Star Trek: Every planet is either a set or within driving distance of Los Angeles

Good Chicken Tikka Masala is good in any vessel. I live in Southern California and there’s a place near me that wraps it in a burrito with basmati rice. The burrito is basically naan and I would argue this is the best format.

I mean, it’s not like this really tests their acting chops. It’s a fun flick, but don’t get your hopes too high. 😅

Best I can do is Helen Mirren with Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley as a book club at a retirement home that solves the first real murder after only previously reading about them. David Tenant is the antagonist and Tom Ellis (of Lucifer) as Pierce Brosnan’s son.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81751137

Starting w/ M4 MacBook Pros, the anti reflective screen option is shockingly good.

This article is sensationalizing a non-issue. It reads like the author went to the convention with the story already written and then tried (and failed) to find people that supported the premise.

As someone who attended GDC for the full week this year, I can tell you that not a single conversation I had or panel I attended discussed the RAM shortage. I’m sure this topic arose in some circles, especially anything related to the timing or cost of next gen hardware. As a professional AAA game designer of 25 years and an occasional game director, this does not affect the way that the games themselves are made. Games on consoles already have their limitations, games on PC should always be (but not always are) optimized to work across a broad spectrum of hardware configurations, with the minimum spec being the lowest system possible without sacrificing playability.

Even people interviewed in the article are saying the same thing:

“Does this affect us? No,” Subotnick said. “We’re making games on as many platforms as we can to delight consumers. Could it impact us? Sure. If there’s less devices for people to get their hands on, then we potentially have less consumers to sell to. But right now, I’d argue that there are plenty of consumers with plenty of devices for us to sell these games to. Where it could impact us is, sure, we will have to make decisions around next-gen platforms when they tell us that it’s time to bring content to them. And if they are threatened to have a total addressable market that is viable from a business standpoint, sure that’s a business challenge. But right now all I’d be doing is speculating on a bunch of hypotheticals.”

I mean, it’s a hot take, I’ll give you that. I can’t agree with it, though. Every line of dialogue in that film moves plot. It’s really well edited and far ahead of its time. Modern cinema owes a lot to the lessons taught by Casablanca.

Inception isn’t that great.

It’s complex for the sake of complexity and the complication needlessly makes the story more difficult to parse. The revelation about there being an additional layer before reality is such an overused trope that it wasn’t an interesting twist and added nothing to the plot.

I’ve never had tuna salad with avocado, and now I really want to try it. Thanks for this!

How prominent Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989) was at the time you first saw Star Wars (1977).

My partner got a pair for work when they first came out (her job involves creating social media content). I was impressed by the speakers and it’s the same style of sunglasses that I normally wear daily, so I got a pair for myself. It was so nice to be able to listen to stuff and take calls without carry around headphones or putting them in when the phone rang. I was already uncomfortable with the association with meta, but was able to isolate that aspect at first. As they continued to add features, I’ve started being less comfortable with them. I accidentally left them somewhere a couple months ago and decided not to replace them. It’s such a bummer that all the cool tech is now not just spying on you, but on everyone around you. Fuckin capitalism ruins everything.

I’m guessing this is the non-specific way of saying Limbo-like.

He wasn’t just on 4chan. He was “friends” with Christopher Poole, aka moot, founder of 4chan.

Also it’s possibly the reason /pol/ exists at all since it was created within days of them meeting and having at least an hour long conversation.

Investors are not required to form an indie studio, in the case where every team member of that studio has some means to pay their own rent/mortgage, bills, and feed themselves for the entire duration of the project. If you’re in the US, you’ll also need to figure out how you’re paying for health insurance. This could be a passion project in addition to a day job, but coordinating work/life balance in that scenario with multiple team members is exponentially difficult.

Money adds up quick. Let’s use some round numbers and say you want to hire a team with some experience (those folks that just got laid off and are looking for work). Let’s say everybody on the team costs the project $100k/year in salary & benefits. Let’s just imagine that includes costs a normal employer would pay: insurance premiums, IT hosting costs, all the little stuff. Note, this is underpaying people with more than 5 years experience who live in California (where many game dev studios are based). Let’s say you can get the game made in one year with everybody starting on day one and ending on ship day, exactly 365 days later. People will be wearing multiple hats, but let’s be general.

• 1x Gameplay Programmer
• 1x 3D Artist (general modeler)
• 1x 2D Artist (general texture artist)
• 1x Game Designer (Camera/Controls/Combat)
• 1x Audio Designer

$500k

Expanding that team:

• 1x Animator
• 1x Character Artist
• 1x Environment Artist
• 1x Prop Artist
• 1x VFX Artist
• 1x Lighting Specialist
• 1x Tools Programmer
• 1x Render/Optimization Programmer
• 1x Level Designer
• 1x Narrative Designer

$1.5M

That’s a 15 person studio, where people are still wearing multiple hats like UI, Music, IT, Testing, other things I’m forgetting about. This isn’t anywhere close to a AAA sized team of 100+ people.

This is also assuming you can stick to a STRICT time schedule. In reality you’re probably going to need a very small team at the start and not grow until you finish prototyping, then again once you’ve done a vertical slice.

Anyway. This post got real long. The gist of it is the people making the game need that money to live. There should be space in the industry to make a game with a team this size, paying your employees something close to what the big studios pay them. Getting that kind of money has been incredibly difficult these past few years.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/us-freeway-highway-expansion-black-latino-communities/

Still happening to this day. This is in Houston 5 years ago.

I hate headlines that say “latest shooting.” Don’t they realize that’s gonna be really confusing in another few days?

I don’t see it

Because it would be a shame if the military had to pay a little visit to your country if you don’t.

I Ike Righteous Gemstones, but it’s A LOT of Danny McBride. Aside from John Goodman, every actor is channeling Danny McBride through their line delivery and movement. It’s like Danny McBride directed them by saying “Do it like THIS, exactly like this. Mimic my every inflection.”

This is why it feels bad. Only one of you didn’t think this was the right partner to reach that eventuality. It’s not wrong to mourn the loss of a future you believed was assured.