Certain people get so pissy that Rian dared to add depth to a character, treating their original, basic Hero’s Journey story as peak writing that can’t ever be touched again. It tracks that you fail to see the possibilities left by TLJ.

It’s not ruining my day or anything, but the gacha game basically bribing their players to vote for them feels pretty lame.

And I mentioned it in another TGA thread, but for a 4.5 hour runtime, presenting roughly 10 out of 30 awards on stage with the rest being rapid fire announcements between walls of ads/trailers doesn’t feel great for an awards show.

Those two gripes aside, I did enjoy it overall. All the winners’ speeches were very sweet and nice to see, though clearly a rough year for most games not named Clair Obscur.

*Oh, also, that Divinity trailer was GNARLY. Like, holy shit.

Turns out even slow things progress quickly when the rate is multiplied billions of times over.

the term…is rapidly expanding to be used more generally

“Rapidly” is one way to put it. It was basically instant. Like I said, it’s a bad word.

• Why did Luke leave a map to his hiding spot?

Answered

• Who is Snoke?

Answered

• Who are the Knights of Ren? Will they make an appearance in the next movie?

Answered

Yeah, TLJ totally ignored it all 🙄

And I already addressed a handful of the threads left by TLJ, so I won’t repeat myself.

And that’s JJ Abrams all over.

20 years ago I remember thinking he was the most talented writer out there. 100% bought into his whole “Mystery Box” spiel. Then, every single time, he failed to deliver on any of the compelling threads he started with, ending up in a meandering, meaningless mess if the property went on for more than 2 seasons/movies. Dude is a hack that convinced people that a lack of a plan was somehow clever.

You’re not alone.

I wouldn’t go so far as “dogshit”, but I agree that people look at the OT with heavy nostalgia glasses. Watching the movies objectively, the dialogue, story, and particularly the acting are all pretty rough. It’s all enjoyable still (I love them myself), but it’s far from the masterpiece a lot of people like to hold it up as. In truth, the franchise’s best asset was and is the universe around the stories, which does a fantastic job bolstering the less than stellar parts. And, thankfully, even a downright terrible movie won’t topple that.

Also, Luke straight up predicts she’ll be as powerful him and their father in RotJ. It didn’t come out of nowhere.

Mech-toparasite

To be somewhat fair to Walt, he wasn’t doing it only for himself, the point was to make money for his family so when he’s gone they have a better life.

No, Walt was doing it for himself. The first attempt at cooking and the shit-show with Crazy 8 I can accept as a terrible mistake, but he was given a blank check by Elliott and Gretchen which he turned down because he felt powerful making drugs. The whole point of the show is watching a prideful, narcissistic man bring entirely avoidable ruin on himself, his family, and everyone around him.

“spiritual successor” has me a bit skeptical, but I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for this.

Nice!

I missed the news about a sequel and was popping off when this showed up. Hoping it’s not as resource hungry as AW2 was, but excited either way. Control was amazing.

Super Bombad Racing is the only true Star Wars racing game (/s). But for real, this looks cool. Curious what the gameplay looks like.

30 some awards over 4.5 hours and they only announced something like 9 or 10 on stage with acceptance speeches. I like a hype show of trailers as much as everyone else, but this feels like a disservice to the people being “honored”. And shoving Best Indie Game into the rapid-fire segment seemed particularly rude.

Enshittification is inherently used to refer to a process of getting shittier.

Right, that’s the problem - that’s not what it means, but that’s what it looks like it means, and the misuse dilutes the word to be functionally useless to point out the actual and critically pressing problem is was imprudently coined for.

The answers to both questions is that most everyone on the internet only use it to call something shitty, because that’s the only part of the word they recognize. But the Internet Smartman, Cory Doctorow, coined it, so they think they sound clever using it to call things shitty while instead they are just part of the problem. The leveraging of consolidated power by internet titans to squeeze society for every penny and resource they can get is too important of an issue for that to be the word for it.

Choosing to use a word incorrectly isn’t any better (and it’s not even the way it’s usually misused, so even more confusing). It does exemplify why it’s such an awful word in general though, so that’s helpful in some small way, I guess.

The kid’s clearly on the bad path, but that particular claim is one person without any substantial proof.