What didn't happen?Helldivers 2 first came to my attention when I saw a game trailer for it on YouTube. I'd forgotten that Helldivers 1 was even in my Steam account. A sequel was nowhere on my radar.I'm one of the few veterans of the First Galactic War left to tell the tale. Helldivers was a decent and inexpensive top-down shooter. It had the usual things that indicate a good but not terribly high budget. Professional voice actors but the cut...
I am personally certain that Bob Iger secretly longs to be the CEO of Apple and not Disney. I mean, yeah ruling Disney and getting to have movie stars constantly kissing his butt is nice and all but Disney at it's most powerful (and it certainly isn't that powerful anymore thanks to Bob) was never able to influence the world like Apple has.So perhaps it isn't a surprise that Bob Iger found the above episode of South Park inspirational....
You could tell from the look on his face that Josh D’Amaro the Chairman of Disney Parks knew this announcement was going to go over like a lead Hindenburg. Frontierland at WDW is effectively going to be bulldozed to create Cars Land.A few years ago there was an “audit” conducted by Disney DEI for sensitivity on various attractions at Disney. It will shock my Darklings to their toenails to learn that American history is racist, sexist, and homophobic.This audit was the...
There is a reason that men hate a Mary Sue more than women. Men care about another man’s struggles. Women don’t care about men’s struggles at all. Not even a little bit. They just wait at the finish line and bang the winner. This is the Heroine’s Journey in a nutshell.Normally when I look at a film like Borderlands, I’m left wondering, “How do you make a movie as bad as this?” In this case, I already knew the answer; “You...
At least I won't have to see it until next year.A lot can happen in a year. Civilization might fall. Elon might raid Disney. My frozen spaghetti in a waffle cone idea could be a surprise hit. A lot can happen in a year. What won't happen is Snow White becoming a good movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbiPcMCz0Ek Discuss on Social Galactic
Last year Warner had an unexpected mega-hit with Hogwarts Legacy. The fact is that this year it probably would have bombed because of Sweet Baby Inc.’s involvement. It’s hilariously ironic that a game as Woke as Hogwarts Legacy blew the doors off because gamers and Hary Potter fans wanted to give the Death to JK crowd the middle finger and were willing to plunk down quite a few bucks to do it.This year Warner Brothers luck ran out with Suicide...
You've probably been hearing something about a lot of behind-the-scenes shrieking and screaming due to an extended version of Deadpool and Wolverine.Here's what's going on. Deadpool started shooting in early 2023, was interrupted because of the SAG strike but resumed and was finished in November of 2023. Those dates are important. Because of the strike, there were several actors who had been signed but became unavailable. So their characters had to be cut. Patrick Stewart for instance was set...
From the Land of Unsurprising News comes this, well-known YouTube comic culture commentator and former comic shop owner Gary Buechler better known as Nerdrotic is under an organized assault.It started last week when this complete UFO of an account on X.com posted this.There was nothing remotely clever, innovative, informative, insightful, useful, intelligent, simply nothing at all interesting about this tweet, but it went through the roof. Then MinuteNerdNews turned his account private. Yeah, that's not suspicious. This was very clearly and...
I love this game. We’ll start there. If this game wasn’t made with me in mind then it was made for Razorfist. It plays to most of my major weaknesses. Golden Age Comics, Imm-sim Boomer shooter, pulp fiction, crime noir with a Chanderleresque private dick walking down these mean streets, it’s all there.Like the classic Theif, it’s an imm-sim. But it’s quite a bit more than that.The game is published by New Blood Interactive which is a pretty big point in...
Way more gossipy than is my usual want, but it is part of my beat.Yeah, he was always holding hands with Gina Carrano.If you look at the body language from the rest of the panel it's obvious. This is not a casual friendship. And Mickey is not going to be cool about it. Husband and wife team, fine, but they aren't married and probably aren't going to be, and given Pascal's dating history they aren't going to...
