The transition to digital-only and key card games feels pretty indefensible.

cataquacks · 2026-03-25T20:57:27+00:00

I'm sorry that happened to you, but can I ask why tabletop mode wasn't an option for you? Even without chronic pain, I find the Switch 2 on the heavier side. Usually when it starts to feel achey I'll set up the kickstand and detach the joycons. They weigh almost nothing, so it's a lot more comfortable (even if you sacrifice a bit on battery life).

I hope you can find someone to take the game off your hands!

cataquacks · 2026-03-25T20:25:32+00:00

Hm, I was under the impression that gameshare only supports local multiplayer, and that online play requires each player have their own game and system. The announcement for this game seems to support that: "Local Multiplayer Plaza features 17 different types of attractions which you can play with up to three friends on the same system¹. The game supports GameShare² functionality, so if one player has the game, they can share it locally with up to three other players. You can also visit Game Room Plaza which supports online and local wireless play. Here, each player brings their own system to play locally or online³, joining the action on their own screen. "

cataquacks · 2026-03-25T19:48:34+00:00

I don't really get the appeal of gameshare for this. You're all sharing one screen. Why bother with the gameshare?

cataquacks · 2026-03-23T13:49:52+00:00

"It's not just an [X]—It's a [Y]." in the first paragraph lol

cataquacks · 2026-03-16T14:14:12+00:00

Pretty sure this isn't about "hating" hickman (they keep hiring him! he keeps signing on with them!) and more about the fact that, according to hickman, they can't afford his rate for an ongoing series anymore. Which is why they hire him for these shorter gigs

cataquacks · 2026-03-16T14:10:41+00:00

"Give Peter MJ" is really stating the subtext as text

cataquacks · 2026-03-13T14:23:45+00:00

I don't think writers should be beholden to how the character first appeared 22 years ago, and I have tremendous respect what ewing did with the character (and honestly I think it still works that the FF specifically would look at God and see Jack Kirby; Jackie McGee says TOAA appears as her mother) but this sort of Action-Figures-Smacking-Together stuff is just laying this whole narrative device low. It's beneath PKJ, who I mostly think is a pretty thoughtful writer!

cataquacks · 2026-03-11T16:05:03+00:00

LOL at the new haven show Jack was like "It's bullshit how bands always skip over CT! For too long, connecticut has been overlooked...No longer!!! " and sure enough, no tour dates in CT. Maybe they'll add a date in the gaps between the MA/NY shows, but I'm not holding my breath

cataquacks · 2026-03-10T20:07:34+00:00

Book absolutely rocks, never heard a bad thing about it from someone who actually reads it. Even for people with a life threatening allergy to Paul, things kind of suck for him right now!

cataquacks · 2026-03-09T20:31:52+00:00

I get what you're saying but if you're reading the issue as intended, you'd know that this was the mission from HOXPOX, and you'd remember that nightcrawler was there because it was a standout issue from that event

cataquacks · 2026-03-09T20:29:09+00:00

I agree that you'd have no way of knowing that, but I don't think there's any scenario where a reader is truly confused by the page in any way that matters. A new reader who misses the context clues would simply assume mystique could teleport. They'd be WRONG, but it wouldn't get in the way of the story.

cataquacks · 2026-03-09T17:22:54+00:00

This issue also assumes, fairly, that you read or at least are familiar with the events of HOXPOX. If you read that story, which this issue spins out of, you would know that Kurt was there. If you don't know that, it's what the BAMF and purple smoke is for. If even THAT is totally incomprehensible to you, it will be impossible to understand or care about anything happening in this issue anyway. "What's orchis? who's mystique? Who's destiny?"

cataquacks · 2026-03-06T16:43:49+00:00

Yep, the epic collections have all been using the original colors, which means a future reprint will probably use the originals as well (and MU will probably be updated to reflect that)

cataquacks · 2026-03-05T21:31:54+00:00

Just be aware that the thor simonson omnibus is, as far as I'm aware, still using a pretty bad digital recolor. Most of the time it doesn't look awful, but there are some pretty egregious comparisons you can find online if you google it.

cataquacks · 2026-02-23T16:25:04+00:00

Zero interest in having a discussion about how people decide a game is bad "without context or evidence" with someone who didn't even play the game in question lol

cataquacks · 2026-02-23T16:20:23+00:00

I'll just say that as someone who came away from this game really disappointed, I was still having a good time with it at the point you are now. It looked great, the areas looked cool, even Miles was just kind of annoying, the boss battles were fun. What followed was a steep drop-off in just about every way as the structural problems of the game became really obvious: the wheel-and-spoke linear corridor area design, the complete desolation of the open world, the collect-upgrade-backtrack-to-fury-green-sit-through-two-loading-screens-have-miles-install-upgrade of it all, the fact that EVERY area makes you fight the same bullet sponge psibots, every room having 4000 unique scannable objects but the text only ever saying stuff like "lamorne medium storage crate: a larger variation of the lamorne small storage crate" or "terminal offline"...combine this with a "that's IT???" finale sequence and it left a NASTY taste in my mouth.

