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Proof that Star Wars fans will whoop, cheer and holler for anything at all except new Star Wars films.

Fuck your shitty toy robots film about space Marxists, Clone Wars season 7 is coming out.

Considering how long Geoff Johns has been stripmining Moore's work, you would sort of hope he'd learned to fake it by now.

If you're paying the going rate and you know any editors on Twitter, ask them to give you a shout-out.  Apart from the usual hopefuls, there's a good chance professional creators might respond, as I've been surprised at the number of seasoned pros who've thrown their hat in the ring for sample shout-outs.

[Return Of]

Ignoring everything else, that's a terrible title.

JJA strikes again.  Clearly the aim was something that evoked Return Of or Revenge Of so as predicted they're already rolling back from that whole "a clean break with the past" theme that ran through TLJ.

[Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun]

On a retro rampage checking out old games to make sure they work okay before flogging them and the ones that jump out - for reasons good or bad - are
Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun - a lot of effort went into a game that plays like an absolute pig.  Some really exciting setpieces like the Pearl Harbour sequence are wasted on a PS1-level shooter with disastrous control lagging.
SEGA and Sonic All Star Racing - it adds a drift mechanic, but it's otherwise just Mario Kart with characters that don't suck ass.  Really fun and enjoyable and then the Super Monkey Ball levels happen and ruin everything.
Wet - third person jumpy-shooter featuring a "dil-ibb-urr-at-lee" oversexualised main character based on actor Eliza Douchebag.  Was thinking "okay this might at least pass the time for an hour or two" but then walked off a ledge accidentally and died and the restart was way the hell back near the start of the level and I literally could not face playing through it again, and this was like level 2 or something.  Basically if Lollipop Chainsaw or Bayonetta were dreadful, they would be this game.
Aliens: Colonial Marines - holy fuck this is terrible.  I thought maybe people had just overreacted to it back in the day because the game mechanics weren't up there with online multiplayer shooters in terms of ease of play, but this is actually aggressively bad, buggy, and frustrating to the point that some of it is genuinely baffling why it was designed the way it was.
Aliens Vs Predator - I had an old save on the PS3 HDD so just picked up where I left off with no issues.  Despite the prominence of the melee mechanic in the control layout and the ability to turn a flashlight on or off instead of being able to crouch, this was easy to play and get into even without a tutorial walkthrough, which is just amazing considering that it's three years older than Colonial Marines and came out during the early days of this generation of consoles.  It's so easy to play that it actually works against it a little, as I breezed through the marine campaign in less than an hour, but it has this weird thing I don't recall in an Aliens game and which I can't quite put my finger on... I think it's... yes, I think I've heard of this, it's called "enjoyment".
Rayman: Origins - God I hate 2d platformers, but as 2d platformers go, this is actually alright.  Well-designed levels reward second playthroughs, and the graphics are really nice.
Rumble Roses - Western wrestling games like the Smackdown/Raw branded WWE series featured "bra and panty" matches where the aim was to forcefully strip your opponent and clearly someone in Japan thought they could get a slice of that female exploitation action, and yet this game - built explicitly around buxom Amazon bikers mud-wrestling with cheerleaders - is still nowhere near as troubling or sleazy as the family-friendly WWE games, featuring as it does plenty of eye-candy female characters, but nothing that is as genuinely misogynistic as the WWE games' spanking matches - yes they actually had a game where you had to spank women.  It has a simplistic fight mechanic where you can work your way through the ludicrous soap operatics of the main storylines by pounding only two buttons, which sounds like it isn't very involving or complicated - it isn't - but it is fun and lacking in the frustrations typical of the increasingly-convoluted control schemes of American wrestling games.  Younger relatives lapped this one up, and it's a shame it never got a re-release on a contemporary console.

I can't believe someone who used to be in the Hitler Youth has turned out to have bad opinions.  I hope this doesn't tarnish the reputation of other Nazis.

[The King Of Comedy]

Didn't Scorcese make The King Of Comedy already?

That Gilette thing was mad.

To be fair, it's got a ways to go to beat Sunny D marketing their disgusting drinks by having the person running their Twitter account pretend to be contemplating self harm.

If I hadn't seen about 30 critiques of that Gillette toxic masculinity advert coming from the left, I would agree, but critical thinking is alive and well and that strip - while well-made - is inherently incorrect in its central assumption that capitalist exploitation of dissent is a simple matter of seeing a thing and then using it to advertise Nike shoes or Pepsi.  People aren't stupid and social movements aren't homogeneous, not even on the far right where groups argue specifically for things like race nationalism - though obviously I am not entirely sure about the net cultural gains of having the EDL and BNP's latter turns as spokespersons of zionism.

On Channel 4, a journalist just congratulated Heidi Allen on being the leader of Change UK.  Allen's response: "is that what they're calling it?"

I don't read the spin-off Star Wars media where all this wankery was established, but the backstory to the Sequel trilogy is apparently that after Jedi, centrists fucked everything up and then some fascists took over, so there's probably a germane analogue in there somewhere if you want to go looking for it.

Change.org have already stated they are consulting solicitors.  What a car crash of a party limited company.

[I will find you.]

Time for a Hail Mary.  If you don't sign this I will find you.

I suppose I'm just want them to stick to the source material.

Migration is not a new phenomenon, and not all writers mention a character's ethnicity in the visual description - although it has been noted that Caucasian writers have a tendency to do so.  There may be more diversity in your favorite fictional works than you realise.  The Harry Potter books are chock full of diversity you would never know was there if JK Rowling didn't point it out on Twitter 10 years after it would have been helpful.

I'm a bit confused, though - does the show just have a diverse cast, or is this an explicit statement that the show is to feature ethno and/or racial nationalism?  I didn't spot much of that in the Witcher games (not that I played any of them very much as I tend to like my RPGs to have some RP in them), but it's pretty blatant in Skyrim, a game not unloved by white supremacists.