They’re apparently making a 4 player mostly VS, sometimes co-op Umihare Kawase greater expanded universe game.
(gameplay starts 24:36)
Coming out summer 2020
Umihara Kawase BaZooKa!! is a “rubbering battle action” game
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they showed this at TGS and the only english word in the trailer was “ESPORTS”
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My brother got a resin printer and he is slowly making translucent shells for all of his stuff. It rules
The Xbone controller is maybe the least interesting to look at because its interior has a second skeleton for rigidity (big factor in its relative solidity vs the mostly hollow DS4)
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So when is your bro setting up an Etsy shop I can buy a bunch of transparent shells from :3
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PCGamer just reminded me that Dark Souls was ported to PC in response to a petition of about 90,000 and that makes me smile
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New Oddworld coming out. First I’ve heard of it. Lorne mentions it at the end of this brief history story of the first game.
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the new Guilty Gear looks incredible
Hell yeah, I’d play Tactics Hup: Let Us Hup Together
still quite confused by netflix’s approach to this franchise (singlehandedly prop up the british puppeteering industry by reviving a fairly obscure 80s property, ???, profit?) but this looks pretty good for being so average
I also only learned this week that jim henson died basically of strep throat because he couldn’t be bothered to go to the doctor which is pretty on the nose for probably one of the 5 or 10 most popular american artists of the 20th century
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Is The Dark Crystal obscure?
I mean, maybe to kids born after 1995 or something. But I think its otherwise pretty well considered a near classic. If not bonified.
And they’ve been trying to get something going for several years. There’s been a couple of movie drafts and whatnot. The story from one of those is now a canon sequel in comicbook form. They were waitint until everything felt right. They also guaged interest by holding a writing competition, the winner of which would get to write canon YA novels. And those books have been doing well. Which I guess was a pretty big factor in pushing harder to get something on screen. And that writer also was a major contributor to the show. he’s young!
I think it’s more like, the budget seems outsized next to what seems rational
But then it’s one of those properties that doesn’t make sense to do on the cheap, so probably Netflix has enough cash to blow that producers can make exceptions based on stuff they’re rooting for at the moment
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Yeah that’s basically what they said in the making of documentary.—That the rights owners didn’t want to do it cheap and Netflix basically had no issue with that. And Season 2 is in production so, apparently the viewer response was good!
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You have to wonder how subscription services value individual shows. Like the amount of people who buy a subscription for a single thing has to be a rounding error, so how do companies make a composite of like, each of our original shows adds x y and z value such that a b and c people maintain subscriptions
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I have no idea. But they were said to have spent about 13 billion on original shows/movies in 2018. So, they have some cash.
Netflix reported 5.25 billion in quarter 3 earnings this year. 4.92 billion in Q2.
That 13 billion for 2018 was only on original content. Not on other stuff. So, it seems like they are probably spending about as much as they are making.
no, he was a Christian Science follower and they don’t go to doctors per their beliefs
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How many times somebody starts watching a specific episode of a show plus how many times they watch a second episode of that show plus how much time was between the first two plus how many times they then watch a show that is deemed to be similar to the show. I’m not sure how much metrics-tracking they do in terms of new-show-to-subscription creation or new-show-to-subscription cancellation just because as you’ve alluded to, there’s a lot of noise there.
Netflix is investing heavily in original content because they know if they can reliably become a content creator rather than a distributor of other people’s content, it’s both more profitable and hedges against things like the current trend of content creators pulling back content for distribution through their own channels.
(All of the above is broken down by region as well, including content creation.)
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Sure, I get that they’d have infinite metrics but like, how does that translate into an answer to the question, “was it worth $x million to make this show? Would it have been worth it for $x minus y million?”
TV ratings translate directly to eyeballs on advertisements, therefore advertisers can value the worth of the ads which means networks could value the show. With the money paid up front, it’s just ???
He was raised christian scientist, and I know he was involved with at least one new age religion well into adulthood.
(the dark crystal was supposedly based on that, according to some sources).
All the accounts I’ve read it really was just that he didn’t want to bother anyone. I don’t think he was practicing anything at the time of his death.