David Zaslav has made hundreds of millions of dollars peddling the absolute lowest-level, lowest-effort shit that he can shovel on whatever networks he happens to control at the time. It may be baffling, but it’s not surprising.

I started watching videos documenting the downfalls of YouTubers/streamers recently, and they’re kind of interesting but they’re often pretty samey. Most of them seem to follow this arc:

For someone like that, “broke boy” means “person who won’t pay the simp surcharge for a product” rather than the dictionary definition.

I haven’t played D&D since 1998 but my daughter wanted to go see it and it looked fun, so we went. It was great! It wasn’t so inside baseball that I felt like I wasn’t getting it. They built the world well, the characters were well drawn and enjoyable, and the story was pleasant, too.

That’s good to know! I’ll keep an eye on license plates before I start emitting hate-ons at them. 😂

The “monkeys and the monolith” thing at a pump is especially egregious at Costco. It’s a very simple process laid out clearly on the pump. Insert your membership card, then your payment, and Bob’s your uncle. And if you have a Costco credit card, you can just use that for both steps! It’s not complicated, and even…

Very good point. I just checked Costco’s site and they have a bundle that includes a PS5 (the original disc version, not the slim), MW3, an extra camo DualSense, and a charging dock for $569.99.

I assumed it was a reference to this:

A Taika Waititi Film™ pissing people off is not a fait accompli; What We Do in the Shadows and Thor: Ragnarok immediately spring to mind.

As I mentioned on another article, Costco and Sam’s often have great deals on Xbox and PSN cards around the holidays. The regular price is $90 for a $100 card, and they’ll knock that down to $80 at various times, including holiday shopping season.

I was thinking the same thing as I typed it. 😂

If it’s better than the soulless husk of Space Jam that LeBron unleashed on us I’ll take that as a win. A small one, sure, but a win.

The console wars have nothing to do with Starfield not being a contender.

Hell, they probably had them printed in advance of the original launch date last year.

This is a question that I genuinely do not have the answer to, but aren’t there remote/ultra-rural areas that don’t have any cell service at all? I’m especially thinking of people doing stuff like hiking or climbing mountains.

The DeLorean would (IMO) be little more than a quirky oddity without Back to the Future, though. The sordid backstory certainly helped its noteworthiness on top of that, but BTTF is what put it in the zeitgeist and kept it there.

If you have a membership at Sam’s or Costco, it’s a great place to get PSN top-up cards. The regular price is $89.99 for a $100 card, and they* usually have sales for $10 off that around the holidays. They run the same deal for Xbox cards as well.

John Owen Jones, a Welsh singer whom I generally love, did a version of “Anthem” from Chess that turns it into an upbeat, patriotic number that seems to entirely miss the point. It’s almost jingoistic starting at around 1:35.

I only use Xbox streaming when I travel, which isn’t often. In practice, it’s just been when I’m visiting my in-laws for an extended period over Christmas. From what I’ve read it should be super simple, I just never got it going. The PS Remote Play workaround seems a lot more convoluted, unfortunately, since you can’t…

And his special power literally being plot armor made it even more groanworthy.