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Honestly from an objective business perspective, the entire take-over has been handled shoddily. If I were an engineer still working there, I would seek other employment quickly (especially if they are serious about delegating FTC certification to the engineering level).

I'm not sure what this has to do with the fact that almost the entire senior security staff left in one go. Or the FTC breathing down their necks. And if the point is that a situation where anyone can buy a blue tick for eight dollars is better, I suggest you check out the insane stuff that has already happened even after just a few days of that.

Yeah, a lot of concern from people whose entire audience is on twitter. I think they are fucked either way. Even if the company does not go down, Elon's vision of it is very different. Only blue checkmarks will get primacy. So the age of non-verified users building very large followings (e.g. @dril) is essentially over. And most of the people who built their audience entirely on Twitter started out anonymously.

First one I read was The Stand. But after that, I read most of his back catalogue and I have bought most of the new ones since then. Most recent one I have read is Fairy Tale.

Fuck me!

This is one of the things that has the FTC rattled.

If even half the stories - heck if even one third of the stories - coming out of twitter right now are true, the company will soon be bankrupt. After laying off half the staff and the disaster of the new Twitter Blue launch, there are now also reports of the FTC and the European commission getting ready to crawl up their backside (no doubt because the entire senior executive staff tasked with user security quit the same day). And apparently Musk just admitted - internally - the company has a negative cash flow of billions of dollars and that he has had to sell some Tesla stock just to keep them afloat.

Andor is easily the best thing I am watching right now. Apparently the viewership is disappointing, so I should enjoy it as long as it can last.

Huh, when I read your post about a set from 2018 in which she supposedly wasn't 18 yet, I thought "surely that cannot be right". I had honestly thought she was in her mid twenties. Not just 22. Hasn't she been dating Tyler Hoechlin for a few years now? So they started seeing each other when she was in her late teens?

They are like a deeply unfunny version of the Onion to me.

He is also meant to look very different based on the book descriptions, you need to imagine him more like a young Jack Palance. Iwan Rheon is probably too conventionally handsome to play him.

Was too old when the first one was published to have ever bothered. At that age I was already more into Stephen King.

Ramsey Bolton in the books is more dark and sinister even than in the show. And I would also say that he is a bit smarter.

Telsa stock has dropped by 38.50% in just the last five days.

He had a pretty big role in the Hunger Games movies. And The Expendables 2. He's not much of an actor. I think even the least famous Hemsworth brother Luke has more talent than he does. But it's not just the acting talent, everything about him is also so very wrong for Geralt. Travis Fimmel was actually once suggested as Geralt and he would have been much better as a replacement. Or someone like Anson Mount. Anyone who could give the role a bit of gravitas.

Replacing a lead mid-run is always disastrous for any show. Most opt against it and just cancel. But if you are going to do it, at least put some effort into it. Liam Hemsworth feels like they just cast the biggest name that was interested in the role as opposed to someone who might be right to play Geralt.

Though my favorite rumors are that they have rushed through new functionality that is meant to debut soon but have already fired the teams that created it. So they have gotten rid of the devs that wrote it before the go-live of the new functionality. That is completely crazy (and I'm being kind).

I've been told he is a high quality candidate.

The thing that stands out to me about Gotham Knights is that visually it doesn't look that much more impressive than its predecessors? I have seen some fun-looking gameplay.

Emily is such a babe.

Oh FFS, these are many of the people who worked on Wild Hunt. Unless they have changed considerably since then, I doubt trashing the entire tone of the original games is their goal. The thing I hate the most about culture wars nonsense is that literally everything has to be made about it. I cannot look forward to playing the original game in an updated engine apparently.

Apparently some of the fired Twitter staff are now getting approached to return. If this is true, you have to wonder how exactly they handled the sackings. You would expect them to at least bother to check they were not allowing people with key knowledge leave. But if they are truly returning already, you have to assume that is what happened. Amazing.

I mentioned that people made that interpretation earlier. Seems silly to me. This new team is made up out of Witcher veterans and CDPR never was a very "woke" company. I thought it to mean a recreation in a next-gen engine, not that they would change the tone of the original games.

That's why I think the previous board of directors did a good job. If they hadn't done what they had done, the previous shareholder should have fired their asses. Basically they got offered more money than the company is almost certainly worth, an offer that wasn't very likely ever to be matched let alone exceeded. And then they did not allow Musk to finagle out of the deal. From the prospective of a shareholder, that's what I would want them to do!

He got rid of some pretty key functionality departments. Like he got rid of the entire Accessibility Experience team. There was also a huge purge of the security department, supposedly based on the fact that their worth was assessed based on amount of code written over x period of time. Anyway, the idea that Jack was employing like 3700 entirely superfluous staff members is absurd. He wasn't running a charity.