could scam higher-level people.

Ha, nice, but that’s the pitcher screwing up and losing. Here the Balrog player was going for a throw, and his opponent was correct in “tech”-ing - defending against a throw - but the Balrog player made a mistake and did a special move instead of a throw, which accidentally beat the tech. The opponent correctly…

Ha, I was thinking of the analogy of a pitcher throwing a curve ball and the batter trying to hit straight but his grip slips and he accidentally hits the curve ball for a home run.

Yeah, she just seems like she could pull off battle-hardened, highly-capable assassin.

Oh interesting. And agreed, I don’t have any issue with either actress in general but SJ never seemed like a great fit for Widow. Looking at the comics for both characters and then both actresses, we seem to have gotten a bit of a mismatch.

I haven’t seen that movie but yeah I could see him working as Johnny, if what he’s had done is temporary. Or if Marvel wants to use CGI to make an actor look LESS alien, which would be a hilarious precedent to set for a comic book movie.

Ha jeez. I am super curious about the design meetings for that game. Its problems aren’t emergent or happenstance, they are fundamental, explicit decisions they made.

Routh as Reed would work for sure, he has that look of someone focused on something to the point of slight jerkishness. Efron however has had some odd work done (despite those denying it, people’s face bones don’t just grow in adulthood) and seems visually off at the moment.

Huh, Blunt as Widow would have fit a lot better than SJ, as would SJ as Sue Storm. Blunt as Sue Storm really seems off to me, however.

I haven’t played it but watched a few reviews and it really does seem terrible. While there are a lot of costumes, each only has a single skill, and that’s all you can do - including jumping. So to actually jump you need one of a few specific costumes, which means while you’re wearing it you can’t do anything else.…

It kind of seems like you’re judging the final entirely on its ability to surprise you. I know that’s an arms race between a lot of shows, which one can have the biggest twist at the end, but here we got a great story executed really well. The extended fight scene was less about awesome fighting than it was about…

Huge difference between the two shows. I think a big part of IASIP’s appeal is the constant reinforcement of reasonable consequences - all of the main characters are abjectly horrible people, but their lives are also consequently abjectly horrible. The characters may be too stupid and ego-maniacal to see their…

I’ve read people online complaining about “cancel culture”, and so far every argument I’ve seen against “cancel culture” has been terrible, and mostly just highlighted flaws in those making the arguments. However, having read what Clark said in the NME piece, I think she touches on a valid point. She says, regarding…

It’s funny, the first episode of BSG I ever saw was the last episode, which of course made no sense to me. So years later I tried watching it from the beginning, only to give up in the first season once they reached the “robots are trying to kill all of humanity to force God out of hiding” nonsense, as that seemed…

I’d say One Punch Manning Lemar to death this episode and murdering a bunch of innocent people last episode have rendered her irredeemable. You can’t do those things and still be sympathetic, no matter your experience or cause. She decided to be a straight-up monster.

Also, and this could be just me, but his movies make me think he has severe depression. The pervasive gloom and sense that everything is a excessive amount of soulless work, along with the few attempts at expressions of joy seeming far more manically performative than genuine, make me think his dopamine receptors are…