I’ve never watched a single episode of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show. I have no plans to end my streak, regardless of his decision to retire or not.

I’ve been a subscriber since the near-start as well. I’ve always gotten my value from the “free” games on now-Essential every year, when considering MSRP. But I’m not the kind of person who buys a game I don’t have time to play, like so many gamers who are terminally online seem to be. So there’s plenty of games that…

Sony has never been run as a public service. They have always been greedy. It’s just that the greed used to come from the health of the company. Now it comes from the expectations of investors, who expect impossible things.

In a vaccum, yes. In reality, no. with a 25-35% price increase, they just need to lose no more than 1 in 5 customers to this move to have it work out. And they won’t lose 20% more customers than they would to churn anyway, because the vast majority of their customers are just gonna pay what the service costs if they…

Sony’s not like Uber, they’re not losing billions to try to control an industry. (That’s Microsoft’s strategy, which still hasn’t worked.) They’re doing this move because it’ll increase their balance sheet, which will make their investors happy. Doesn’t mean they’re actually losing any money now, but they think they…

The costs don’t matter. These decisions are based on market research of how much more profit they’ll make from the price bump vs. how many customers they’ll lose from the price bump, plus the bad PR that comes with the move. Their market research team said that it was a net positive, so they do it. The “so we can…

They won’t be in a market position to “come for you.” They’re losing almost as badly as they did last gen despite GamePass. They were hoping to leverage into annual price increases like Netflix but they’re not popular enough to do the Netflix model, they’re more like Peacock or Paramount+. They’ll raise prices because…

Game Pass isn’t comparable to PS Plus Essential. It’s comparable to PS Plus Premium. Which costs less.

So, fuck Microsoft since Xbox Live was the genesis of that model?

I mean, she’s just a teenager. She can’t possibly be expected to—

Would be a hell of a year for J.B., what with his daughter (who works at one of his companies) on track to win or come in second on Claim to Fame!

Nobody’s had any creative involvement with Family Guy, because Family Guy is not creative.

I actually preferred last season to season 5 but the show is already hitting double-digit Simpsons seasons in terms of “still funny but the magic is absolutely gone.” The core fanbase is still one of the most obnoxious out there, both the creators are problematic (shocked Dan Harmon seems to be the SMALLER asshole of…

If you have self-control, free-to-play gatcha games are literally just free-to-play games (that you will abandon once you finish all the initial content and realize the content drip and daily grind is simply not fun because even the best ones’ gameplay loops become tedious incredibly fast). If you don’t have…

That’s absolutely it. Marketing made this image, not anyone involved with the actual production of the show, and marketing is one of the most bullshit-infected realms of the entertainment industry. Laziness and fuckery are endemic there.

Joy definitely didn’t write the message in lipstick. Ben wrote it to himself after he ate a bunch of cookies. (Joy just helped him cover his red spot cause she’s a make-up artist.) He’s also definitely talking to the cookies in the video from a previous episode. He passed out / “died” because he never eats sugar due…

“elicit” is a verb that means to draw out or call forth

Fairly certain Musk’s increased use of ketamine is literally just to keep his mouth loose.

Ah yes, the problem with the Democrat Party is definitely their inability to reach stupid people who benefit from their policies, not that they are centrist corporatists who have to be dragged into the future by progressives who have no other place to do the only work that has improved the American project in any…

Except those movies were profitable initially. That’s also not the kind of comedy Devine is talking about here. He’s talking about comedic premise films, not parody movies. Even action comedies—specifically comedies with action, rather than action movies with comedy—have gone streaming. And it’s not about quality,…