Wow, Sony actually managed to make a bad situation worse over night.Helldivers 2 was cutoff from all 177 countries where PSN is unavailable last night. It took a while to find out who did it.If it was Valve, that would have been understandable. They were going to have to refund any games sold between now and the end of the month anyway, so it would make sense for Steam to cut it's loses.No, it was Sony. They have officially doubled down. This California...
It was fun while it lasted.Helldivers II was the great white hope of the gaming world. AAA games are trash now but this one was the kind of game that we all used to love. It was a hell of a lot of game for $40 bucks. There was no pay-to-win or pay-to-cheat. No subscription required to play it. No DLC that was obviously created concurrently. Nothing was disabled for the lower price except Stratagem Hero. Live service games in recent years...
Comcast/Universal has put together a bid a $2.5 billion bid for TNT’s contract with the NBA that is currently due to expire at the end of the 24/25 season. TNT’s owner Warner Brothers Discovery is countering with a bid of…ZERO.They will not be challenging Comcast’s bid.From the Blazer's Edge:Comcast’s NBC Universal is prepping a huge bid to take over TNT’s role of the NBA national broadcaster. The Wall Street Journal broke the news Monday, with Deadline reporting details afterward. Turner...
. There is an annual contest for writers to come up with the most hackneyed and cliched opening sentence they possibly can. They come up with gems like "She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were." This entire movie is like that sentence but it lasts for more than two hours...
Well that was brief but exciting. Bob Bakish “stepped down” right before the Paramount earnings call started on Monday. Like the tombstone says, I had looked for this but not so soon. I actually no, I had looked for this and been surprised I hadn’t seen it long before now. Under his “leadership” Paramount has fallen to the bottom of the Hollywood ladder. It has assets but no real ability to make use of them now. Like every other studio that gambled...
From the Babylon Bee:Where did Calvin go? When did he leave the room?" asked father John Pearson, 32, after he and his wife Bridgette suddenly snapped out of a trance-like state, realizing that they'd been watching Bluey episodes alone for three hours."What?" his wife asked, slowly emerging from her stupor. "Oh. Yeah, I guess he did wander off a while ago. But... you know, we should probably just finish one more episode. I like to, uh, make sure there's...
I have made no secret of my fondness for the anime series Spy X Family. A TV show that is at its heart about some lonely and broken if hypercompetent people forming a make-shift family works for me on just about every level. If you throw in James Bond early 1960s aesthetics then I’m hooked and in the net. From my review:Spy X Family takes place in a world that is very much Cold War Cool Sixties. The nations of...
Turns out just about anybody.The Glass Worker is from Pakistan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuPHCyV6mw Discuss on Social Galactic
Few things were more terrible than video rental night in the Eighties… When it was her turn to pick.Blockbuster night in the Eighties was fantastic when it was the guy’s turn to select the tape but when it was the girl’s, you, the young male Gen-Xer, knew you were facing an avalanche of overwhelming boredom. Chick flicks in the Eighties were an unclimbable mountain of ennui that you would nevertheless be required to try and scale.The reason for all of this suck was...
No generation ever had bigger promises made to it than Gen-X. The world we were supposed to inherit would be beyond imagining. America would be even greater and more powerful than it had ever been. The average life expectancy would be 180 years old. We would definitely be getting farther ahead than our parents had gotten in life. Our first cars would be able to fly. And a lot of us were expected to be living and working on the moon. No member of Generation-X has...
