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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Next up: Martin Scorsese's Kool-Aid.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

Totalitarians are thin-skinned and paranoid as a rule.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I watched it. The plot really only served as an extended middle finger to Warner Bros. After I finished it, I just thought, what a waste. It had promise, but it didn't try anything new or expand the world in any way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Why it matters:

It doesn't matter. Don Bacon is not representative of Republicans. He is from a split district that voted for Biden and Harris by about 5 points each.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

When they shut down all the asylums 50 years ago, they decided to keep one last one open in DC

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is the setup to a Bond movie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pacific States of America

I would also accept the answer

California and Cascadia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a UK paper. They don't do all-caps for acronyms (meaning abbreviations readable as words), they just capitalize the first letter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It was apparent to anyone who was paying a lot of attention that he was a narcissist [1] who was willing to lie and break the rules to satisfy his own ambition. There were also subtle indications of this as well.

[1] It apparently no longer exists or is impossible to find now, but prior to the Democratic primary the NY Times did a profile on Adams in his Brooklyn brownstone. It was extravagant, and his comments in the article gave me a strong narcissist vibe. I was already leaning against him, but that pushed me into the "anyone but him" camp. The photo used in the second link is from the photo shoot they did for that article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rights are reassigned after 25 years, so I don't really think the theatrical release is a concern in this case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They don't have to do anything. Licensing companies will come knocking with a briefcase of money, and all they have to do is sign. It will likely result in better availability, not worse, because it's not bound to studios. Studios can hold back releases because they want to release them later, or tie them into a remake schedule, then the remake gets canceled and they never get around to it, etc.

(And although it's just a hypothetical, in my system above, the rights holders would always be known.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

From a quick skim of the YouTube comments, this is made by Respawn and will purportedly have (based on a reveal at Star Wars Celebration):

  • Soldier customization
  • Base upgrading
  • Recruiting and assembling your squad
  • Relationship factors and teamwork missions
  • Optional permadeath
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