I feel like bans are overkill for this. just revert those characters to their original stats in the eternal server and wipe them from the seasonal server. No harm done and an exploit gets patched before it can be used for something more nefarious.

You really missed the biggest one: Have a backup plan.

That is 100% not the case. market factors are very important when determining the success of a product. Otherwise you end up leaving money on the table down the line. This is because if something happens to the market where a loss is all but certain having it turn a profit means it outperformed expectations. In this…

Going to disagree on rings of power. I actually enjoyed season 1.

Being in the UK explains it. It released in the UK a full month after everywhere else. Once it showed legs in the US Disney put more ad money into it for regions it hadnt released in.

Pretty happy with the new season so far. 

I think you are vastly overestimating the marketing for the film. outside of trailers in front of other disney films I saw very little advertising for the film. Not as bad as Strange World where most people were not aware it had even come out but definitely far less than most pixar films (no big sponsored packaging…

Salt has it’s place but a lot of people do use it as an end all when really they should look at something more dynamic. If I need salt (like for boiling pasta) I tend to use celery salty as it gives it a lot more than just “salty”.

Cacio e pepe can kill a man here lol.

the problem is that you have to take risks and sometimes those don’t pay off. Mortal Engines seems to have made changes because they didn’t think they would make enough to get a second/third movie so they mushed a bunch of stories together which made it a disjointed mess to try and put as many interesting set pieces…

That’s the thing, Season 1 was fantastic for me personally but at the same time now that I am aware of the twist I doubt I will ever watch it again because part of the fun in S1 was being confused and slowly connecting the dots to make sense of it.

Exactly, part of the reality that I don’t think a lot of people understand is that transferring something from one medium to another is an adaptation and things are going to shift due to the different constraints/freedoms of those mediums. take any comic book movie fight scene. while a comic may have some action…

I am hopeful for lorcana. The art is good, the prices are decent, and ravensburger does great work so I am hopeful it ends up being good.

I have been enjoying Futurama so far, it’s nice to see it back.

Yep, like some of this stuff is actually impressive technique but because the recipe originated in the depression era it didn’t have a lot of seasoning and to keep it “traditional” it still doesn’t.

Real Talk: I overheard extended family complaining once that a mac n cheese was too spicy at a potluck. the only seasoning was black pepper.

you forgot Paprika for deviled eggs, which comes from a tin that has been in the family for at least 60 years.

sounds about right, the midwestern pallet is weird. I don’t know if there was some kind of spice shortage right when all our regional dishes were being created but anything unique to the midwest is generally bland as hell and the uniqueness comes from the preparation. For instance the Indiana specialty of the pork…

There are a lot of differences between the good dinosaur and elemental. Mainly the market itself. Elemental was not the only flop. Basically everything flopped for the month with elemental coming out on top, it has beaten The Flash and somehow outperformed ruby gillman which came out weeks after. Right now elemental…

Most estimates had Elemental breaking even at $400 million. Add in the value it will have when it comes to disney+ as content and it will likely be a profitable film.