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For Christmas Riot's CEO sent Hideo Kojima, who has been gushing about Arcane, one of those limited-run Vi/Powder statues. I'm not sure if they were available for general sale or just something you had to win via contest. They seem a little older than they were in the first act but hot damn...

The Expanse has turned into a raging dumpster inferno too, which is a shame. On a side note, in an interview the editors for Arcane said that the original opening for Arcane was actually Silco's drowning scene, which was moved to the beginning of the third episode. I love the intro that we...

Womp Womp. That's what I feel whenever I see a Delta or Ariane in current year: Womp Womp.

I'd say start with Phoebe Chillax as the storyteller for your first playthrough but honestly you should just jump into the deep end with Cassandra and get used to the pain as soon as possible. Just tie it off, bro. People are gonna die horribly.

If you're all feeling that HW itch there's a bunch of amazing space combat RTS's coming. If you're an Expanse fan, you'll be down for Nebulous fleet command. It's aimed at more of a space fleet combat sim with real inertia and physics modelling down to the ciws pdc's destroying incoming...

I'd rather they cut it off at the end of this season. I don't know if it's reasonable to expect any improvement at this point. They'll just ruin all the upcoming games and ptjer IP's that were riding on the Expanse's hard sci-fi/near-future coattails by poisoning it with their belter SJW fever...

I expect the gameplay for HW3 to be something like an evolution of HW2 with Deserts' refinements on balance and mobility. I can't imagine them straying too far from that core, to be honest. I really enjoyed Deserts so I'm looking forward to it, but if Deserts' gameplay did nothing for you I...

Yeah that was as campy as the musical number and nowhere near as well-choreographed.

Are you referring to HW1 or Kharak? Neither were that tough, just gotta be super frugal with your resources and capture as many of the enemy ships as you can. It was unlike any other RTS campaign in that way.

Deserts of Kharak played through the roots of the series. It was lifted straight out of the original Homeworld's 120-page manual/lorebook. All the kiith were in there and it elaborated on the central conflict prior to Homeworld 1 exactly as it was described in that book; the North went into...

I meant engine performance lag on the PC side, not endgame play issues. The game used to slow down quite a bit on large/huge empires even on my PC. It was greatly improved in Federations, then improved a bit more in a later patch, was curious if it was substantially better with Aquatics.

Should've had Daredevil in the audience for that. And he should've said, "I wish I was deaf AND blind."

Arcane gets 10 nominations for the 2022 Annie Awards. The Annies are voted on by the animation industry and tend to be highly technical so it's likely to sweep them all. Curious that Ep 6 got a lot of noms though. https://annieawards.org/nominations The Annies almost always predict the Emmys...

L2? Pussy shit. Get me a gravity lensing telescope out past 550 AU. High enough rez to glimpse some sunbathing Arcturian poontang.

Is the end-game performance noticeably improved versus the last patch? I was pleasantly surprised then too.

Same place the original Mexicans went after the Aztecs got there.

Alex Seaver AKA Mako released a video on his work as co-composer for the Arcane Soundtrack, specifically about working with Sting and Ray Chen. It's fascinating from the production aspect but he brings up an important point: CG animation has to be composed from the ground up to fit with these...

Interesting follow-up to this is that Fortiche's head of character animation was on a CG Podcast and gave out some interesting details. The first episode was already finished five years ago, then there was a 2-3 year gap until they started work on the next episodes! Basically, the first...

They usually start working in the next book halfway through each season. Even if there were more seasons, it wouldn't be possible to do this all that well because of the time skip.

I don't watch her. I linked it as an example of people in entertainment (she used to write for DC Comics) who feel that animated media is enough of a barrier for some normies that live-action adaptations are assumed to be a value add for anime with a large enough audience. Which, like I...

There are people in showbiz who believe that animation is a barrier to broader audiences, and so they implicitly believe great anime with a built-in audience is "asking for" live action adaptations. Grace Randolph gave absolutely glowing reviews of Netflix's Arcane, which it deserves, and she...

Yeah she looks like she believes a lot of things that are manifestly untrue.

To be fair I don't think any of that is the primary reason Netflix cancelled this show so quickly. They've had other woke-infected adaptations that weren't quite as abysmal that got greenlit for further seasons. I bet they cancelled it even before it aired but just never announced it until...

I know there are a lot of fans for Invincible and The Boys but Amazon's poisoned the well for me quite a bit. Their original adaptations have all ended up pretty disappointing and between this and Wheel of Time I feel their reputation has soured to the point where I kinda wish they'd stay away...

Altered Carbon was mishandled for sure. The production and CG was fine but every writing room in Hollywood is just crammed to the rafters with graduates from the worst humanities departments the world has ever known. Not only could none of these millenial writers ever produce anything...

I don't know who benefits from that. Do british blacks feel more included after seeing it? I don't actually see how it serves the SJW mission of normativity and eliminating "othering". I know how I feel when they cast white actors in roles that were historically nonwhite. At minimum I'd feel...

Ha that hat hides her woke-approved chipmunk cheeks pretty well.

Back in the 90's I had an uncle who thought he was the coolest with his 70's mustache, Italian fro and his collection of Eagles and John Denver 8-track casettes. He was nice, but that shit was cringe as fuck. Nowadays I know I've become him as a gamer. I will die with my mouse and keyboard...

I still enjoy it, though not quite as much as I used to. I've always thought the "toxic community" thing was hilariously overblown. It's nothing like old-school barrens chat or any given nanosecond on 4chan or SA. What I think they do realize, though they would never admit, is what toxicity...

This is why he's CEO. They only have the one racket. They could've shit the bed and "cleaned up" LoL and made it accessible to normies while alienating their core gamers. Or they could play the fuck out of the hand they were dealt.

Did they manage to fix the extremely complicated problem with, uh, (checks notes) valves?

Looks promising. Lotta multiverse movies in 2022.

Title: Everything Everywhere All at Once Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction Director: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jonathan Ke Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Molinari, Peter Banifaz, Audrey Wasilewski Release...

Forbes has an interesting postmortem on how the story about Arcane's overperformance is dwarfed only by the relatively little coverage it's gotten: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/12/13/arcane-ends-2021-setting-unheralded-netflix-records/?sh=6b95fd96d203 But one thing he didn't...

It really is a tempting dichotomy to show a big brother/little bro dynamic and parallel that with the first season. They could pull it off without being to rehashy I think, but I hope they don't step on Powder's episode 3 toes too much. That scene is a classic now.

Yeah I've been playing slutty, top-heavy, half-naked chicks in every RPG I've ever played. We diverse now.

Yeah they'd have to show Draven if there's any focus on Noxus at all. Although if they do, I think they'd put him in the background since Darius/Draven is too close of a parallel with Vi/Jinx, it might feel too much of a retread. They could just show him in the gladiatorial arena without...

It's not like everyone predicted Naomi's casting was doomed to screw the show down the line. The actress was unlikable and unrelatable from the very beginning and was only tolerable so long as the character wasn't a load-bearing role in the show. Once the story moved into places where...

Some good news. https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/cowboy-bebop-netflix-cancelation-doom-future-anime

Mine's a bit of a layup but I'll call it anyways: I bet the story won't make any fucking sense.