I’d argue Metallica was simply the Internet’s first “cancelled” casualty. Eminem, Dr. Dre, Madonna (co-owner of Tidal), Alanis Morisette, Blink-182, etc. Metallica was outspoken only in that they were the first to bring suit. There was definitely a for and against camp, but the internet’s rage really only landed on…

That actually makes sense.  Maybe you’d see the same thing if they licensed the Super Bowl - it’s hard to make every Twitch streamer realize “this stream is an exception” rather than just modifying the audio.

I’m actively fascinated by the exclusive focus on Metallica from those lawsuits from a public currently giving their money to the other litigants through Tidal.

This is a small pet peeve of mine, but really no one should be compared to Nintendo in the way no computer manufacturer should be compared to Apple.

There is a built in fanbase for those companies that regardless of actual quality will clamor and tell you how great something was and will often change the conversation…

The entire of concept of ”punching-up”/”punching-down” is flawed from the outset. People are largely unaware of their relative power and certainly fail at it once demographics are put in the mix.  It’s not that you can’t have an idea about it, but judging yourself “above”/”below” a target is guesswork given your…

Did he? I’m just asking because Nic obviously had a problem that was never addressed and Charisma JUST TOLD US that she began engaging in coping mechanisms.

If anyone does I expect it will be Nicholas Brendon.

I think the horse already left the barn. HBO’s first choice certainly wasn’t to eject the showrunner from an active show that had not even debuted.

Well, understanding how someone might feel and having the self control to not make them feel that way are not necessarily the same thing.

His fans have known about shades of this for a while. The stuff that didn’t land with his fan’s was usually the post-00's reexamining of his work which comes off weird because his work doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Very good piece.

I would openly question that atonement is even possible. Neither history nor a person’s lifetime lines up neatly enough for it.

The problem is that job will never be done and to some degree the public (and especially our fiction) demand mythology.

Republican’s problem is they they tend to ignore the bad. Democrat’s problems tend to be focusing on the bad to the point they see nothing good.

One of the weirdest offshoots of the Joel Schumacher death seems to be this weird revisionism specifically around Batman.

Bingo -

This is correct.  In the game you could swap out the horse and he was still called Roach.

Just checking in from having seen the scene.

Put me down in the love it camp. I don’t feel bad for that. It will be better in 4 months and I can be angry at the developer, but I have more going on in my life and I’ve seen this movie before.

To me this isn’t a result of anything nefarious so much as they just don’t test games the way they used to.

It would probably lose on standing to sue. You’re absolutely correct that you can make the claim Sony’s Storefront sold you a game that did not work. But you did not buy it directly from CD ProjectRED, you bought from Sony who was licensed to sell it by the publisher.