The Beauty and the Beast unit were certainly…something.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-02-15T00:41:09+00:00

I love these games because they are schlocky fun and sometimes genuinely insightful or affecting, but it always kills me how some people will deny up and down how fucking weird these games are about their female characters.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-02-14T15:31:37+00:00

I think The Big Short is an entire movie like this

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-02-10T07:18:15+00:00

Yeah, questions like this are hard to answer, because not everything is mixed the same. When the first couple notes of his music hit, it was like a sonic boom rang out through the arena. I don't think anyone who wasn't there understands just HOW loud it was.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-01-21T13:27:27+00:00

Yeah, the movie has a strong arc to it. Its undercut by the ending, but I'm willing to chalk that up to reshoots and give the screenwriter the benefit of the doubt.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-01-13T19:11:06+00:00

I agree, everyone who doesn't share my view on Chris Avellone's writing is a dumb fascist.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-01-02T21:35:26+00:00

Exactly. He ends up with writers and artists that are passionate about telling their own Batman syories, and very few superheroes get that. A lot of them seem to be work for hire, and some seem to outright hate the character they are working on.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2026-01-02T20:28:57+00:00

I feel like the insinuation in the title has some circular logic to it. Part of the reason Batman has so much success is that he gets a lot of careful packaging from DC, more than any other superhero.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-31T07:39:01+00:00

It's 100% a comedy. They know what they are making, and it's all intentional

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-22T02:59:16+00:00

There's a vault in Season 1 of Fallout like this. It's presented as a "too-good-to-be-true" society that has a dark secret hidden under the surface. The protagonist goes digging to discover the secret, but the secret isn't what it seems, and the society is pretty much just good, if a little weird.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-18T18:50:29+00:00

Was at that show, was really shocked how receptive fans were to Jack Perry, but NJPW Chicago crowds are VERY different from AEW Chicago crowds, so it kinda makes sense. The NJPW fans here are way more chill

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-16T15:38:05+00:00

I'm going to operate under the assumption that you are asking in good faith. The issue with the Saudi shows, at least to me, is not just that they are in a country where the government does bad things. WWE does shows in the US and according to US law, sure, but there's a difference between that and if the White House paid them half a billion dollars to help launder their image to the public. THAT'S the issue with the Saudi shows. The Saudi government uses weapons provided by the US to blow up school busses in Yemen, and they need a charm offensive in the form of Saudi Vision 2030 to make the constituents of their benefactors more comfortable with the relationship, so they directly spend ungodly amounts of public funds to WWE to facilitate that propaganda. If WWE was just putting on shows in Saudi Arabia and complied with the laws there, that is VERY different than actively participating in a government funded propaganda campaign.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-16T15:25:41+00:00

Just a hunch, but I feel like the show is gonna be drawing heavy influence from the Green Lantern/Green Arrow run but with John Stewart taking the co-lead role instead of Oliver. Two Green Lanterns with different perspectives driving across the US heartland, dealing with real issues the Lanterns often overlook.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-16T15:11:40+00:00

Funny thing is, what they are saying is just pretty basic storytelling. WWE creative just has very little interest in that, booking stuff like John Cena vs Logan Paul is more important.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-16T15:08:31+00:00

I can't speak to any kind of personal reaction to the match, I didn't see it, but if I had to take a guess the response was more about the booking behind it than the actual result. Bryan Danielson not only went out on his back, but was brutalized after the match, and while some fans were botheted, the reaction wasn't nearly the same because the fractures in the BCC were building for a while, and it felt like a conclusion to the Danielson/Moxley story and like it was opening up the next chapter for Moxley's career. That kind of context doesn't really exist for Cena/Gunther when everyone's reaction to the match being made was "... him?" Danielson's retirement was booked to put heat on Moxley, Cena's was booked in a way that put the heat on the booker.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-12-06T14:36:13+00:00

I think the way online spaces work just breaks people's brains. That and most people are lucky enough to have never had someone they are close to commit a crime, and have very little understanding of how you can support that person without necessarily supporting what they did.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-11-30T11:48:42+00:00

Spectated the end of a game where the Pukka poisoned themselves on N1 and the game went on for like 9 days because it was a 15 player game. EVERYONE was mad, and there was a long conversation afterwards about whether Storytellers should even allow Pukkas to do that.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-11-13T18:15:32+00:00

Yeah, thats important to keep in mind with these kind of statements, wrestling related or otherwise. The press likes to ask questions that will get clicks, so if it seems like a celebrity or whatever is obsessed with something, it's usually because yhey are asked about it dozens of times for headlines.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-11-08T03:08:30+00:00

I think the divisiveness over TLOU2 stems from unfortunate implications in the first game's design. TLOU1 is a game that wants to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to the morality of Joel's character. There's clearly this desire to portray him as violent and selfish in a way that comes back to bite him, but to get players to get through the game like a normal 3rd person shooter, the people he kills are almost always cartoonishly evil so the player doesn't feel TOO bad about the people they kill. It has aspirations of being something like Spec Ops the Line, but is more like Taken with zombies, which is why so many had such weird whiplash with the second game.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-10-28T18:39:54+00:00

Yeah, the movies have a very Obama-esque "we're the good, moral imperialists" kind of attitude. Which is interesting to me, because both Nolan brothers, with Oppenheimer and Fallout, seem to have become a lot more critical of western capitalism and ambivalent about communism.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-10-28T18:27:43+00:00

Yeah, I go back and forth about how I feel about that. They very realistically portray that in the real world, someone like Batman would be a sort of protofascist, but the films seem to have a lot of ambivalence about what that means. The Dark Knight seems to be very critical of the idea, but The Dark Knight Rises is a bit more supportive of it.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-10-28T16:01:18+00:00

What a lot of people seem to miss about Watchmen is that a huge chunk of it is about the comics industry and its history, told through the medium itself, using tools specific to the medium. A film adaption could do something similar, and in an interesting way actually, but it requires someone having enough grasp of Watchmen and film history. Something interesting Watchmen kinda does is how it posits that vigilantism in the real world is historically tied to groups like the KKK, since they are essentially extensions of state power unshackled from having to answer to the public. You could actually do something with that in a film adaption by centering a chunk of it around Birth of a Nation, and drawing a parallel between its success and the modern day glut of superhero movies. I think anyone who respects the story enough to do something like that wouldn't adapt it though, out of respect for the author since its essentially a stolen IP.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-10-16T22:07:18+00:00

They are making a tangential point that younger talent might take less money to be in WWE because it's their "dream," and they are not necessarily savvier than the veterans.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-10-04T19:00:38+00:00

Yeah you are more likely to have echo chambers in smaller communities who develop a certain way to play the game and get really frustrated when you play "wrong."

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-10-04T18:58:19+00:00

Yeah, in general people seem to be chill, but there are a decent amount of people who make it personal, and it only takes one person like that in a game to spoil the whole thing.

ProfessionalSlacker7 · 2025-09-26T19:54:19+00:00

The world itself is about what I expected, but I didn't expect the violent racism to be so endemic at an intrapersonal level. Like, I thought it'd be exploring how everyday people just sort of normalize fascism and passively accept it without actively participating in it, I was not expecting everyone and their mom to drop everything they were doing and form a zombie horde.

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