One of the houses I grew up next to had a verified underground railroad connection. There was a little section of the basement where you could out up a panel and probably stack some stuff in front of it and be pretty hidden. They only needed to use it if law enforcement came by and then only until they left. the…

I suspect that is the sort of realization you have a decade later when you've been in the business side of things long enough to go 'oh shit, that's why they did that- those fuckers!'

Im starting to wonder if his claims of being an ex crack addict may also need to be in quotes

Also ironic given he cites outkast as bringing rap away from drugs and toward art and life. There are a lot of rappers who existed before 1998 who would be very confused by that claim

There’s just nothing in it to reference where it doesnt make more sense to just bring up whatever it was avatar was referencing itself. 

*peels out in his 1997 Tercel*

Make Mads the evil archeologist bad guy and then the big 3rd act twist is that he’s actually just a real archeologist who is fed up with jones grave robbing, destroying actual historical sites and screwing over the natives (and real scientists by association with him.) Then jones can use his tenure and connections to…

That seems at odds with the emergency authorization to use any of these though? Skipping the usual years of research and testing seems like a fine tradeoff under the circumstances and pausing for women also makes sense, but since we already knew this was all at least somewhat of a risk, in the absence of evidence it…

I just dont understand why the universal pause instead of just pausing for women? If a man and a women show up for their appointment and you have a moderna and a j&j, just give the j&j to the man and the moderna to the lady. J&J is still a really small part of the available supply, so we arent currently talking about…

I suspect that the wide range of characters and the multiple angles actually makes it hard to pitch. It lasted so long and involved so many different people and moving parts that I wonder what you focus on and how you make all those parts work into a coherent narrative structure?

The only way I could ‘explain’ what a private company and its investors was basing its valuation on would be if I had insider information, which I do not. Since my speculation is not based on the quarter to quarter profit of the company I doubt you would have much interest in my thoughts on the re-evaluation of…

They make 400 million per month off of fortnite. A 444 million dollar loss lead is paid off a few days into february. Cherry picking profit reports does not reflect company value.

Profits are meaningless for investers looking for growth- revenue is the critical indicator. Amazon didnt make a ‘profit’ for decades, yet they managed to sustain massive growth in their stock, because investors recognized that they were pouring the money they made back into the business.

Profit and revenue arent the same- fortnite is pulling in ~400 million per month (the company as a whole is pulling in billions of dollars per year.) They’re just pouring it back into things like the EGS, looking to make it a juggernaut.

‘A bubble is when a company owns the most popular entertainment thing on earth in the largest sector of the entertainment business on earth while also owning the technology that underpins a significant portion of the rest of that industry, as well as their own storefront that they’ve brought 10s of millions of…

I had no idea my 70 year old dad was writing articles on video games now

This review praising a chinese helmed project for absolute shameless theft of ideas would be some really next level trolling if the author had actually done it on purpose

I suspect people might start taking chinese blockbusters more seriously when they dont resemble something the asylum would make?

I think the van Gogh’s they bought from that nice, blond, blue eyed fella with the funny accent in bueno aires might get wet in a car wash?

Hey now, chinese generals, african warlords and arab princess on the outs all need places to launder their money. If not empty luxury apartments stuffed full of stolen art, where else would they go?