Recent content by Wombat

I would hesitate to compare any number from The Before Times (before covid, streaming, and strikes) with modern releases. In your specific case, it looks like Pirates 5 made just about as much in China as it did in the US. That is very much not the current trend for China - their movie industry...

The numbers I have seen suggest that barely 20% of players even do Normal raids, with higher difficulties an even smaller percentage, even after 20 years of players self-selecting to play the game via subscriptions. Spending a large percentage of your development time on something the vast...

Did you get that in the green pools up north? Other than Blood Seekers, none of the other Midnight fishing triggers (treasure chests, pools, etc) fire for me up there, even with a blue rod with perception enchant.

Apparently Jack 2 married Neuman last weekend, meaning one of the last thing he did as a bachelor was visit RLM. Man has his priorities in order.

Just a reminder, the Rams barely lost to the Seahakws in the NFC Championship, and probably would have crushed the Patriots in the SB. Would McVay and Stafford like another weapon (though how many rookies are that signficant) so they can win another SB and Stafford can retire off to the sunset...

Are we (as in football fans) really going to throw another tizzy about drafting an heir apparent QB with how the Falcons experience* turned out? Especially when Stafford is older than Cousins? *Penix isn't particularly good and so far not worth the draft spot, but that's different from saying...

I guess I just assume Glenn will be fired before November, and the current assistants take over, but yeah, you're not wrong, the two of them (Jets / Cards) should go down to the wire.

So are we all in agreement that the Cards are getting the #1 pick next year?

I think everyone involved is being very honest: Marvel finally realized how badly stomped their Golden Goose now was. We all know the laundry list of issues that led to that point (Covid and the strikes breaking attendance habits, quick streaming service launches meaning there was little point...

You posted that roughly the minute it went up. Also, the opening shot is the flooded VCR repair shop, but the entire episode is Mr Plinkett's House. Boy, i really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Moranis also hasn't been in anything beyond a couple small animated voice bits in thirty years, he's probably entirely unfamiliar with the modern media/press circuit. Hell, who knows if his movies from the nineties even had press tours.

Keep in mind parent company Disney still owns Industrial Light & Magic, this was a separate group fired up to bolster Marvel's FX resources as the number of Marvel projects increased - and theatrical releases were still farmed out between a ton of effects houses. This doesn't particularly...

One of the weirdest bits of Justin Roiland's videogame High on Life was in it a theater shows the entirety of the movie Demon Wind with the guys commenting over it. When High on Life 2 came out, I didn't hear anything about the guys being in it, and figured they weren't in it due to the Roiland...

Historically, that's how network TV worked - at most you had one big name with a bunch of nobodies, because a lot of shows failed even with limited cast costs. Everyone but the star would be paid peanuts, at least until season 3 started, at which point season 4 was all but guaranteed, even if...

Historically, TV actors would push for (or even have negotiated) pay bumps 3/4 seasons in, as back in the syndication days, a show surviving that long would be in the black up to that point once those syndication deals were included. So networks (or streamers) have every incentive to film ~15...