Daniel Kaszor

I remember this coming up when the line was changed from first-born son to just first-born and Canada had to change it separately.

And honestly if "Romantasy" completely supplants "Adult Young Adult" maybe that's great? Since I think Romantasy actually has a lot more flex as a category, and also transitions to adjacent categories more readily.

To be clear: That's fine! It's actually kind of good that there is a category for readers who don't want to do advanced reading! But we should be able to talk about how that first category isn't really "YA" and probably shouldn't be called that, right?

For example, my local book store has two different sections for "YA" with COMPLETELY different content in each section. The first are books for all audiences (mostly adults) written with plain language and with easy to understand tropes. The other is a section for actual young readers.

There's a lot of chatter about booktok and romantasy right now, but it's wild just how ~weird~ book publishing is right now and how the language of how to talk about different book "tracks" is so stunted.

If the world getting set on fire somehow saves The UCP, man, I dunno.

David Gaider Reflects On 15 Years Of Dragon Age 2 - A Fan-Favorite Story That Was The Team's First Draft David Gaider talks us through a story that had to be written so quickly that his team had no time to doubt themselves.

It's the 15th anniversary of Dragon Age 2! Dragon Age 2 is almost like looking at the inner rings of a tree and seeing what happened in a particular year, except in this case it tells you exactly which departments at BioWare pushed back the most against crunch and which didn't.

It's always funny because whenever there was an interview with Ebert after Siskel died, you could both tell that Ebert had great love and genuine affection for him as a person, but also sort of thought he had terrible taste and was kind of a hack.

That 1996 Resident Evil number is just 10-ish days at the end of March yeah? That's pretty impressive for a new-IP game on a system without a super-huge huge install base in an era when people didn't really know exact release dates for things.

I sort of agree with you. I think it's notable that most people cite whatever they were listening to when they were 17 as "the best era of music" and we here are citing an era from when we were near our 30s.

(With the caveat, of course, we're talking about a very specific lane of indie music here)

One thing that I think maybe is not conveyed to the Rest Of Canada™ about the Alberta separatist movement is how much it ~deeply~ offends a large contingent of ~very conservative people~ in Alberta, especially the "business conservatives." It's a legitimate schism.

And it's telling that they had the confidence to try that after really fumbling the same thing in RE6. (Admittedly in RE6 the "Leon" style was actually the more traditional one)

The bit in the FFXIV doc where Yoshi-P is like "the reason this game turned around is we got really granular optimizing agile development" and "not work more, nessisarily, but making sure each task was meaningful" was eye opening to me. Like, shouldn't that stuff be the norm? (The answer is no)

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

I love how every few Windows releases Microsoft is like "okay boys, time to do a bad one!" Like clockwork.

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

I love how every few Windows releases Microsoft is like "okay boys, time to do a bad one!" Like clockwork.

I think about this a lot when looking at, like, 75% of the things that get posted on Bluesky.

Also, aging gracefully does NOT apply to the women in the series. Jill canonically stopped aging in 2005 for reasons. So she will forever look like she's about 30.

I think he's cannonically 49 or 50 in RE9, so he's still looking pretty good all things considered

(It's also interesting how they HAVEN'T done this with Chris who is nearing 60 in the timeline and basically doesn't look any older than he did in RE5 20 years ago)

Like that doesn't even get a below the fold mention in there

HBO Max and Paramount+ to Combine Into One Streaming Platform, Paramount Says HBO Brand Will ‘Operate With Independence’ Paramount Skydance plans to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streaming service, upon the completion of the merger between Paramount and WBD.

I find it sort of weird that Variety is talking about this giant debt-load deal like it's fait accompli, and not something that at bare minimum has like six to eight months of regulatory scuttwork before it goes through and is facing a challenge from the California state government.

It's still wild to me to think how close Toronto was to building the Spadina Expressway. What a different city that would be.

The last time a new Shield hardware revision came out was 2019! I guess the current hardware does everything that consumer niche needs it to do (ie decode 4K video with HDR+ or DolbyVision)

A hat that says "People who get diarrhea from Taco Bell are weak and their bloodline is weak and history will forget them"

Remember

The Toronto core is a small city of about 750K that's almost hermetically sealed from the larger city of about 6 million surrounding it.

Also, how, when watched all in a row, the "mythology" episodes basically stop making sense after about s3. Not the actual lore itself, which is fairly consistent, but how the characters react to it. The characters act like the AUDIENCE: ie that they've missed some of it and can't remember half of it

I'll go further on this: the fact that it's "only 33% watchable"
is ~the best thing about it~ and the necessity for modern shows to be all bangers/no filler and to ~make cogent sense and not contradict itself~ are antithetical for what made the good parts of The X-Files good, especially later on

Man, every time you post a picture of your moneypit house and all the troubles with it, I look at it and go "damn, worth it though"

One thing that BlueSky seems to have imported directly from the old Twitter is people making up a guy to be mad at and then being REALLY mad at that made up guy

This is a movie that's much better than its reputation as a flop. It's also wild how ~very clearly~ the entire aesthetic of Uncharted was basically lifted whole cloth from this movie.

Thank you for the clarity! Sorry for messing up the details! Just wanted to clear up that the conception "it was Amano art, of course it was cool" undersold how much legwork went into getting a bespoke and cool piece for that cover