“Bungie’s technical expertise, coupled with their track record of building highly engaged communities, make them a natural fit for collaboration with PlayStation Studios,” said Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios. “We are excited to make plans to share skills and expertise, and to unlock the potential in having…

The studios are worth more if the IPs remain multi platform. The incentive for exclusives driving console purchases is somewhat irrelevant.

I mean, *had* more cash on hand, since paying for AB reduces it below Sony’s market cap...but your larger point is well made.

sure, but at the end of the day, the quality of the games produced really does count for a lot. sony cleaned xbox’s clock last gen because microsoft failed to consistently develop good games in-house. it doesn’t matter how much money they spend if their business and creative culture produces poor games. microsoft has…

Comparing this deal to the MS Activision one is like comparing the sale of In-and-Out to McDonalds. 

I don’t think anybody ever claimed that getting vaccinated would mean you couldn’t catch or spread COVID, just that it reduced the likelihood dramatically, which is still true. I don’t think any experts have ever said straight up that cloth masks don’t work, just that they’re not as effective as N95's, which is still…

For maybe the first time in history many civil servants actually faired well during a state of emergency. She’s not working at Footlocker and neither is her husband.

my old accounts are even more fun, i have several BTC addresses that blockchain.com tells me have received many millions over the years plus my old accounts at some exchanges where i was depositing several million doge a week for example

My Auschwitz-survivor grandfather-in-law will be 100 in April.

I wish they made the legacy chocobo more...noticeable? I still rock that as my main mount but I wish there was a way legacy players could have some kind of identifiable feature (that you could optionally switch on) besides the tattoo and a way-too-subtle mount. Still enjoying my discounted sub though.

It’s not that hard. Adjunct faculty are used quite often on campus and they are often quite good. I had very good adjunct professors when I was in college. The reasons it's been hard to find professors  is the same reason it's been hard to find secondary and primary school teachers...not enough money paid nor…

Of course he has the liberty to tell the story, nothing I’ve said suggested otherwise.  I think it would have been better, for a variety of reasons, to keep this particular thought to a private conversation with his therapist.

Hey neighbour! 

Pretty sure Cracker Barrel is a reference to actual barrels of crackers. That's what I was told when I asked why such a trashy restraunt decided to name itself after a slur, and use barrel.

The only time Spike runs into old Syndicate people are during the five episodes dealing with his plot. In all those cases, he gets involved due to Vicious, who took over the Syndicate specifically so that he could hunt down and kill Spike. While there were others who were angry at Spike’s faked death, he made it clear…

I teach screenwriting. I know what a Maguffin is. I even used the term myself! So thanks for bringing up the Maltese Falcon to me, but I am 100% aware of that storytelling tool. And believe me, I understand advancing narrative and character. It’s a thing I’ve paid attention to over my 15+ years of writing screenplay…

I’m sympathetic to Jesse’s argument, and by extension yours. I *teach* screenwriting, so pacing a narrative is obviously important to me. And complaints about such matters should, one hopes, be addressed in rewrites. But I worked in the story department at Sony and routinely saw feedback/notes from union story…

I think we also have to bear in mind that Method was a product of its time, and one reason fewer people are explicitly fully Method these days is that a sort of low-level semi-Method has become universal. You don’t get the old Shakespearian Declamation style on TV or film anymore (well, not very much) - it’s not…

All good points.

It was a Pietta Colt 1873 replica chambered in .45. The sheriff announced that in one of the early press conferences. I don’t know how old or used it was. Pietta has been making replicas since the 60s and they’ve been used extensively in Hollywood since then. All SA revolvers of that period are prone to misfires. For…