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Musk has some history as a gamer. He would probably do it if it could help put people on Mars somehow.

Looks way too far up its own butt.

It's a pretty clever corporate ploy, to be honest: If it flops, blame the racists and the stakeholders can't cause any repercussions. Worked for Ghostbusters and Santa Inc.

Did you just jinx it?

Yeah there's still quite a bit of travel between where the season ends and LoL's current time. Zaun was always depicted as an independent entity in the lore, so whatever conflict ensues to establish that independence has erupted and cooled in the past. Likewise Caitlyn's tagline has always...

Unless they do more things like how they're bringing Silco into TFT or bringing someone who died in the show into LoL itself, there will always be a sense that the champs can't die in the show. And it would also telegraph that the stakes are far higher for characters that aren't LoL champs but...

I thought Telltale went bankrupt. There was a noclip documentary about it.

Yeah Arcane is the best show on Netflix right now, animated or otherwise. And it's not even close.

Some cosplays for this are pretty cringe. But not the Russian ones. Never the Russian ones. Pretty sure that cosplayer farms the weirdboner reaction for a living.

Considering how the Inaros arc ended, specifically regarding Filip and the gate entities, I'm not entirely sure that it isn't related to where and how the books end.

I couldn't even finish the premiere. New book was way more engrossing. It even had Alex being Alex in the first couple pages.

Yeah Cait being Ionian is a clever way to retcon her asian VA into the show. I mained Cait for a couple years and never got the impression she was Asian.

Yep. On another rewatch I got the sense that scene where Vander holds Silco's face up to his felt more significant somehow. It turned out to be another subtle piece of duality and foreshadowing: The show has these moments all over the place for the two or three attentive viewers who aren't...

I don't know but they published their 2022 roadmap and it doesn't include being completed in that year: https://www.everspace.game/news/2021/12/2022-roadmap-faqs-drake-teaser/ It's playable fine now and the ARPG loot/crafting is already pretty solid and they're adding another ship class soon.

Have you tried everspace 2? Even in early access it's probably my favorite space shooter. It combines old-school Descent's 3D movement and combat with a full-blown ARPG randomized loot system and even procedural dungeons/encounters in space. It can get pretty roguelike in some of those...

They released the Arcane Ekko skin, which they had ready along with the other Arcane skins like Jayce, Vi and Jinx's. Pretty cool that they held back on it till a few weeks after the finale to avoid the spoiler.

Yeah they wouldn't need to bother with disabling gen chat. They got robocallers that can persuade retirees to part with their social security numbers, I'm sure they could've made their AI be able to talk shit convincingly over general chat.

They could just make a more engaging coop-vs-ai mode, I suppose. In fact, they could integrate those EOMM principles into the coop-vs-ai systems to maximise those engagement outcomes. Of all people, Riot/Tencent could afford to build GAN-based AI's that modulate its behavior for optimal player...

If you asked a woman, they'd be surprised she was in any of those; or that she was nominated for an Oscar for True Grit. But they'd love her anyway because they binged Dickinson.

I think the study controlled for that observation, actually. The really cool part is how their findings apply to everything subjected to game theory; which is to say, everything. Paper is at https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/papers/WWW17Chen_EOMM it was one of the studies suggested by the...

Check IMDB if the band shows up in later episodes.

I like how they leaned into their music choices. They knew that it would alienate some people and would only narrow their audience, but they double- and tripled-down on what they felt was their own voice. There's integrity in that. Even if you hated the music, the audience can tell when...

The leadership for growing anything organically just isn't there. I'm sure if they hadn't been constantly distracted by whatever internal cultural back-biting poisoned Titan and turned WoW into shit they could've cultivated any and all of those games into good and even great e-sports. But the...

Yeah but the blizz devs who were alienating their most popular twitch streamers and shoehorning mythic+ into an esport must have not been invited to that meeting. Instead they stayed in their cubicles actively poisoning the company's relationship with their gamers.

Do you write for Forbes? https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/11/25/force-your-family-to-watch-netflixs-1-show-this-thanksgiving-arcane/?sh=4a553d9d372a That critic has been shilling hard for Arcane so you kinda know what to expect. But he throws some shade on Princess Switch 3 and Red...

That guy was voiced by Japanese rockstar Miyavi, his accent isn't usually that thick but they made him exaggerate it for the role. I'm curious how they replicated that same effect for other language tracks with other voice actors. Miyavi is actually the third real-world musical act that was...

That entire intro was wordless except for baby Jinx's nursery rhyme too. In a couple short minutes the show told a story of crippling inequality, civil unrest, desperation and futility with no words uttered except a kids' song about poor children inviting their rich friends over to visit...

The facial animation for this show is an absolute masterclass. I don't know if it's because the painterly shader made them pay extra attention to it or if the shader lent itself to highlighting subtleties that would be less noticeable in a more realistic rendering, but the combination of...

Fun fact: that's the same background as Jinx's except the city is in ruins.

It's not like Vi is portrayed as a Mary Sue. Vi is an extremely flawed hero, and she keeps getting her flaws exposed and exploited more or less throughout the whole season. If anything, her poor choices precipitated all the tension and conflict in the show: I imagine all the dicks she had...

I was thinking how smart Riot has been to use contemporary music and design language to broaden their audience. Everyone in the gaming industry talks about appealing to wider markets with tonality and representation, but the vast majority of their attempts fall well within the cringy "hello...

Aha that's her Harry Potter name? I thought you were just being racist.

She was apparently in one of the Harry Potter movies but I don't really recall those much.

Best part is that Silco's defining character trait is the one line he kept repeating early on: "Power belongs to those who will do anything to achieve it." He lives up to that throughout the show. He gets his own people addicted to shimmer, he kills innocents to seize any advantage, he...

Like I said, I don't really see it with Vi or Jinx, but I read that they adjusted the show models to reflect some of the voice actors. I think it was on one of the interviews or the Riot behind the scenes thing. I guess I kinda see it with Grayson (Avesarala) and Vander too. Maybe...

She wrote parts of the "cupcake" episode and dyke twitter is gushing over her. Although after that Silco quip, you kinda wonder if she watched the other eight episodes.

Timestamp should start at the relevant spot. Otherwise here's an absolute boomer-proof version: Gotta say, I knew they adjusted the show's character designs to reflect the VA's a bit, but I didn't really see that with Vi/Jinx. This guy is a little closer to Silco though.

Silco's voice actor understood this better than one of the writers. This chick has a minor credit for writing one episode, but it happened to be the one that was vi/cait's dyke scene so she's being feted on twitter. You could chalk that up to twitter's charlimit inanity, since you'd hope she...

Ramsey sang the vocals on that song but it was all Mako/Alex Seaver writing and producing. Mako's all over the whole OST actually, even performing on a couple of the rap tracks, including the one for Ekko and Jinx's fight, which is legitimately one of the best of the year. Mako's done a lot...

You could just buy the story skip. Perhaps you're not a fan of the weeb aesthetic and lack of RPG mechanics.