That reminds me of a very frustrating thing with all the ownership changes. They released the Arcade Stick Pro a few years ago, and gradually unlocked a bunch of hidden games on it, with hints that in the future there would be collections you could legally buy to add to it. But then nothing.

Thankfully it was easy…

I’m inclined to believe that while he’s a horrible murderous despotic dictator, he might just be a Newcastle fan and so goddamn rich he can buy it on a whim.

But you know, he could be also trying to throw in some image and/or money laundering possibilities in there too, sure.

Lots of Substacks and Patreons.

With their own launcher they can push EA Play and EA Play Plus subscriptions. Although they do offer Play through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate as well, so maybe they could work out a way to integrate Play into other launchers. But losing 20-30% of subscription revenue might hurt more than 20-30% on an individual game.

As…

EA Desktop is replacing Origin. They currently coexist together badly (I keep having to kill one to launch the other depending on the game), but eventually it will just be EA Desktop. Given that Origin and its helper apps show as a 32bit in Task Manager, my guess is that they decided it would be easier to start over…

It goes back a long time. Gene Roddenberry’s show before Star Trek (“The Lieutenant”, starring Gary Lockwood, aka 2001's Frank Poole / 2nd TOS pilot guest star) was originally shot at the Marine base at Camp Pendelton, but they lost access after shooting an episode (which never aired) where a racist Marine (a young…

IIRC, it’s five with Jonah, five with Emily, two with Joel, and the Christmas finale with all three of them.

They’ve started adding the occasional bigger title that you redeem through other storefronts. In October for example, they had “Star Wars: Squadrons” through Origin and “Alien: Isolation” through Epic.

A “blank” is just a cartridge with a crimped end or wax tip or some other non-bullet at the tip. Even an actual blank with a crimped end can kill. Several articles have mentioned an incident in 1984 where an actor picked up a prop gun with blanks and jokingly played Russian roulette and killed himself because the…

Perhaps who the walrus might be?

In the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide there’s a section something like “Most Obscure Riffs” and it explains that all the “Circle Pines” stuff was Mary Jo.

Slightly off topic, but my favorite of the obscure riffs is “Get her! She stole Mike’s keyboard”, which seems like a complete non sequitur in whatever movie, but…

If you watch his YouTube videos Alton Brown makes with his wife where they make dinner on Tuesdays, it seems like he knows he can be a dick and he’s generally trying not be as much of one, but fails sometimes. Not as sure that Flay is even aware or cares.

Her (correct) claim is that many people who see the gif think it’s Jennifer Lawrence. I don’t believe she’s making a claim that she herself thinks she looks like Jennifer Lawrence. She looks enough like her that combined with gif quality and the performative, fake spit take (which as others have pointed seems like…

I will say that the Big Finish 6th Doctor stories point strongly toward “Yes, Colin Baker could have done a good job, etc.”

Torchwood is rough fucking going at first. It starts out really bad. By season two it finds its feet a bit more. S3 is quite good. I never watched S4 though, because it got pretty bad reviews and I no longer had cable at that point. Looking over the list of episodes I do notice that some of the absolute worst episodes…

It would be way too much work (from Konami’s perspective) to make it 16:9 instead of 3:2 with pillarboxes. There have been labor of love ROM hacks of older games to be widescreen, but the game logic in the original ROM is only going to calculate information about sprites that are visible in that 240x160 window. If you…

Puffin Rock is just such a nice, calming show. When he starts an episode with “It’s a beautiful day here at Puffin Rock”, you just want to snuggle under a blanket and enjoy whatever low stakes adventure they’re going to get up to while listening to O’Dowd’s narration.

Naruhodo is Japanese for “Indeed” or “I see”, so excellent name for the student detective.

Janeway was such a poorly written character and I don’t feel like Mulgrew’s performance got past the writing. Seven was added at beginning of season four, and while the producers brought Jeri Ryan on as a sexpot for them to drool at, she turned out to be one of the better actors on the show and had really good…

The snark would need to be pointless and just for its own sake to be truly in character for Barsanti.