In similar best-trailer / worst-movie vein, it was done to great effect with a trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 and New Order’s “Blue Monday”.

Oh absolutely. That’s why I mentioned that there’s a range where it’s most useful and, exactly as you say, the returns are much fuzzier than other costs.

Oh yeah, I’m sure the bulk of industry revenue does come from a handful of games. However, that doesn’t mean smaller games can’t be profitable. The increase in available revenue streams + the benefits of digital distribution + significantly improved tools make it easier to develop and monetize games than ever before…

If by middle-budget, you mean AA, I’d argue that additional revenue streams have mitigated that risk. For example, A Plague Tale: Requiem likely got a big chunk of cash for launching on GP. Same goes for Darktide, Atomic Heart, High on Life, STALKER 2, Lies of P, Wo Long, Exoprimal, Payday 3, etc. Exclusivity deals…

“...or perhaps he thinks that brooding is ‘good acting’” I think sums it up. I assume he’s going for quiet intensity but I never feel the actual intensity part. BlacKKKlansman was a good movie but his performance could have been delivered by any on of a dozen other actors. Topher Grace was amusing as David Duke, Driver…

I never claimed otherwise. I don’t think Will Smith was really in his prime when he did After Earth though, (I’ll also Tom Cruise in Oblivion on to the list of generic-looking sci-fi films that couldn’t be saved by the lead) but I agree that the lack of big names isn’t helping The Creator. Having said that, I still…

The Star Wars Holiday Special is squarely in the territory of, “So Bad I Want to Watch Just to Ponder How Something This Bad Could Ever Be Made by Sober People”.

The Holiday Special wasn’t made by sober people. One of the writers said he was heavily into cocaine at the time, and Carrie Fisher was as well.

The idea that this merger would prevent PS+ from competing is silly. First of all, none of Activision’s games are currently available on any subscription service. The merger would change that and put them on several services. Maybe not on PS+ Extra/Premium but there are plenty of games that are exclusively available…

she was most likely a nice tan/bronze shade augmented by makeup.

Book clubs are not about reading, it is about a shared social experience for extroverts that do not gain personal value from a rather individual/isolating practice. But don’t forget that the “club” for the traditional masculine shared social experiences incentivizes shared actions upon the world - a collective…

Even if you want a set top box to do emulation on the big screen, I never would’ve thought to do it on a console. I have an Nvidia Shield — of course I’ll just do it on that.

Connor just sort of proved he’s the only one of the kids who’s actually a real person deep down. That he vaguely cares about loyalty and fairness compared to his siblings, father and stepmom that take the sociopath view that caring is weakness, so it makes him seem soft. He probably would’ve done well in a normal…

Thank for the additional information re: the timeline. The article - and your posts, and those of others, all gave the impression this was already signed and ready to go for 2026. But the detail you’ve provided is very helpful and shows that is not at all the case.

I do. (Although I still think it’s more important that our technical market analysts believe it - they’re the ones who pour over the telemetry and have a very accurate picture of how many people are still playing the game on HDDs on PC)

I read an article about those direct-to-video schlockfests that Willis (and other actors) have been doing. It was written before any of his condition was known, but the gist was basically this:

10 people out of 456 required medical attention, that’s actually less than the occupational injury rate in the United States.  456 people performing any kind of physical activity for 9 hours a day are going to suffer inuries.  When I read the title of this article I expected that number to be a lot higher.

(400+ people in a confined space with studio lighting? Awful),

The contracts and NDAs signed for this will likely show they were told exactly what this was, what their salary was, how the filming production would go, and what rights they had to protest the edited product. These reality show people are not usually brought in unkowingly. There are laws about that. If the lawsuits…

It’s ALS. He showed no cognitive, emotional, or other neurological distress associated with Huntington’s.