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    The Big Picture: Q&A

    I wish my childhood video rental place had those anime movies... then again we never even had a Blockbuster. Most people would probably pick any given Ghibli work for their favorite anime movie but it's cool to know your first ones were some of the other more unique 80s movies.
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    The Big Picture: SUPERMESS

    I do agree with this bit, I think if Black Panther shows anything it's that historically black superheroes can stand on their own without necessarily dipping into established franchises. People want more and varying super heroes and stories, not just reboots of reboots of 90-year old franchises...
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    Loot Boxes Are Bad for Publishers, Too

    I guess you could call me a "hardliner" but to me it's less about kids. That is a fear, particularly since even avid gamer parents don't often know anything about what their kids get up to, but there's ways to guardrail that. I guess my main concern is that these mechanics can hack the brain of...
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    Critical Mix: 006

    There was a Crazy Taxi 2 and Crazy Taxi 3 for the Xbox. The original was ported to the PC, however it doesn't have the original music or the original brands. The original had a great many real-world brands (some of which aren't even around anymore). There's a reason why games generally don't do...
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    Critical Mix: 006

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G91ziPCo39k Crazy Taxi only had like, four songs on its soundtrack, all from The Offspring. So if you played it for any significant amount of time, you'd hear this song (along with the others) quite a few times. For an arcade it may not have been too bad, but...
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    The Big Picture: Plothole Surfers

    I've always wondered Bob, what is your favorite anime movie?
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    The Big Picture: Plothole Surfers

    I might agree with you, but I didn't want to spend time going over pacing and plot structure. At least to me, a lot of the reason the Poe/Holdo stuff is weird is because of the way to conflict is structured. The conflict is one that has been used many times, ego-driven hotshot gets taken down by...
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    The Big Picture: Plothole Surfers

    And the problem is, that's the thing people don't typically like about the military. The idea of blindly following orders regardless of how dumb they are (or worse, how cruel they are) all because the military has some pseudo-religious devotion to the idea of chain of command is not one that...
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    Critical Mix: 005

    Maybe make it a Mexican Root Beer... I need the harder stuff.
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    The Big Picture: Plothole Surfers

    I think this presupposes that people actually did like The Last Jedi due to its themes or whatever but convinced themselves not to like it because of plot holes, real or imagined. To me, The Force Awakens frustrated and angered me more than the prequels, but it wasn't because of plotholes or...
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    Zero Punctuation: Shenmue

    Quite frankly, the game was missing side quests. Suzuki thought that everyone would enjoy listening to the soundtrack and collecting capsule toys as a legal adult would be enough to spend the stupid amount of free time you have in the game, which it's not. There are some extra events you can...
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    The Big Picture: MCU-Tants?

    I do think the next X-Men movie should be a crossover where they team up with Sonic to collect the chaos emeralds before The Mummy can get them.
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    Zero Punctuation: We Happy Few

    Okay cool now suffer through Shenmue 1&2 for the delight of the masses. The gods need more appeasement to end the Great Game Drought of 2018!
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    Overwatch's Competitive Skill Rating is Broken for Healers Right Now

    Really, the entire on-fire system is broken and has been since launch, healers just get screwed the hardest by it. The system seems to want you to be fighting and killing things all the time and it only seems to value death, instead of accounting for clutch shielding, healing, and tactical crowd...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Teaser Trailer Released

    My only real flirtation with the EU were the KOTOR games (not so much the comics), and all I know is that if they modeled a character after Bastila or started talking about the Rakata or started lifting some philosophical gray Jedi/force wound stuff from KOTOR2 then I wouldn't really see it as...