I think they need to strike now before those AIs get even better, to protect the future of the industry.

Yeah, debating whether a 1st century BC Greek would be considered “white” by the standards of the 21st century is utterly pointless. The social systems you’re talking about didn’t exist then, or were different. 

> she argues that “Cleopatra was eight generations away from these Ptolemaic ancestors, making the chance of her being white somewhat unlikely.”

This is straight up false, because the Ptolemaic dynasty was horrifyingly incestuous. What is true is that we don’t know the identity of her mother or her grandmother, who…

The Pride Night is at Disneyland, not WDW

Which sounds way better than what Heathers season 1 tried to be.

Why are the Pink Ladies being reimagined as empowered former outcasts? Aren’t the Pink Ladies in the original kind of rich snobs, the pre-cursors to the Heathers or the Mean Girls? 

I don’t know that I’d call Chicago or Sweeney Todd “self-serious”. Sweeney Todd especially is practically already a dark comedy. It’s not meant to be set in a serious world, it’s a send up of penny dreadfuls and operas. But even then, not the serious operas, but the lurid B-movie kind that were already not…

There’s two versions. One is Vanilla, and the other is WotLK. The second lauched as BC Classic but then updated to WotLK.

I don’t think they need to do Cataclysm like this article hints. I think Vanilla, Wrath, and the current game about covers all audiences. 

> “He’s very disciplined in that way, and also he’s very British in that way,” Cox says. “The American inclination is to milk it for all it’s worth.”

Doctor Who celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year.

The way you describe the “Fuck the North” bit makes it sound like a direct rip-off of Trainspotting 2's excellent “No More Catholics” bit.

Holy shit.

When it started, I was disappointed they were going with Final Countdown, rather than the obvious choice. But then it turned into a mash-up, and I was satisfied.

Yeah, I kind of want this story from the perspective of the actual Soviet/Russian designer who made the game, and was at the center of the legal battle for rights to it after the collapse of the Soviet Union, rather than the story about the American guy who brought it to the west and tried to copyright it. Adding a…

There’s definitely the implication that something has happened to Peter and May going into Civil War and Homecoming. You can see boxes around like they’re just moving in to the apartment, and there’s a line about “After everything May has been through recently...”

His suitcase in Far From Home says BFP presumably for…

Some Wallers look like Angela Bassett, or Cynthia Addai-Robinson for some reason, or even Pam Grier! 

I once saw an episode of the show Nashville, where a character gets pulled over driving into a suburban park and complains to the cop “I have to be downtown in 5 minutes!”

I never watched the show past that scene, so maybe the character is a known compulsive liar or something, but it was very funny.

Yeah, I don’t have a problem with most of the other acquisitions, tbh. Sony especially made some great buys, and it’s like you said, for some of these smaller developers, it’s kind of the dream. The problem is Bethesda’s history and size.

Xbox’s purchase of Bethesda pisses me off so much, more than the publishers and studios Sony has acquired for PlayStation. Sony mostly acquired mid-sized developers and up-and-coming publishers. Bethesda was a massive, well-liked company with over a 20 year history of cross-platform releases. And now most of their…

The article starts by saying that it won’t count Disney’s acquisitions, and will only focus on movies produced by Disney. And then immediately includes all the Pixar movies, movies made by a studio that is not Disney that Disney acquired.

It means they don’t want to do the actual journalistic work of understanding it. Although I appreciate the snark somewhat, of presenting these ruling class elites as literally a different insectoid species.