How does Minecraft even go down? Was it the MS-run Realms that were down? The entire x-box account authorization system?
Marketer. Photographer. Husband & dad. Lego, Minecraft, & Preds hockey fan. Movie buff, but pls #NoSpoilers!
Also @[email protected] Also @[email protected] Also @pwnicholson.bsky.social Used to be @pwnicholson on IG, FB, TW, etc
How does Minecraft even go down? Was it the MS-run Realms that were down? The entire x-box account authorization system?
He was always a grifter. When I was in college in the late 90s he had a financial responsibility program for college students to help them learn how to get out from college debt they were in the process of racking up. It was something like $40-50 a session for a 6-8 week course. That would be roughly $75-90 today.
I watched way too many of my friends give away money to that guy.
That used to be really common. Movie novelizations would come out before the movie, along with soundtracks, etc. It was part of the promotional campaign.
My thoughts exactly.
I initially read that as “Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat.”
Which isn’t really wrong either.
Every decade after the 1920s has been special for cinema for the generation that treasured it.
I wonder if this has anything to do with ThePosterDB going down recently
Their claims are based largely on building artificial islands which extends their 200 miles from the coast claims (by aging more coast). This US claim isn’t extending coast (so no control of the water column or surface), only continental shelf and mining rights
“Ewoks Caravan of Courage”? “Star Wars Holiday Special”?
You can say it’s all fun. You can even say you like it all.
I even like the sequel trilogy over the prequels (because I’m of a certain age).
But not sure about “all” Star Wars being “great”.
That’s awesome. Bookmarked!
Everything’s fine for me on win 10 with bedrock and Java
I think that’s the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.
Exactly. Early Marvel was deeply about character and their depth and character flaws that made them interesting. Thor, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, and especially Tony Stark were interesting and complex personalities. (Bruce Banner and Clint Barton…eh).
The stories in recent Marvel products are fine. Mildly interesting serials. Ok popcorn fare.
But the character development has been getting more and more lacking. Even Thor has been reduced to ‘dumb blonde’/‘dumb entitled rich kid’ gags.
I think that’s part of what makes Loki one of the only really interesting outings for Marvel recently. He stayed reasonably conflicted and complex.
I assume someone somewhere decided that it was going to net a profit (after already sunk production costs and yet-to-be-spent promoting costs and other obligations) of less than $30 million.
So if given the choice between hoping it maybe makes $20-40 million in net profit vs a guaranteed $30 million as a tax write-off, that’s easy math for the number crunchers.
I have no idea but they could also have decided they didn’t want to spend to promote it. It costs a fortune in money up front to promote movies these days, even after the movie is ‘in the can’. Money is getting more and more expensive with interest rates going up, so financing even promotional costs is more expensive.
“Status Report” is great, and the rest are good enough and the episode was really fun.
Glad they did it, but I’m not looking for an annual occurrence. I can love it and also say 1 is enough. Same with the Lower Decks crossover
Most of the people you’re thinking about as a problem haven’t read the Bible either. They’d think the stuff Jesus said was commie, bleeding-heart, socialist stuff (because it is)
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
Or my favorite variation: You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t wipe your friends on the underside of the car seat.
Roadrunner & Coyote. Tom & Jerry (mostly, there was some weird talking occasionally). Shaun the Sheep. Pink Panther.
Lots of examples of famous main characters who lead shows with little to no dialogue.
There are also characters like Snoopy and Gromit who are silent characters in shows where others speak, but there are long stretches where they do their own thing with no dialogue.
That’s the great part about Lemmy - just switch instances or roll your own. No need to complain about heavy handed mods!
Yeah, saw something after I left the comment. It was Minecraft per se that was down. It was the x box authorization/login system. Even bigger!