This has been a really amazing discussion thread so far. It's great to hear a back and forth between two people who are so knowledgeable on these topics.

If you want to get the updated version of the database, you'll want to use their API. Here's the documentation for it. If you're not familiar with APIs then this might not be super useful, but my bet is that if you get in touch with them they'll just refer you to the API anyway.

Very cool. For anyone interested, here's one of the papers from that database. Definitely interesting, but sad that the %cast vs. box-office didn't make it into the final paper.

Ah, good to know! I was kind of assuming the worst-case scenario, and it's too early here to do actual research...

Obviously the whole thing is misleading. Nothing about this data is "Incontrivertible". It was organized by two journalists not two statisticians or economists.

Even if they were all included, and I'm assuming they all fail the Bechdel test, they wouldn't raise that total much above $3B, still well below the total of the movies that passed.

But that's his point. Video games don't have to be a hybrid art. Right now, cutscenes are basically movies tacked onto the game for exposition. But that presumes that the story has to be linear, or can only have a limited number of branches.

Versus how many million correct hits?

All jobs should come with a mandatory, "Here's how to be a decent human being" training session.

Why Path of Exile should be game of the year: Path of Exile started their open beta this year and later released to great critical acclaim. The group behind the game is made up primarily of game enthusiasts who decided they wanted to realize their dreams of the perfect ARPG. The game's mechanics are complex and very…

So basically anytime you roast something you end up with acrylamide, a carcinogen. The state of California requires you to put up a notice whenever there are carcinogens around, and so every coffee shop in CA has the same little notice.

My favorite local cinema in LA plays this video before very showing to encourage membership:

Except that the grammar of doge is nothing like either actual ESL grammars or the stereotyped, racist grammars that people think of.

Hmm... the missing link seems to be cats...

This is the mod you're looking for:

But Vla man, Vla.

Never enough Legend of the Galactic Heroes:

LOOK AT THIS WALLPAPER AND TELL ME THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG DOESN'T BELONG ON THIS LIST!

PERSONALLY, when I'm coming up with a costume, I really like to take a traditional garment, and then modify it by incorporating elements of a different traditional garment (preferably one worn by people who suffered horrendously from war crimes committed by the first group) and then when I'm done I throw in a little…

It's only a paradox until you introduce Bayes into the equation.