Remember that Columbo where he just comes in and reads a book to his sick grandson? That one was weird.
It does feel a little weird for Astro to be a celebration of PlayStation's legacy when Sony quite recently fired most of the talent behind those games It does feel a bit like puppeting a corpses but Asobi clearly actually care about the corpses
The Internet Archive's lending library was so helpful for my research on the history of psyops. There are tons of primary sources like government documents, plus obscure, out-of-print books that can reveal a lot. This ruling against them is a blow to the public sphere. www.wired.com/story/intern...
Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library.
"Rocksteady cuts staff following Suicide Squad's underperformance" Management will assign you a project outside your expertise that ignores your core strengths and then fire you for underperforming. Management is, in a word, dumb.
Yeah, I feel like ESPECIALLY if shelving a project gets you a positive tax consequence, the bargain should be "you get money, public domain gets the project."
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
All media needs to stop with origin stories. We've had too many. If you write a story called Knife Thrower you can just start with him throwing knives at dudes. Don't need to spend two hours on how his dad dying to a flying knife led him down the path of knife throwing
there is not a doubt in my head that at some point Concord was being developed as a single-player Guardians of the Galaxy-flavored Starfield killer only for some C-suite asshole to barge in and demand they scrap the campaign in favor of making a Forever Game, because his promotion depended on it
I'm realizing one of the central narratives of the Arthurian cycle is that when the kingdom starts to decay the heroes start to ride out on a quest to find the magic thingie that will fix all their problems instead of staying home and doing the work, and that's infected a lot of fantasy fiction
All day, I’ve been seeing references to the Bell Riots, and I kept meaning to google it but kept getting sidetracked, but I was SO SURE I was going to find a Wikipedia article about some historical event, but no. It’s Star Trek. It’s always fuckin Star Trek with you people.