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Some of us have been playing it since before it was popular with children!

One could argue that “Supergirl” was set up for failure given the way the character was introduced into the DC Universe in Gunn’s “Superman”: drunkenly stumbling into the Fortress of Solitude looking for her dog Krypto in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo.

I actually thought this scene was really funny and was looking forward to her movie; I thought it could be a comedy, like maybe she goes on a super-bender and hijinks ensue. Then the trailer dropped and it kind of seemed like it explained the whole movie, or enough that I could fill in the blanks without actually seeing it, and it looked like yet another standard superhero movie. It's also the second movie in a row where Krypto gets in trouble, and I cannot stress enough how much I do not want to see a movie where the dog is in mortal peril.

I love TOME! I have all the DLC on Steam so I'm not sure about the website linking thing. The Doombringer class from Ashes of Urh'Rok is my favorite.

This is a great one! I'm terrible at it but I love trying out all the different equipment.

I'm not really part of the target audience. I already have a laptop that's slightly more powerful and I could hook it up to my TV if that was a thing I wanted to do. I don't need a separate gaming PC for my living room.

As a kid, Sonic and his friends were my favorite video game characters. I had all the Genesis games, and Sonic CD, and I collected merch and read the comics and watched the TV shows and drew bad fanart. (I didn't have an OC, I just made Sonic cross over with other characters I liked, like Mega Man.)

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for Gamecube was the last official Sonic game that I thought was really good all the way up until Mania released, which was a LONG drought. I have a complicated relationship with mascot characters these days because I resent that they're owned by corporations and primarily exist to weaponize my nostalgia, but the honest truth is that it works. I can't help but still love Sonic and his friends, even though I'm acutely aware that they mostly exist to sell me stuff I don't need.

Mine takes less than a minute.

The main point seems to be that individual reviewers don't have recognizable voices anymore, but honestly I don't really buy the idea that reviews ever "worked" in the way that this writer seems to want them to. Any individual number was always meaningless except for knowing whether a specific person liked the thing at a specific moment in time. Maybe some people were lucky enough to know a reviewer who reliably predicted how they'd feel about the product, such that they could just look at the number and be good to go, but IMO the "feature list" has always been the most interesting part of the review, and it hasn't gone anywhere.

I live in a neighborhood where every day I see more and more people who can't make ends meet. Shops and services are closing every month and the storefronts stand empty.

The bank near me has signs up in their window "Celebrating 250 Years of the American Dream!"

Read the fucking room.

I'm very curious to know if this shift coincides with the MH games getting less interesting to me (approximately around the release of World).