Patty Jenkins ran into the Colin Trevorrow problem of thinking that you had it made after a single billion-dollar movie.

Recall that after Jurassic World came out and made more money than the Catholic Church, Colin got tapped by Disney to direct the sequel to The Last Jedi. He’s on top of the world, and because of…

Unlike Sony, MS is an American tech company that currently has the smallest share of the console market, so it’s pretty puzzling why FTC would go after them here instead of Sony.

The antitrust issue with Sony is that they’re a Japanese company, even though they have a large North American division. There’s only so much influence that the US DoJ can exercise on a company that isn’t an American one or headquartered/incorporated in America (notice the issues involving FTX, which is headquarted in…

This criticism also ignores the business reality: Microsoft doesn’t need 1st party titles in order to make money in gaming.

Gaming, as a percentage of Microsoft’s overall business, is a very small percentage. For Sony? It’s nearly 1/4 of their entire company. This means that Microsoft, if they really wanted, could…

People forget that for the Disney/Fox merger to happen, Fox had to spin-off the Fox News networks as Disney owns ABC. In fact, it wasn’t really a merger in any sense, rather Rupert Murdoch deciding to sell 20th Century Fox and their movie library to Disney while retaining Fox News and their stable of global news…

One of the things I’ve read is that many of the studios and the performers dislike having to wear muscle-pads as part of their costumes because of the restrictive nature and how it photographs, so they’d rather be legitimately big (or big(ger), because most of these actors aside from the Rock aren’t actually that big…

These dudes are on steroids. And here’s how you know.

Listen to any of their interviews, and they inadvertently tell on themselves by talking about just how much they train. 6 days, 7 days a week. 4+ hours a day. Anybody who knows human physiology and weight training knows that working out that much, particularly with…

Fascinating stuff, but I have a question that hopefully you can answer.

I was reading about defamation, libel, and slander in various countries in the aftermath of the Depp-Heard case, and while I’m familiar with the nuances between the US and the UK, when I got to Japan, I read something fascinating.

Apparently, unlike…

I’m sure your outfit is lovely.

Cheers.

Also, have you considered that maybe it’s you who doesn’t get what the appropriate dress attire is for a game awards show?

1. For the placebo effect to be in play, there must be, wait for it, a placebo to be provided. Where is the placebo when it comes to an outfit, unless somebody is specifically told, prior to wearing the outfit, of the intended effect? To continue, even if the effect is a placebo, there’s still an effect happening…

And that’s fine. I’m confused as to why people are assuming I, or other people, are saying that everyone needs to be in a coat-and-tails and evening dresses. We aren’t. We’re simply saying (and correctly so) that there are ways to dress-up while maintaining a casual air, which you perfectly described.

I don’t particularly care if we observers and spectators take it seriously. But for the people who work in the industry, and their various capacities? Yes, take it seriously. The games which are being awarded (and those that aren’t) don’t come about without a great deal of hard work (and in many cases overwork), so…

1. What somebody wears has a clear effect on how they think and how they feel, and much of decorum is based around how you present yourself. It’s the reason why uniforms and clear sartorial requirements exist, least of all the numerous psychological and cultural studies that focus squarely on types of dress and the…

I think the statement “It’s an awards ceremony.” doesn’t have as much gravity or respect with many people as you might think. It’s just not something that people take so seriously anymore.

No one’s saying that they expect the developers to be draped in haute couture (and it’s disingenuous to imply that they are), but at the end of the day, this is an awards show for your industry, and you would think that members of that industry (including those who might be getting awarded) would care just a little…

I took her “ethical” comment to be a reference to, in a way, setting a ceiling for how much professional artists who are contracted with Epic could reasonably ask for.

In industries where people/entities bid on jobs, putting in a seriously low offer is often seen as unethical, especially if everyone involved knows that…

The thing is that the average person with a 9-5 is, in most cases, going to have that job continuously unless something seriously unexpected happens. The artist, in contrast, is an independent contractor that is entirely dependent on not just getting work, but getting enough lucrative work to financially support…

I think the only way that he’d be ineligible is if they removed him fully from the Academy, which they didn’t do.

Given some of the members who are still in the Academy, regardless of their misdeeds (here’s looking at you, Roman Polanski), their thought process is that if they start outright removing members because of…

Ehh, not really.

Activision is still the strongest earner in the company, by roughly $1bn in revenues over King (this is from looking at AB’s latest annual report). It would be silly for Microsoft to do a $70bn purchase and all of the regulatory hurdles that entails solely for a portion of a company that only takes in…