It's also amazing how much a microbudget movie that has a cinematographer who knows what they're doing makes the whole project seem like it cost tens of millions of dollars more.

Anyway, I think the current trend is a mix of modern cinematographers grading for smartphones and OLEDS, and the fact that a lot of the "trades" in cinema have had their mentorship tracks destroyed by streaming, and the "grounded realism" trend having a bunch of mid-level people covering their asses

Color grading trends have been awful for the past 25 years now! The fun thing is that there have been different eras where they've been awful in much different ways! Still prefer the current trend over the "dipped in piss" trend from the early aughts.

I would also contend that perhaps what seems obvious to the average arts major can also play as pretty complex for your a more baseline viewer/reader. (See every subreddit where people expound on how they "sovled the puzzle" of, like, Don Draper's trauma or something)

Totally get this too, of course. Only so much nuance required for the goblin who eats people's bones.

The why it sucks matters! You shouldn't just be against it on vibes!

I think there's a lot of value in doing this kind of "technical critical analysis" of this sort of thing even if the answer at the end is almost always some variation of "it sucks." I see so many people post magical thinking nonsense against AI and it galls me even if I agree with the stance!

People always (correctly) talk about Streets of Rage with Streets of Fire, but if you squint it's wild how much the world of Streets of Fire could just work if it was set in Midgar like 5 years before FF7.

This is a very correct take. Edmonton did invent the Wildcat and Tombstone donairs. Wildcat: an entire donair of cheese and meat with no veggies. Tombstone (because the Wildcat wasn't meat enough): an extra large donair that has as much cheese as a wildcat but also adds double meat

In 2012, a retailer (basically Canadian Best Buy), offered copies of the latest CoD, BF or AC to anyone who traded in ~any~ then-current-gen game. Our scoop about it was one of our highest traffic stories ever at our newspaper about anything. Pandemonum at stores. Imagine this will be similar

I believe they did. I'll have to check when I'm at my parents place to find the book

What percentage of the league plays in outdoor, cold-weather-in-the-winter venues? It's like half of the teams, isn't it? This seems profoundly dumb

No. Get the distinct impression they are holding off until closer to launch because they don't want to be screwed by tariff surprises.

Full-text RSS!!!!

(Which isn't to say that nothing bad happens to him over the course of the show, it's just that most of the times life slaps him in the face it isn't a direct result of him doing something wrong)

This is like when people say "remember self-care!" and what they mean is "I allow myself to watch 15-minutes of the Bachelor once a week as a little treat" and not "you gotta do your laundry man"