Strong same. I know my tolerance for that sort of cop has waned, and it’d been around for a while before I saw it, but I’d been interested in Titus Welliver and Jaime Hector previous.

LOL—so my reaction is, any executive states anti-union opinions in this public and loudly in company forums is so bad at their job that no wonder Activision Blizzard is a shambles. I weirdly think the bare-level of competence should be corporate speak with deniability, as opposed to something this obvious.

I think it’s a useful thing to remember that Microsoft’s purchase of Activision-Blizzard affected Sony the most, gaming is just one of the sector’s MS is in, and it’s biggest competition is Apple, Google, Amazon, and probably Facebook in various degrees.

[Jackson] adding, “If I were you, I wouldn’t say anything.” Of course, Timberlake should’ve recognized that that doesn’t literally mean “don’t say anything,” so one could argue that it’s still fair to point out that his lack of a response did nothing but benefit him and lay all of the blame on her, but that would be…

I just learned about After Yang a couple of days ago, and being a big fan of Columbus, and Ozu, I went off and rewatched After Life by Koreeda, who’s another seems like Ozu filmmaker. I wonder how the two films would pair up? I guess I’ll find out.

I think you’re right about some of reasonings of why a lot of workers don’t go for it, but individual bargaining usually netting more than any collective bargaining isn’t true—how could it? Why wouldn’t a company go with unions if individual bargaining usually netted their employees more? It doesn’t, but it gets away…

I legitimately thought that the article was going to be how he had three testicles in the game, as what I thought would be a funny nod to the “Hitler has one testicle” theory.

I don’t think it’s likely to backfire—unless the decisionmakers wrote up the policy in a manner that’s explicitly anti-union, there’s probably enough cover to drag out this action until some union members give up. Even when the letter of the law is with union organizing, the length of the process favors management.

They’re losing money if they’re borrowing or spending against that money—which they probably are. Same for you though--if you’re just holding that asset and making no moves with it, you haven’t gained or lost anything except the opportunity to realize the gain when you sell.

That’s part of it, but their main metric is how much of a show or movie once started do people watch. So Cowboy Bebop had a ton of viewing hours, but considering the marketing push, it mostly revealed that people watched the first episode and didn’t continue.

I think Cosby’s part in the Black community, and in the way everyone else looked at the Black community for decades is the why there’s a need for it, and probably a chunk of the show. The trailer I watched is certainly a lot of Black celebrities talking about it. 

This impacts Sony, but this isn’t about Sony, and while I care about consoles and games like the rest of the folks here, I think it’s a little small to think of just Sony and Nintendo, whatever Sony being “done” actually means.

A friend in the UK asked me how often we can order 4 tests—ah, America.

“Pokimane hasn’t been a Twitch angel either,”...I think the copyright murky behavior that twitch acted on is fine to mention, but would’ve been better off just stated rather than using any transition that implied equivalency

Right, that’s what I’m getting at—though I’d suggest that knowing it’s a gap is a different thing than consuming culture/media withoutthat awareness, which I’d also suggest is a vital way to look at a global product like Genshin Impact.

That’s part of it, yes, but I think there’s more going on too. People talk about corporate cash grabs all time, but we don’t associate it with “America” the same way. Why is it weird to expect a well-resourced product from the second largest economy in the world to be good? Any number of American produced games have…

After authoritarian governments, I always associate Beijing with duck! Anyway, as an Asian American (of Chinese descent), my relationship with Chinese opera is quite different and less fraught, so it’s very interesting to read of it here. I think at the very least it’s a way of seeing the relationship between…

As someone who’s watched and rewatched the show, I pretty much agree. There’s certainly a more to the show, but it’s baseline was always cool guy with a hat and maybe I wore out it’s effects in my rewatches.

Brian Cox is a great interview, isn’t he?

Whatever is going on with this lead photo—it looks like cgi to me. Like a Last of Us screenshot.