Zaslov is tracking one thing: ROI. Agree it’s all widgets and numbers to him. All he’s going to care about is how much those widgets cost to make, how much $$$ they brought in, and the delta between the two.

I’m not talking about movies as “high art,” dude. I’m talking about movies as things people like to watch. That’s why I mentioned Dark Knight, one of the most popular movies of the 2000s, as well as Citizen Kane (a “classic movie,” but not the greatest film of all time). This is an alien concept to Zaslav.

I know striking writers and actors have said not to cancel subscriptions but I spiked Max because that thing was a piece of absolute dogshit.

It’s the classic short-term corporate greed argument. “We’ve saved millions by laying off our R&D department!”

Oh, it still hurts. They just won’t admit it until they legally have to.

Just thinking about the movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s comparison of Zaslav to a surgeon who saws off a healthy limb and calls it a successful operation because the patient’s BMI has been greatly reduced.

They Co produced Barbie.   Q3 is probably gonna be ok.

I mean, this basically just means they’re not producing films, right?

So they have $100 million they’re not spending making the thing they sell.

“So, great news - for Q2 we’re up $100 million because we haven’t had to pay anyone!”

I’m... guessing they’re talking about the source code files that would need to be reworked a bit for compatibility with modern systems? Because Activision keeps copies of their releases, they had a whole process for it back when I worked there (which was in the late 00's, before either of these games got released).

I was actually a little surprised not to see him in the trailer. Maybe they’re keeping him a surprise?

People are really bad with understanding science :(

Yeah it was actually the most tested vaccine in history. We have fallen a long ways after people pounding on doors to get their kids the vaccine for polio

This “the vaccine was a rush job” shit is so tired. The vaccine is almost 20 years old. It was originally developed back in 2007 for SARS, which came out of China in 2002 (called SARS-CoV-1, if that sounds familiar, COVID is SARS-CoV-2). Since contagious people were symptomatic, it was easier to quarantine people at…

1) Tucker is a White Supremist, I wonder if they talked about that. 

my hot take is that the witcher should have been medieval, adult Supernatural, with a tad of game of thrones seasoning later. instead, they chose to be all game of thrones, but bad

They built something that lets you determine your level of investment. That includes putting the theoretical ceiling very very high up for the people who enjoy going there. They also have a lot of natural break points for people who don’t enjoy going that hard. This sounds more like a self-control/neurosis thing than…

It’s good they’re advocating responsible play, but also a little silly that the people who designed a mouse trap are telling the mice “just don’t eat the cheese, bro.” That’s the thing you built, my dudes. You deliberately designed a thing to keep people playing for as long as humanly possible.

Everyone seems to be saying “after Covid” a lot in this article. It’s not over, friends are still getting zapped by it, ending in the Hospital. This has super-spreader all over it.

Single studio that makes a single game vs merger of two very large publishers. There’s not really any real antitrust concern around Sony owning Bungie, any more than there was when Microsoft acquired Obsidian or Double Fine.