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One-digit representation of the year? Though you would assume that in 2019 you would use some standard class for an object storing date/time information. Even considering that engine is probably 20 years old, they had at least one, more likely two, decade-rollovers in the past. Though I must say, I had to deal with some weird-ass bugs due to "optimizations" when storing date information. Some examples: - In a software developed something like 2001 or 2002, someone (who is now a manager in our company) had the glorious idea to reserve only 4 bit for storing the year information, i.e. after (20)15 the clock rolled over to (20)00, for time-limited licenses. So it was not possible to create licenses, that expired in 2016, as that meant that the license was already expired (as the rest of the system had no problem as it used standard classes to deal with time information). - In a product we were using a 3rd party GPS chip, that stores the "GPS week" information with 8 bits. So every 256 weeks the "GPS week" counter runs over. The developer did not consider the potential rollover and when it first occurred (which it does ever 4.9 years), it led to a lot of weird-ass behavior. By the way: last year, a full rollover happened (per standard the information only is stored in 10 bits, so every 1024 weeks this runs over, independent of the implementation). There is even a nice Wikipedia page on the whole general issue of bugs due to time rollovers (including the WWE 2k20 problem): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs The year 2038 is still far away, but I am sure that there will still be lots of issues on January, 19th 2038: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Mr. Kennedy was also injured a lot, mostly smaller injuries that kept him on the sidelines for a couple of weeks here and there, but also some bigger ones. Getting injured at the wrong time more than once basically killed his WWE career.

I was watching Endgame for the first time a couple of days ago. The funeral scene at the end makes you realize the amount of acting talent that was involved with the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the years. There were something like 20 actors that either have won an Academy Award or were at least nominated for one in Endgame alone. If you look at the other movies, you'll get another 20 or so actors with an Oscar or a nomination.

Maybe they thought his family did not want anything like that considering that it took more than half a year to get out. Thinking about it, that sounds very likely as I am sure that they knew about his passing for quite some time and did not report it anywhere themselves.

As long as the movie makes 1 billion at the box office (worldwide; which it will) and the reviews are not Cats-level (which they were not), I would not get my hopes up.

I had that feeling when watching TLJ, where when I left the cinema, I was sure that a day has passed. I went into this (IX) movie expecting little (though I should admit that I am not really a Star Wars fan, out of the 8 previous main-line movies, I would call maybe 3 good with only one of them being great) and was just trying to get a popcorn-flick experience and from that regard I was not disappointed. At least it was much more straightforward as TLJ with its 100 subplots that lasted forever and lead to little. Here it was pretty linear A to B to C to D, even if little mattered. From a production point-of-view, the Leia stuff was so bad. It was like a youtube-spoof where someone takes random reaction shots of an original mixed with his own stuff.

Lindelöf sure seems to be in love with that Mozart requiem, I for one, cannot hear that piece without thinking about The Big Lebowski.

Heihachiro Togo (a Japanese general of the late 19th and early 20th century), not Hideki Togo (by which, I assume, you mean Hideki Tojo (the Japanese prime minister during WW2, who was hanged as a war criminal)). I must admit that I only realized your mistake as I was looking them up a couple of days ago on Wikipedia.

If you mean the original Sin Cara, than yes.

So am I responsible for the Ascension getting fired? At this point I really thought that those guys were somehow going to be lifers.

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There are two points in this video I disagree with / that I doubt: (1) The implication that concentrating QA efforts more of WWE2k20 would have made for a better game: testing does not mean that the quality improves, just that the state of the quality of the software is known. And if the developers are not able to fix the issues within the given timeframe, you are left with three options: (a) delay the release, (b) kick out all unstable/buggy features or (c) release the broken software (maybe with the hope that you are able to fix the biggest issue later, basically making it banana ware - the software has to ripen after being deployed). No one will ever go for option (b). A good and stable company would go option (a), here the obviously got for option (c). (2) The point about first-party quality control: I don't work in game development, but I highly doubt that Sony and Microsoft have high quality standards for games to be released on their platforms using their store systems etc., unlike Nintendo does (or at least did in the past). Especially longtime developers and (relatively) big players like 2k probably have hardly any hurdles at all to clear.

His successor certainly does not disagree with such tactics.

This game is rigged, man.

That chess position looks to be barely legal. Either they were just randomly moving the pieces on the board, or those guys are playing their first chess game of their lives.

I hope GCW star The Invisible Man gets royalties for his appearence in WWE 2k20.

To me a big problem with the match was that the early spots were using real stuff while the supposed big spots at the ending (minus exposed ring) were very obviously gimmicked, i.e. you somehow had an inversion of escalation of violence. Of course, it did not help either, that Cody suffered a nasty hardway cut plus the beltshots, that made him look worse-off than the two guys in the ultraviolence hardcore match. And please get rid of Earl Hebner. The only thing, he should still do for AEW is teaching Aubrey Edwards how to get the maximum out of the "ref throwing out heel manager" spot. Or was that Tim White, who was the king of that spot?

Ermey is a tricky one. He was basically playing himself, doing in front of the camera what he was doing in his day job. Sure, he was perfect in this role, but if you are being yourself (or an extended version of yourself), is it still acting?

You are all forgetting about the youngest WWE Superstar (tm): former WWE tag team champion Nicholas. That is, until Matt Hardy gets the 24/7 belt on King Maxel.

I suppose divide and conquer is the only way for WWE management to come ahead in this one.

How would the guys that had to stay know the real story? If it was not a mechanical issue, I am sure that they were fed bullshit for 24+ hours from both WWE and the Saudi officials.

If they were not able to fix the engine enough to get it halfway into a releasable state, what where the chances that they did fix it within 10 days after release?

Hmm... okay, this was only the case over here (Austria) for satellites channels (i.e. the satellite receiver box had to be set to the correct channel), but not for terrestrial or cable television. I.e. you could watch one channel on terrestrial or cable television while taping any other channel (of course, you only had cable or satellite TV, but not both).

If you DVR it, you just FF through the commercial, so they are irrelevant for the TV channels. To the other point: I would assume most people had a VHS in the late 90ies so you could just tape the show you did not watch like with DVR.

Considering that the whole series is 20 years old and from my understanding only had small-ish changes in each iteration, the code basis is probably quite complicated and hard to maintain or even to extend. I would not be surprised, if there are core parts of the code that only a very small number of Yuke's-developer had any understanding of. Other parts probably no one even dared to touch for years. Now after the split from Yuke's, new developers had to take over and they literally did not know what they were doing. I would not be surprised, if the source code itself has reached that part in its life-cycle, where technical debt (that came in to the regular release cycle without doing any proper refactoring of older code) is too big, to make any sensible releases anymore, i.e. the software is dead (unless they want to spend one or two years just cleaning up the mess that accumulated over the years, without doing anything else).