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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Dele Alli.

Yeah it's very firmly in the Assassin's Creed zone for me where I'm probably going to get it and I'm probably going to have a fine time with it but it's not going to be until later on when it goes down to like $20 (and in this case has had a bunch of patches to fix all the bugs).

Just watch from the start again! Spend some quality time with the Kettlemans and Tuco Salamanca!

It's amazing how this went from a thing that was probably a bad idea to even try to one of the most richly layered, brilliantly written shows I've ever seen. I don't fully trust that this will be the actual endpoint of this universe but frankly I couldn't possibly ask for anything more than what we got.

I believe so.

I've played it a decent amount. It's the most I've enjoyed a Smash-like, probably, give or take Rivals of Aether. There's not as many attack options as Smash but I still find it fun to play and I think unlike the Nickelodeon one of these, there's a lot of personality to the characters that feels true to the characters (though Shaggy is like 66% actual character/33% "what if Shaggy was a DBZ character" meme, which is probably the right balance) as opposed to voice lines just being grafted in long after the game was originally made. I like the focus on 2v2, too, that's a great way to differentiate it.

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Boy, that's the worst own goal I've seen in a while.

If I absolutely love the feel of a game and want an excuse to keep playing it I'll go for trophies. I did that for Spider-Man on PS4 last year. Otherwise I'll go "oh that's cool!" when they pop up but pretty much leave it at that.

The greatest Star Trek story of all time. RIP to a legend. The greatest Star Trek story of all time. I saw her at a comic con like a decade ago and she told that story there to (I imagine she'd tell it everywhere she did stuff like that and why the fuck wouldn't you), and the other thing I remember is that she said something along the lines of the proudest part of having played Uhura was getting letters from younger black women in the space program who were inspired to do it because of her. RIP to a legend.

Sacramento Republic have defeated Sporting Kansas City to reach the US Open Cup final, making them the first non-MLS side to get there in almost fifteen years. Phenomenal.

well so much for lowering my expectations, this looks great

Boy, I didn't like that much at all. Felt a lot like Iron Man 2, where a formula that worked like gangbusters the first time around is doubled down on, rushed back into the market ASAP, and ran straight into the fucking ground. There are some neat little bits in there (I kept chuckling at the Stormbreaker bits), the black-and-white sequence was really cool and Christian Bale completely elevated what could have been another Malekith/Kaecillius-like Z-tier villain, but almost nothing really landed for me and worse yet I barely found anything funny. In theory I'm glad that Marvel is going to directors with more recognizable styles, and frankly the best parts of Multiverse of Madness are the stuff that feel unmistakably like Sam Raimi made it, but here it felt a bit like Taika Waititi had too much leeway on the tone so what felt like a breath of fresh air in Ragnarok just kind of feels flippant and weightless here. I think I'm starting to get a bit of an uneasy feeling about the overall coherence of the MCU, it feels increasingly like a bunch of people all doing their own things that don't really line up with each other anymore, like there was a very clear plan up to Endgame and now it's just a lot of grasping at straws and buying time.

Previously, on EWB's Top 50 TV shows of 2021: I mean look I said it wouldn't take five months to start posting the results, one month is not five months. This year's cutoff was 20 points on two ballots, so say hello to... 49 (tie). Chucky (20 points, appeared on two ballots) (Last Year: NR) ' 49 (tie). Never Mind the Buzzcocks (20 points, appeared on two ballots) (Last Year: NR) 48. Time (20 points, appeared on three ballots) (Last Year: NR) 46 (tie). Chicago Fire (21 points, appeared on two ballots) (Last Year: NR) 46 (tie). The Handmaid's Tale (21 points, appeared on three ballots) (Last Year: NR) Next Time, on EWB's Top 50 TV Shows of 2021: It must be strange, a human creature inside you. Do you ever think "what if he has a knife?"

Yeah, the free-to-play part is new. Previously it was going to be that PVP was free to Overwatch 1 owners but the PvE mode and new characters were Overwatch 2 exclusive. Guess Blizzard's just gonna go hard on loot boxes and skins?

yeah, I think that got announced at a Game Awards or something, that he was going to be in the new Ark.

boy do I wish I could be excited for Overwatch 2, and the Junkertown Queen finally showing up.

"What if we made an FPS but also Morty screams at you the whole time?" is a real thought that one of the biggest game publishers actually entertained.

Season's set in 2019, continuing the trend of alternating present-day(ish) seasons with past seasons.

4. Death's Door. Kind of felt like an isometric Hollow Knight to me, though with less customization. All the combat/boss fights are about movement and pattern recognition in a way that did feel fun, at some points frustrating but not in a "this is impossible" way. I do think other than the magic spells you can unlock that there wasn't really a strong feeling of progression with the way you incrementally make your character stronger, I could barely notice a change at times. Story is very good, a kind of deliberately sparse thing about death and its place in the overall life cycle, basically a "if you really want to delve into the nooks and crannies of this game there's a ton of worldbuilding for this world where crows work as like deputy grim reapers but you don't have to" thing. I got to credits and there's a whole slew of stuff post-credits but I only got up to a certain point via walkthroughs, I liked the game but didn't love it so much that I felt like I really wanted to scour the maps for torches to set on fire and stuff like that. 5. Nobody Saves the World. Basically has the energy of an '00s game that you'd play on a browser in flash, but also like one of the best ones of those you could stumble across. The story and the characters are absolutely nothing special at all, and way the game handles feels pretty stiff, but the core mechanic of the game works like gangbusters. Basically you can unlock various forms and those forms have further special abilities and buffs you can unlock and upgrade, and then you can basically mix-and-match those unlocked abilities with other base forms and there's enough of those and enough dungeons to play through that it always feels like you're progressing something. Just a very successful brain-turns-off game. I'll probably stop thinking about it entirely a month from now but as a thing I could jump into and kill half an hour at a time it was very good. Up next is hopefully the FF7R DLC, unless I stumble headlong into another Game Pass game and get sucked up in it.

Score a third, Sonny!

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