I think if you combine the timing of Wednesday’s second season shooting schedule with Ortega’s new position as producer there’s a good chance she actually didn’t *want* to do the next movie and used this contract negotiation as a way out. If the producers cave she gets a nice payday along with greater negotiating…

A big part of it is also the MLM part. They buy the classes, but then they also become coaches themselves, and nearly all the money they manage to make from that goes right back to more classes... It becomes their job, their community, their family, and even though they’re not in a compound with the leader, they’ve…

Finally. OWL had been pinin’ for the fjords since year 3.

It was like a combination of the Dotcom bubble, the online journalism ad revenue crash, and Long Island Iced Tea Company changing their name to Long Blockchain, all rolled into one.

Many teams didn’t start out in their “host” cities. Many didn’t compete there. I…

This is my read of it too. They’re both human and strongly suspect as much. They know however, that because the communications equipment and transport have all been compromised beyond repair, they are beyond help or rescue and so decide to die as noble friends, sharing the last of the liquor and comprehending the…

For the record, I’m a fan of the theory that might honestly be the darkest, which is that both of them are completely human... but because of the reasonable paranoia of what they just went through, they’ll never, ever know that, and so they’ll just freeze to death.

“with Ray Liotta, you have a person who has a significant amount of market power”

Place was sold out, full of people who’d traveled from all over the country to put on his jersey and watch him strike out twice.

Because a guy acting like this has a reasonable expectation of getting slugged. Miss “I can handle my own” here, on the other hand, was acting with complete impunity and was probably pissed at her boyfriend after for not having her back. You’ve never seen a woman get in a guy’s face and insult his manhood for not…

Team Katy. This story has been bogus from the beginning. 

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…