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Watching the Gallery episodes with the roundtable discussion with the directors, old school ILM folk etc. is just awesome. It's almost painful how much everyone at that table gets Star Wars at a fundamental level that JJ Abrams just doesn't. You can see it in Kathleen Kennedy's eyes as these...

No more normal maps... The amount of art-asset processing that all of this eliminates is staggering. This opens up a LOT of design possibilities, especially for smaller studios that couldn't budget the time and cost of having to do all that work and thus retreated to stylistic flat choices.

The people working at home doing nothing are the same people who were at the office doing nothing. Its just easier to pretend you are doing work when you are in a glass tower and can wander around 'catching up' and 'touching base' etc.

Aloy in the new Sony Studio logo... good sign that she will be seeing the light of day for PS5

Colin Robinson is the hero we deserve in 2020.

I could never get past Miranda being the chick from Chuck, but a friend of mine was obsessed with her so I can see that. My biggest issue with ME2 was the hard left it took from the underlying plot of ME1 and the fact they they got lazy and just benched whatever character survived the ME1 choice.

ME1 -> ME2 -> ME3 -> ME:A to Star Trek TNG -> Star Trek DS9 -> Star Trek Voyager -> Star Trek Enterprise

The machine learning upscaling is getting better and better. Hopefully we see a fully realized version of this in the not-too-distant future.

I'm enjoying it. I love what the pups gets up to as it's silent sub-plots and background gags

Even with all the problems Andromeda had I would still be first in line should they make a new Mass Effect game. It's probably naive since the original genius team behind it all are long gone and it's a different era now... But damn I love this setting so damn much. The original commercial...

Surely there must be an opening for marketing director in Redmond yes?

their big Xbox Series X gameplay reveal. So far it is very underwhelming with a lot of 'optimized for series X' type things that will clearly be perfectly fine on Xbox One

In the Shadowlands Alpha stuff is there any indication as to what they plan to do vis-a-vis the giant sword that impaled Azeroth? Is everyone just supposed to go trapsing off into the plane of the afterlife and just conveniently forget about the whole Azerite / dying planet / whatever?

The music in the finale was haunting. It was a satisfying conclusion to the series and a wonderful capstone on the entire prequel era. I honestly feel I have a better handle on the state of the Star Wars Galaxy during the Clone Wars than I do during the time of the Original Trilogy (which is...

Huh...that new show on Amazon which is sort of the Good Place meets Black Mirror stars one Robbie Amell. Hope it's good, the poor guy deserves a break.

I lost one of my soldiers in the first boss fight and I decided I was okay with that... some folk gotta be expendable.

I've reloaded the same checkpoint now 3 times because I keep fucking up and missing the bonus goal for an early mission. I quite like these extra goals because its just enough of a carrot to compel me to focus on efficiency and details.

I'm enjoying this so far but I'm still on the early missions. I agonize over the skill tree which, to me, is a sign of quality in that I feel there are real decisions to be made in progression for squad members. I did need to update my Nvidia drivers as there was a definite incompatibility...

This is out today on PC and free for anyone with Xbox Game Pass. Launches in 1 hour!

The baby talk business with Charlotte in the Trials of Mana demo is where I noped the fuck out. Was looking for something to play after Ff7 remake but now I'm back to mindlessly wrecking stuff in Borderlands

Ahsoka's character arc throughout Clone Wars and Rebels is probably the best written arc of any character in the entire franchise. It is going to be great to see how she reacts to Order 66 and how that sets her up to fully take on the role of orchestrating early Rebel cels.

I get the distinct impression they intended the show to come back earlier in the year and hence the Superb Owl episode would have been more timely.

Watched it and I liked the overall setting quite a bit. The story went to pretty predictable places, but it was refreshing that the main character wasn't some messiah or something (I half expected him to manifest cold powers at a critical moment). I do think Robbie Amell is a better actor than...

Well Apocalypse had a better "Phoenix" scene than Dark Phoenix did, so that tracks. The main downfall from the Apoc version is the over acting of Xavier with "RELEASE YO POWAH!!"

My company announced a global salary reduction of 20% as a result of COVID and economic effects. I suspect mine wont be the only 'white collar' type job that faces this.

Most actors are short as hell. Its a selection effect as much as anything as the super tall athletic types aren't usually theater geeks. Then you get aberrations like Chrisopher Lee at 6'5" and they look gigantic.

They do make a point of having that dog be center frame though, its not subtle at all.

Who else has a white collar job that has seen a marked increase in overall efficiency since everyone started working from home? While you have the people with kids who are trying to balance that with their home office situation you also have people who have gained 2 productive hours in each...

Part of what makes Clone Wars so good is the anthology nature of the stories which vary in scope and tone.

I finished it this AM... and I really REALLY wanna log into FFXIV right now...

Jesus fucking Christ give Filoni a movie already. The intro to this was just about perfect.

It seems that they will be not making as many PS5s for 'launch' as they did PS3s back in the day. Claims are not so only manufacturing issues during the apocalypse but also fear that the price is just too high for people to jump onboard with Day One.

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I went to see the original film back when I was a kid and without having read the book. We walked out of that theater so staggeringly confused it was comical. I can now appreciate the Lunch vision for what it is, but that theatrical cut was a mess for the uninitiated.

Of course the villain is still very white and male.

No spoilers but this story is still the best Final Fantasy ever. This just cements that.

I love that we are a terrorist cell that uses public transport. Well that and people don't seem to react to the 7 foot tall muscled dude with a minigun where his arm should be.

Just started playing and still in the part covered by the demo so far. A bit more info in the final version with respect to controls and abilities etc and an additional cutscene I dont recall from the demo. I did get a kick when, after a fight, Barret went 'dun-da-da dun dun dun-ta-dun' aka...

Oh lord. Joel McHale is the perfect guy for this.