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To be fair, SL's initial numbers were better than they should have been, just due to Covid droughts. And Activision's stakeholders can argue whether they are playing Live or Classic, they are still paying their sub. It should also be clear their glacial release schedule has done their retention...

Considering drafting Love only made sense if there was a sizable chance Rodgers was gone next year, all this really sounds like is a renegotiation on both sides: Rodgers doesn't have to give back his signing bonus if he would have 'retired' this season and gets some say so in where he gets...

While _some_ individuals were fired due to their own behavior (Furor), stating that mass upper management started leaving two years ago because they knew their Me Too comeuppance was inbound seems unlikely (as well as chronologically iffy). It's far more likely this was just the normal stock /...

To be clear, the movie doesn't set any ground rules, and quantum realities are nightmarish to comprehend regardless if fictional or not. For all we know, they did just keep sending back samples to the past... which resulted in endless divergent timelines where they beat the aliens. That doesn't...

Just like every other big studio movie they sold to someone else's streaming service due to Covid, there was no chance this was going to be better than forgettable. Look, as much as I want to reward studios making new IP, this was just utterly forgettable. I think I'll remember as much of this...

I assume every chain's vests will be animated adspace a la Idiocracy as soon as they can come up with a good way to recharge them.

I was expecting most of this... in the finale. I have no idea where we go from here. So blind speculation time: Kang _is_ one of the Time Keepers, but wants to rule for himself. Ravonna is working with him (mirroring the comics), and 'Lady Loki' is working for Ravonna (the other analyst that...

I'm not sure there was footage of a single game that made me more interested in paying for it. (Alright, fine, Psychonauts 2's graphics don't look terrible now.) Given how far off nearly all the newly announced games are, I don't think there's a single new announcement I care about yet either...

The 8-4 guys over the weekend said they doubted there would be a Switch Pro announcement at E3 since its not in Japanese daylight business hours. (Obviously there are stock ramifications.) That means nothing for it coming out this year, mind you, wasnt the 3DS XL two weeks after E3?

Frankly, we should have expected this. Debugging an almost complete game? Plausible to get done from home, especially if geometry is finished. Having your art people pulling down massive unoptimized uncompressed world geometry repeatedly, especially once the scope gets cut down and you start...

On one hand, there just aren't many Scrolls/Fallout-likes that aren't from Bethesda. On the other hand, there just wasn't any spark to anything in the first game. Admittedly, the budget wasn't massive, but I have a hard time remembering anything about the game, and I played both DLCs when the...

... creepily possible, and uncomfortably prescient.... Death's Door looked like it would have been fun if we weren't burnt out by Hades. Wizard with a Gun reminded me far more of FF9 than Ralph Bakshi...

The only show worth watching (as opposed to skimming the summary) starts in 45 minutes.

The shoulders of the opponent seemed feminine to me (e.g. Lady Loki), but Richard E Grant is also in this, and I can't imagine who he would be other than Old Loki. What order any of those three are in the timeline, I couldn't tell you. And yeah, you would have to think the show ends with (some)...

Personally, I just want to know what everyone's up to. Even before Covid, the realities of modern AAA game production were getting to everyone, with Ass Creed no longer yearly and Modern Warfare cutting entire game modes out of some of their yearly releases. I don't expect much, possibly...

Not that we really need to rehash that the Disney sequels ranged from mediocre remake (TFA) to actively bad (TLJ, ROS), and that was almost entirely due to the (re)writing, not the acting, but we need to be very clear here: The reason Kylo Ren was the only interesting new character in the...

I'm pretty embarrassed by how many of those I knew, but it was heavily weighted towards TNG and DS9 (aka good Star Trek).

They paid 'in advances' - Epic gave them $146 Million, but the first $146 Million in sales goes back to Epic. In effect, they guaranteed them $146 Million in sales (what, 2.5 million copies), not that Epic gave them an _extra_ $146 Million plus sales. The 'One-Off Fee' and marketing spend at a...

Cute way to keep (an) A. Rodgers in GB.

