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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...

It doesn't come out in the US until May 22nd. The usual box office projection model is based on people buying their tickets early, with some wiggle room based on genre (big action movies tend to have bigger presales than art house equivalents, because only one of those could potentially sell...

Rich is bringing his A-game to the a-lister on this one. Jack: "So if you had to put a genre to this, what..." Rich: "Oh, fuck you."

I guess I didn't post a review - as someone very familiar with the book, I liked it but didn't love it. 8/10 Now, as a techie, it's not too surprising I would prefer the more hard science of The Martian over this. And much like The Martian, it is clear that more of the book was filmed but cut...

The situation is a lot messier than that blurb - Long story short, "the NFL" is (legally) 32 distinct businesses that can (legally) collude in some ways, as in they can set universal salary caps, floors, etc., _only_ because they have an agreement between the teams and the NFLPA. Similarly...

There are a ton of issues with Voyager - it was really tough to recommend compared to a DS9 or Babylon 5 that were airing at the same time; most of the characters are wet blankets (the most interesting being The Doctor doing a Diet Data); the episodic (compared to serialized) nature meant that...

We already (briefly) argued financials ~ a month ago, but I still think Supergirl will do better than people think because of one reason - scheduling. There's 5 weeks between Supergirl and Mandalorian (not that I think that's going to be a breakout hit either) - by that point anyone who wanted...

The Woman of Tomorrow comic has been out for years, and it was clear from the teaser that this was a straightforward adaptation (cut out some of the weird planets in the middle for runtime and add Lobo). You can argue that marketing spoiled the movie again, but I am unconvinced anyone that...

"Thanksgiving Eve" That's just Wednesday. Sun to Wed is way too quick a turn around. Again, not to sound like a broken record, but add another bye week to the schedule, and just have the Thursday (or now Wednesday) edit: or international teams have a bye beforehand. Problem solved.

Since 2014, the NFL has had their centralized ref headquarters in NY that (theoretically) reviews all ref decisions, and since 2022 said headquarters communicates directly to the game refs through their headsets when needed. Not sure how this proposal changes anything from that 2022+ situation.

It was pretty well covered that D+ S1 was an abysmal showrunner-less mess made by Disney personnel until they halted production, brought in some Netflix veterans, and spliced in some new material to the existing episodes - and the only part of S1 anyone actually liked was the new material...

That's even weirder to me, as that hasn't been seeing updates recently (as in even the map has stayed the same, I think) - them killing it is (presumably) just to reduce server costs. Dark times when Fortnite is having problems paying the bills, even before the component-pocalypse screws up new...

I had installed Fortnite to play Festival when that launched to get my Rock Band fix and yeah, Rocket Racing was great for a free arcade-style racer. Both Festival and Rocket Racing seem like they've been on life support for years, with just a couple new instruments / the paid-for musician...

I would assume most of the villains / daytime Punisher are a montage at the beginning, with the later Scorpion fight going badly / oddly (either saved by or then meeting with Punisher afterward at night), until he realizes he's actually been under psychic attack by the mind controller working...

So "2.0" is: Slight updates to the super powers, which were so meaningless no one cares about them. A free roam mode _if_ you found the base mechanics interesting enough to want to play more of (which was the whole problem). A more elaborate version of faction ambushes. I have a hard time...

Apparently its a twenty year time gap in the movie. I'm not sure how they thought casting Ana Taylor Joy, who's just one year younger than Timothee, was ever going to work in any sequel(s), "spice enhances life" or not.

I was not expecting Sentimental Value to get International, but hey, "Euro" block and "Movies About Movies" block still representing. Honestly surprised Frankenstein did as well as it did, even if it was the usual genre related technical categories. GDT is burning through his Oscar cache on...

My understanding is it is actually the opposite - with the way void years immediately apply to the cap, and the limited space the Eagles have, the Eagles need Goedert to sign some sort of extension to stretch out his void years to be able to eat the dead money from Brown _if Brown_ were to be...

Jack II looking very ethnic.

While this sort of scenario has happened before (every trade is subject to passing the physical), the timing is horrible - the Raiders now have a ton of new hires they made under the assumption they wouldn't be carrying Crosby's salary, and they still have to be compliant to the 2026 cap _today_...

For Malik Willis, that's a lot of guaranteed money for such few starts, but at the same time a pretty low average per year for the #1 QB candidate (that isn't offset by someone else paying his salary). Speaking of which, it'll be interesting to see if there's enough interest in Kyler that...

I don't see Supergirl doing anywhere near Superman territory. Stuff like The Marvels shows women saw _a_ movie featuring women in each universe (Captain Marvel / Wonder Woman) and won't bother to come back for a second just because there's a woman in the lead. No Gunn, a character people care...

What Cad said - beyond "The Mandarin" (who is just an actor, after all), Wonder Man is very disconnected from the MCU and can basically be enjoyed as a stand alone. And yes, the B&W flashback episode is the highpoint. Note that, like most material about Hollywood / Hollywood productions, your...

Yeah, there's a lot of zooms on faces and such that look like spaghetti westerns at first glance, until you remember who did it and it turns into "I see what you did there". I have not spotted the Olds turned into a wagon yet, however. Honestly, the bigger style departure is Raimi going full...

Am I the only person who gets the exact opposite vibes? In living memory, Xbox was able to wrest significant marketshare from a global rival (the 360). "Their" IP has significant mass market recognition - the Fallout TV show is popular, The Minecraft Movie was the second biggest movie in the US...

You're not wrong that the sudden 20th century soundtrack did remind me most of A Knight's Tale, but I meant this:

The caveat is (again) that this is the most concise (and probably the best) Westeros story Martin wrote, and they only have two more published stories to work with. Hell, you could argue that even the material they added to this season doesn't particularly hold up. Egg exercising Thunder? Sure...

I honestly don't know if even that's good enough. It's not just that the connector needs to stay mated to the video card, the individual wires need to stay properly mated to the connector. I'm not convinced that cage would block you from snagging _a_ wire and pulling it away from the connector...

I agree that Rich dinging a movie because its not a 100% identical adaptation is dumb - instead, ding the Spider-Man movies because nearly* all the kids are terrible people. But looking at his list, Jay's Top 5 are going to be something like Evil Dead II / Spider-Man 2 / Darkman / Drag Me to...

I'm watching it thinking "Part 3 is going to be pretty boring. Every movie Raimi made between 87 and 98 - guessing Rich ranks it something like 1) Army of Darkness 2) The Quick and the Dead 3) Darkman 4)Evil Dead II 5)A Simple Plan - was great to a classic. This is going to be 30 minutes of Rich...

I think people are overlooking this factor. If the Datacenter-fueled component-pocalypse is about to shake up the entire industry for years (in terms of delayed hardware, price increases on existing hardware that already capped out on sales, screwing with release timelines for any future games...