Don’t think you could hold actors to that kind of schedule. They’d end up with countless delays for scheduling conflicts.

No shit, Sherlock. Everyone has been complaining about that since Stranger Things season 2.

I just hope they don’t act like grief ends after the acute stage and everything is ok. Because it’s not like that. You carry it, but it never goes away.

Fear of missing out. It is institutionally ingrained into Microsoft when they were publicly burned for “missing out on the internet.”

Demonstrably false. But some do like the added imperfections that vinyl adds.

Really depends. You can twist it around the other way too. If, as multiple sources have confided, they did have contempt for the source material it isn’t a stretch that they’d have no patience for Cavill’s criticisms. They would have viewed Cavill as a dick for being more loyal to the author’s vision. They certainly did put out that propaganda to save their own skins. And given how the quality of the show declined and viewership along with it, reality favors Cavill.

I have no doubt they got the major beats right, but their execution to get to those points was horrendous. After watching season 8 I realized why the fAegon plotline was important. GRRM can get there in a more satisfying way.

I hope not, I want him to get his full accolades while alive. I have no doubt he will come up with a great ending. Though I do wonder if he got spooked by the TV Show ending.

I get it, but Martin HAS set fan expectations. We’ve been teased by Martin about how he’s so close multiple times. He insists he’s furiously working on ASOIAF, but then he’s writing other books, working on multiple TV shows, etc. Again, all this is coming from Martin’s own mouth. If he enjoys those other projects and wants to work on them, that is his choice to make. That is where he doesn’t owe us anything. But he doesn’t get to lie to us either. And it is pretty clear he has.

Is there still a live action 40k starring Cavill?

And the Pentagon is convinced we’ll never be in a war of attrition ever again. They’re planning like it is still the early 90s and the Gulf War. Completely ignoring what is happening in Ukraine and how even mid-sized armies like Iran can still be functional after high tech strikes. And the orange buffoon isn’t helping by demanding a return of the Battleship instead of millions of cheap air and sea drones.

Between missing the drone wave and the fact that the private sector has massively outsourced our industrial capacity, could we even sustain a war with a near peer? How long before shortages got dire? Few months?

An IPTV service like Trex.

Until people take a principled stand and stop buying games with kernel level anti-cheats, nothing will change.

That only works if the ISPs are in direct competition, which for the vast majority of the country, are not.

Nah, they increased the cost to drive people to the monthly subscription. I’m guessing in a year or two they’ll announce the lifetime subs have been revoked and everyone needs a monthly sub.

I don’t care what anyone says, three years between seasons is ridiculous.

Friends and I would record off the radio and trade cassettes all the time.

Usually to copy VHS you needed a two VCR setup. My friends and I weren’t really into it, but we knew a couple of adults that were, and we suspected they swapped porn mainly.

The other bit of piracy we did was copying and swapping C64 floppy disks. The computer store in town rented C64 games (and other platforms) and the store owner was a family friend of one of my buddies. He’d supply us with the latest hot copy software as it was released, like Copy B, Copy C, and several others I can remember. So of course we rented tons of games and copied them. We became quite the dealers of our small C64 town group. But we never charged anything because it was mainly our friends.

No, because it is not true. The Internet started as an idea for decentralized communications that the military could use in case of nuclear war. Then DARPA got the universities involved and it became a way to connect all the uni networks, which the unis used to share research when we were not being nuked.

Edit: When the internet first started to appear, there just wasn’t enough bandwidth to engage in surveillance, even after the uni’s got involved. No one anticipated it exploding into everyone’s household. Surveillance got tacked on later.

We told you so.

Fuck them season ticket holders! They already paid up!