I wouldn’t be surprised if his pitch was, “Can we do Bond with politics I actually understand? No? Well, can we just set it in a time period where the audience doesn’t understand the politics so I can pretend?”

If the business isn’t worker owned, then the purpose of the business is to take money from workers and give it to shareholders. Insofar as that works, firing workers is just an asset relocation since having no workers is the ideal business model.

He was actually trying, and would have made a real difference.

The show’s mid and that’s better than terrible, so that’s fine. Clone Wars was mid. Rebels was mid. This is the midness the fandom has been clamoring for.

Disney making content again instead of telling stories. This would have been a four-episode arc in Andor, and at this point they’re just using these set pieces to show animated fans how cool things can look in live action without having a reason for most of the characters making the decisions or any consequences or…

Starfield built a bunch of ancillary mechanics solely to incentivize you buying skill points and leveling up by engaging with its central mechanics — shooting people and flying in your spaceship.

There’s a balance in there. Each planet has its own collection of resources for crafting and they’re not all available in every galaxy. This is where fuel costs for travel, outposts, and environmental hazards all come in to play.

Inflation-adjusted rent used to be A LOT cheaper in most places, and that’s what people spend most of their money on in any city.

If the market wasn’t increasing to match the cost of development, then profits would go down.

Nintendo’s profits went up almost 25% last year. Lockdown ended two years earlier. Those skyrocketing profits aren’t related all that much to people being locked inside.

There are literally THOUSANDS of games released in a generation. So ToTK only sold a couple million copies? Cool. Nintendo’s profits went up 28.41% from 2022-2023 for a total in final profits of 5.23 billion dollars from revenue of 15.09 billion dollars.

I’m just happy someone’s using the Force and not throwing around lightsabers. Seeing Ezra vaguely flail about using the force in hand-to-hand combat made me mourn that Kung Fu Force show they had lined up they eventually scrapped.

“Welcome to this new galaxy. Here’s the moors of Ireland that you saw in The Witcher and some turtle people.”

Several of these directors have Emmys and Oscars. This is not a director problem, this is a showrunner problem.

While there is a small but common medical reason to perform circumcision, it’s not necessary with attentive hygiene.

Disney and Netflix are the two largest streaming-only services. Amazon is a contender for 2nd place but it also includes fifteen-finity other things that have nothing to do with streaming in its subscription fee.

“We need to raise game prices to the highest they’ve ever been non-adjusted for inflation because we’re making profits higher than they’ve ever been adjusted for inflation and we’re not paying our workers any more than we did 10 years ago!”

Fun fact: this is a propaganda myth that was spread in the early 00's when the cost of wind and solar dropped to below that of nuclear and the industry realized there was no reason to invest in it.

I still remember the first time I heard about that fascist I was like, “NO!!! NOT THE GUY FROM UCB!!!”

Gaming profits went up 11.9% in 2023. Profits in the AAA market have seen record highs every single year for over a decade. And now game studios are just deciding “it’s time” for a 15% increase in the price of games.