The patching issue isn’t as significant as people think.

Most of the games that need significant patching are games which focus on the multiplayer. The overwhelming majority of people buying these games are doing so for the multiplayer component, so they go in knowing the necessity of relatively speedy internet and the…

The big thing that often gets overlooked is that is that adding software-based antipiracy measures to your game is so inexpensive relative to the development costs of the game, that there’s very little disincentive to avoid it.

As Prime Directive stated, the salient reality is that the majority of people who pirate…

The issue is that the water table, groundwater aquifer system, presence of porous limestone, and overall sea-level in the areas where the tracks currently lie make tunneling (even relatively short tunnels at rail crossings) untenable. Attempting to build tunnels is a significant non-starter for those practical reasons…

Native Floridian here (Tampa specifically).

You’re right on both counts (especially in coastal areas). The other issue is that when people talk about European high-speed rail and above-grade tracks, they ignore the reality that Florida can get severe hurricanes that would put those above-grade and raised tracks…

Exactly.

Given the goal is to accomplish two things (lower car-based traffic density and provide a greater total throughput of commuters between two high-population hubs at a higher-average speed than car-based travel), certain factors must be at play to accomplish those things. The first is speed, and the second is…

You want to know something that’s even crazier.

Since Breaking Bad and Mad Men went off the air (in 2013 and 2015, respectively), no other show from AMC has won an Emmy. Either BB and MM were so dominant during their respective and coinciding runs that Emmy voters felt that AMC needed a break from the domination (for…

Yeah.

The big shock is that Alexander Skarsgaard was nominated for Best Supporting for his role in Succession. That’s...really fucking weird, because while I like Alex and Succession, his character wasn’t nearly as captivating or funny as the writer’s seemed to believe. When he was somewhat mysterious the previous…

And while Lucky Hank had a premise that didn’t seem like it would appeal to a wide audience, you could have said the same thing about Better Call Saul.

Interestingly enough, in poker tournaments, players who are in the final table might decide to “chop”, and take an even payout based upon however many are left, rather than risk it. They’d all still get paid anyways, but given how steep the payout structure is, it’s often a better long-term strategy than vying for a…

What you say is absolutely true, but in the end, math is math.

The reality is that the last two Scream movies didn’t do as well, when adjusted for inflation, as the last Friday the 13th. Sure it had a precipitous box office fall, but my salient point (which I made clearly) is that relative to the box office and the…

I agree.

As a Lambo fan, as iconic as the Countach is, the Diablo (especially the VT and early-SV models) are the best designed Lamborghinis short of the Miura and certain Gallardos. The Countach gives you crazy 1980s excess, but isn’t a particularly beautiful car, and while the Murcielago has grown on me, the…

This stuck with me because I do remember they called out Hillary by name, and the way the article read made it clear the Houser brother in question personally blamed Hillary for all the flack Rockstar Games had gotten. Out of all the Jack Thompsons in the US, of all the Congressmen scapegoating video games, hip hop,…

also, if it’s a 40 million dollar budgeted movie and she wants 7-8 million that feels fairly reasonable to me. that’s how movie stardom works.

Samuel L. Jackson has also been contracted in the series since Iron Man, and knowing a little about these contracts, there’s probably increases that are baked in at a certain number of appearances. Between The Marvels, the other MCU films, and the TV shows, he’s been a part of no less than 10 productions. It makes…

Scream VI, when you adjust for inflation, earned as much during its run as the Friday the 13th reboot did back in 2009, and only did slightly better over its run than the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot did back in 2010, and Friday the 13th not only had half the budget, but adjusted for inflation, it actually had a…

The biggest star who ever appeared in these movies was killed in the franchise’s very first scene. I’m not convinced people go to these movies because of the cast.

My theory, which I laid out in another response, is that she asked for that much knowing that they’d never agree to it, so that she could leave and still look good by having everyone assume it was due to scheduling conflicts (which was the assumption). Or, if they agreed to it, she gets a huge payday far in excess of…

Honestly, while I enjoyed the last two films, the plots have been so increasingly bad that I truly believe they could slot in any two relatively young stars and do the same business.

Ortega is great, and while I’ve only seen Barrera in these movies, she was good as well, but people came out to see the movies because of…

I don’t agree that the Marvel villains need multiple-movie arcs to be effective. Most Marvel movies are at least as long as The Dark Knight, Star Wars, Silence of the Lambs, Misery, Training Day, No Country for Old Men, or Inglorious Basterds. If you can’t create an effective villain in three hours, six more hours…

*cough* Evolutionary *cough*