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Male fertility declines far slower than female fertility, and a male looking for a mate, regardless of his age, should want to maximize his number of possible offspring by prioritizing more fertile (aka younger) females. Note however that male sperm quality decreases with age as well (not...

Obsession also beat out M&G for Thursday. M&G is just a pile of contradictions - a kids movie that's too violent for most kids, a streaming property Disney wants people to pay theatrical charges for, and a theatrical release that currently doesn't tie into any theatrical releases, past or...

Yes, box office predictions are based on advance ticket sales. For _most_ genres, those predictions are accurate enough (it's very unlikely to do double or half the predicated range)... for the opening weekend. Overall box office can vary signifiicantly depending on quality, public buzz, and...

Eh, it's the Summer (Movie Season) of Our Discontent. Mando and Supergirl don't seem to be anything beyond IP +1, and the more The Odyssey gets discussed, the less people want to hear about it. If Spider-Man sucks it'll be a long haul to see if Villeneuve wraps up Dune 3 cleanly and Doomsday...

Can take the player out of the Raiders, but not the Raiders out of the player? Wayne Brady-ing certainly doesn't sound good, but we've seen similar domestic disturbances poof when the misses doesn't press charges

You're forgetting that M&G (probably) did slightly worse than Solo even without adjusting for inflation, although it is worth reiterating that Solo had Deadpool 2 to deal with (Infinity War had already been out for a month and was a non-factor). Week two of Deadpool 2 was much stronger...

Bungie would sell to Sony because Sony was willing to pay far too much because either Sony's executives thought they were behind the ball on live service games or Sony's board thought they were behind the ball on live service games, or Sony's excuse to their board for some quarter was that Sony...

Didn't Renegades come out 6 months ago? So either: 'Almost all' of Bungie didn't notice that they had zero major D2 projects in the works, even after Marathon came out, or far more likely: Daddy Sony said "We'll let you live as something like 50% of your current size for another 12-24 months...

There was little Bungie could do about the PS4 era hard drives being so tiny. In retrospect, Beyond Light and after should have been Destiny 3, available only for PS5-era systems, with some seasonal passes stretching out D2. Portray zombie-D2 as being a Vex simulation with the real world being...

The ending was deeply mediocre, bordering on sucking, with limited scale, nonsensical motivations, and terrible blocking / action, but it wasn't in the GOT tier. Frankly, my biggest problem was it made Seasons 4 and 5 even worse, as giant chunks of their runtime did not matter (e.g. V1). All...

It seems like every team has a tough schedule. Part of it is there are few terrible divisions - you might like seeing the Cardinals on your schedule, but you won't like seeing the 49ers, Rams, or Seahawks on it. Even getting the Jets and Dolphins also means getting the Pats and Bills. There's...

Reviews seem to be that it is mostly okay, and feels exactly like what we expected - that a 3 episode Season 4 arc and its wrapup in the season finale was converted to a movie, and is more aimed at kids, than as an actual action movie for adults.

Not sure the Charger's best idea was bringing up the Patriots' cupcake 2025 schedule given how the Chargers / Patriots playoff game went, but... Not a lot of new material in but it is nice to be reminded of when The SImpsons were good - though the best joke was them referencing their yanked...

I sure the hell hope we have a bye or at least Thursday game before, because a Wednesday game with a team traveling half the continent is bullshit.

The book goes into all of this, but: Only 1 in 7000 people can survive the book coma; Grace happens to be one of them. Book Grace is the one doing all the testing of their scientific equipment, and thus is familiar with everything*. When the accident happens, the book Hail Mary is in an unstable...