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If Bobby Kotick is fired following a change of control over the company, he walks away with $300 million.

This move isn't about exclusivity. They'd be NUTS to do that. Shareholders would be furious. This move is about transitioning Microsoft's game business towards being completely platform agnostic. Profit off games no matter where they're released. It runs tangent to their long-term strategy of turning games into a service.

Ann Coutler is already banking on DeSantis and I think everyone else should now too.

I know I had some bad gas last night but I didn't think anybody was recording.

They added the VelociCoaster. Many have told me it's their favorite rollercoaster they've ever been on. I don't ride coasters so I can't say.

I think also as runaway inflation continues, what was once acceptable pay is quickly not being acceptable. Raises and especially minimum wage were already completely disconnected from living expense and reality, and now this is coming to bear on employers.

I'm so sick of hearing about NFTs.

Tuskens take control of the criminal underworld. Boba rides off into the sunset having wasted every viewer's time.

It's pretty laughable they feel the need to remake this. As if the original needs to be improved somehow. It also came out in 2011, so it's not even old.

Big meh

Man. America's Funniest Home videos will always be my favorite thing he did. So many great memories watching that with the family in the 90s. I'd love to watch those old episodes again. EDIT: Well that was easy.

For sure, it could have been an interesting story. Unfortunately the entire story is like a two minute post-credit scene of him (or rather, I think it was Fennec) shooting the current guy in charge. I didn't find that to be a compelling premise for a new show then, and so far I still don't.

Yeah. One of the points brought up in the podcast that resonated with me is this idea of Boba "ruling with respect". I don't claim to have read all materials about the character, but he was a ruthless bounty hunter hired by Vader to capture Han Solo, and Vader had to specify "no disintegrations". Now Boba is being "hero-ized" I guess because... fans like him? And the problem they're setting up in this first episode is how can Boba rule the criminal underworld of Tatooine when he's too nice?

This really summarizes a lot of my thoughts I had while watching this.

Guess I was the only one that thought this debut episode was kind of... bad? It felt more low-budget than any Mandalorian episode I can recall, and the action choreography was like something out of a stage play.

I was thinking it would be cool to see Dark Strange in live action at some point after watching What If. Didn't expect it to be THIS soon!

And Laurence Fishburne. That's right I'm still beating that drum! But also everything can potentially be made better with Laurence Fishburne. Being wowed by special effects is unfortunately one of the many joys that died with our childhoods. Not that we were all children when The Matrix came out... Alright better said, it's one of those nostalgic pieces of the past that we want to have back, and keep hoping to feel again, but now that literally anything is possible in film, it never will.

Finally! Blue is the color of fraud!

Fair enough, I just rewatched it myself and the appearances of the others isn't there, but at the time we couldn't tell that, and I remember the discussions about the trailer at the time were with assumptions they were being shown, and who was who. Again, you would have had to avoid all those trailer discussions to not have any idea this was happening. It just baffles my mind this is new to ANYONE.

They were shown in the second trailer, but also literally every headline and news article before the release of the movie. I'm more impressed how someone even knows about this movie and got this far WITHOUT knowing about the other Spideys. That...seems impossible.

Ok then. The posts are all there, so I don't know who you're trying to fool.

*people mentioning things shown in the trailer* weird people: WHY ARE YOU SPOILING THE MOVIE?!?!?

His goal is to sink Biden's Presidency. He's full of Koch Bucks.

Look all the theater industry needs to do is put on a full song-and-dance performance ala Annie before every single screening. That's not asking much!