Well, hey, it’s better than videogame companies like Microsoft and EA where they buy up creative talent (smaller studios) and then either close them down and fire everyone or best case scenario assign it to hacky bullshit that they never would have done when they were independent.

I think that all the time with criminal cases! “You could’ve walked away unscathed, but nooo. You got greedy.”

I also didn’t realize his bribes were from a guy trying to corner the New York Halal meat industry.  Just the chef’s kiss on the whole thing.

I still have that “final” VHS set before Lucas stared fucking with everything.  There’s a teaser at the front about seeing the movies in their original form “one last time.” Which seemed like marketing hyperbole at the time, as opposed to a legitimate threat.

I'm gonna got get the papers 

“I says to Taylor, I says, ‘You gotta’ have the scripts.’ You’ve got to have the scripts.”

It sucks that it’s running on iPadOS and not MacOS. The hardware is amazing but the Operating System leaves little to be impresses with.

I think the way the CGI effects have aged also has a lot to do with poor mastering decisions that for some reasons plagues this series in particular. For example, when the OT was released on (I believe) DVD, a warm tint was introduced that turned a lot of people off because the lightsaber colors didn’t look right…

Whether you are at a dumb ceremony has absolutely zero to do with whether or not you get your degree. Most of the time you don’t even get your actual degree (which, in reality, is still just a piece of paper, the actual proof that you got a degree is with the registrar) during overblown graduation ceremonies, it gets…

Right because otherwise all graduation events are 100% legally binding and if you miss them you have to do college again.

He was also playing two different iterations of the same character, and managed to nail both of them. Going to show what a great actor he is.

Hopefully he’s not ignored come awards season, he was absolutely the best part of an amazing show. My expectations as a fan of the games were literally ‘don’t faceplant’ and they wildly exceeded what I thought was possible.

All protest is, in some sense, a performance. What a weird and unnecessary observation.

Loved the podrace as a kid and frankly, I think it still slaps today. It bewilders me that we only got one video game sequel to Episode I Racer.

Hell always be that clown-lookin’ demon from “Spawn” to me.

$20M would be eight figures, not seven. That doesn't change your point or his.

I’m on Bluesky and I find it underwhelming and rarely use it. That said, I think one big reason why Jack is turning on Bluesky is because the the app has become the choice for progressive intellectuals, artists, and pro-science users (i.e., not anti-vax). This must really annoy Jack and I’m all for it.

Dorsey’s opposition to moderation is straight up idiotic. Nobody wants to be in a community without any sort of moderation, or at least nobody else wants to be in a community with the people who want that.  Like if a physical store didn’t kick people out for crapping in the aisles, then that would be a store that…

It’s pretty good for news type folks. Lots of the people I use to follow are on there now, both reporters and respected experts. And with Bluesky’s mod tools, they’re much more likely to engage with you if that’s your thing because its easier for them to get rid of trolls.

My PC and network are configured in such a way that I get an alert when a device not on my whitelist connects to my access point. I can immediately block their hardware ID from there. Always fun to hear the cursing from outside.