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You're describing small parts of episodes that were catalysts for future stories. But each episode also had it's own flair that didn't leave you thinking "wow, can't wait to see the conclusion of THIS" but instead said "oh, we're back to this character, good."--It's very different. How many...

I think you're absolutely crazy. There are certain episodes of those shows that are superior but Deadwood is one of those few shows that EVERY episode is great--while it might never hit the highs of those shows, it never hits their lows, either (BB Season 1 or any episode with Skylar in it a...

I'm not a computer guy....but wouldn't it be absolutely trivial to simply associate a sim with a house/job after the first house/job they enter? How does someone even design something like this...it's so sloppy that I have to believe that it wasn't supposed to work this way, but maybe some of...

I love games where you design your own units/ships. Really enjoyed Sword of the Stars--and SoTS2 had some of the best ship design elements I've seen in it, unfortunately the game had a horrible release (Better now, but it literally couldn't be played at release.)....The thing that made SoTS...

It depends by which numbers you go by. "Officially" the NK famine ended in 98 with only 3 million dead. But most believe it actually continued to this day, only lessening during food aid deliveries for a few years. Some estimates I've read put it in the 8-10 million (Something like 30%+ of the...

Well, something to think about. Most cultures on earth, no matter how loyal, indoctrinated or meek, have risen up and torn their leaders throats out when they don't have enough food to feed their children....People can generally endure being shit on in every other way, no home, no job, ect--but...

I could only imagine the trolling....

It does look bad...I figured they fucked the graphics because they were making a really modifiable MMO, like Minecraft-UO, or something where graphics come secondary. But it's not even an MMO, the fuck is this?

So, just was able to start watching this...Is this an MMO? It sounds like one of those quasi-lobby games?

I find your lack of faith disturbing. Watching that video makes me sad. You can SEE from the looks on everyone's face during some of the line readings that they knew it was a train wreck--they knew it. But everyone was scared to talk. So sad, because the overall plot/direction of the prequels...

Man, going the WoW route of forced obsolesce is such a catastrophic mistake that it almost feels like they are trying to fail here. In order to make WoW's paradigm work, you need a lot of content, generated very quickly--even Blizzard hasn't been able to keep up with WoW's model. I think of...

And in 15 years technology obviously hasn't advanced, at all. Our X486 rigs are going to pwn EQN's fucking dynamic ecosystem!

I posted about this earlier, but one of the things WoW lost as it minimized the difficulty in terms of preparing or maximizing "pre combat assets" (Buffs, Group composition or even a plan to clear trash ect) was the ability to tweak difficulty outside of twitch and choreography factors...

I thought this too, but watch the clip where they explain how they constructed the funeral pyre. Some of these locations, given the special effects and control they need, must be crazy, crazy expensive. I

haha, on episode 4, have seen the potential. I know it's pointless to point out plot holes in an action movie. But I laughed at how they had the little guy with glasses on film with Kai chopping up a body, and only arrested Kai--lol.

Nothing has intrinsic value. Everything's value is affected by outside forces (Bottle of water in the desert vs near a clean lake), one of them being perception. Part of the problem of being in an infinite use environment (A place where most goods can be given to everyone) is that it's easy to...

Not that I agree with Tad...But if you don't understand that it's entirely rational for wealth/success/fame to have a good deal of relativity involved, then maybe you should go watch the Incredibles again. This is fair...Time is commodity to, having something first is a huge draw, probably the...

It is..it's really the first shot (Actually TNG kind of was--but not quite.) in this new scenario. Its the first time major investors have undertaken a major studio that was not already green lighted for television or film distribution. Which, from an investment point of view, is a massive...

This is precisely what Google has been pushing on the industry. Yes, you will lose money when your price drops on individual sales...but if you obtains millions of new customers, you come out ahead. The record labels constantly talk about how revenue is falling, yet they fail to mention it's...

