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As long as we don't deal with variations that are too close to one another, it shouldn't really matter. Like, if movie Loki dies, it's not just a continuation of the character if he's replaced with Sylvie. If not, then it wouldn't be a big deal when Peter Parker dies and is replaced by Miles. I'd completely agree if we start dealing with the Dr Strange that started his day with latte vs the other Dr Strange that went for an Americano.

Netflix has metrics they use to determine if a series or movie is driving new subscribers and/or keeping old subscribers. They, along with every other streaming service know who's watching, when they're watching, how they're watching, which scenes are worth rewatching, and even when viewers are checking out and moving on to something else. Unfortunately, it's been mostly a black box, so we don't really know which metrics will cause a service is willing to shell out this much for a movie or cancel a series that everyone right was pretty great. At Disney's current place with Disney+, I'm sure their number one metric is subscription drivers. That's easy to figure out. What are new subscribers jumping to first.

ISIS really wants dumb Americans to champion for a continued war against the Taliban. This is an easy win-win for them.

It's been a while since this all was going around, but that first one is splitting hairs. Where is the line between "I've never been raped because I dress modestly" and "She was raped because she dressed too revealingly"? In my eyes, that line doesn't really exist, especially as a response to the whole Me Too movement.

Bialik is getting shit for shitting on women assaulted during the peak of the Me Too movement...and being an anti-vaxxer. Didn't she blame women being raped for not being modest enough? A shame shitty people aren't succeeding where not shitty people could be. Compared to Bialik, Ken Jennings controversy is the dumbest thing ever. Like, it doesn't take a lot to not be a terrible person.

Disney knows the numbers here. There is zero chance they didn't do the math to figure out how much they gain or lose putting a movie on D+ without Premiere.

We've got a release date, 2/17/22...

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That would actually be a first for Nintendo. Same platform Zelda sequels are usually very different from each other. Zelda and Adventures of Link. Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks. Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon.

You forgot America Chavez in Dr Strange. She's not alternate timeline, but alternate dimension in the comics. Where she comes from in Dr Strange 2 should definitively settle the angle they're going for.

It's amusing. Nintendo is the only company that believes a game from each franchise should only hit once a console generation while we live in a world of yearly and biannual releases. There are more Assassin's Creed games than Zelda games and the Zelda franchise is a whole twenty years older.

Eh, there have been eight Mario Kart games in the last thirty years and five Smash Bros in the last twenty. The only seriously egregious franchise of Nintendo's is Pokemon and Pokemon isn't really Nintendo's nor do they have any direct control over it. I sometimes think people forget three things. How old they are, how old some of these Nintendo franchises are, and how few games Nintendo really makes. The last one is crazy because that's the biggest issue I have with them.

This is the one. There are always people running around fucking up the multiverse. The TVA was just able to keep it all in check. Loki, well Sylvie, has stopped that from happening. Strange would have been stopped were it not for them.

As can I. Easier to wait for the kids to go to bed than find a sitter for the middle of the night.

They've never been told no and are now surrounded by 24/7 indoctrination that tells them everyone wants to take everything they have away. In the days before cable news and Facebook, these were the family members with uncomfortable opinions that came up only if you probed them. Now, more than ever, they feel comfortable spewing this stuff everywhere and on anyone with or without working ears.

We as a nation are throwing away vaccine doses as they expire because nearly half the nation desperately wants to be members of a suicide cult. I wouldn't begrudge anyone looking for boosters when those doses just aren't being used by anyone else. I'll a single shot J&J recipient. I'm totally thinking about what a booster would look like for me when I see all those fancy mRNA success numbers.

Amusingly, I played a LOT more Playstation than N64. I spent most of my time on RPGs on the SNES so the PSX was the natural follow-up. I have a huge amount of nostalgia for games like Lunar, Suikoden, Grandia, and Persona. That said, I still think the nostalgia hits harder in the N64 simply because my fondest highschool gaming memories are huddled up and playing way to much Mario Kart and Golden Eye. There just went any multiplayer games outside of fighting games that caught my attention. It was either those games or LAN parties with Quake II and Half Life.

The N64 wins a ton of nostalgia points based on multiplayer. For many, it was their first time playing a four player game on a single TV. Memories of 4 player Mario Kart, GoldenEye, Mario Party, Smash Bros, and even Star Fox was eye opening.

Not even close. The console had a wildly weak set of launch titles and also launched only THREE months after the GBA. THREE!!! This was after Sony already had a year head start with the PS2 and many gamers were burnt on the short-lived Dreamcast. The lack of a Mario game at launch certainly didn't help and Luigi's Mansion was great, but it wasn't exactly console carrying like Breath of the Wild.

Nintendo has an insane profit per employee ratio and their CEO is "only" making like $10m/yr including bonuses. They must be doing something right if they've managed to keep employees around for an average of 14 years, each. Compared that to, say, EA which is 3.5 years or Activision which is 3.2 years.

I have 5G and a 1.2Gb Internet connection. Still not stable for me at home. Sometimes it's perfect and then other times it's just not. Comcast sucks, though, so maybe that's the problem. It's a cable connection so my upload speeds are shit, but they should still be enough to keep things running smoothly. It's the same whether it's xCloud or Stadia. Maybe if I had another choice for ISPs, but the next best connection is 5G followed by DSL.

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We're not as bad as others, so let's do nothing to make sure it stays that way. He took too long to shut things down at the onset of the pandemic as well. Earlier this year, a bunch of school districts, mine included, put in requests to allow them to offer remote learning this coming fall. All of them were rejected with the order to return to full time in person schooling with remote options only being made available to kids in hospitals or the immunocompromised. Yay.

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I feel like there are enough characters and versions of characters to keep things going for a long time without the bed for actual reboots. We have Riri Williams being introduced in the next Black Panther movie before her Disney+ series. Once Dominique Thorne is fine with the role, there's always Iron Lad and like Iron Lord and whoever it was from Iron Man 2020. There shouldn't be a need to reboot these characters. Spider-Man can go from Peter to Miles to Gwen to Jessica to Cindy to Peni to whoever.