I guess I’m confused since if you have PS5/4 or Xbox One/Series, if you buy a game digitally or physically it installs to the console itself anyway. Having a smaller drive is inconsequential to the physical/digital argument since its going to be filled either way.

I didn’t say it was underhanded. I simply said it was a technique designed to play towards various consumer psychological phenomenons that we’ve known about for decades in other spaces, but for a shorter time in gaming.

The limitation on SSD space, I believe, is actually used to drive digital sales because of the…

It’s interesting that people thought that digital sales would be less expensive given that they cut out two things that contribute to the price disparity for physical media: the actual, physical production, distributions, and storage of the media, and the various entities involved in getting that media to the eventual…

To be medically pedantic, but its possible to be HIV-positive and have AIDS and not have that be the exact cause of death. What patients (especially during that era) tended to die of are various opportunistic infections and illnesses that almost solely come about because AIDS has ravaged your immune system to the…

It’s made even more astounding when you consider that, for most of the Twin Flamers (if that’s the appropriate title), the majority of their communications were done through Zoom calls. With most of the “successful” cults, being physically present is one of, if the the, most important element of making the cult grow,…

I was 13 when the original came out, and will be turning 33 two weeks after the reboot drops. If I had a kid during college (which isn’t too terribly uncommon), they’d be 13-14 now. The age tracks, but given that one of Mean Girls’ main demographic is gay men like myself...the line doesn’t really land for us either…

Exactly.

As I said in a previous reply, Esports aren’t a competitive arena that scales well economically past a certain point (and I think it’s clear that OWL is that point).

The team buy-in was absolutely absurd (that $35-$60m figure is comparable to the average team valuation of NFL and NBA franchises as recently as…

This is very true.

Even amongst sports that have grown in popularity, you still see a great deal of consolidation around a central entity (such as the NFL, NBA, or MLB, leaving aside the antitrust issues for a moment), and in earlier days, financial difficulties within a league could easily result in team owners and…

I’m not even a comics fanboy, but Dr. Doom is legendary on so many levels that, truly, Marvel hasn’t yet used a villain like him.

Thanos is amazing, but they had to change his entire characterization from the comics because it is admittedly very lame and thin (he wanted to wipe out 50% of the universe to impress Lady…

Even so, his contract is nowhere near as large as people are making it out to be. Further, the potential upsides of a recast are likely far in excess of any legal claims he’d have against them.

It’s a bit silly to think that Disney, at this stage, wouldn’t have significant morals clauses in their contracts for…

You’re a bit off.

The original theatrical release of the Hateful 8 didn’t have an intermission. I’d know because I saw it opening night.

What you’re referencing is the “Roadshow” style release he did at select theaters (those that either already had 70mm projectors, or ones QT personally selected for retrofitting) for a…

The issue is that both of those entities (but especially theater chain execs), have a huge incentive to fit as many showings in a given day as possible. This is why most movies come in at around 90 minutes.

Think about this. Let’s say your average theater opens at noon, and the last showing will start at midnight…

Exactly.

The Thing can only assimilate one entity at a time, and was never shown to assimilate and function with multiple forms of itself. At the end, when McCready kills the final “big” Thing, Childs is nowhere to be found not because he was already assimilated, but because he was on another part of the base. Further,…

Here’s the interesting thing that seems to go unnoticed concerning the ending: what if the Thing is really, truly dead? Let me explain.

Earlier in the movie, when they do the blood test, The Thing immediately begins responding to any damage done to its blood even when the blood is outside of the human host. At the end…

Not when Andrew Johnson and Warren Harding are still around. Also, we have at least a dozen Presidents who literally owned slaves. H.W. Bush wasn’t a particularly strong politician, but he was an average President at worst.

There’s also the reality (and this is a bit in the weeds) that many large companies have attempted to do exactly what you said in your first paragraph: income smoothing.

We really do need to redefine what a company’s obligation is to their shareholders. Realistically their obligation should defined as to deliver profits to their shareholders that are reasonably close to the profits of the previous fiscal year or quarter or what have you.

The pro-life argument is even more inane when you consider that, by definition, “protecting potential life” would result in defining a blow to the gonads or a sexual partner deciding to swallow as tantamount to mass genocide.

People have been lining the boulevards of various capitals in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the local emperor, stage star, athlete or sexy lute player since time immemorial. It’s not new, and it’s not a teenage girl thing.

The issue with Ray Liotta and Vice City isn’t whether or not he had marketing power, or could just walk away, but his knowledge of the significance of the game (and expected revenues) relative to the value of his time.

He openly said in interviews he didn’t play video games and had little-to-no idea of how big the GTA…