“A day will be coming soon when a major content provider will invalidate licensing for all of our digital purchases.”

I would guess the Netflix version will probably stay up, though, since it was produced for them specifically? Or is that going away, too?

Just add a provision to copyright law saying that if an IP holder stops distributing something for which they own the copyright, that thing becomes semi-public domain and anyone can distribute it with no legal consequences up until it gets official distribution again. That would both encourage the IP holder to keep it…

Same. Though they’ve been slowly making it worse for a while now as they keep removing features. The best thing about it was that it had everything in one place.

If it does a good job of being vague and nonsensical in an interesting way, does it really matter? I love those kinds of things regardless of how much they make sense in the end because they feel so much more unique than most things that get made. I still haven’t seen Westworld, but the second season of Legion is my…

They also make it incredibly easy to push a particular narrative. That doesn’t really apply much in this particular case, but I see things all the time where sites cherry-pick tweets to make it look like there’s some kind of consensus when there definitely isn’t or even when whatever view they’re pushing is actually…

It’s probably just some kind of subconscious thing because Pixar has never done a fantasy movie other than Brave and never done humanoid characters who weren’t humans or toy versions of humans (unless you count Inside Out), while DreamWorks has done things like How to Train Your Dragon and Trollhunters. The actual…

I agree with that assessment of Bright, but this already looks more promising than that in terms of worldbuilding just from the trailer.

Huh. So that episode of Young Sheldon was basically based on a true story.

Wait, really? Is that all that’s actually happening here, then? Are they just going to become Epic store exclusives or something?

“I mean, if you’ve already bought the games you can still download and play them.”

This. I’ll never understand why there isn’t a countermovement to increase sexualization of men to match that of women instead of pushing to get rid of it completely.

Well, it’s technically the third season if you’re only talking Netflix Original seasons. Not sure if that’s what they meant or not, but it could make sense.

Wow, this is a great month for anime. Neon Genesis Evangelion, A Silent Voice, Anohana, and new seasons of Kakegurui and Aggretsuko all in the same month!

While there are multiple versions of a few episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, it’s only one series. The other two things are movies.

“However, remember that is live on, and I would assume it’s not a fantastic living either.”

True, but they were still involved with the development of those games then. Probably the best case here is Rocket League. Since Epic owns it now and are presumably going to continue development on it, it would be more excusable for them to make it exclusive going forward.

“So when Sony bags a sick exclusive everyone applauds”

I agree with everything you’ve said here, but it doesn’t really change anything. My main argument is that Steam isn’t “anti-consumer,” but manufactured exclusivity is.(Arguably, exclusivity in general is, but it’s more excusable when the company itself owns and was involved in the production of the product.) If…

I agree to some extent, but I’d also say that nothing about a monopoly makes it *inherently* anti-consumer. It certainly holds a risk of becoming anti-consumer, but it can be pro-consumer under the right circumstances. Having everything in one place and for a low price is pretty much the ideal from a consumer…