Yeah, this part was beyond absurd and utterly laughable. I can see Microsoft’s response when they get a bill. *Reads the bill... raises eyebrow. “Erm, no.” Tosses crumpled paper into waste basket and it is never acknowledged again.

this really does not make sense— that means if I’m selling on Steam or Epic, I’m the the “developer”, and they are the “distributor” does that mean they are charging Steam and Epic the install fee— I think not :)

If you’re going to accomplish big things, you have to spend accordingly.

I don’t know if they weren’t allowed to use the stories, but doing so wouldn’t have worked. You couldn’t really have any of the branching storytelling they’re so good at — it would’ve ended up as a linear hack-and-slash action game and not had anything like the same impact.

Gotta put in my vote for Trader Joe’s Natural Peanut Butters. Creamy & Crunchy, salted or unsalted, less than $3.00 a jar. I make a special trip to stock up. And their less sugar raspberry jam is delightful.

Marsden was playing himself. They absolutely made it clear, he was James Marsden (just, like, a wildly heightened, egotistical version of himself).

How is fighting against AI dumb? It’s been obvious from the start that Big Tech and Hollywood wants to replace all human labor with AI, which very much gives the strike an incentive. The problem is that these sociopaths and psychopaths in power are trying to steal from everyone through any means necessary. It doesn’t…

How come the games get a pass for rewriting things/making thing up but not the show

That’s not entirely true either. The Batgirl write-off was specific to the Warner(HBO)/Discovery merger process, allowing a one-time “total loss” write off that required scrapping the film and salting the earth, never to be able to see the light of day.

If and when Paramount offloads Prodigy, they can take $(“value”) +…

This recreation of the Battle of Normandy uses shockingly similar designs and locations as last year’s recreation of the Battle of Normandy.  We’re not going to accuse the latter of IP theft, but we are going to heavily imply it through this article.

I feel like an hour and a half is plenty of time to test and make sure the game can run on your PC, which this move feels like more a reresponse after a year of pretty terrible PC ports

When the barista joined them— and the way Fuches talked about her and her daughter at dinner— I assumed she’d been writing him on the inside, something like that. (Sort of a Selma / Sideshow Bob situation, if you will.)

She was raised by Saw Gerrera and part of his army before that

Completely agree. "Night Sky" was a lot better, but I'll watch season 2 of this if that's all I get.

In fairness, both her parents had successful careers in finance.  Betting that’s the differentiator here.

I just wish they would remake franchises that actually need a reboot/remake. Atlantis and treasure planet deserve remakes. No one wants lion king again. 

Yup, for psychologists (like Jake) it’s two years. He’s violating ethics.

And the MOCA, Olvera st, Pershing, Chinatown and about a trillion other world class stops. 

I’m getting the sense that you think downtown LA sucks.

Ditto for Pizza Rolls, which can be had @ $0.10 / unit.