Mr. GOH!

I'm not saying it should feel like an Edgar Wright movie; I was responding to the hopes of some fans that a lot of Edgar Wright would remain in the movie after his departure as director.

Ant-Man. It was an ok superhero movie, a bland heist movie, and an anemic comedy, but it was good-natured and competent enough to keep it from being bad. It does *not* feel like an Edgar Wright movie at all. Paul Rudd was not really able to shine, sadly, and his Scott Lang was inconsistent; if he saw himself as a Robin Hood whistleblower, why did he so easily agree to burgle Pym's house? Why did Pym set it up so that Lang would burgle him rather than approach him directly? I'm also not a big fan of how Hydra was involved and how, in the MCU, it's became a sort of monolithic evil force that stands for nothing other than being generally nefarious, yet it somehow attracts a huge following of die-hard believers from all levels of society. Ultimately, Hydra just isn't a very interesting villain,at least in the recent Marvel movies. I thought some of the action was fun and clever, but the great Thomas the Tank Engine visual joke was ruined by the trailers. I also feel bad for the always-great Bobby Cannavale and Judy Greer being relegated to such bland roles. Especially since Greer played a similarly powerless mother role int he terrible Jurassic World. What puzzles me is that the themes of Ant-Man should have yielded a much more coherent movie with real heart, since all the characters' arcs are about family and finding one's place in a family. Hell, it could have remedied the Hydra bit if it showed that Hydra made Cross feel like he belonged to a family after Pym's rejection. Instead, Coss's deal with Hydra just looked spiteful.

Sweet Jesus, I forgot that this game was split into Acts. I think the last time I saw an Act transition was just when I got to Velen, many, many, many hours ago.

Ok, so I think I'm about to hit a point of no return and I'd like advice on whether or not progressing will kill any side quests. Here comes the spoiler tag.

*hangs up his batcape for the next few months*

And don't forget Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (colloquially known as "Ghost Rider 2"). A gift to comic book fans, Marvel fans, and cinema.

Gone Home is all story. :\

I bet they wanted to keep Bruce Wayne as Batman and Bale is too expensive/unwilling to return. They also clearly want to have the Joker feature as a villain in the DCU and did not want to try to have a different actor ape Ledger's excellent and unique performance. I understand why they're rebooting Batman, and it could be okay in theory. What makes it shit is that everything Snyder touches is shit, is all. Also, Afleck is way too doofy to play Bruce Wayne.

FLD don't know 'bout that axial tilt.

No, I used the word I meant to use and used it correctly, Jack. Also, ugh to SS and BvS. But, yeah, I think BvS will make buckets of money.

I haven't read it in ages, but I recall thinking that the Killing Joke was kind of lazy in its depiction of the Joker acting out his belief that "one bad day" could make anybody insane (or evil). I didn't like Moore's origin story for the Joker very much, as it was too neatly similar to Batman's and was obviously written to justify the book's plot rather than as an interesting origin story of Batman's greatest nemesis. I also didn't like the way Barbara was treated like a prop rather than a fully human and independent person. Beyond its misogyny, I think the book fundamentally misunderstands the Joker/Batman mirror-image dynamic. I think it works much better if Joker has no real origin story and has been totally subsumed into his clown prince of crime persona, which is outwardly cheerful and manic but built upon a sincere belief in a cynical and cruel strain of nihilism; the Joker is, at heart, a cynic and pessimist who believes the worst in people regardless of external circumstances, while Batman is outwardly dark and cynical but truly an optimist and believer in the essential decency of humanity despite the cruelty and madness that is rife in Gotham. I think this contrast works better when the writer doesn't manufacture vindication for Batman's beliefs, as Moore does in TKJ and Nolan did in TDK.

