Making a game based on well known IP is worth A LOT.  Even if it seems like a questionable idea.  There are a million worlds where this could have been done well and it would have been a triumph.  And there are a million worlds where a team could have made a great stealth game with a weak little protagonist and no one…

I could see him wanting to be in it just to prove that he can pull off Superman.  This poor image has been doing the rounds forever.

A surprising number of them just allude to “legal troubles.”  I think that might be because so many of them have been settled out of court that a publication might get in trouble to saying too much about what they actually are.

I am beyond shocked that this has been renewed.  Did they already have the episodes in the can somewhere?

Director: “Now we can’t make Boimler’s hair too purple, that might make things too cartoony.”

He’s great, and I have faith the actor can completely pull off the mannerisms, I just wish the hair was a little more purple.

Embracer and Amazon just announced they were going to jointly make a Lord of the Rings MMO just last week.  Does anyone know the status of this now?  It does also seem to point to Amazon as the potential partner.

I have one friend who is a writer and I think the writing residuals are now basically non-existent. And I’ve heard that it is also true for most of the actors too (Even the big names now just get a huge upfront). One of the reasons is that the streaming services don’t want anyone to know their actual viewership…

Totally agree, I posted a reply just above that.

I mean this is Chekhov’s gun right here. The very end of the last episode of season one. In 25 seconds it lays out Season 2 and 3, right there. And what’s brilliant and REALLY important about it, is for a second, it shows the Ted actually gives a shit about winning. Look at Rebecca’s reaction. That is not a mistake!…

If they did one heartfelt episode like this I think it would be good and have a lot of impact. But nearly every episode this season has been like this. It’s been such a let down. Particularly because they set themselves up to have such a strong narrative throughline for the season:

“In this economy?”

Yes, you’re right. But it is extremally well made and the story is very interesting. Which, for me, makes it enjoyable to watch, but every character is despicable and none of them are going to be punished in the end. You need to go into this realizing that. It is even one step further down the line of a story about a…

I think it’s more complicated than that, my understanding is that with streaming shows residuals really aren’t part of the equation anymore for a vast majority of the talent.

This was my biggest complaint about the show: “You’re giving people some very actionable ideas here! Stop!”

Has the whole final Hulu ownership thing been resolved yet? Given what is going on with the streaming companies it seems like they are just going to abandon it now. I’m wondering why they are even bothering to deal with what shows will be on it going forward.

Yeah, but in it’s defense, Y The Last Man was Awful.

Quitting en masse AND on the day of a huge release points to not just dissatisfaction with a job, but an abusive workplace. It reflects poorly on GameStop, not on these employees.

I know is sucks that people can’t afford things like this, but some of Disney’s most profitable park ventures are for the ultra-high-end guests.

This stuff is going to really start killing companies in Florida and Texas over the next decades. They are becoming no-go zones for many high-tech workers and academics that have plenty of other places to work.  It’s going to take a while to see the effects, but it is also going to be incredibly hard to recover.