There’s nothing incompatible between Phil’s statement and Microsoft’s statement though. The latter only says that 12 months after being added to GamePass there’s an unstated percent decline in base sales. If there’s an increase in base sales in, for example, the first three months, then Phil’s statement is also true.

The CMA is straight up, perhaps intentionally, misreading Microsoft’s transparent data.

Tambor was a major asshole to Jessica Walter, for sure—she said as much in that cast interview with NYT: “In like almost 60 years of working, I’ve never had anybody yell at me like that on a set”, but she later said that Tambor apologized and she forgave him for it: “I respect him as an actor. We’ve known each other…

Real Janine vibes from the actress in the commercial.

Not deep enough of cut

Still not sold on the voice of Mario but the producers have shown they obviously have a deep respect for the source material.

The woman reading the ad card is the original voice actress for princess toadstool from the show as well

That’s probably the best piece of movie advertising I’ve seen in a very long time.

The models are more detailed than what they do in the games.

I think that’s a lot of it.  A lot of these dudes did not, to put it mildly, make much money on their output, and had to tour constantly if they wanted to make any money on their material.  Life on the road is a grind, healthcare in the US is a joke if you’re not rich (and sometimes even then), and a lot of stuff that…

Goddamnit. Bad enough that he joins the now disturbingly long list of hip-hop pioneers to die in their early 50s, but going just before they were finally able to see streaming revenue from their back catalog is insult on top of injury.

They’re ready to believe you!

I hope there is another commercial where Mario is dressed up as a doctor while trying to determine the aliment of a sink or toilet - to homage to Dr. Mario.

By not having free streams of their shows, NBC has pretty much guaranteed that most people will never see them. Someday, I’ll pay for a month or two to watch some of their exclusives, but I really don’t see paying year-round for Night Court or Saturday Night Live. The latter of which I used to sometimes stream on Hulu…

The real tragedy is for all of us, not being able to see the timeline where Eleanor and Tahani were soulmates.

She has to either see it herself to do anything about it or else be like “hey, can you look at all these videos of me getting blasted in the face by ten guys?” to someone else. Obviously she isn’t sitting there being forced to stare at it for the full length of the video, but she’s going to see something, even if just…

Deepfake shit really needs to be legislated around. That’s functionally identity theft at the very least when using real people, in addition to being kinda super really fucked up.

This is partly why we talk about sexual violence being about power, not sex.

I mean, this is every industry. Unfortunately.

I think a voice actor trying to screw kids is justifiable outrage. I don’t know what a fujoshi is.