In all fairness, the honey walnut shrimp in question is indeed one of the best things in the world.

Not even a little bit. But my friend’s parents had a Coke machine in their restaurant, and he swore to me that their candied prawns were responsible for the death of John Candy. Does that count?

I think in some ways that’s inevitable.  I look forward to the day the service offers to accept biometric feedback directly from appropriate regions of my brain and/or pelvis.

Let Drew Carey coach a game.

...like a set of balls and chains fastened around his ankles.

Simulating real, believable humans is far, far harder than simulating physics or producing photorealistic graphics. Real and believable AIs must have human-level cognition - they must be able to “understand” the world around them in a way that mimics a real human understanding of its environment - and we’re not there…

Reminds me of a quote from an Iraqi man, interviewed by Vanity Fair once about what he hoped the American legacy would be in his country:

True that.  Pissing off your advertisers should indeed be added to the list.

the odd show in syndication which is so cheap to buy you might as well to fill air time

That’s one way of making a statement.

All business deals in Albuquerque since 2013 begin with the ritual consumption of a token amount of blue meth and end with a prayer for the soul of local businessman Walter White.

Yeah, “difficult to work with” will mess up your contracts too.

+1 Internets

I think that’s astute analysis. And as the world changes, and the boomer generation begins to age out of the market, and millenials become the largest consumer voting bloc - look for a massive orgy of mergers/content acquisitions as the start of a probable massive bidding war as the importance of the cable networks…

Speaking as someone with two parents who provided our livelihood through Hollywood, there are pretty much two reasons in my experience that a show gets cancelled (if anyone else with industry experience can help make a longer list, feel free):

Just remember, Mnuchin foreclosed on his mom’s house under extremely dubious pretenses.

The reason that phrase exists is that sometimes *people*, occasionally kids who worked at turn-of-the-century-era sausage factories, would fall into the hoppers in exhaustion - read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle some time.  And there are some reasonably nasty and brutally rare diseases in humans, often neurological in…

In all fairness, Drake still has 5-10m million albums to go if he wants to catch up to Ice in album sales.

Gamers desperately need to be educated about the industry, and if thinking about the human beings behind their favorite hobby makes them uncomfortable then...I dunno, just deal with it.

Thank you for writing an article that doesn’t just reduce the issue to “crunch is evil” or incitement of pitchforks and torches, Jason - and for discussing the whole notion of voluntary crunch generally, which is indeed a huge part of the issue.  Also, I stay with Gizmodo and the former Gawker sites these days as you…