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11FebFebruary 11, 2024

80s Table Top – Star Frontiers

Recently, while cleaning out the garage I ran into something I'd completely forgotten about.Finding this book touched off a wave of bittersweet nostalgia for me. 80s tabletop RPGs were unquestionably the best of all time. If you disagree I'm not going to pretend you have an opinion that can be respected. It was the Golden Age. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was still owned by an independent TSR that was controlled by the god of gaming, Gary Gygax. Dragon Lance was taking it mainstream-ish. FASA had...

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09FebFebruary 9, 2024

Is Disney Abandoning California?

There was an all hands emergency meeting at Disney Animation Studios Burbank.They started the meeting by telling the animators that no one at Burbank was being laid off. Which probably means that everyone is being laid off.It turns out that the Moana 2 movie that Bob Iger announced last night is going to be made by a surprise studio that just sprang into existence in Vancouver British Columbia with a staff of 400. Seemingly overnight so far the as the...

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09FebFebruary 9, 2024

The Carano Lawsuit

The reason I haven't covered this suit is simple enough. It's never going to go to Discovery. There is no way on Earth Disney can let it go that far. It's bad enough that the results of LucasFilm's complete dysfunction is available for all the world to see. The one thing Disney doesn't want is to reveal just how disastrous things are behind the scenes. However, part of this suit was actually jaw dropping. Under a lot of pressure to issue an apology...

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08FebFebruary 8, 2024

Disney’s Feb 7 Earnings Call Impressions

Fellow travelers within the cabal are circling the wagons around Bob Iger with a view to preventing Nelson Peltz and Jay Rusulo from getting on the Disney BOD. These weren’t softball questions, these were T-ball questions. Clearly they had been instructed about that which they could and could NOT ask questions about.The closest thing to a hard hitting question was, what are you going to do about the film business? Iger replied with what I think is the most terrifying...

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07FebFebruary 7, 2024

A Less Optimistic Appraisal of the Netflix Avatar Trailer

It's been a while since I posed anything by E;RMostly because it's been a while since he posted anything himself.Regardless he's a bigger Avatar fan than I ever was so I will respect his opinion on this matter.Dour as it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8TkayFT34 Note: I might not be posting tonight, depending on how interesting the Disney earnings call is today.

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06FebFebruary 6, 2024

RE:Play – F.E.A.R.

I’ve made no secret of my disdain for Blockbuster Video. When I was a young man and down on my luck, I could count on their brutal return policies to leave me surviving for a week on Cheez-its and Value Star Bean Dip. The company’s insistence on leasing rather than owning their property cut the Blockbuster’s own throat when they were down on their luck. There was a reason Family Video survived for a decade after Blockbuster went under.Nonetheless, there were...

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06FebFebruary 6, 2024

RIP Toby Keith

1961 - 2024You have no idea how much... This. Song. Speaks. To. Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQrapQ4d0Y

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05FebFebruary 5, 2024

Space Daddy to Aquire Disney?

No, he isn’t but I’m required to cover this.At the premiere of Lola, a film with a title so unimaginative it’s up there with For Love or Money. Elon Musk was going out of this way to ham it up on the red carpet. He was wearing the bomber jacket he had on for the New York Times Book Thingy. The one where he told Iger to commit self-procreation. Yeah, that jacket.He was clowning it up on the red carpet...

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02FebFebruary 2, 2024

RIP Carl Weathers

Sad news this afternoon. His agent confirms that Carl Weathers has passed.From Deadline:"Carl Weathers, who turned charisma, talent, hard work and athleticism into a 50-year acting career, died today at 76.Weathers studied theater in college, where he also played football. He parlayed the latter into a brief NFL career with the (then) Oakland Raiders in 1970. He began working as an extra in blaxploitation films at the time. That led to roles on TV and eventually film, where he had his...

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02FebFebruary 2, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Zom 100

It might surprise you to know I’m not much of a zombie fan. Despite the fact that my first book was technically a zombie uprising story.’ I don’t like victim horror, and zombie fiction leans heavily into that. There also tends to be a very strong nihilistic bent to it. I might perk up my ears if someone comes up with a new variant on this old formula. But that just doesn’t happen much anymore.I thought I’d seen it all...

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