Friendly reminder that it isn’t “The Strike” that is killing shows, it is the corporate suits who refuse to negotiate in good faith with the unions who are killing shows.

The ergonomics on the right controller look terrible. They’ve got the lower offset analog stick, and then a touch pad below that, and the grip buttons on that side are also super weird.

Steam Remote Play actually doesn’t require you to be on the same LAN as your gaming PC, and it’s been that way since around 2017. I’ve successfully streamed games to a tablet while in Santa Barbara with my home PC in Los Angeles and it’s been fine.

It’s super weird to me that Jeff Sneider is spreading casting rumours in the middle of the SAG strike. Nobody has been cast for Fantastic Four, because they’re all on strike. Marvel may want these people for these roles, but until a contract can be signed, they haven’t been cast.

Banner’s ‘I can’t have kids’ is arguably more because he’s aware that a Hulk kid would be extremely dangerous so he can’t be allowed to have kids than just that he’s been sterilized by the gamma radiation. But for the two years on Sakaar when Hulk was in control, Hulk dgaf.

ChatGPT is essentially autocomplete that has been trained on massive amounts of written documents, so “no” to all of the above questions.

I’ll also add that the reason non-AMPTP produced SAG and WGA contracted productions are also halted is because the AMPTP is such a large percentage of production that those contracts form the basis for the independent production contracts (for example: the sample of SAG’s Low Budget Agreement puts the daily rate at “65…

The strikes are against the AMPTP and productions with SAG and/or WGA contracts. Critical Role the company isn’t a member of AMPTP, and the actual play show isn’t produced under SAG contract because the primary cast are all co-owners and equity partners of the company (and not under WGA contract because it’s not,…

Critical Role is an interesting case. While the primary cast are all co-owners of the company and presumably just drawing a share of the profits instead of taking a paycheck under a SAG contract, they’ve had a lot of guests who are SAG, and I wonder what contract (if any) those guests have been paid under?

Good Night and Good Luck is also in that era, and iirc Clooney paid RDJ’s insurance out of his own pocket to convince the studio to let him cast him.

Give Melanie Rawn’s Sunrunner books a shot. They do a lot of what you’re crediting GRRM for, but they did it first, and the series has been finished for over twenty years. Just 6 books, and if the first trilogy doesn’t do it for you it’s a complete story and you don’t have to read the second.

having recently appeared in The Suicide Squad (which is apparently non-canonical in the new DC universe)

From a story perspective you’d think that the implied connection between the Ten Rings and Kamala’s bangle and whatever is happening in The Marvels that they’d be trying to move Shang-Chi 2 UP in the schedule.

‘Defining boundaries’ means letting your partner know the things that you won’t do. I.e. “I am uncomfortable with heights, so if you’re looking for a partner who will go rock climbing with you, I’m not the right partner for you.” If your ‘boundaries’ are placing explicit limits on your partner’s behavior (beyond…

Seems like a real mixed message to give Paramount more money for messing with you.

Essentially what Paramount and Disney and Max are doing with the more recent spate of pulling content is writing off the reduction in value of the service that the shows/movies were on, not writing off the production costs of the shows/movies themselves.

It looked like a shoulder shot, so I’m betting she consciously shifted back to her Skrull form after the hit to sell that it was a killshot, but it’s not an immediately wound and she’ll be able to make her way to get help.

Tweetdeck (the only way to use twitter that made it remotely usable) also forced everyone into the New Tweetdeck preview (which sucks ass), and apparently the plan is that by the end of the month only Verified users will be able to use Tweetdeck at all.

So... Pretty much like every other Youtuber apology video, then.

Just finished watching this half season, and I’d say that it’s as straightforward an adaptation of Time of Contempt as Season 1 was of The Last Wish.