In a separate interview, Farrell teased how The Penguin leads right into The Batman Part II, telling ComicBook, “It conveniently worked that the death at the end of The Batman and the devastation within Gotham opened up a power vacuum that then Oz could try and capitalize on.”

It’s all coming together. Whatever happens in this film will further give Penguin a place to grow into. We can see it in detail during a Penguin season 2, and then top off this story with Batman Part III featuring Penguin as the primary antagonist, an antagonist that Batman created.

There are specific carve outs listed in the law to exempt ads for movies, television shows, streaming content, video games and other works that feature synthetic performers in the entire work.

That seems like a pretty big carve out.

Here’s your point!

Correct!

Over the years, players generated vast amounts of visual mapping data by scanning streets, buildings and public spaces to progress in the game.

Which I believe refers to AR Mapping . (Note it’s an archive.org link because this feature was removed from the game earlier this month.) I haven’t played Ingress in a few years, but I don’t think it had these tasks.

Basically you take a video of the area you are in, and that data could in turn be used to create a 3D representation of whatever you scanned. So instead of knowing you having a house at a given location, you know how tall it is. Google Maps actually has a feature called “Aerial View” where you can see something similar.

I don’t think that would change anything. The valuable part is the collected data. Even if the way that data is collected is open source or even if the data itself is open source, the issue is misusing that data.

So ultimately I’m going to agree with you here.

Especially after watching Spider-Noir, because it was so fun to watch this new universe build itself. A new character introduces themselves as “Cat Hardy”, so I’m supposed to think Felicia Hardy/Black Cat, but I don’t know exactly how they will react in this world. The story can play with this idea of distrust. She might have this other motivation.

Or even the first Spider-Verse film. We have this “Doctor” character that we trust. She’s a teacher. Olivia. But… Octavia. Doc. Ock. Oh shit.

There is a level of freedom that is fun from characters within a given story just exploring the universe and is as audience explorating it with them.

But! The MCU has also built itself and promoted itself as this giant interconnected universe. The DCEU had done the same and the new DCU is doing the same. Specific shows like What if…? or Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (which are both animated, which probably has a whole different discussion) but they have made it clear how different they are from the mainline MCU, they can get away with it. But the MCU proper. It has leaned into the interconnected universe.

The interconnected universe is a relatively new concept. It’s sequels cranked up to 11. I’m ok if we want to take a more loose look at the canon of these universes, but we’re not doing that yet.

We are dipping our toes. James Gunn’s Suicide Squad. DCEU or DCU? The Justice League shows up at the end of Peacemaker season one. The Justice Gang shows up at the begining of Peacemaker season two.

I’m not coming from a comic book background, but I think the best answer is defining an era. If Marvel wants to declare “The Infinity Saga”, do it and lean in hard. They don’t have to change anything. But when you declare “The Multiverse Saga”, don’t lean on the Infinity Saga. If you want to make references, fine, but tell a new story.

We’re entering “The Mutant Saga” (probably). Don’t lean on the Infinity Saga. Don’t lean on the Multiverse Saga. Make the Mutant Saga shine. We don’t actually need Doomsday or Secret Wars. We don’t need a bridge. Give us the hard cut. No one is confused that Michael Keaton isn’t fighting Heath Ledger’s Joker.

You want to make a film where they all come together? Go for it. Spider-Man No Way Home did that perfectly. It happens to be within the MCU, it happens to be within “The Multiverse Saga”, but does anyone actually care? It could have come out five years ago (which, give when I’m commenting, it did) or five years from now.

It made nearly 2 billion dollars and no one cares which “saga” it was in.

I don’t think they’ve actually “neverminded” anything… yet. Look at Samuel Sterns/The Leader, introduced in The Incredible Hulk in 2008 and returned in 2025 in Captain America: Brave New World.

That being said I expect A LOT of phase 4/5 stuff to be ignored both during Doomsday/Secret Wars and especially after.

This is the kind of post I could really dig…

A GRAVE FOR! CORRECT!

Nothing can stop me now! Except microscopic germs.

But we won’t let that happen, will we, Smithers? Correct!

Also the Spruce Moose ,

Super Mario 64 DS has new levels & you start the game as Yoshi. It’s a reimagining.

Ocarina of Time 3D just has some QoL changes like making the iron boots an item (and different graphics).

That’s the scene, but Homer has a different job this episode.

That’s the joke, but no Bobo.

“Switch 2 Remake” to clarify from the “3DS Remake”.

This is why it’s important to isolate your children from life as you speedrun them through YOUR childhood first. You’re not just giving your kids one good life, but two bad ones!

“If you see me without this, run!” Banner replies, making reference to his Hulk Inhibitor Device that keeps him as Bruce. (It’s believed this device gets damaged during the film, allowing Hulk to return for the first time since Avengers: Endgame.)

Wow. We’re just ignoring She-Hulk now? We’re just ignoring Skarr now? (We should probably ignore Skarr.)

Hopefully they put this trailer up properly tomorrow.

The impatience over the build up to this war has divided fans of the HBO show so far.

That sentence is the only context we get about studio fuckery, and this article is largely the actors trying to apologize for the studio fuckery.

So, a standard season of Game of Thrones is 10 episodes. The first 8 episodes build to a fantabulous 9th episode, and then the 10th episode is the epilogue and setup for the next season.

House of the Dragon’s first season is 10 episodes, largely follows this formula, and is fantastic.

Season 2 was supposed to be 10 episodes. However two thing happened, first the writers strike, second the number of episodes was reduced from 10 to 8.

Reducing the number of episodes isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The season feels stretched a bit and you could definitely tell the story for season 2 in 8 episodes. However because of the writers strike, they didn’t retool the season.

So instead what we got was an 8 episode build up. Then nothing. So fans are “impatient” because we got blue balled.

As an aside there are plenty of complaints to be made about the show itself, but overall I think the story is working, but just cutting where they did resulted in lot more damage to the show.

5E has “Delayed Blast Fireball” which has higher base damage compared to the standard “Fireball”. It’s higher level, and it also charges up to do more damage. It can also be upcast, so that.

Upcast Fireball.

Rod, you’ve got small, girlish hands. Reach in and fish it out.

That’s the one! Correct!

Also has one of my favorite scenes,

As a hint this episode is from the “Golden Age”. (Although everyone disagrees exactly when that is, I think this is firmly in that era.)