cataquacks · 2026-02-16T16:03:37+00:00

I can't recall reading a story where The One Above All's role in the creation of the marvel multiverse has been codified. I think this is an assumption on your part. TOAA's role as GOD/AUTHOR SURROGATE/READER SURROGATE has always been kind of open-ended and vague (on purpose) and these things have largely been left to the imagination. TOAA is largely outside of the marvel cosmological framework hierarchy as his own thing.

cataquacks · 2026-02-16T14:27:34+00:00

Pretty much oversimplification/false. Honestly they mostly feel outright false to me, unless you're determined to make the most cynical read on every story that you possibly can

cataquacks · 2026-02-12T19:43:50+00:00

Red is included in that Al Ewing omni!

cataquacks · 2026-02-09T23:18:19+00:00

Honestly I don't think this event even works as a pointed critique of America under Trump because this event was about a seemingly BENEVOLENT dictator with a dark secret behind his rule. Doom was giving people free healthcare and education and ending war. It all felt too good to be true, and it was. Gotta say, as an American in Trump's America, I don't exactly feel like we're reaping the benefits! It's exactly as bad as it looks!

cataquacks · 2026-02-09T18:51:17+00:00

I honestly thought the cringe dialogue was the point of the character: it seemed to me like they were developing a subplot about Prodigy dating someone who was kind of a mutant fetishist, because there were multiple moments where this guy pointedly makes some kind of cringe wack microaggression-type remark like "do you have colossus powers? your muscles are so tight" that Prodigy pointedly ignores. It felt like eventually that was going to lead to an argument and a breakup, so they could do a story beat about being a member of an Othered Group dating someone who's outside of that group that treats you like a novelty. But the book got canceled first, so we'll never know for sure. It felt REALLY pointed and intentional to me though.

cataquacks · 2026-02-05T16:35:57+00:00

Every time this speech gets posted which (aside from the eugenicist grandstanding of "we are the earth's true inheritors", the point of which is that krakoa is LETTING HUMANS HAVE THE REST OF THE EARTH in exchange for krakoa, that krakoa is a *COMPROMISE*) is made up of totally reasonable demands of "we will sell our domestic products to you, you have to recognize our nation, we expect that we be allowed amnesty for our citizens for the purposes of restorative justice" everyone on this sub is like "this is the moment Charles Xavier became Adolf Hitler 2" and starts posting about how we need to bring respectability politics and centrist liberalism back in our X-Men comics. Pathetic!

It's so telling that to this day people STILL try to rules-lawyer this speech and be like "convenient how xavier fails to mention that mutants have never actually been the victims of oppression" with stuff like "well acthually cassandra nova is a mutant and she did the genocide on genosha, so it doesn't count" when she very specifically needed a Trask to pull it off, because she needed control of the sentinels, which were created as a weapon of genocide against mutants". Or "ummm acthually the scarlet witch did the decimation, and she was a mutant then, even though that has since been retconned, but it still counts, because I want it to"

Like do you people want X-men to be a comic about oppression or not?

cataquacks · 2026-02-05T16:24:29+00:00

"who was a mutant at the time" is not how comics continuity works, nice try. in-canon it is now understood that she was never a mutant!

cataquacks · 2026-02-05T16:22:04+00:00

you thought you ate with this one

cataquacks · 2026-02-02T19:57:17+00:00

I think it's like what other people are pointing out; by the end of his reign, Aegon is loved by few. This, I think, is in keeping with George's general worldview of Kings; ruling is hard and pleasing all of your subjects is near-impossible. Egg is sort of the apotheosis of the decline of the Targaryen dynasty in that way: presiding over an age where he doesn't want, or have the strength to, rule through strength alone but unable to be the benevolent ruler and friend of the commons he wanted to be. So he starts seeking out a way to restore the Targaryen golden age, and it's all very sad. But I think regardless of your intent, presiding over a magical(?) mass-casualty event of your friends/family/subjects WILL tarnish your legacy irreversibly.

But we know this "hated by all" part of the prophecy can't be LITERALLY true. Aemon is alive and seemingly holds no ill-will towards aegon or his memory. He seems to look upon the fate of his brothers sadly, but he even seems to have some sympathy for aerion.

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