I just got out of the movie and I feel legitimately bad for the hardcore fans. This movie has ok fights but they are constantly hampered by subpar cinematography, and a weirdly homophobic script. Like they seem to REALLY think that “men about to kiss each other/saying sexual things” is the peak of comedy and they don’t stop doing it. It also is more “MCU quippy” than most MCU movies.

This movie also
•character assassinates Ryu AND Ken
•turns Bison into a weird sex pest
•has the Dragonball Evolution kamehameha for the Hadouken
•has needle drops worse than Supergirl
•doesn’t have the raging demon

There are some fun references, it was nice to see Max, and the actors do their best, but insanely they could learn a thing or two from Mortal Kombat, because BOTH of those movies were better written, paced, and shot.

A week ago, actor Richard Summers-Calvert read the phrase ‘Glup Shitto’ for the first time. “I went, ‘What's this?’,” he recalls of seeing it hit his mentions. “’Is it rude?’”

Yes, and no. Coined by Tumbler user ‘gomjabbar’ in 2020, the term began as a somewhat derisory Star Wars meme, poking fun at the saga’s myriad oddball bit-players. That guy in the background of the Cantina, who someone will inevitably claim as their favourite Star Wars character? Oh, that’s Glup Shitto. In the intervening years, the notion of a ‘Glup Shitto’ has been re-embraced. It’s a badge of honour. If you love Star Wars, it’s likely for the Glup Shittos. And a new one has just entered the chat: welcome, Biddy Blas.

It happened as soon as Star Wars: Galactic Racer launched; a new super-speedy racing game which casts players as Shade, a rising star battling on the track for dominance against all kinds of galactic foes. There’s Sebulba from The Phantom Menace, your in-game nemesis Kestar Bool, and… wait, who’s that? A little crocodile man, with a snout full of jagged teeth. Waist-height, in human terms. A little helmet and goggles on. And it gets weirder when he speaks: a screaming high-pitched yelp, belting out Huttese phrases with gleeful venom. The only way Jabba would ever speak like this is if someone stood on the tip of his tail. He is Biddy Blas, the one and only. And he’s voiced by Summers-Calvert, who had no idea the sort of instant internet fame the character would achieve.

There’s one big question, though. “I'm having people argue online if I am a Glup Shitto, or not a Glup Shitto,” he says. “I absolutely am a Star Wars fan. I love Star Wars. However, this experience has made me realise maybe how little I knew about Star Wars. I'm just below the knowledge of ‘Glup Shitto’.” Start your engines.

Even before he knew what Biddy Blas looked like – before he knew about Glup Shittos, before he even knew that he was auditioning for a new Star Wars game – the limited character information Summers-Calvert received led him down a specific path. “I decided that this character has little man syndrome,” he says. “Maybe lacking confidence, slightly anxious, and it comes out in rage.” This is what he channelled in his first read (in Basic, of course).

It wasn’t exactly what developers Fuse Games first envisioned. “I was imagining in my head more of a deeper fantasy dwarf voice,” says Ren Alex-Rose, Narrative Designer. “And then when we heard Richard's audition, we were like, ‘No, that's it. That's absolutely it. That is the perfect direction for this character.’”

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From this SF6 stream

https://youtu.be/fQSk_LJypQE?t=16477

I'm genuinely curious and maybe just wanna vent a little that's not in those communities.

Like I know this is the community built on in jokes and memes. But I don't think any of them are particularly toxic.

But like, coming from the mentally ill gacha communities. Man I'm just tired of the cuck memes that exist. In. Every. One. Of. Them. (Nikke being the one that pisses me off the most).

Or when certain communities just kinda take the *idea* of a character and change it so much that the original character isn't remembered. Like fucking Undertale became unbearable after so many AU Sans.

This post might get removed for the possible discourse but I just wanted to ask a community that I felt was pretty neutral and mostly reasonable people.

OC's only active on Twitter, as far as I can tell. Handle's the same.

PCGamesN reported on it, relevant bits below.

Creative Assembly has just announced that it will be removing the Total War Shogun 2 Complete Edition from sale for the time being. The updated and overhauled remaster of the beloved 2011 original has been blasted by players since its launch on Tuesday October 13, and currently sits at just 17% positive reviews on Steam. The developer plans to investigate community concerns to bring the Complete Edition up to "the quality standards players expect," and says that it will be reinstating the old version of Shogun 2 during this time.

Among the rest of the complaints, players report bugs from the old game that haven't been fixed, along with new issues that have arisen in the Complete Edition, and poor optimization that is causing underwhelming performance and crashes for many users.

The new unit cards have also been heavily criticized, with players accusing the designs of feeling "AI-generated." Creative Assembly and development partner Mataboo, which worked on the remaster, have not listed any generative AI use as part of the game's development.

