Yeah, exactly

Yeah, I’ve been along for the ride this whole time, but I’m at the point right now where I’m just kind of going ... really? We’re doing THIS?

Pip introduces his master as “Starfox” (played by musician/actor Harry Styles)

a few things:

I stopped pirating when Netflix was basically the only streaming service. Then Amazon and Hulu came out which made for some healthy competition for Netflix, I still didn’t find the need to go pirate anything. No everyone and their mother wants to have their own streaming service and pull all of their original content…

When did MacRumors become a well-acknowledged source for measuring levels of video piracy? Call me skeptical but this all sounds suspiciously scapegoatish for the poor subscription numbers on Apple TV+.

Just like video game piracy it is only a symptom of a larger problem in your media paradigm.

While I understand the inclination to go all in on pirates, and they’re certainly within their rights to issue takedowns, I feel like we’re well, well beyond the point where the taken-as-read statement that tv/movie piracy is (actually) hurting profits can be regarded as anything other than a lie.

In theory I should have loved this. In practice, watching it just became a chore and I legit can’t remember if I watched the last episode or not.

That’s just the initial set up process. [And doesn’t really reflect the real process because you’re just looking from the recipient side —- it’s a two sided process.]

‘Zactly. Fuppin’ Apple wants to protect an app that is no longer unique on mobile devices in order to entice users to the iOS platform. It has proven to be malevolent at times as well.

I cannot WAIT to play the inevitable very boring Canto Bight level, which is six hours long and takes up half the game, then tell people I didn’t like it, then have the internet tell me I only didn’t like it because I’m an incel, then have incels I hate defend me, then have my boss read what I’m typing about all day…

Weyland, eh?

Agreed that it COULD have made perfect sense.

I was really against the whole “Bringing Palpatine back” aspect when RoS came out, but looking back, it wasn’t that bad an idea. There is a reason why it’s the first thing Dark Horse did when they got the license in the 90s. It fits the character of Palpatine to have plans to cheat death.

I think it is close to unfilmable, but Chalamet and Zendaya can actually act, so sneering at them and implying they’re “by the numbers” choices seems pretty dim to me.

Japanese company Neurowear is making a new version of its Necomimi headband, a wearable that reads your brain waves to... move robotic cat ears.

George has an endless supply of words like “could.”

I like it better when it’s competition between two brands who are unrelated, like Xbox vs. Skittles, or Star Trek vs. Pepsi, or Apple vs. Pie.

I knew I was missing a big relevant one. But, of course, sports rivalries have existed before that. And rivalries between politicians and countries before that. It’s a tale as old as time, but now with a capitalistic twist. Steve Jobs just did it a lot.