Fair enough. I’m not in the U.S., either (I’m in Canada), and I have seen things come to Canada with a delay before (e.g. some of the BBC exports). From what I’ve seen that’s become more uncommon in recent years, likely because of pirating. But I can believe it still happens in smaller markets, where negotiating…

Rest assured that HBO has licensed the show to someone in all those countries. China might be a significant exception, just because of regulations restricting foreign content, but certainly every country in Europe and the Americas with a population of more than a dozen people has some way to watch Game of Thrones…

For sure HBO would like to convert more of those pirates to subscribers, but the cultural relevance of GOT owes a huge debt to the illegal views. Sam surmises that it was so popular that people had to download it illegally, but the opposite is at least true: it’s so popular because so many people download it illegally…

You do have to participate in discussions from within the article (unlike with Disqus - though that also meant the AV Club wasn’t earning any ad revenue from the conversation you had off the site, so I’m not surprised that’s no longer an option), but when I click on notifications it does hop me straight to the…

When creatively bankrupt directors/show-runners somehow keep getting awarded high profile jobs involving beloved IP, you can usually assume it’s because they’re good at getting things done on time and within budget (see: Akiva Goldsman, the infamously incompetent writer/producer who was brought in on Discovery after…

The dynamics of the industry are pretty fascinating, and there are definitely going to be some entrants that fall flat on their face.

I think there’s a lot of people who are totally comfortable with the idea of having multiple streaming subscriptions. If you think of them like add-on cable packages, they’re actually…

And that was a question that they asked everybody for a year! Not just some goofy gag question planted by a single interviewee.

I haven’t read one of these interviews in a while, but this is only time I’ve read one and not cringed at the stupidity of any of the questions - I even thought Savage’s question was funny,…

I don’t think it’s ironic or unironic, it just is. It’s up to the league to decide the name and branding of its own event. Each Superbowl is its own trademark. Superbowl 50 didn’t use roman numerals (it was just branded as “Superbowl 50"), because the marketing department figured out that nobody would recognize…

I think theory 1 is the closest, and that theories 2 or 3 give Trump too much credit. Trump is obsessed with his media coverage, and — despite what he says about being the most successful greatestest president ever — knows that his brand has taken a hit because of his inability (as the leader of a party that controls…

The comment system is tied into their ad revenue system. Disqus was integrated with its own ad system, and Disqus was presumably taking a huge cut of the ad revenue. And you could respond to a Disqus comment on Disqus’s website, without even opening the associated AV Club page (that was actually the default option…

If that’s true, then I’m not even mad, that’s amazing. The pseudonym was deftly deployed on only the shittiest work product.

I think I posted a comment insulting Blevins on pretty much every article of his that I read. Though there might have been one where I expressed dismay that “This was written by Blevins? I would have never guessed, because it’s not terrible!”. When I saw some new names start popping up on GJI articles (I think…

I thought Burn Notice was a good show. Certainly by USA standards. He put on a lot of different characters in the show (for various spy gags), and it gave him a chance to showcase some range. It seemed like he relished those opportunities, and usually did a pretty good job with them.

...And Gareth Edwards to direct Rogue One (which had an ending that was more ambitious than even he thought he’d get away with), and Rian Johnson for Ep. 8 (who directed the ambitious Looper, and the “Fly” episode of Breaking Bad, which had an extremely ambitious bottle-episode premise). Ep. 7 was pretty vanilla…

I realize now that you were actually very clear about that first time, but Kinja won’t let me go back and edit my comment to make myself appear less stupid.

Composite won’t necessarily output to RCA. Both have the same L/R (white/red) audio output, but component has three video cables (RGB) whereas RCA just has one composite video cable (yellow). The 360 had all four outputs (RGB and a yellow composite), so you could use either . I don’t recall whether that was standard…

I haven’t had that many to sort through, but I think a trick is to look for clusters with the same timestamp. That’s a red flag that they’ve been ported over as part of a batch.

Your right, the Wii, should work too (again, assuming it’s still supported by Netflix, but given the huge install base, I assume it is). I can vouch for the 360 output format. So it actually would be pretty straightforward to watch Stranger Things on old school TV, if you could find one. With the RCA/coax converter…

It seems like its porting over sluggishly, in waves. I’d hate to be one of the more prolific commenters that must be getting swamped with outdated notifications.

I do remember the spot.IT debacle, although I didn’t actually witness the demo - just the aftermath after it failed catastrophically. I went on record at one…

I see somebody had some free time over the long weekend.