Hard to see how the likes of this and this could be the result of anything but generative AI upscaling.

I presume this list will be predominantly male cause I can't really think of a lot of women who let divorce affect them as badly as men do, but I'm sure they exist right? I made another Better Ask Reddit in the past about divorce affecting writers as well so I figured this should make for a decent sequel thread.

Inspired by the discussion of Harry from Disco Elysium being so divorced that otherworldly beings are in awe of both how divorced you are and how you still keep going despite that.

My other pitch is, of course, Asgore, who seems to he partially coming apart at the seams like Harry is, conspiracy board and investigations and everything, but what about ya'll? Who are your pitches?

PlayStation: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, X, O

Xbox: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B

Nintendo: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A

Hi Sonia

Link to the article

What were your thoughts on Iñárritu's new film, "DIGGER"?

Hideo Kojima (hereinafter, Kojima): "I saw it yesterday, and it's a wonderful and clever film. It's not a story about meteorites falling or aliens attacking, but rather depicts things that are actually happening in reality. It's a very scary film, but that's precisely why it's turned into a comedy. I don't know how much I can say, but this work has a dual structure of film and theater, and in the end, the theater comes out not as something about the future, but as something about the past. That structure is very well done, and I was quite surprised. Also, since I like movies, it reminded me of Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and the BBC's nuclear war drama "Threads" (1984), and Tom's monologue scene in the film reminded me of Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940). It's a total art form that includes classics and the history of theatrical film. There's a powerful message embedded in it, showing us something terrifying. It has a very complex structure, but it was a very easy-to-understand film".

Developer and publisher Pocketpair has got a dating sim, a farming sim, and an MMO on the slate, and while you might think elements of these would make more sense as expansions of the main game, the team isn't keen on simply replicating Fortnite's metaverse-type model.

"I can certainly understand why some people might expect us to take Palworld in that direction," John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications at Pocketpair, says "But for us, we just want to make fun games in our own way. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but while we obviously want our games to be successful, maximizing revenue as quickly as possible isn’t what drives our creative decisions."

I can’t believe how bad they managed they complete edition.
-They removed the original game from steam and replaced with this.
-all new cutscenes are ai generated
-map routing is broken and cpu ai to
-gets released for 60$ full prince instead of promised 30$

Or just like an evil character.

I was reminded of this dang funny comic panel, shoutouts to u/4LanReddit

Where Batman snuck into Apokolips and bluffed Darkseid with his own hell nukes into releasing Supergirl from his evil control, think she was turned into one of his Furies at the time.

Let's spread some positivity, here, maybe some toxic positivity if I'm feeling nasty.

I've finally started playing Signalis for the first time, I've always wanted to try, but I need to be in the right mindset for survival horror.

Not because it's scary but because I tend to overthink the resource management aspect, and that can be a bit exhausting at times.

But once I started playing, man, I got absorbed. This fucking game rules.

It reminded me why I like games in the first place.

This is a game made with fucking love man, this is a passion project, and I can feel every bit of love put into it.

It brought me back to a time of gaming wonder, when I played games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil.

According to a FAQ on The Game Awards website, to be in with a chance of winning an award a game must be released on or before Friday, November 20, 2026. GTA 6’s release date is currently November 19, 2026, which means it’s made the cutoff date by just a single day.

Here’s the official blurb:

"What is the Cutoff Date for Eligibility?"

"Games must be made commercially available to customers on or before Friday, November 20, 2026, at 9 p.m. PT. In the Players’ Voice category, games must ship on or before November 30, 2026."

And given GTA Online 2 or whatever the multiplayer mode ends up being called is reportedly due out next year, perhaps alongside a PC version, we could see GTA 6 back in contention at The Game Awards 2027.

The past two big Rockstar Games, GTA 5 and RDR2, didn't win GOTY in their respective award years, so it's possible this isn't going to be an E33 sweep situation. And with how many incredible games have released this year, thd 2026 awards are pining to be a real slobberknocker.

I remember reading Bakuman years ago where one of the MC got hospitalized after overworking from drawing. Then, this mini arc happen where the Editor does something antagonistic: telling the dude to stop drawing and rest up.

I was not rooting for the MC not even once from that arc.

With the loss of my family netflix, I reminisced by watching a short of The Witcher on yt, saw the episode where Jaskier and Geralt were captured by the elves. While intially hopeful of rescue/escape, Jaskier finally breaks down and shit-talks back at the elf captor when she breaks his lute.

Now, most people with a sense of *whisper* media literacy *unwhisper* would reconize this as the latter, but I caught myself at just how easily I interpreted this as the former, what with the combination of the short format and edits.

Just had to remind myself that "man, all those moments in other media where some character loses their shit and blows up on a character, how many of them were just the character reaching their boiling point?"