It could work... but only if it’s a straight up parody. If they play it serious, instead of tongue-in-cheek, oh boy... I guess it’ll be the Morbius of its day.

I sort of understand the decision. As it stands, the vaccine doesn’t seem to offer much protection against infection by Omicron’s subvariants after 20 weeks, and the vast majority of Americans haven’t been boosted, so it’s been a lot longer than 20 weeks. With or without proof of a vaccine, the virus will spread there…

Good tip, I’ll queue it up

Been a fan of Conroy for decades, but had no idea about his life. This is powerful stuff, and adds another dimension to Batman that I’ve never considered.

Oh, I don’t trust Sweeney either, of course. Epic is the underdog in the sense that it hasn’t yet matched Steam or Apple, but Sweeney clearly intends for Epic to match them at some point. He just wants his own storefront to replace Steam, to replace the App Store. Though there’s still good reason to scrutinize the…

It’s inevitably going to be massively less than the blockchain equivalent, because all the power the marketplace might need, the blockchain also needs, plus it wants you to burn vast amounts of power for your ETH or whatever.

I’m not privy to how much energy the Steam Marketplace servers consume

I think the appeal is that they can offload a lot of the responsibility to the blockchain, rather than building and maintaining all the infrastructure themselves. It’s much more cost-effective.

Previously, Epic Games clashed with video game marketplace Steam, who took a firm no-NFT stance in 2021.

Ubisoft has had a Shanghai studio since 1996. Why not India?

I sure wish the rich people being bullied by DeSantis would, like, start donating to the opposition and get him the fuck out of power.

Isn’t this exactly what Tesla’s been trying to pull off for years, only to run in state-level laws that give a lot of clout to dealerships?

Well, that’s the bookend of #MeToo. Just sue your accusers into oblivion. Heaven help whoever dates Depp next, cause if he abuses you, you’re fucked.

They also ruled that Heard was defamed, of course. This ruling was a “screw both of you, but screw Heard more.”

I was going to watch the first episode of Stranger Things while I ate my breakfast, but nope’d my way out when I saw the trigger warning — it was just too damn early in the day for that reminder.

Tangential: Pelosi said she’s supporting Cuellar because he’s the incumbent but she didn’t seem to have a problem supporting Joe Kennedy against Ed Markey in the last election.

And uh…when Spotify took off it destroyed the music business. I mean, it literally cut the annual revenue of the music business in half and it’s made it so people just don’t buy songs anymore.”

Trek to Yomi costs $20. Also side note: It rules.

+1 for the headline alone. The article is great, too.

They do seem to be in a sort of Wii U phase at the moment. They need to hit that same rhythm of releases that Nintendo has had with the Switch, and they’ve certainly laid the foundation for that kind of schedule. It’s just going to take a year or three to get up to that speed.