I wish people could do what I started doing a few years ago--try to engage primarily in things you like and don’t waste headspace on things you don’t. I have a friend who posts either directly about or references to how much he hated TLJ. Like, dude, get over it. Meanwhile I haaaated TROS but I mostly put it out of my…

I had my issues with it but I really dug what they were doing. I understand it was on the expensive side, though.

His criticism of the lawsuits seemed to be based not necessarily on how they impact him, per se, but the fact that that there’s only so much money in Rust’s insurance pool and as much of that money as possible should go to Hutchins’ husband and son. And by getting their lawsuits in ahead of the family, there’s the…

Fandom was a mistake.

Keighley’s rubbed me the wrong way going back to his days on G4 but that Activision easily could have been featured in this show goes to the problem of The Game Awards basically being one long infomercial.

I’d be playing the shit out of it if it worked on Mac.

That’s real scummy. On no planet would someone think Take-Two published It Takes Two.

I’d bet money that McEggnog is gonna be Patient Zero.

No outbreaks were traced to Otakon and there were 26,000 people there. But the convention center there was doing a lot of things to prevent the spread. And Ota knows how to do lines.

Counterpoint: Otakon and Awesomecon, the latter of which is run by the same outfit that runs Anime NYC, went off without a hitch. But the Walter E. Washington Convention Center was able to outline a number of specific things they were doing to limit spread.

I was there and I got a PCR test this afternoon. I’m not worried. I’m boosted, I feel great. I’m just pissed off that this nuked my evening plans. I was going to go to DC and see The New Pornographers. Instead, I’m sitting at home and waiting for the test result.

That was absolutely not my intent. What I mean was it’s great to hear but I’d like to know some details of this apparent new deal between Marvel and Sony and the people most able to provide that happen to be at Disney and Sony.

I’m not saying she’s wrong, I’m saying I’d feel more comfortable if we had something more concrete about a new deal between Marvel and Sony. You know, details. So that’s the nuance I’m injecting.

Gene Wilder spoke about his fight to get the dance number in Young Frankenstein. He argued for a long while and Brooks simply relented.

I’m not saying Amy Pascal doesn’t know what she’s talking about but I’d rather hear it from Tom Rothman or Kevin Feige.

That’s like saying BBC World Service or Deutsche Welle are propaganda. RFA. RFE/RL, VOA and the like are funded by the State Department but are generally granted editorial independence. The Trump appointee who led the U.S. Agency for Global Media was a hack, sure, and tried his darndest to gut these agencies and turn…

It was actually Bill Gates that got cold feet. He didn’t think the Dreamcast was a real threat to the PS2. So they licensed Windows CE, yeah, then plowed ahead on Xbox plans. MS also tried to approach Sony about collaborating but they were rebuffed.

Nintendo was confident because they had the IP and experience that Sony didn’t (and Microsoft’s only IP at that point was Clippy). They saw Sega come out with a console using 1GB discs that were easier to pirate than episodes of GOT.

Nintendo has enough in the bank that they could put out the WiiU and survive. Whereas Sega couldn’t swallow the failures of the 32X, Nomad, Saturn and (much as it rocked) Dreamcast and stay in the console business.

Phil Spencer and Peter Moore would’ve done right by Nintendo.