I like the Byrne run and think it has some things going for it in terms of making a woman as the main character without having her be a mother, maiden, or crone primarily defined by her relationship to a man (in spite of the She-prefix and its assorted baggage). I also liked the 4th wall stuff more there than I did in…

Not sure how I feel about the extensive 4th wall breaking in this one. On one hand, I liked the Byrneian nature of it and some of the meta-jokes landed well (see: K.E.V.I.N.). On the other hand, the length of the Marvel Studios sequence felt extremely self-indulgent and the appeal-to-god resolution really undercut any…

For what it’s worth, it’s very nearly impossible to exist online and not have suffered a data breach at this point. HaveIBeenPWND lists my email as having been leaked in 22 major breaches, including 5 different large online games and last year’s LinkedIn scrape. Someone could absolutely put two and two together and,…

The reason companies don’t publish the source for their obsolete software isn’t because they’re assholes — although they’re probably assholes — it’s for mostly sane legal and engineering reasons. First, pretty most major commercial coding project is going to include licensed code and libraries that you do plain do not…

The TAS linked in the article is specifically “No L + R”. TASVideos does allow L + R, their published SMB run is another quarter second faster as a result.

Remember when the AV Club used to send journalists to places so they could write articles? Truly, a groundbreaking approach.

I don’t think their resentment is towards active modders that have career aspirations. It’s towards people who parachute in asking to be assigned work because look they’ve worked on mods X & Y, then do nearly nothing except drain project management time and block other tasks as they continually shirk, then update…

Folding Ideas is a good channel and Dan Olsen is a nice person who has spent too much time playing the mediocre 2012 survival horror game Amy for his own good. Also here’s the mentioned first video in his series on the Fifty Shades movies, which you should definitely watch if you’ve read this far down into the comment…

Yeah, that’d be the usage. Although “second-generation immigrant” always struck me as an odd epithet to use for people who have not in fact immigrated.

To be fair, changing Loki’s line to “I once turned into a mare, fucked a giant’s horse, and gave birth to my dad’s sick new ride” would perhaps also not be a slam dunk for LGBTQ representation.

The obvious thing is the resolution and refresh rate. 480 scanlines at 30 Hz for NTSC vs 576 scanlines at 25 Hz for PAL. In addition to the obvious this makes a big difference for how you convert 24 FPS film for video in the two systems. When transferring film to NTSC you blend 5 frames of film into 6 frames of video,…

Or Happy Feet 2: Beyond Thunderdome.

If you have any interest whatsoever in logic puzzles then Hexcells is fantastic. The hand-crafted puzzles are uniformly excellent and ramp smoothly in difficulty from introductory to devious as you progress through the game. The computer-generated puzzles in Infinite are a bit naff, it’s true, but there are hours worth…

It’s true that a fasces is a bundle of rods (and an axe), but fascists took it as their emblem because its been a symbol of law and order for two millennia and not because of a strength-in-unity allegory. In Roman times the fasces was carried by lictors, who were bodyguard-enforcer-executioners employed by local…

No no, that’s Tuba Gooding Jr., who even if he had the inclination to assault someone would be physically unable to do so due to the restricting nature of the sousaphone.

Man, the Anno series sure has changed over the years. “Mutationem” doesn’t even sum to 9.

I refuse to believe that GRRM would be that enthusiastic about anything that isn’t editing a new Wildcards anthology.

An umlaut is used to denote a vowel sound that has undergone a specific vowel shift in a Germanic language. For instance, if there was an High German word Zo that i-mutated to Zö then that ö has an umlaut. “Umlaut” is German for “re-sound” and is used both for the process and for the diacritic that sometimes denotes…

This makes it sound like Square Enix are making some sort of value judgement. It’s a financial brief. In a previous financial brief they had projected revenue for this fiscal period based on projected sales of various products. Now that the actual sales of said games are in they can conclude that GotG underperformed…

I mean of course they’re centered on the same point and have similar lines, they’re regular hexagons with the letters SF drawn following the lines of the hexes. All the thicknesses, gaps and angles outside of those two constraints differ. It’s an obvious enough design that there is little reason to assume plagiarism.