Reading Too Much Into Everything

Non-Transformative : Ohh a pretentious title. That will get people reading. And surprise, we’re getting another Transformers movie. Good news: the director is not Michael Bay. Bad news: One of the producers IS Michael Bay. Not gonna lie, the trailer looks pretty good.   DOOMSDAY!!! : Wait, I predicted that Doomsday was cloned from Zod’s body and I was (mostly) right about that? One internet cookie for me! I however didn’t mention that it would be Darkseid that would take Doomsday and I can’t prove that was my thinking, so minus one internet cookie. Oh well, I’ll do better next time.   Why Writing : I meant to convey that good writing is super-important, and I did not do that. I’ll try to do better in conveying my points better.   Best Comment Ever (this week) : I don’t think I’ll bring this back, even though I thought it was a cool concept at the time. These comment were fire though.   I Wonder : no more short lazy ones like this, though my point still stands   Pil

It is the year 2016...wait it's 2023? Where have I been all these years? Oh yeah, real life happened. I'm truly sorry about that. I fell off and only now am I coming back to try again. A lot of stuff happened in the interim, and boy do I wanna talk about that, but let's start off slow. We'll take a look at my old articles & see where I did well and where I made my mistakes. Maybe we can all learn some lessons along the way. An Open Letter to the Games Industry : What a waste of time that was.Even if the AAA game industry ever read it, they would never have followed any of my suggestions. Not because of the merits (or lack thereof) of the suggestions, but because there would be no money to be made in following those suggestions. In fact, they leaned even further into the bad business decisions that made them tons of money but alienated their customers even more. Not that their customers ever actually stopped buying their products, but that's a separate issue.

Ok, NOW I have something to talk about and sink my teeth into. You might want to grab a sandwich and settle in. This is gonna be a long one. So, ahem... James Gunn said some offensive tweets long ago, and CERTAIN people (more on that in a bit) dug them up and got all riled up about them. Because of this, Disney let him go from the making of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 . So, first, a few disclaimers so that they don't get lost in what I'm about to say. 1) I will not defend what he said long ago. They are indefensible. And if you are truly disturbed by what he said, then definitely do not like him as a person and as a content creator if you can't separate the art from the artist. I certainly don't like those tweets, and I'm not going to pretend those tweets aren't awful. 2) Disney ABSOLUTELY has a right to fire him if what he said long ago does not fit their brand image now. After all, Disney is REALLY hoping you don't remember they once put out Song of

Well, the last post was a bummer, so let's focus on something a little more fun. SF Debris puts out enjoyable videos about (mostly) science fiction media. His best videos, in my opinion, deal with Star Trek. He's recently begun to take on Star Trek: Discovery, which is good since I still refuse to pay $6 a month to see that show. So, I'm looking at his video about The Vulcan Hello episode when I noticed something around the 6 minute 42 second mark. In a memory flashback Michael Burnham (the protagonist of the show) remembers being in a Vulcan learning bowl at the Vulcan Science Academy. Now you can eat cereal & learn quantum mechanics at the same time! I thought, where did I see this before? And then I remembered... Yes, the 2009 Star Trek movie. Which actually cleared up one of the most glaring problems I had with the Discovery series so far. The producers have sworn up & down that this series is set in the Star Trek Prime universe, 10 years before Th

A particularly bad or critical state of affairs, arising from a number of negative and unpredictable factors. I know that starting out this article with the meaning of the title is pedantic and pretentious. But I also know that I don't particularly care. My reason is that this storm is a perfect counter to all the nonsense put out by trolls and idiots that say they don't want politics in the entertainment media they consume, whether it's video games, movies, music, books, etc. So, let's set the stage. Recently, Gal Gadot has stated that she would not play Wonder Woman again until Warner Bros. cancels all partnership with Brett Ratner. The link to the article is here .  Okay, for those who don't know who Brett Ratner is, he is the director of the Rush Hour films, X-Men 3:The Last Stand, and the Hercules film starring The Rock that nobody saw. He has also been the subject of sexual harassment allegations. My default state is to believe the victims for obvio

A recent Jimquisition video talked about a company that uses customer data gathered from mobile games being played in real-time to offer different microtransaction prices to different gamers at the optimal time where their resistance to buying said microtransactions is at their weakest. Here's the link (and if you enjoy his video, consider kicking him a dollar or two to his Patreon, if you can).    But the pinned comment to this video is far more interesting to me, since Jim Sterling inevitably gets these kinds of comments whenever he brings up the subject of lootboxes and microtransactions. The relevant portion of the comment I want to talk about is provided here, courtesy of THePunisher Xxx: I'm so sick of your bitching and assumptions with no facts. "Only whales buy crates". You are basing that off of conversations and conjecture, you have no hard facts showing game sales and who buys crates. Oh, hard facts. That's for me. My brain always conjures red fl