Any sale of the network would probably come with stipulations regarding rights to their most valuable properties moving forward, even if it’s some sort of guaranteed licensing agreement with Warner for X years.

Neptune’s orbit doesn’t intersect Pluto’s. They don’t orbit the same 2D plane.

The panda/raccoon/bear thing is still an unresolved question. It’s not clear which similarities are from convergent evolution versus genetic lineage, especially when considering both giant pandas and red pandas.

You might be misunderstanding how the rights work when it comes to SW properties. Nearly all franchise writing is work-for-hire, with an upfront sum paid to the author. The contract may grant royalties to the author for that specific work, but the author retains no rights to the characters or story.

The question “What is the best Final Fantasy game?” is inherently different than “What is the best game?”

It’s a multiverse. Whatever happened in the Netflix TV version of the timeline could bear any number of similarities with the core canon timeline without necessarily conflicting with it. This is just a different iteration of the characters; maybe things just played out differently for them.

To be fair, the type of NFT that Ubisoft is using is one that doesn’t require the insane power consumption. It’s still dumb, but this particular case is not dumb for environmental reasons (or at least not any more than any other typical internet activity).

The white actors for the NPCs refused to get their COVID shots, so they’ve been replaced by a more inclusive hiring process. 

The religions that would oppose vaccination officially as part of their theology are few and far between.

No, there are actually diseases that make vaccines dangerous. They’re just exceedingly rare:

It’s a fascinating series, particularly the work the artists did to merge the styles of Lucas’ old sketches with the eventual artistic direction of the films.

I mean, it’s a multiverse now. So it can “tie into” the MCU even without explicitly attaching to the “sacred timeline” canon.

The in-game toggle isn’t always all that workable. It shouldn’t be an expectation, though it’s certainly a nice-to-have.

Has the FFP done much to recruit hydroponic tomato farms? The Wendy’s corporate stance is that they aren’t even buying the products covered by the FFP.

So it’s a little different for Islam. The Quran is almost considered a holy object, even moreso than how many Christians see the Bible. It’s a bit more like desecration than just simply a copy of a book being destroyed.

Chat platforms are trying to innovate and move into e-commerce. One of the major platforms in China has bots that can make shopping easier, for instance, at least when you already know what you want to buy.

Because Discord’s current earnings model isn’t profitable enough for its owners, I guess?

Rights issues, I’d imagine.

I mean, deciding what books do and don’t get made already happens at the company, so I’m not sure that’s a valid complaint.

Thanks for the tip on the PRO Act. I’d been out of the loop on that, and it looks like a great law.