Love not even being active last year was a bad sign for the next half decade, but if we don't lose Rodgers this year he's gone next year, so we may as well get something for him. Sure, the Packers still will be competitive this year, but I would take Garop and picks in a heartbeat for Rodgers'...

In this very episode TV Eve said she'd been with Rex for longer than she was with the Teen Titans, so at least middle school for thwm meeting up, with probably the same general storyline Much like the Boys, the characters will have the same names and mostly looks, and the general* arcs will be...

"Jack, did you do something funny?"

This smelled like the payoff episode, next week will just be the infodump on what the Viltrumites have truly been up to, though it wouldn't surprise me if the final scene matches what happens when comic Mark finds out the truth.

So, is this the best media (TV/movie) to come out since Covid started?

Don't most/all covenants have the 'good' stuff (aka mounts, etc.) tied to the level 4/5 covenant feature? It seems like mathematically it will still be better to get that to 4+ than to fiddle with getting everything to level three first. (The again, my main is Venthyr, and I haven't bothered to...

To this day, I remember that the end credits blasted Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', and the little old ladies walking by in the hallway being appalled by the lyrics as everyone left the theater. As far as the movie goes, even at the time I thought it was relentlessly mediocre and cribbing off...

That was the point of the post-credits scene, Omni-Man thinks himself and Invincible are functionally unkillable. We also don't know if he was still hovering outside, he may have waiting to prevent any deathblows if the new Guardians couldn't cut it. But getting the wife off his case may be...

Yeah, I was a bit worried about the dust cloud fights in the last episode, but they were just saving their budget for this one. I'm still fuzzy on how durable everyone is in this world, apparent humans can survive being crushed two feet into cement, yet civilians die instantaneously.

Yeah, mineral oil isnt conductive, and one offs submerging their system in mineral oil have been around since the 90s. That said, the cost / difficulty in scaling lithography further means you will probably see more of this sort of thing in the future. While I can't see Corsair aquarium kits on...

I checked if there was a new episode of this before I checked on Falcon & Winter Soldier...

It's almost like the absurd amount of anima need to complete just _one_ covenant and the covenant specific drops are there just to pad out the amount of time before you finish collecting all the 9.0 mounts/pets/etc., or something. Weird! And I have to think that whatever 10.0 is was already...

This show has a hell of a voice cast, which makes it extra weird that the, what, 40 year old Gillian Jacobs and Steven Yeun are playing teenagers. And yeah, the pilot plays the long game before admitting that this is the tone of the comic. (The episode where they show what the Vilrumites were...

Wasn't Eternals supposed to come out long before Shang Chi? Then again at this point Marvel is probably scheduling the plague movies just so they lead into the Disney+ shows properly. And yeah, I sure as hell won't be paying $30 to watch a prequel that (as far as anyone knows) just sets up...

I honestly think one gets traded / cut before the preseason is over. I'd be very interested in seeing how much of their contracts are signing bonuses (which apply to the cap now) vs. per game salaries (iirc, those apply on a by weekly* basis), vs end of season performance bonuses (which would...

I can see the Patriots concluding they can't draft one of the top QBs without burning too many draft picks to move up, but $14Mil for that level of performance? That just doesn't seem wise, unless Darth Bill is using whatever he has available to make one last try before retirement. To be clear...

Hey, I logged on yesterday. I haven't today and didn't even summon the mount, but I am sure I will one of these weeks!

The TV rights deals are weird, networks like CBS get a significant percentage of their total ad sales from the ads that air during NFL games... but also send a significant percentage of their operating revenue to the NFL for the rights to broadcast those games. It's more a sign of the continued...

To be clear, the covenant 'content' ended weeks ago. Blizz has finally become mercenary enough to acknowledge that pets, mounts, appearances, etc. are the only thing with any longterm 'value' and have locked them behind timegates or covenant specific drops (to artificially cut the number of...

Some the special effects were very dodgy in this episode specifically. The question being, did this episode just not get finalized pre-covid, or is this already exceeding the budget for the Marvel TV shows? Using Evan Peters for Quicksilver and having him just be "Some Guy" that exists in the...

Just so everyone is clear, game 17 was agreed to in last year's CBA. Game 18 would need the next CBA in 2030.