Without getting into an argument about how bad CoD’s messaging as a series is, do any of those games you’re thinking of have the reach and influence of the CoD franchise?

Maybe they understand that the only way you solve this problem is by taking the guns.

Russel T. Davies was also the exec and writer on Doctor Who, where he created Jack Harkness, a pansexual time traveling con-man, who was then spun off into his own show, Torchwood, running from 2006-2011. Just in case you want to check out other series with LGBTQ characters where their sexuality isn’t the core of the…

The case generated an SNL bed-shitting sketch; the whole thing has turned Amber Heard into a punchline. Moreover, the case plus the recordings released in the last few years have called into question Heard’s credibility to the point that, at best (from his perspective), people are less willing to believe her, and, at…

In the same article it mentions that he’s a co-sponsor of a bill that would provide funding to study racial health disparities, and the co-sponsor of a bill that would require Medicare and Medicaid recommend remotely monitoring health metrics like blood pressure and glucose levels, specifically to attempt to deal…

Sorry, missed the reply, I agree, but this sort of cross-jurisdictional illegality will always be an issue, as, by the way, it’s been an issue outside of the firearm context. Magazines are cheap and ubiquitous, and even if a federal capacity limit could be passed, efforts at 3d printing magazines at this point are…

Legislatures implemented or expanded a number of state assault weapons bans and magazine capacity limits. There has also been a significant adoption of red flag laws, including in states with more liberal gun control, though New York law enforcement didn’t see fit to avail themselves of that provision when the…

Sandy Hook resulted in a number of state gun control laws being passed.

Andy Warhol?

Yes, that’s why I gave you their 2014 numbers as well. CNN’s financial numbers for 2021 aren’t readily available yet, but their 2021 viewership is still above 2014 levels when, again, they made 294 million in profit. It’s likely that even with factoring the entirety of their CNN+ investment in 2021 they’ll walk away…

Slash and burn costs. At a high cost to run operation like a cable TV network this probably isn’t a viable pathway to sustainable profits

The first Horizon takes the open world concept and tries to make it more worthwhile. Its version of towers to open up the map is more dynamic, and it tells a good part of its story in epistolary form which encourages you to hunt down and read or listen to various documents or find various ruins or sites.

Life in Pieces, it was Modern Family with a somewhat darker sense of humor.

Well, they’re reviews for a sequel, so they are at least partially based on familiarity, and, when the article title is putting “really familiar” in parentheses regarding the game, that familiarity is being called out.

It’s critic ratchet effect, where content is criticized for being derivative or samey instead of concentrating on whether those aspects are done well, which I’d argue is what most consumers care about anyway.

Acceptable provided you treat it as F2P. Plenty of people dump more money into this game as service model than they do into the all-inclusive paid up front model. Those players tend to prefer some longevity when it comes to the pixels they paid for.

Yes. The answer is yes. Particularly when you have enough in the media carrying water for you by praising your principled position.

when neither life, liberty, nor property are at stake (such as in an expulsion from a post-secondary educational institution,) the stakes are not nearly as high as they’d be in any crime (i.e., misdemeanor or felony) proceeding.

Here’s a fun statistic, in the last 50 years Republicans have appointed 14 Supreme Court Justices, Democrats just 4.

I mispoke, should’ve said two holiday seasons in, but November 2020 to now has kinda felt like two years.