Eh, you don’t need as much backing to get nominating as you need to win. It’s an old topic.

Sure, and I know that the Academy prefers that—I think it’s well executed and fairly predictable? I mean, it’s the Oscars, that’s fine, but I think the parody song and the movie invested more into Ken, the most afterthought part of Barbie as a product so was more interesting and inventive, and, yes, entertaining.

This won over the Ken song?!

“As for what you can do as a consumer, maybe consider not falling for this at some point? See, it’s not just that these companies are milking their users, it’s that they’re just operating on the assumption that they can do it and that they can keep doing it forever.”

They charge people for multiple silmultaneous uses. Maybe this is semantic, but yeah, that is a way to stop sharing passwords.

Why is that more honest? Seems like the only difference is that insults the for pay work. I mean, I don’t think Raimi’s Spider-Man movies are a hidden indie, but she said she’d do things for money, and that’s it.

I don’t actually think it’ll ever be binary. It’ll likely shrink in proportion to what it is now, like how record players are how some consume music, but doesn’t make up most of the music industry. I doubt even that small, but as an example, larger than niche, but not dominant. I guess I just don’t think the…

Hmm. I get that it’s not what you want, but it most certainly will be someday.

Eh, I think corporations have a lot of power, but “they” is overstated here. “They” were clearly reactive to audience and consumer tolerances, as they always are. Different consoles at different price points have been promoted and failed--consumers have always had a hand in creating what is sustainable. Different…

I think this is a big obstacle, but lots of countries have better high-speed internet than we do. It’s not exactly an argument against it that we don’t...especially since that’s an infastructure thing that is going to develop in the direction of more.

But a cloud system would actually be simpler? Assuming you have a robust enough internet connection, it’s going to work. Done. Now, it would cost more over time, probably, but hey, I like it simple isn’t really an assessment of the future being offered.

So this is a trailer for the whole series and not just the first book? Is it like Game of Thrones where the adaptation is named after the most popular first book?

Well, I want to know because I want to know, and so articles can be a little less like press releases, but the reason Netflix is giving more information than ever before (if still pretty opaque) is because the easy investment money era is gone and they need to impress investors, especially since they need to show…

It’s going to be interesting to see how these ideas of gameplay develop at different houses—doubtless with more and more AI. The most successful game worlds are still very sculpted—all the things to find in GTA V, Baldur’s Gate, Cyperpunk, etc have people writing, designing them, but there’s also Far Cry or Dwarf…

Another stat they share now is minutes watched, which again, nice and all, but it’s x seasons of hour long drams vs sitcoms vs short run prestige shows—like do people watch half of NCIS, all of Friends twice, or Breaking Bad 5 times (I did not do the math, just sayin’)

I think it’s a genuine success, so congrats to them, but I also think that stats like ‘ 41.1 million viewers” need to have some context. Is that people who watched the whole series? One episode? Tuned in for two minutes? Different profiles or single account sessions? Netflix is definitely passing along more info than…

I don’t know if it’s good, but since it’s not po-faced earnest “realism” and all “actually all about the mental health system,” they miles above the movie I think.

Although, it strikes me as more self-aware than the mainstream Joker.

Hmm, I don’t like live service games, but being shocked at this is really not grappling with the economics behind big studios and games. Even the Hogwarts example that’s being brought out probably has a licensing chunk caps what they’re making there--and it wasn’t a particularly innovative game either.

I really like Push.