Holy crap someone else who actually remembers the days where people were mad that Valve were the arbiters of what got released on PC.

there used to be something like that...but people complained about Valve “Gatekeeping”...so they changed it to $100 and you can put up your game.

I think it’s clear they planned to dump it and run with whatever they got. You don’t drop everything a few days after release if it was a lack of funds, you can’t launch a game if you’re that close to bankruptcy. It might not have started as a scam, but that’s what it became.

It was often the most wishlisted game on Steam for much of 2023. A lot of people thought a no-name development team could build a AAA open world MMO.  It didn’t help that the dev team CLEARLY LIED about what features would be in the game.

Never heard of any of this but wow. What makes it so hilarious is books do not really compete with each other. Its not like people are going “I can read Book A but that means I can never ever read Book B”. So begs the question - what did she think she would accomplish here?

Christ that is incredibly.......petty by that author. Like amazingly.

Just picked up Tucker Carlson’s latest, “The Bill of Rights Is For Gay Losers.”

Congrats to Corrain on her new career ghostwriting books for conservative politicians that are bulk-purchased by super-PACs.

That entire paragraph is textbook “every Republican accusation is a confession.”

This is a fact asserted by Tucker Carlson in a court of law.

News-focused streaming services have not historically worked, as CNN+ failed after just one month in 2022. Carlson’s streaming service also features interviews with right-wing stars like Javier Milei, Andrew Tate, and Donald Trump. One episode of “TC Shorts” on the platform features a drive through South Central LA…

The gang reinvents a patreon page, but worse.

“the sworn enemies of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink,” built to combat traditional journalists who, allegedly, “hate the truth.”

So you want money because they stole your likeness, the likeness you stole from a movie.... >.>

So does “technological limitations” mean that Musk just fired staff that would have implemented this type of thing? Seems like a pretty big blow to a company that wants to fashion itself into “the everything app” if it can’t develop a pretty straightforward streaming platform for one of its biggest “gets”.

Casablanca used people with Dwarfism in the last scenes so they could use a scale model of the plane Ilsa and Viktor leave on instead of a full sized one.

And you save fabric because their pants aren’t so long. 

Yeah, that was stupid of me, it was Scott not Cameron.  Fixed!

Short extras don’t eat as much from craft services - this is a no brainer.

Scott did the same thing on Alien. From Wiki: