Jesus Christ is it 1993 still? Hasn’t this “link” been debunked numerous times by now, if I recall right, if anything violent games act as more of a release for pent up aggression. But by all means, lets point fingers at pointless topics to obfuscate the real issue. I’m so sick of all this #winning...

Maybe a meeting with Molyneux could create an ouroboros of lies so unending we won’t hear from either ever again?

Right. the article is essentially a criticism of a business strategy without the benefit of knowing any of the viewing numbers.

It’s wild how much more helpful and original your comment is than the article above. Thank you!

Dear Alex,

The industry is well aware that Netflix is bad for them. There is nothing produced on cable that is better than Altered Carbon and only 2 shows in HBO’s catalog that I think are done better. (And even that is razor close) The industry though will do their best to torpedo anything new Netflix puts out.

I don’t think you’ve thought the logic of this through.

From Netflix’s perspective, you just need to get hooked by one thing. If that was Altered Carbon, you already know about it by now. If you get attracted by a brand new movie with a huge marketing promo in the Superbowl and afterwords get linked to a new similar…

For real. Netflix will look at their numbers and see if this strategy worked out. If it didn’t, they have the money to release the next season with a different strategy! Most shows don’t blow up overnight — it took weeks for Stranger Things to become huge, and arguably until the second season for Orange is the New…

I was very, very surprised by the early negative reviews. The show is, as the Verge said, “rad.” Forbes followed with a good review.

Altered Carbon is awesome. You should watch it if you enjoy science fiction and action, at all, because the “everything else” is unquestionably okay-to-good, and the science fiction and…

Declaring Altered Carbon a ‘flop’ when nobody knows what the ratings are is just stupid clickbait.

even reading this with the most generous of thoughts, this essentially is ‘oh god, i am terrified that things are changing and i will have to go work at walmart because i am incapable of adapting.’ netflix will either find an audience or they wont, but concern trolling comes across as nothing less than sad

Edit: also,…

This article genuinely surprises me, because I’ve seen Altered Carbon a lot on the internet (unfortunately not THE A.V. CLUB), TV, social media, and amongst many of the people I’ve talked with in the last week.

Please don’t mistake media attention or the news cycle for the medium’s reach - Altered Carbon will thrive because of word of mouth (and mouse).

I really appreciate Epic because they’re active with the players community by way of enhancements and bug fixes. It’s refreshing to see an immediate, you-didn’t-have-to-ask-for-it refund too.

I’m with you. I certainly get that pressure is a thing and I won’t argue that this story, if true, makes the dude out to be a considerably uncool fellow, but I still find it tough to fully grasp the degree to which people seem to not be held responsible for themselves in sexual situations. If you change the context to…

You.. can’t be 100% passive and feel like you are being exploited.... that isn’t how it works. Get up and leave, don’t write a blog about how you were laying there and after watching people have sex you felt like you had to join in.

That is literally not how it works, you don’t get to play that role and then feel like…

“Making matters worse, ex-Gazillion staff are also reporting that they’re not even being paid their severance or PTO, and that their medical insurance will end next week.”

I have no evidence to back this up besides decades of Old Man Cynicism, but I would bet good money that the higher-ups made off with a nice shiny…

Yup, I noted that in the second graf. The charities of choice, if anyone is interested:

Also worth noting is that all the teams banded together and decided that whatever money they earn from this tournament will go to charities of their choice. Really cool thing to do from all the teams

That mimikyu. The trainer is just so happy to give the death sentence to the other pokemon.
Reminds me of this gem from my childhood....