It might be a huge deal within your sphere of media awareness, but “putting things on YouTube” really didn’t qualify for that.

My only question is that this article really doesn’t say how the game makes it’s black characters black by “redifining” it. From the article, all I got was there’s Protagonist A and Protagonist B...both of which just happen to be black.

I never though that Russel Crowe “embarrassed” himself in Les Mis. His singing voice is perfectly fine if you are the lead singer in a rock band, for example. He just doesn’ t have musical theatre singing chops. So he just sang the way he usually does, and it just came off as a different take than what one is used to…

I agree that the D+ TV shows are MUCH more interlinked with the “universal storylines” than the movies. There is a certain aspect to the shows where they deal with the fallout of the events shown in the movies, whereas the movies just kind of hint that there was fallout.

Yeah, that’s what I don’t get. Everyone talks about how interconnected the movies are.... But for the most part, it’s just 1-minute post-credit scenes advertising for a future known project. Aside from the obvious team -up movies, pretty much all of the movies are standalone with a hidden Easter egg here or there just…

Based on the amount of charts-and-graphs the data analysis group produces at my work, I think it’s fairly easy to determine “was it worth it” considering HBO ( or Netflix, or insert streaming service here) are getting pure un-refined data directly into the systems of who is watching what at what time for how long. With…

It’s fairly easy to track. Watch for new subscriptions and see if the first movie they watch is Justice League. Did they cancel the account after the first month or so? Did they watch any other offerings or just Justice League 5 times?

I don’t know, using twitter as some sort of global metric....just seems like “how twitter feels” of a loudly vocal small subset of passionate people without having to deal with consequences of what they want. Imagine a world where every important decision was made by twitter polls. <shudder>

Iguess I have to ask now, do you find the original cast video recordings that they play on PBS  of Les Mis cringe worthy, or Hamilton?

No I agree with that, I was just remarking that the world was pretty much old Stagey Musicals, then WSS showed another way to reconceptulize how a filmed musical could be done, than we kind of went back to Stagey Musicals until Moulin Rouge came out and everyone went "what the hell did i just watch".

Actually, the live televised version of Grease was/is pretty amazing. For my money, unlike most of the live musicals we get on a yearly basis which are pretty much just “let’s stage the play and shoot it with cameras”, it created a blueprint of how to create a brand new hybrid live/television production of using the…

At one point, TCM did a weekend/evening of all the big musicals of the ( late 50s to early 60s) time period, in chronological order. I’ve always really liked it, but in that comparative setting, you realize how innovative and forward-thinking the ‘61 version actually is, compared to how stodgy musicals on that era are.

Go watch “Barb Wire”.

I don’t know...it’s an 80s John Hughes teen rom-com flick. $40k in 80's dollars for 2.5 months of work for an unknown actor is a pretty good deal, especially considering that they were meant to be relatively cheaply made, with a total budget of $5 million dollars. Especially back then, no one really expected a movie…

Actually, I think the Jimmy Olsen comic is just an “unreliable narrator” story told by Jimmy Olsen to cover up the fact that he has a secret identity of putting on a spider costume to fight crime at night in his neighborhood, as newspaper photographers usually do.

I feel like I want to watch a movie now called “Mary Jane and Me”. That basically follow Mary Jane from stupid “but I’m a part-time actor” jobs and auditions. With every now and then, her boyfriends pops in through a window and says “hi” in costume.

I’ve always figured Jim Carrey to be a real actor trapped in Carrey-comedies because that’s where he made money for the studio, thankfully he made enough bank that he got the opportunity to do a few serious, more experimental things. Robin Williams was always good in the non-comedic stuff he did, I always thought it…

I’m not sure how junior staff becomes senior staff if they are always jumping from job to job every 6 months as you describe.

The biggest benefit of being a game programmer is that, when it becomes known at a party, you become the Most Interesting Person at parties. Everyone can relate to games, and everyone finds it to be an interesting, creative job that they would like to know more about.

I would argue that these “living games” probably require a lot more continuous content than a typical game, and there is a much larger backend server maintenance to deal with.