Yeah that is Universal’s line on the subject. And to some extent the phrase “cinematic universe” rolls out of criticism/fan writing on the subject of horror series. Especially Universal.

Corporate giants, even consolidated ones aren’t neccisarily a problem. It’s that there are so few of them. And that they closely coordinate. And that they’re fundamentally vertically integrated. In movies to the point that they largely control everything down to the theaters. 

Well the other likely outcome long term is Sony dumps it’s movie studio and Disney buys the fuck out of it to get those rights back.

was around the time that Sony and Marvel announced that the Spider-man deal was done and that they would be parting ways.

Rotten Tomatoes audience scores aren’t exactly useful these days. There’s so much review bombing going on, and just like any kind of online review manipulation can be bought.

It’s actually largely down to British and Irish actors often being significantly cheaper. Owing to different Unions, and the complexities of contracts and rules, the smaller and less moneyed UK job market, and the quirks of working internationally. A US studio can pay a British or Irish actor significantly less than…

Yeah which is something you do anyway to limit gluten. You add an overnight rest and another stage of mixing your right back there.

Many quick bread already start with lower gluten flour. Non gluten flours tend to inhibit raising and produce a far denser product to begin with.

Over mixing a quick bread will make it tough, by over developing gluten. That can also heavily limit the rise, so you end up with dense wonky muffins.

The big secret is with the way modern POS systems work, they’re probably running one big check and splitting it afterwards.

Yup. With modern POS systems splitting bills is ridiculously easy. There’s a big button that says “split”.

Like I said. Too much in the throat. Over pronounces the Rs.

YUP. Too late to fix it now. 

I wouldn’t call it garbage. It’s just a very common, probably over used take on an American accent.

He doesn’t really talk to his mom. He talks into a phone. The first time it’s even made explicitly clear he’s leaving a message.

There’s no indication there’s another person on the other end, let alone a “Stephen’s mom” that exists as a character. So far.

I think your option 2 is likely the answer.

At least in terms of video it’s absolutely compressed. Seems like Bink video is the most common system/codec used. There are certainly some codecs that would output smaller files. But I’ve worked with minimally compressed high res video as directly output by professional cameras before.

It can be a gig or two per…

Apparently some their biggest sales falls have come in super markets. By me lately they’ve on been on closeout/deep discount. Back in my home town most supermarkets stopped carrying them over a year ago. Though you do see some frozen stuff mixed with the other vegetarian options. The default Morningstar veggie…

don’t offer a clear nutritional/caloric advantage.

You’re over thinking it. They launched this after the fake meat trend peaked. Sales across the category fell last year, think it was like 6% across the industry. And they’re already down another half a percent in the first quarter of 2022.

I dunno man. I smell a moving goal post. Suddenly “not very political” means it has politics you don’t agree with. Or that it has politics but disingenuously.