F1 has a 2 hour time limit from when the green flag is waved.

Look, Scott is a good-looking, successful, educated man. There is not exactly a shortage of conservative Christian Black women in the South who would view him as an acceptable husband. There are also plenty of white women who would marry him.

This sounds too much like Dopesick. That show focused on the Sackler family, pharma sales people (also a male and female duo), and a young person who got addicted to opioids after a workplace accident.  I guess the description is missing if this one also follows the prosecutors going after Purdue and a doctor who gets…

It was trying to be 2 wildly different films at the same time.

My problem with subtitles is that I can’t not read them, and they pop up before the dialogue is finished, so I basically am spending a good chunk of the movie waiting for the characters to say things that I already know they are going to say.

As I say below, it’s also not *really* interest in the material that drove audiences to see Oppenheimer. It’s almost entirely the force of Nolan making a relatively straightforward (compared to his genre fare) BIG PICTURE film. And both it and Barbie have benefitted from weird audience interest mutual…

I’d hardly hold a small collector who has “paid 4 figures for many titles” morally culpable for the tax evasion of the mega-rich or shadily funded. But just like responsible ownership of a goldfish doesn’t justify Orcas at SeaWorld, legitimate fandoms are different in kind from the sort of speculation and auctions…

I’ve had debates with people here who genuinely believed that remaining independent and likely shutting down is a better option than being acquired. The anti-consolidation mentality seems to be based more on emotion than reason.

Times like this is when the Emmys not giving love to Better Call Saul, especially Rhea Seehorn, in prior years really sucks. BCS, Seehorn, and Odenkirk all deserve to win but this year’s categories are fucking stacked. I won’t be surprised if Succession sweeps them all. Wouldn’t be shocked if White Lotus and…

If exclusivity were only possible through acquisitions and mergers, I’d agree. But sadly, that’s not reality. FF7 Remake (among many other Square games) will never be released on Xbox despite the fact that Sony doesn’t own Square. Platform owners routinely pay for timed or permanent third-party exclusives. Bayonetta…

10-20 years from now consoles will be dead. Already consoles are just glorified PCs compared to what they were 10-20 years ago.

Microsoft did nothing wrong with IE in terms of giving it away. The problem was entirely that Nutscrape threw a temper tantrum and started using every penny they had to sue rather than compete and make their browser worth paying for.

There is no less choice though. Its not like by buying Activision there are less games to choose from. The only way that argument works is if people are specifically looking to buy/avoid buying from specific companies. But who buys games based on who made them, rather than looking at whether the game itself is…

As a PC gamer this is a win. Microsoft has made huge commitments to share games day one with PC gamers, while Sony takes YEARS to allow them to be ported over.

Activision Blizzard isn’t available for streaming. Microsoft entered into an agreement with Nvidia to bring Microsoft + AB (provided deal goes through) games to GeForce Now. That opens up access to people who may not have it otherwise.

> Serious accidents and deaths on rollercoasters in the US aren’t exactly common, but they aren’t super rare

I think it’s a mixture of that and some people just not being interested in video games at all, or only playing them as a way to connect to a relative/friend/significant other and then dropping it when they lost touch with that person. How many people have said “I only played World of Warcraft because my friends did,…

For most games, I’d agree with you.

Nintendo did that with the NES. Before that, games were cross platform.

Interesting! When it comes to single character focused Final Fantasy games, FF16 is the combo-breaker for sure.