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Again, they were being reviewed with a different rubric. If those had been released now, they wouldn't have done as well, I'd posit. Just offhand, Dark world, Iron Man 2 nor AOU would be positively viewed. I liked them, but the reviews at the time were not fresh reviews, though they were skewed...

And Moon Knight. He really showed his range in that one IMO.

Again, I think that each director wanted to put his own stamp on the franchise, rather than serve the story or the characters. It was too disjointed to have any sort of character progression, and indeed each character seemed to have a more or less erratic movement through the plot in terms of...

That's just rose-colored glasses. The MCU had several missteps before Infinity War. It's just a more convenient narrative to support the fact that "The MCU is dead" now to overlook those. There was also more than a bit of clemency given to the movies in their critical scores and that has worn off.

Yeah, but the supposition in the quote I was replying to was that Rian was a Racist... some other pejorative that was not mentioned.

Photon coming to terms with being a hero and forgiving CM?

Sam did have an arc in this movie, which was one of the reasons Bucky showed up and it was shown in his talk with Torres at the end. He had the same doubt that many have about him, i.e. he should have taken the serum. And I'd argue that he didn't need anything to change, as that was the point-...

I'm a POC. I don't think the dirty done to Finn had anything to do with racism. Just different views of the story they wanted to tell and pettiness on the part of the directors.

But a lot of people don't have shades of grey in their reasoning in this regard- when someone says they didn't like it, some don't listen for the reason, just start giving them the side eye.

Ah... Ok. I was thinking of the Luke vs Kylo Ren, which I really enjoyed.

With Abrams and Rian? Not without getting rid of them. They're pretty high money high profile so they weren't going to do anything to rein them in.

That wasn't in RoS was it? That was in TLJ? Or are you talking about something different from Luke's fight?

This is exactly what it felt like to me... but not 'they'. The directors themselves pitted themselves against each other. They both tried to minimize the others' effects and bring it back to their line of thinking, making the whole thing incoherent.

Iron Kingdoms publishes a lot of fiction. And of course the Black Library.

I have Fantasy Grounds Classic Unlimited and Fantasy Grounds Unity unlimited. I've only barely used them. The interface is archaic, and having to get people to install clients is a pain. I used to have firewall problems with Classic so by the time unity came out I was using Foundry and that was...

I It isn't false, demonstrably. I've already said it does not matter. Why do you persist? You can look at that article and see when out of the original definition of CRPGs ARPGs branched off. They didn't spring fully fleshed from nothing.

Again this isn't worth it. I never said that ARPG stemmed from JRPG. Show me where I said that? And you're twisting the definition of niche community as all of the ones that play on those particular platform wouldn't be referencing them using the same terms. You even say this above - it's not as...

You've got that backwards. A poster from now is insisting that this is always the way it was, when I was clearly able to show that it's not. And that JRPGs were indeed being created under CRPG. Just look back and you'll see it from before you were in the conversation. That is what is being...

We can't ignore the past when talking about the etymology of words. That's not being stuck in the past, that's using the past to inform our passage through to the present, which is what this thread is about. The original post didn't say when did it happen after CRPG was repurposed to something...