And yet there is more money within the industry than there was before (Even adjusted for inflation) AND delivery/production costs are lower. So really the only artists who aren't making money are the ones working for very big labels. Small labels and independent artists are doing better...

Grim mentioned it, but they've straight up said in an interview that they aren't going to follow the linear time line of the books where they don't have to. This season is supposed to represent half the book, but not the "first half" timeline wise. It ALSO sounded like they wanted to do the...

The best part about Dooku was how obvious it was that he was thrown in because George Lucas forgot he needed a mirror for Darth Vader in 2/3, and killed off Maul early. Honestly, what could have saved the prequels is if Maul had killed Quigon and beaten Obi-Wan right there, knocking him down...

If margins are obtained through illegal market practices, then are they not legally relevant? I don't have precise numbers on this industry, but I'll use banking (Because it's more my field.)..>Today the banking industry makes billions off of transactions that were illegal thirty years ago--it's...

I don't think people were pretending it was part of the moral high ground--I, at least, simply don't care. I view it as a thief, stealing from a thief. The bigger thief just happens to the media companies. I DO find it ironic that the same efforts which have kept said media companies in power...

Oh, so government paying for it doesn't change the cost of the calculation? Okay. You make statements like this and want to have a serious argument about the economics of the situation? Come on. This, again, is basic economics. There is a reason why the government builds things like...

Same conclusion behind TV, but worse because of what was mentioned. Without the middleman dictating his cut (Which in entertainment is HUGE) the actual price of profitability is totally dependent on audience. You could potentially have TV programs sell for 1$ an episode, still be *wildly*...

As Ronne is saying, a big part was/is the market for TV is just huge. NOW internet has a reached a penetration point that it's market is wide enough to take the investment horizon of say, a TV show (A "Triple A" show) and make it so you can possibly reach a broad enough market through the...

Think about roads. This is like, basic economics. I'm not sure how you still don't get that the above statement does not cause a conflict, both statements, of a service being free and entry into service being prohibitive, can exist. It's the lighthouse principle, except someone found a way to...

I wish I could find the articles showing the absurd mark up for Bandwidth usage the ISP's get. I think it's something like half a penny a GB and falling year by year as networks improve. The average user is charged a 2000 times mark up. It's enough to make anyone angry. In a normal market there...

It really works both ways. A lot of those media companies, if you go high enough, are owned by the same entities. All the distributors are in an incestuous little circle--and even when they are "competing", they are still colluding to fuck over the end user. This collusion is illegal, of course...

The problem is, information distribution is essentially free. That's the reality these companies are looking to avoid. To distribute information, you pay for bandwith and storage--both are immensely cheap. Your question about charging for distribution is way off the mark. The only thing that...

It's very unusual if there is a demand that justifies a profit. Your post is attempting to correlate markets that don't have enough demand to warrant profits for services--it's an absurd correlation considering the margins we are talking about in regards to cable service providers (Which...

And that's the point you're not getting. The market not being able to offer precisely what people want, at the best price, is NOT a free market (Given proper demand for profit--which is a LOW bar to set, and a company like HBO certainly has the market there to exploit a profit). The market is...

Yes, things were a ton better when you had to shit in a hut outside with your balls freezing off, only to get polio and suffocate to death because you had to re-use the same rags to wipe your ass. Lets not even get into how glorious it must have been to break your back in the fields and die at...

He was poisoned by Varys, for the same reason that Varys killed Kevin later. Also, my personal opinion is that Varys planted Shae there to enrage Tyrion and get him to kill Tywin, who he knew was stuck on the toilet.

lol, I noticed that too---God damn wolverine of P40's right there.

So...he actually cheated to get a baby girl to lose, just to get back at us? I don't even think it's within my ability to describe how petty that is. Oh, and if you read this Tyen and say "but you guys were cheating to make the other girl lose!"...No, Salty. All of our likes were submitted by...

Been a sucker for WW2 plane sims since Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe--plane combat looks done well, but it frightens me it was only shown for 10 seconds. Makes it seem like they are hiding something =-/.