wizardbeard

That entire article is based off coincidental reasoning, and does nothing to connect the review bombing (which did occur) to anything incel or right wing.

Yes, it's absurd that the Acolyte's audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes dropped to below the Holiday special or any other piece of Star Wars media faster than any other piece dropped, but that article itself calls out the most likely reason: people believing that the third episode was retconning the canon of Anakin's "virgin birth" making him the chosen one by implying the twins were also "virgin birth" force babies.

That's kind of a massive, setting breaking retcon, if that was in fact what the show was saying (which still seemed to be the implication as of the end of the series). I can understand why that would draw more ire from fans than any other new piece of Star Wars media under Disney. No outside agitators needed.

I'm afraid what happened is that he saw the fan reaction as a hate of the major plot points themselves, rather than of the abysmal pacing and handling of it all. We've been told that the broad strokes were from his drafts and plans for the series.

While my gut feeling would be to agree with you, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. It could be a matter of other publishers are just putting up with it so they don't close themselves off from a large segment of the market.

There's plenty of devs that have had issues with Microsoft and other console storefronts over the years that have spoken out about it.

Way back in time, when TF2 was relatively new, Valve was pretty open about how they were incredibly kneecapped in their ability to release patches for the console version by the way the console online store and update systems worked.

Do you happen to know if they actually integrated the Fitbit functionality with their own line of smart watches like they said was planned, or did they really just buy FitBit to let it rot?

Yeah, this seems to be a common pitfall for popular tools/projects. I get that the creators pour an astounding amount of effort into these things, so it's not unusual to desire compensation for your work.

That said, it pretty much guarantees that your little project has no chance of continuing to stay off Nintendo's radar anymore.

As an aside, I also really dislike this slow shift in the hacking/modding culture away from the "everything should be free" ideology. Every hobby does not need to be turned into a job or supplemental income stream folks!

This also ties directly into the plot of Metroid Fusion, were her encounter with the X parasite caused the biological components of her suit to fuse with her body. In order to stabilize her, the alien-bird-dna already fused with her human dna was further fused with metroid dna. Fusion! Fusion! Fusion! Do you get the title yet? Fusion!

Keeping Up with the Alien Ghosts of Skinwalker Ranch

I'd totally watch this, if it were a comedy series about these crazy creatures navigating normal day to day shit.

What you describe at least was the entire selling point if the dating site eHarmony. I have a few family members that found their spouse through it, over 20 years ago at this point, for whatever that's worth.

You might enjoy this fact: in Japan nearly every KFC has a weird statue of Colonel Sanders outside it.

Not as funny as the idea of this bulbous boy outside fine dining establishments, but you're walking through a pedestrian shopping area and all of the sudden see Colonel Sanders holding a giant prawn, both of them wearing Santa hats.

This can also be mitigated by using a username and/or hostname that doesn't leak private data.

No need to make your username your real name, or make your hostname contain anything more revealing than say "living room thinkpad"

Yep, these scenes are either meant to be titilating, and are hamstrung by the rating to be "softer" so what is the point, or meant to convey things about character relationships, where usually a fade to black gives you enough for plot.

Like I can understand the desire to see a character or actor/actress nude, but still. Therecs better ways to do "eyecandy", better ways to titilate, and better ways to convey plot and character development even working with the topic of intimacy.

There are incredibly few sex scenes in non-porn media that are actually done well enough to be worth it. Just go watch some porn and have a wank, or find a better writer to convey your plot and characters so you don't need the sex scene crutch.

I waited too, and it was worth it.

The last... two seasons-ish drop off in terms of pacing ridiculously, which causes the overall plot to suffer as they rush to the finish. There's also a bunch of stuff about how everything ends that feels cheap because while it's a believable state for everything to end up in, it isn't earned or worked towards. The show is usually a slow burn punctuated by the occasional "big shit happens suddenly", while the final seasons are just speeding along with no time to examine character motivations etc. Stuff that was hinted at previously jumps from "are they hinting that?" straight to "oh, yeah, it's that. And about 10x the level they hinted at".

That said, there's still a TON of good content in the show up until the end.