Sam Machkovech ( u/samred81 ) penned a follow-up article to last year's on the Amico. The article includes many links to back up what he says, but I'm curious how folks here feel. Is it fair? A hit piece? Do you think there's any way for Intellivision Entertainment to right this possibly-sinking boat? Or is it from here on out smooth sailing for the U.S.S. Amico?
Nothing new really, I don't think, just reinforcing previous statements worth considering like:
> ARS: You've said that you consider time to be a character in its own right in this series. Can you expound upon that?
GOYER: In my first meeting with Apple, I said, I don't think it's possible to adapt this without taking time jumps. Sometimes we are going to jump forward a generation. Sometimes we're going to jump forward 100 years. Sometimes we're going to jump back 400 years. Sometimes we're going to tell two stories that are not in parallel timelines. I need to know that you're okay with that. If, you're not, I don't think we can do this show.
The tropes of SF allow us to explore time in ways that we couldn't do in a contemporary drama. We can deal with a character going into cryo sleep and waking up 40 or 50 years later, we can deal with crazy concepts like time dilation, where time is relative. All of that is nerdy and technological, but it's only interesting if it's also emotional. Ep. 5 is a major one for Gaal's story. It very much plays with time in all sorts of different ways.
S1 is largely narrated by Gaal. I'm interested in unreliable narrators. This isn't just purely an omniscient narration. Gaal is telling the story from some distant point in the future and reflecting back on what we've seen. What is she editing out? What is she adding? Is it a subjective depiction of the events that are unfolding or is objective?
There's a lot of power in history. What we choose to forget and what we choose to remember, what we choose to record in history is important because it changes our orientation to the past and to the future. Hari Seldon is using psychohistory to predict the broad movements of civilization. He can't predict your individual lifeline, what you had for dinner, but he can predict the broad movements of humanity. Is he predicting a probable future or a definite future? And when you're dealing with predicting the future, what does that mean in terms of our own human agency?
> ARS: Kevin, what was your basic philosophical approach as science advisor?
Kevin Hand: Our attitude was, let's do our best to have a decent degree of fidelity to the science, but not lose sight of what's going to be dramatically gratifying and serve the story well. [...] For example, in the scene where a professor on Synnax is drowned, originally he was just
... keep reading on reddit β‘Written in the bones: Medieval skeletons tell story of social inequality in Cambridge
The working class had higher risk of injury than friars or sheltered hospital inmates.
JENNIFER OUELLETTE - 1/6/2022, 2:43 AM
The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.
Enlarge / The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Our final post in the 2021 series: Skeletal remains excavated from medieval sites in Cambridge reveal occupational and social disparities in the population.
A working class woman who suffered from domestic violence. A friar who may have been the victim of a horse-and-cart hit-and-run. Those are just two examples of the remains of 314 people excavated from three very different medieval burial sites in Cambridge, England. The evidence of skeletal trauma on many of those remains sheds light on what medieval Cantabrigian lives were like, in terms of occupation, living conditions, and social status, according to a paper published last January in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
The research stems from the After the Plague project at Cambridge University's Department of Archaeology, which explores how historical conditions influence health and how health, in turn, shapes history. The project particularly focuses on the Black Death period (1347-1350 CE) in later medieval England, which wiped out between a third and a half of Europe's population.
"By comparing the skeletal trauma of remains buried in various locations within a town like Cambridge, we can gauge the hazards of daily life experienced by different spheres of medieval society," said lead author Jenna Dittmar, a paleopathologist at Cambridge. "We can see that ordinary working folk had a higher risk of injury compared to the friars and their benefactors or the more sheltered hospital inmates."
*By the 13th century, Cambridge was a thriving market town with an active river port and a rural agricultural component on the outskirts of town. Its famed university had only just been founded. "Although a small town
... keep reading on reddit β‘Article:
"I received an email from [GameStop Investor Relations representative] Eric Cerny and in the email he said, 'We are allowed to state we will receive a portion of the downstream revenue from any device we will bring into the Xbox ecosystem,'" Domo Capital Management President Justin Dopierala told Ars in an interview.
WTF, if this is real, that could mean the former BOD and execs setup the deal to support an aftermarket for digital games without even realizing it? Could this have been one of RC's aha moments prior to yolo'ing GME? Holy moly...
Dopierala also told Ars the revenue-sharing arrangement should apply to "all downstream digital revenue" on the GameStop-sold systems, which would include digital movies, TV, and music purchases made through the system, for instance. "I believe the simplest way to think about it is this: On any next-gen Xbox sold by GameStop, any transaction where Microsoft makes money, GameStop makes money," Dopierala said.
Chukumba expressed a different understanding, though, saying he was told the deal only applied to games and game-related content. "They've been so fucking vague about the whole thing..." he added in exasperation.
It seems our favorite Chukumba is quoted in this article somewhat less bearish back then, and he probably added a sizeable short position on GME since then based on the way he talks about it now. IMO, he's a dumb sh*t who truly didn't understand it back then, and he still doesn't understand that GAMESTOP WILL MAKE LOTS OF MONEY ON THE SALE OF DIGITAL GAMES.
A year ago, this was good news, and probably not such a major thing. Today, we know that a blockchain supported aftermarket for games with royalty tiers is going to be part of a whole new industry
Edit#2: I found this unverified post on another sub that further supports this.
Caption: This post OP saying GME is getting 2/3 of all Xbox consoles in the future.
TLDR:
MSFT/GME deal is bullish AF.
Edit: fixed link, grammar
Per title, if you want a to get the moddable (Steam) version of GTA III/VC/SA you have very little time left before they are delisted from Steam on "the week of October 11, 2021." This is in preparation for the upcoming release of the trilogies remasters (Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy β The Definitive Edition). So, if you've been putting it off, you may want to act now. You can read more about it in the Ars Technica article that I grabbed the headline from. Also at R*'s support page.
Lowend will be missing some stalwarts shortly. All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!
