Yeah. I don’t think the idea of the segway is that wrong. I have a short walk from the train station to work downtown, and I see enough of weird battery-powered bikes, skateboards, and monowheels to realize that there is some kind of future in that kind of transportation device.

The problem with “allegations” is that they also turn out to be false.

Honestly, in the videogames industry I’m not convinced that potentially losing some sourcecode/development models is THAT damaging, especially for Activision, unless there’s some super magical network multiplayer stuff they’ve keyed into. My impression is that Activision is currently just “how efficient can we get to…

Trucks nowadays are quite bigger than before. Plus back in the day, if you bought a large truck, it was because of you needed it for work. Now people are just buying large trucks as daily drivers so you see a lot more of them. Does ANYONE even make a smaller two-door pickup today along the lines of a Toyota SR5?

The daily challenges solved some of that for me. But yeah, if you don’t like arcade style “beat your own high score” games, Mini Metro is probably not for you.

Wait. Abandoned iceboxes AREN’T playground equipment?

“The Sherman Oaks Galleria was one of the most famous malls in the world in the 80s & 90s”

I never ever got that sense from Springsteen. If anything, it always felt like he was tying to read novels over the course of 5 minutes.

I’m under the impression that for big ticket movies, the movie theaters really get just a sliver of the ticket prices on opening weekends. Their percentage goes up the longer the movie is in theater.

I think that something that no one talks about is that for a lot of the Marvel movies ( and say, Star Wars and some of the other big tentpole legacy themes), a big chunk of the ticket intake is based on repeat business of fans seeing them 2 or 3 ( 4? 5?) times.

It’s one thing to get in your car and set up your playlists and what not for a 45 minute car ride. It’s another thing to get in the car spend 10 minutes in the driveway because the driver of the car is scrolling around on their phone looking for their “preferred playlist of the day”....for the five minute trip to the…

Oh man, “cultural footprint” is NOT the thing you want to give away awards for.

Light-hearted huggable courtroom dramas seem to always be a well-received. See also, “My Cousin Vinny” and “From The Hip”

It’s actually a pretty good movie if you like the feel of early to mid 70s character study films. 

It’s less “trying to sell a game on nostalgia” to people who are beyond the typical age limits of the game, and more ‘we successfully exercised pre-existing intellectual property in a new format” bullet points on a corporate stockholder spreadsheet.

Well congratulations on getting people to read your article.

Probably the thing I loved best about Open Range is that the big gunfight at the end of the movie is played out how I think a “real intown gunfight” would probably actually play out.

Except...that’s not really a gay thing. That’s a standard cop-buddy movie trope, ala Lethal Weapon or Running Scared. 

As an aside...what is the purpose of needing a new pair of collector Nike shoes.

The environmental impact is probably better than blowing the tops off of mountains for raw materials physical coins that cost more to produce than they are worth.