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14JunJune 14, 2024

Disney+ Is Now in Sixth Place

https://twitter.com/anjsud/status/1801339642312081663 Bob Iger's obsessions have destroyed The Walt Disney Company. When he worked for Roone Arledge at ABC sports, he gained a workman like knowledge of story telling. He learned the basics of story structure and drama. I can't deny he had his successes. During the 1988 Winter Olympics, he saved the network's bacon when an unexpected thaw cancelled a huge number of big events. He was able to find all kinds of dramatic stories among the...

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13JunJune 13, 2024

Star Wars Has Its Timeless Child

Who works for the LucasFilm Story Group*If you want a worrying laugh, dig up “Internal Family Systems.” It’s new psychiatric therapy method where the shrink tries to get the patient to “Talk to their inner voices.” The brain docs became quietly concerned when they started passing their notes to each other and discovered that quite of few of their patients said that their inner voices were demons. And they didn’t want to leave.I bring this up because it seems that...

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12JunJune 12, 2024

Is Star Citizen a Scam?

Star Citizen has crossed the $700 million mark in crowdfunding. After better than a decade and people are still giving this project money. In fact it has ardent fans who climb up into your underwear and beat you about the head shoulders with a baseball bat for daring to question whether this will ever be finished. This is absolutely astonishing to me. The game first started life in 2009. Think about that for a second. When this game started...

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10JunJune 10, 2024

Disney Deathcart Roundup

FIRSTDisney has declared with totally conviction that the Acolyte is the biggest launch of 2024 on Disney +, bringing home an awesome and amazing overnight score of 4.8 million views.That’s incredibly sad. When any studio makes these best launch ever claims, (but with one or two qualifiers) you know they are unhappy with the performance and need to cover it up somehow. Star Wars Ashoka had first week score of 14 million viewers in its first week. This is clearly expected...

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07JunJune 7, 2024

Appendix N Heroes: Fafhrd and Gray Mouser

Each discerned something inexplicably familiar in the other. Fafhrd said, “Our motives for being here seem to be identical.” “Seem? Surely must be!” the Mouser answered curtly, fiercely eyeing this potential new foe, who was taller by a head than the tall thief. “You said?” “I said, ‘Seem? Surely must be!’” “How civilized of you!” Fafhrd commented in pleased tones. “Civilized?” the Mouser demanded suspiciously, gripping his dirk tighter. “To care, in the eye of action, exactly what’s said,” Fafrd explained. Without letting the Mouser out...

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07JunJune 7, 2024

Harddrive-by: Mullet Bear God

Sorry I couldn't come up with a better title. I tried. You are getting a triple header tonight because none of these games provided me with enough material for a single post on their own. FIRSTMullet Mad Jack. I'LL SAVE YOU PRISS!!!Mullet Mad Jack is a single-player rogue-like FPS. It is also a glorious love letter to 1990s Anime OAVs. The colors, the huge red car, the green-haired anime girl with a sweater that leaves her shoulders exposed. It’s all...

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05JunJune 5, 2024

Star Wars The Acolyte: First Impressions

Okay, I now know why they launched this thing during Pride month. It was no happy coincidence that the gayest Star Wars ever was let loose in the wild during June.This review will cover the first three episodes of the Acolyte. The first two were available for streaming last night and the third was made available to me by means I’m not going to discuss in public. I’ll start with the third episode because the first two are overloaded with mystery...

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05JunJune 5, 2024

Tianna’s Open Sewer Experience

The most popular ride at any of the Disney parks was hands down Splash Mountain. A project that started life when Michael Eisner brought his son with him to Imgineering. The elder Eisner wanted Disney Parks to start having appeal for the for the Tweener to Young Adult market. Breck Eisner fell head over heels for a mock up of flume ride that Imagineering had created for something else but then shelved because of budget considerations. Disney was about to put...

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03JunJune 3, 2024

How Elon Made the Bot Problem Worse

Hats off to this guy. Gothic Therapy has done some truly world-class citizen journalism here. After Elon made his tender off for Twitter, he tried to back out of it, (not in any serious way, it was a negotiating tactic), stating that the value was false due to the number of bots.X.Com has always had a problem with bots since it costs nothing to set up an account. If you were a corporation and someone who was trying to...

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01JunJune 1, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Dead Boy Detectives

Watching this I began wondering something. How much of her career does J.K. Rowling owe Neil Gaiman? The most obvious is Tim Hunter. Back in 1989, Neil Gaiman was tasked by DC Comics to create a series that tied all of their magic characters together into a story. For a protagonist, he modified Wart from The Once and Future King and put him in a modern setting but his destiny instead of being Arthur was to be Merlin, the greatest wizard...

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