Recent content by Wombat

To be clear, trailers attached to other movies has become less and less of the overall marketing, with social media campaigns on stars' and directors' accounts taking more importance. The problem being that those posts tend to be insular, and if you want to reach a wider audience, you need to...

Spider-Man 4 is, just like the rest of the Tom Holland movies, released by Sony, but is a Marvel production, with at least some level of profit sharing going to Disney. But if your argument is correct, that would further suggest it is an industry-wide issue: The only Sony releases with any lead...

Actually looking at the movie release schedule, I'd argue this is more than a Mandalorian issue, this is a Disney in general issue: Did you know there's a Toy Story 5, coming out in four months? Why would you, there's no trailer. Did you know Spiderman 4 is still coming out in five months...

The bait-and-switch meta-ad has been done a thousand times. You (sorta) show the horses and the sleigh in the Budweiser style, you do the beer ad voicecover, you pan from tauntaun legs to Grogu at the reins - then smash cut to the actual trailer. Here, they... didn't bother to do the second...

Completionist or not, I would (again, for this thread) recommend his short(er) story material. vGrade mentions Edgedancer, but most of the rest of Arcanum Unbounded is worth your time, Tress of the Emerald Sea and to a lesser extent Yumi and the Nightmare Painter are charming, albeit aimed more...

My opinion hasn't changed with time: It's better than Rhythm of War, but that's not saying much. It's waaaay too long, with Adolin's chapters being basically the only high point. The ending does shake up the world in some very real ways. Some specifics are very unclear, however, and will...

Going back to before the season, the entire reason I didn't think the Patriots were a real contender (or would even make the playoffs) was their Oline. Get them a couple more Oline guys for the rotation and they could be a real contender next time around, though I doubt their path to the SB...

I had the Seahwaks up 7-10 points at Halftime, and squeaking out a win by 3-4 points after second half NE adjustments, so accurate so far.

Boston and Seattle aren't the biggest markets. Obviously there's a lot of money in Seattle and its not that far a flight to San Fran, but not a ton of it is native to Seattle. And a lot of Boston has already had all the opportunities to go to a Super Bowl they could want.

It's not 100% 1:1 with the short story - all the hanging with Lyonel stuff is new, IIRC, and it looks like we're getting flashback stuff, probably next week - but its the closest this franchise has been in years. Unfortunately, I thought this was the best out of the Dunc short stories, so yes...

Even going with West Coast teams, that's still a ~16 hour flight time each way. Again, I don't know why the NFL doesn't add another week to the schedule that's just a second bye, taking place after international/intercontinental trips (you could argue Mexico City isn't really that much of a...

Hey, the season established a... second kind of sleeper agent with the chips (we already had Institute synths) - except unlike synths, these are effectively new people post-chippage, which means they can't really engage in any subterfuge, so I'm not sure what the point is, other than pacifying...

From what I recall its much closer to the latter - the main storyline is playable to everyone, and you have access to at least the entire overworld (dungeons that aren't tied to the storyline and the pvp mode are probably blocked). However, all the side storylines will be locked, so depending on...

I got the feeling New Vegas is done - the NCR still somewhat exists, Caesar's Legion still somewhat exists (remember, canonically their power base was in the East), and House exists again and will presumably regroup with more securitron forces and be a force later on - but there's no in-show...

Kind of hard to shake the conclusion that nothing really happened in the season, other than the showrunners saying "All the factions are somehow still around twenty years later, just everyones' forces are nerfed to the point that we can do whatever we want with them in the future." Well, I...