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I’d be down for a Loki show. I wouldn’t be opposed to Scarlet Witch, I just don’t know that we’ve seen enough of her character for me to be interested from jump.

Fucking millennials, back in my day we broke up over Scrabble disputes like god intended.

But... my feels...

With a few exceptions, I think the PSX / N64 era has aged terribly. $100 might be above my sweet spot for a dose of nostalgia. Also I had completely forgotten the original PSX controllers didn’t have analog sticks. Huh.

I have a beagle, so I cannot abandoning ones beagle hard enough. That said, surely letting the dogs loose and giving them a chance is a better option than leaving them caged up. But who knows, maybe they didn’t have time for even that.

This is actually the prequel to Edge of Tomorrow.

Yeah I think it would be the latter too... but I don’t think I’d ever take that beeper off my belt if that was the case. Also I accept your beeper theory. The headcanon I have for the end of Infinity War is that Bucky’s arm survives the snap and Rocket carries it with him everywhere as a reminder of what it cost to get it.

A few more thoughts. The combat “pacing” overall is really solid. I felt like I was unlocking enough stuff that had a meaningful impact on fighting for most of the game. Handling mobs before and after the bomb webs (or whatever they’re called) feels different, being able to toss people around after they’re webbed makes a big change in combat, etc. There are probably a couple trashy or less impactful abilities in the mix which is kind of inevitable given the sheer number of suits, gadgets, upgrades, etc., but that’s a problem of riches and not a bad one to have. One of the things that the game does best other than traversal is setting the right tone at the right moments. This is hard for Spidey especially since he’s a wise cracking guy partially just to keep himself sane, but they handled that really well. Honestly the only thing that I thought that they could have done better in this regard is the ending, since the events that happen didn’t really have enough time to land, but that’s a really small complaint for something that does an otherwise great job throughout the whole affair. For a game and brand that have so many familiar characters, they do really well building the tension to the final confrontation and establishing everyone’s motivations along the way. Pete and Otto specifically shine, but Li, MJ, Miles, and Norman get their licks in, too, and it’s a treat to see. Honestly this is a really good example of a game that’s better than the sum of its parts, almost all of which are still really good individually. There are a couple derps (combat objectives tell me to do X for the tokens, but they really mean Y which is thematically similar to X), and there’s almost nothing NEW in the game at all, it’s all really standard open world stuff. But it’s just presented in such a compelling package that it’s hard to care all that much, I’m too busy dive bombing off buildings to care.

I know, I am mostly kidding.

The 45 seconds Fury is aware of the snap before he grabs the beeper suggest that either he’s been warned that someone might do something like that or I guess that he figured that specifically was the only thing he could do on the off chance that he was gonna dust also. Both of those seem like a stretch, so who knows. It’s possible I’ve spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME wondering why the people who dust have EVERYTHING THEY ARE TOUCHING get dusted, clothes, weapons, etc. But that beeper DOESN’T dust. Maybe EVERTYHING about Captain Marvel is undustable. We need to go deeper.

You’re thinking of Planescape Torment and Morte. Pretty big miss TBH. Yeah, this is gonna be really weird. I don’t know how it could be a movie main character we spent any meaningful time with unless they decide to get REALLY Heavy Rain about the whole thing, and... fuck that. Though maybe however the snap is undone will make that more clear.

Falafel om nom nom nom

I live in Somerville, so that’s an emphatic yes. @NeoJoe

I hope you can shoot at and destroy tornadoes.

Yeah, I’ve got no issue with any of that.

I’m from New Jersey actually. Home of Gotham City... at some point. Which is the home of Arkham. Unless we’re talking about Lovecraft in which case Arkham is in Massachusetts. Which is where Boston is and where I am now. Like Denise Richards, it’s complicated.

I’ll guess that Fury decides to form The Avengers in part because of Marvel / an alien threat, and will think she’s too powerful to have hanging around earth. That tracks with his line in Avengers that Thor / aliens is what caused Fury to really go all in on the initiative. As to why she doesn’t get paged until after the snap... who knows. Even if she explicitly warns him about Thanos dusting people, seems like a Hail Mary to ping her.

I dunno how to feel about this episode yet. Part of it is because I subscribe to the show on iTunes and the episodes are uncensored. There was a lot more cartoon nudity than I was expecting.

Maybe Oedipus had one good idea.

Shit I’m fucking broke. Just like real life. EDIT - I just mean when I’m gambling. Otherwise I’m doing well

It's so fucking good. I wish you could play the whole game in that effect.

You gotta pay daddy if you want a legit copy of NES Solomon’s Key.

Yeah. I think the issue with the stealth generally is that unlike the combat and traversal, it really never upgrades meaningfully. Spidey can stealth from further away but that’s more or less it. Everything else gets more fun, stealth never really does. It’s never bad, but other than that one sequence in the spoiler tags, I don’t think it’s all that fun either.

That really was an enjoyable Spider-Man yarn.