Southside Jim

Presumably, Bioware won't have any issues recruiting people to move to Edmonton in the future. I remember when Visceral Games closed down, one programmer I knew through a friend was complaining on Facebook that the only job offer he got would require him to move to Dublin, Ireland. As our ecenomy continues to contract, American developers will be fighting for jobs in Ireland or Edmonton.

Because it was BioWare who initiated Anthem in the first place, back in 2014. If you read Jason Schreier's articles, it was Casey Hudson and co. who first conceived this, wanting to do something other than a single player RPG. Blizzard/BioWare/Rockstar: Hey, we're just gonna spend 3-7 years farting around, and maybe we'll have a great game after that. Activision/EA/2K Games: No, you're not. In fact, you need to start making games a lot faster than you have been.

BioWare STILL hasn't learned their lesson. Instead of having a lead guy/gal calling the shots and saying "this is what we're gonna do," they have a committee of 30+ people "exploring" what they could do.

This is the moment when I gave up on Star Trek: Discovery.

And they committed a gun crime in Florida, which has the "10-20-Life" law, which adds a mandatory 10 years in prison, on top of your original sentence, for anyone convicted of using a gun during a crime. So at the very least, assuming they get convicted by 2022, they wouldn't get out of prison until 2032 at the earliest. So much for Dave Gettleman "changing the Giant's culture."

My father always taught me to be very pragmatic, so "we shall see." Wisconsin, Georgia, and Florida are the petrie dishes for the rest of the country. So far, cases in Georgia and Florida remain flat. The problem is that so many of the predictions were wildly off-target, but the news cycle moves so fast now that no one has a chance to absorb and study the figures. I mean, Christ, both CNN.com and Politico have been focused all day on the Richard Burr insider trading scandal instead of having reporters on the ground in Wisconsin to monitor open bars/restaurants/malls and see if people are getting sick as they dine or shop.

I caught 1973's Executive Action via TCM and Sling. It's a very low budget conspiracy thriller film with Burt Lancaster as a shadowy government agent who orchestrates the assasination of JFK on behalf of some super conservative businessmen. Both Ed Lauter and Dick Miller have supporting roles as members of the assassination squad. I know both guys were "working actors" who appeared in everything, but it's actually kind of distracting seeing them in it, as they should have cast total unknowns to drive home the "shadowy government conspiracy" angle.

In addition to a new Battlestar Galactica, Peacock is also financing a TV adaptation of Brave New World.

Those commercials where they show old home videos of C.B. Stubblefield singing, I can see why he pivoted towards a career in making BBQ sauce.

USA has cancelled both Treadstone and The Purge and will be moving almost entirely away from scripted original programming and focusing on reality tv crap for their original programming. I guess Characters Aren't Welcome anymore at USA.

"Congratulations on becoming the first TNT Champion! Here's a convicted rapist to present you with the belt!"

Assuming this isn't part of an angle, than Zayn's done. He'll be buried once he comes back, assuming he wasn't already scheduled to be humiliated.

So I guess RAW, Smackdown, and NXT will all be emanating from Wisconsin for the next few weeks. RAW and Smackdown will presumably air from big arenas while NXT will be shot at small arenas like UW-Milwaukee's volleyball arena.

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For us Rogue/Magneto shippers, AoA was always a favorite.

Does anyone know the result of this match? I haven't been able to find anything.

I have nothing but contempt for "reality" shows as it is, but I never looked at Judge Judy or The People's Court and said to myself "If only they got Chrissy Tiegen to host, then I would watch it."

I wonder why we haven't seen more sitcoms give their characters jobs like "YouTube movie reviewer" or "Patreon fitness model" to justify never showing the character at work and spending all their time at home, hanging out with their kids?

Bought tickets to Orlando, Florida for next month. So, so fucking tired of everything here being closed. Looking forward to going to a mall to do some shopping and getting a proper haircut. Hopefully Universal Studios will be reopened by then, haven't been to Harry Potter World yet.

Just finished binging season one of Harley Quinn and I have to say that the voice acting on DC cartoons has improved tremendously since Andrea Romano retired. She was always content to let "celebrity" voice actors phone in their performances (often times literally, as most would record their lines via ISDN) and only have them do one or two takes, resulting in some really lazy performances in the straight-to-DVD movies. The voice directors for Quinn (Dean Lorey, Patrick Schumacker, and Charlie "Buster Bunny" Adler) have done a great job of having the celebrity voice actors actually give nuance to their performances, instead of simply driving to the recording studio, spending 20 minutes taping their lines, and then cashing a check.

I remember back in 2009-10, somebody on eBay had a copy of the NWA United States title belt that had been autographed in silver ink by every man who had held it (Magnum, Nikita, Luger, Dusty, Windham, Hayes, and Hansen). The last time I looked at it, bidding was at $1100, anyone remember what the final purchase price was?

Just curious, what does Elliot S. Maggin actually do for a living these days? Would love if the post-Didio management brought him back as the main Superman writer.

Alan Arkin and famed children's author Avi (real name: Edward Wortis) are first cousins.

Thumbs Down for no one "accidentally" slamming Bruce Prichard face first into a bathroom mirror, and also for not flying the old All Japan pbp announcer to Stamford and having Johnny Ace lay everyone out with Ace Crushers while the All Japan announced yelled "ACE CRUSHAH!!!" over and over again.