Here's a BBC article laying out the Swedish SOL issues in a non-lawyerly way: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31867829 I can understand how a country might decide that there should be limit to how long an open case's investigation can take for certain types of crime, I suppose. I wouldn't necessarily advocate for such a system in the U.S., however. Edit: On the English versus English front, I have always detested the Britishism "different to," even though it's the oldest formulation. "Different from" and "different than" make sense, unless you're comparing two people's perceptions. That is, "I know you think the movie is just a rehash of the same old tropes, but it's different to me." The same formulation sounds terrible when directly comparing two things, as in "an apple is different to an orange." "From" directly implicates a distance between the two objects of comparison, which makes sense. "Than" makes sense, too, because it denotes a direct comparison. "To," however, connotes an approach or similarity, not difference. Since "from" is completely acceptable in British English (apparently "different than" is only rarely used outside the U.S.), please use "different from," Brits.

The common law tradition is important in US statutory law via the importance of stare decisis and, to a lesser extent, res judicata. Having practiced in both Germany/the EU and the U.S., there are other significant differences between the European (non-British) inquisitorial systems and the American system, a lot of which is due to the U.S. system's roots in English common law.

The cutscene Dandelion is much older than the Dandelion in the rest of the game, which is why it's an older actor doing the narration. Edit: Just got to Skellige for the first time. I truly love this game, but I feel like you level too quickly.

Mine's 75/25 in SP games, though I think in a competitive multiplayer game I'd focus entirely on the effectiveness rather than appearance, assuming the game or character build puts significant importance on armor stats.

Why would you need sunglasses? I mean, you live on Great Britain, where the sun is but a rumor of a memory. Are you planning to travel out from under its perpetual cloud cover?

Modern video games: it's like playing dolly dress-up, but with lots of numbers involved!

I am certain it was not in the movie because I was waiting to hear the justification for his expertise the entire time. I even speculated to my wife that they cut out a justification because it would be silly and along the lines of that Owen had been SEAL training dolphins. Personally, I think it makes it a better movie if you just assume Owen is the SEAL Pratt played in Blackhawk down; he's taken out Osama, so of course he's the only man with the gumption to train prehistoric genetically-engineered monsters.

Eh, it's always been this way in certain communities. I mean, there's still the expectation among educated elites that a person has read a good number of novels/books out of the Canon.

Terminator:Genisys. Not as bad as JPW, but it approaches that level of dumbness. The action set pieces are only ever OK, and Arnold is sometimes funny, I guess, though he's shoehorned into the story without any real explanation as to why. Indeed, his presence is the biggest mystery in the movie, and it is NEVER explained. Indeed, the whole issue of the changed timelines is hand-waved away and we never find out what caused the timeline to change. Jai Courtney is forgettable, as he is in everything; he's a poor man's Tom Hardy. But he's better than the action it-boy of the late 00's and early 10's Sam Worthington, so I guess it's not all bad. Emilia Clarke presents a much, much, much less interesting Sarah Connor than Linda Hamilton (and, I assume, Lena Headey, though I never watched that show). The new Termiantor is essentially the same sort of Termiantor as in 3, just wearing a new face and attitude. Indeed, the conflict between the aging T-800 and the new Terminator model has already been done to death in T2 and T3 and this movie adds zero to it, instead just straight-up retreading it. I am so disappointed in these sequels to beloved 90's movies this year, but I suppose I should not be surprised.

Ugh, JPW. Can anyone explain why and how a multinational corporation thought the perfect candidate to train dinosaur monsters was a former Navy SEAL with no animal training background? Seriously, guys: FUCK JPW. It's really dumb. Edit: Oh, and I saw Dope this past weekend. It was an OK comedy with some messiness in the execution (including secondary characters that seemed mis-cast and way out of place in the movie), which is understandable because it was the director/writer's first movie.

I think he was looking for the name of an area. A neighbourhood, as you Brits misspell it.

What? Yes it is, Dean. I rely on it because I have not found any way to save the game manually.

My mind has been blown by folks posting pictures of the relevant controller buttons ITT. How do you do that?

I want to punch whomever thought the PC version was finished and whomever was involved in the decision to make the Batmobile's central gameplay mechanic be stupid tank battles. The Batmobile should have only been a conveyance and aid to solving environmental puzzles, not a racecar or tank.