You get double coverage that way.

I would never disrespect Bill Watterson like that.

Ooh divisive!

I had a lot of fun with this one. It’s definitely light and breezy, but I connected with it in a way that I did not with Godzilla '14.

Well, he’s certainly in a better position to know than any of us in the peanut gallery.

Let’s hope they get it over with and make an announcement sooner, rather than later.

No doubt - I’d rather have a law like this on the books than not.

But I hate under-enforced laws that are so troublesome to seek justice for that most people don’t bother.

I’m not a soccer fan, so maybe I’m part of the problem, but I was pretty disappointed when Valour folded last year. I hope we haven’t reached maximum pro sports saturation.

What are the odds this will also come with enough support to enforce it properly?

Couldn’t read your comment beyond the first few letters, 0/10.

This is a pleasant surprise - I had no idea if the first season was considered successful, but it was an unexpected delight.

Hmm, that is a very interesting data point.

It does seem like Paramount+ has a problem with drawing younger people - stuff aimed at younger demographics doesn’t seem to last long (with the exception of Spongebob). I always thought SFA’s success was a bit of a long shot for that reason.

And ironically, merging with HBO Max might actually help with that, but it won’t come soon enough.

Well, damn.

There’s inevitably (and understandably) going to be a lot of speculation about what, exactly, led to this decision, but…in the absence of any further information, I’m just going to be bummed about it.

I don’t have a satisfying answer for that one - wireless power transfer is NBD in the TNG era, so maybe it’s just an extreme version of that?

Reno once had a line about replacing the warp plasma conduits with “polaric” ones, so maybe they don’t use plasma at all?

But the Athena seems to, so 🤷

I’ll go for a deeper cut and say the Nova class. Small, purpose-built, and pretty cool-looking.

I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.

In “Scavengers”, right after Discovery gets her refit, Saru says, “even her nacelles are now detached, improving maneuverability and enabling us to be more efficient in flight.”

I found this pretty puzzling, but it eventually dawned on me that the explanation is probably seen most clearly with Book’s ship. There are a few times when we see his ship rearrange itself on the fly to navigate the many, many debris fields present in the post-Burn galaxy - it looks like the detached bits let them dodge debris without actually changing their course or speed.

We do get a glimpse of Discovery doing something similar late in season 5, when they ram their way into the Breen dreadnaught - the nacelles tuck themselves up and behind the saucer, reducing the ship’s profile.

I’d like to see a little more scrutiny of the way the media reports on and frames these things, too.

There are far too many stories that basically start and end at “this government project will cost X millions/billions/whatever,” without putting any effort into exploring whether that’s a lot of money in context. It’s always going to sound like a lot without proper analysis.

It was a bizarre choice to exclude Sam and Quorra, but all things considered they did it pretty well. Shame we will likely never get the continuation that they laid the groundwork for.

Your comment reminded me that I still hadn’t seen Tron: Ares, so I rectified that tonight.

It’s…perfectly fine? It looked cool, it sounded cool, it had a basic plot that worked well enough. That meets the threshold of Tron expectations for me.

The company’s LED virtual production work includes House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Reacher and Amazon’s critically acclaimed Cada Minuto Cuenta. PXO has seven creative studios and four LED volumes in the US, UK, Germany and Canada.

This is significant, to say the least.

SPE shared its intent with Televisual to eventually close the Pixomondo ‘umbrella,’ and integrate some of its capabilities into other areas of Sony.

I wonder what this means for the actual facilities.