Dan Stapleton

The game director who is almost certainly working on it (he did War of the Chosen and Chimera Squad) didn’t get canned in the recent Firaxis layoffs so I have to assume it’s still in the works. I hold out hope!

Nobody @‘d me so I assume there was no XCOM 3 announcement tonight.

Shoot, my demon is medium-sized and has a tongue stud.

Next year, maybe.

Good lord

Why does he look normal in the video game screenshots but in the real-life picture it's like someone put in the NBA Jam Big Head Mode code?

When I realized I didn't have to watch the dang thing live this year, my one regret was that I wouldn't get to dunk on the absurdity that is this award.

Yeesh. The bandage was fine! Just do that instead of being weird about it. Or maybe he should hit it with the same spray tan he puts on his face - even that is a more realistic skin tone than this.

That doofus did a big screed about my Starfield review that aged *hilariously* poorly almost immediately. Absolute mouth-breathing bottom feeder.

Hopefully he just bought his way in and wasn't like, invited. Because that would reflect *very* badly on Geoff.

One of those questions:
“Wait: did we actually finish Thor: The Dark World?”

[long pause]

“Oh well.

I’m up to Age of Ultron in the MCU rewatch with my son (10), and he’s now asking me to pause every few minutes so he can pepper me with questions, theories, and pointing out plot holes.

Proud nerd dad here.

If movie theaters were a thing consumers loved, they would be there. They go there for horror movies, some action blockbusters. Let me reiterate a line I wrote decades ago about the nascent digital space: Consumers have taken control of their entertainment experience & they are never giving it back.

Yeah they always manage to find some real psychopaths for these.

YouTube video by Jubilee Tim Miller vs 20 Gen Z Conservatives | Surrounded

Tim Miller crushed this. He's a Republican who worked for Jeb Bush so obviously he's got a lot of views I don't agree with. But he's reasonable, and you should watch him go to bat against a bunch of extremists.

He does lie when he calls himself a liberal at the start but other than that.

Just learned that I can put a $30 chunk of Costco salmon in the freezer and then a week later a billion dollars worth of sashimi comes out.

Congrats on joining the pantheon of posters pointing the author of an article to his own piece.

All I'm saying is that it was a very lazy joke without any truth behind it unless you go back a full generation and cherrypick one article out of thousands by hundreds of different writers.

I came here defending them against something that was never said. If you want to complain about something that *was* said, that's totally fine.

Though I'd point out that IGN is not a person. Every post has a byline, and not every person who works at a publication has the same views.

Go tell them.

Don't make stuff up, is all I'm asking.

Come at them for that instead of making stuff up that was never said.

Hi. I ran IGN's reviews for 14 years. In that time, we never published anything remotely resembling this.

Just FYI.

Yeah, a quick kick to the pants that one.

...now I'm incredibly curious what the coincidence was.

If you'd asked me which company had more than double the market cap of the other between Netflix and Disney I probably would've gotten it wrong without Googling it.

Oh. He wasn’t acting.

Have you ever seen anything this pathetic in your life?

Yeah they need to step up this "hard mode" thing a few notches.

...I could still probably do a dozen with the over 30 modifier.

Halialternativefax

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

...I can only do one? I could do a dozen easily.

Yeah, it benefits from licensing movies that've had theatrical marketing pushes. That's not remotely the same as making money from the box office - in fact, it's serving people who didn't want to go to theaters.