It still feels a little awkward that criminal suspects are being taken away by a van full of white teens.

Honestly before the cops or Scooby gang take them away she should pull off their fave and reveal “old man whoever”.   

Correct me if I’m wrong, because I haven’t played the game, but didn’t Velma need to collect evidence before she could call the cops? She wasn’t being a Karen because she was doing her due diligence in ensuring she wasn’t calling the cops on an innocent person.

Isn’t the core gameplay basically assault and battery? If you want to bring the real world into this, everyone on the roster should technically be arrested.

This is an accessibility feature for deaf people to perceive the cadence and intensity of speech.  I have no idea why Ari is even using it. 

I mean, one of the big changes in this game is that Joel is now a hot tub Twitch streamer but other than that I guess they don’t touch on that topic all that much.

I’m a little annoyed that Kotaku is now posting articles about video games. This seems to have nothing to do with scantily-clad women and their streaming empires. 

How many Americans do you think are even remotely familiar with minstrel show art? I would guess a tiny percentage. I think we are being wildly generous in assuming the vast majority of Americans have enough education in this area of history to identify these D&D characters as racist caricatures.

Yeah depending on the age of the people involved they likely never even heard the term minstrel show. Like when I was a kid and saw something like Song of the South, which is obviously racist for a host of reasons, I didn’t know there was anything bad about it at the time. 

I don’t know how this got through any person with any familiarity with minstrel shows or racism against black people in America.

It’s just a four letter word, that’s all they copied. I don’t get why anyone is up in arms about it. Was anyone pissed when the new predator sequel came out?

It wasn’t even quips so much as it is the limited vocal range of Roiland. He’s like H. Jon Benjamin in that he’s basically got one voice and it’s super recognizable (although Benjamin does do some silly stuff with his voice playing tertiary characters on Bob’s Burgers). Unlike Benjamin, that one voice is grating to…

The dramatist in me hoped that as soon as the package opened, the cards would turn to dust and fade into the wind.

I’m sorry, that’s neither a cucumber nor an eggplant. That is wholly a zucchini.

I’m as critical of Tesla as they come, but this is silly.

“If D&D’s thematic and fictional inheritance can be traced back to a single point, we probably arrive at Tolkien.”

I would say you have a point except over half the adventuring party in this movie are POC.  So I don’t think that was the motiviation

Given that Led Zeppelin were a bunch of proto-fantasy nerds heavily inspired by Tolkien, I don’t see the use of their music as being as anachronistic as all that.

“You might be wondering, even if you’re a long-time D&D fan and roleplayer like myself: why does this movie exist?”

It might be possible that what makes a movie great and what makes a tabletop roleplaying game great won’t exactly be one and the same. With any adaption liberties need to be taken to account for the strengths and weaknesses of the media being adapted to, and that’s most certainly the case when you’re doing a live…