Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

Do any of the people who keep bringing back the rumour that Apple is about to transition from x64 to AArch64, ever have an answer for how they make a new x64->AArch64 Roseta without an Intel licence for it.

I think the fundamental flaw of "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet" is the Pilot was written without any understanding of how AAA Game Development works, and has thus stuck them with this 'rag tag crew' that makes no sense and can't ever be a reflection of reality.

Two of the characters are QA testers who *work in the same office*! In the real world, QA testers wouldn't be in the same building, let alone ever be able to talk to the Creative Director. It's also clear that the writer didn't know a QA's job isn't just to sit and play the game.

Now, this is "just a show", but the problem is it's meant to be a comedy reflection of how games are made. Which falls flat if you don't have some basis to relate on and clear understanding of what you are mocking.

Compare and contrast - Sports Night - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. One has a rooted sense that the writers understood how sports news production works. The other did not really understand how a weekly live sketch comedy show works, and was unanchored.

There is nothing wrong with this room. The person who buys this room is in no danger. It is a perfectly ordinary room. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51310566

Ontologically speaking, Smurfs may well be groups of blue men, but they are not the same thing as Blue Men Groups.

Do you ever think that if 'My Mother the Car' had been first broadcast after the Internet was a thing, there's be Carsonas and Carthromorph conventions?

I just want to know how sad lizard was recruited into the MI6 Sniper training program.

It makes me sad that more people have not seen At Home With Amy Sedaris.

Ordering a vegan-chikin-sandwich because I might not be able to do much to make the world better today, but at least I can spite Piers Morgan.

Can I coin the phrase 'Broducers' for the Privileged White Males who somehow get a successful Franchise property, and are then allowed drive it into the ground because they think they have more writing ability than they do. #StarWars #GameofThrones #Sherlock

I think at some point we need to talk about how the idea that a stand-alone feature-presentation of +90 minutes being the "premier form for visual media" has stunted visual story telling. "Feature Length Movies" are not the be-all and end all of film, let alone visual media.

And how this idea when combined with rigid "auteur theory" prescription of the "Directors Vision" being the only thing that matters, has led Hollywood into a blind alley of repeating the same mistakes over and over in an attempt to turn what should be Serials into Set Pieces.

As an example, imagine for a moment, if instead of being sliced between different Directors with radically different ideas of how it should go, a recent Space Wizard series of movies had been developed as a coherent series. With a character bible, and a forward planned outline.

(Or for that matter, the original trilogy of Space Wizard movies. And no, no one who's a writer really buys that it was conceived as a trilogy, when the middle and last movie have such wildly different characterisation and intents. Sound similar?)

Re: Stars War. I would be happy if they did no more movies, and just TV shows from now on. Because there's a script editor for TV shows.

I don't know why, but the notification tab always shows I have 15 new notifications, no matter how many there actually are.

Would I be wrong in assuming a cadre of the people who were desperately trying to keep SF&F publishing in the 1950s, decamped to go help drag Romance publishing back to the 1950s?

As they say, catch your eggcorns before they hitch.

Just finished the final episode of Mr.Robot. If you didn't watch Mr.Robot, I certainly recommend it as binge worthy with the benefit of knowing it is not a mystery box show, and they really did have a complete story arc to tell from the start, and a satisfying ending.

After some investigation, I have determined that the new Microsoft Console's name is in roman numerals, and meant to be pronounced TenboTen SeventyOneSeventy Ten.

Imagine what might have happened if the movie producers had gotten confused, and we'd gotten a Horny CGI version of Les Misérables.

I have some complaints about this Flu DLC, I did not want this download, and it has ruined game balance. And I'm worried it's voided the warranty on my Lungs!?!

I can not justify buying one of these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/173895232691