imo, it already crashed (or at least is inches away from a crash). Into the Spider-Verse was an unexpected, yet solid 10/10 for me. Whenever I think I have some sort of “comic book movie fatigue” I can put that on still be blown away by how good it is, which drives home the point, for me, that it’s just modern MCU and DCEU movies specifically that I’m tired of because they just aren’t very good (I’ll agree to disagree with anyone on this point).

Across the Spider-Verse took all of that and crapped out an extremely ill thought out attempt at tying into the MCU multi-verse (thus tying itself into my growing dislike for the MCU). The idea of “canon” events that have to be allowed to pass is so antithetical to the genre I’m shocked it wasn’t tossed out during the brainstorming phase. You’re telling there’s a whole universe of heroes and all of them (except for Spider-Punk) accept the idea that they have to stand by and let people die because it’s canon to that timeline? Nah. A hero is someone who risks their own life to save other people’s lives. Full stop. An ordinary person will make a choice about which track the trolley goes down, saving either one person or many people. A hero would sacrifice themself to (at least attempt to) save all of the people on the tracks. Then when the movie came to a fairly natural stopping point, it kept going for a few more minutes to end on one of the worst cliffhangers I’ve seen in a very long time.

Across the Spider-Verse is a 4/10 for me. I would still give the third movie a chance (only because of how good the first movie is) but it will have to do some incredible course correction to redeem the second movie (if it’s even possible). Otherwise, I’ll just keep Into the Spider-Verse and think about how it’s a shame they never made any sequels to such a good movie.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but:

If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I’m not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don’t see a good repacking reason in this case.

As a developer, this seems like a reasonable argument to me.

Also, I see from a comment you made recently that you seem to be involved with NixOS:

There’s always Nix but the dev behind HA has a personal vendetta against Nix people building his software (for some ridiculously stupid reason…he doesn’t understand the tech!). We packaged home assistant in nixpkgs anyway because we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

Calling him a terrorist is rather melodramatic. And I think further enforces his point, that your actions are creating unnecessary problems for others, and you simply don’t care.

Edit:

Did Frenck come off as a bit of an asshole? Yes. But in my opinion, so did all of the NixOS people. Kind of a bad situation all around.

I was thinking Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.

But there are, for whatever reason, so many possibilities for what it could’ve been (including the mostly live action Demonlover)

It was the opposite for me. The first episode was great, 2-3 were fine/good, and then it was just downhill from there. Overall, I didn’t like the first season (iirc, my final score for the season was 4/10).

I’d still check out a season 2, but maybe not 3+ unless 2 really improves things.

I can see where the praise comes from though, I’m just adding my opinion as a reminder that it isn’t universally praised.

https://www.marvel.com/movies

Deadpool & Wolverine is listed under “Marvel Movies,” whereas Deadpool 1 & 2 are listed under “Other Movies.” This is the best source I can find that D&W is part of the MCU.

If you want to view it that way, sure, I won’t disagree.

But L&T having that problem also contributes to the problems of the MCU at large, where each movie has to be some “villain of the week” that’s introduced at the start of the movie and disposed of at the end, with a chance of a tease that the villain may return or perhaps a hint of some larger threat; either of which may ultimately lead nowhere. Up to to Infinity War, they were pretty good about those hints of a large threat, obviously with Infinity War and Endgame paying that off. Since then… What have we actually got? They seem to have finally settled on a new major arc, until some real life drama may have derailed that (maybe Deadpool & Wolverine will advance that plot? idk)

At least in retrospect, I think L&T could have been a more interesting movie if it had completely eschewed the villain a-plot and focused either more or completely on the Jane b-plot. Christian Bale’s villain could have made for a really good ~3 movie arc, though, either beginning or ending in L&T. But yeah, the Taika Waititi humor really didn’t mesh well with either a- or b-plot.

I think Endgame itself was really the beginning of the current MCU problem. They were in too much of a rush to conclude the Thanos story. Where that movie started with a scripted five year gap, we should have had that five year gap for real. Let us feel the consequences of the Snap the way the characters did. Give us the Hawkeye/Ronin and Black Widow movies (amongst others) that show everyone dealing with the catastrophe. Let the consequences of their failure to stop Thanos really hit home. (And while I’m typing all this, please conclude that story without time travel, but that’s an entirely separate rant, lol.)

Use those to start a new MCU. An MCEU or whatever lol.

I personally think the current iteration has too much baggage. Too many mediocre to downright terrible movies post-Endgame that would have to be slogged through to get the X-Men or whatever else. Too many dropped plotlines, and too much wasted potential.

They’ve already introduced the multiverse, so they can treat the X-Men as a soft reboot. If it goes well and they have a vision that requires it, they can merge it back into the current MCU to pick up whatever plot they were already building towards, except with hopefully better writers and revitalized creators.

That, plus their output should be limited to 1 or 2 movies per year, max, and no TV shows. Or if they do have TV shows, keep them completely separate, like the Netflix shows were.

If they do that, I’d considering giving them another chance. Otherwise, if it’s more or less business as usual, Love and Thunder and GotG3 will have been the last MCU movies for me (mainly because of how bad L&T was).

Mods can help a lot!

For example, there’s a mod to increase the text size: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/650 (It hasn’t been updated for awhile, so I don’t know how well it’d work for recent patches)

If the game is just too difficult, there are also mods to help with that. Mods can adjust the difficulty, add FP regen, unlock summoning, etc., or completely overhaul the game (I had a lot of fun with the Convergence mod last year)

Everyone who is so inclined to back this project, please do so.

However, I’d highly encourage you to do your due diligence first if you’ve never backed a crowd funded project before, and especially so if you’ve never backed a video game crowd funded project. Even more especially if you’d only back a project due to extra platforms “unlocked” through stretch goals.

There’s a lot that can go wrong in these kinds of endeavors (even when they’re started with the best of intentions), and it’s easy to end up feeling cheated by how it plays out (even in cases where something is delivered in the end).