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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.

The algos are fairly complex. And they are what can be monetized.

The Liams Hemsworth for Henry Cavill thing isn't any less horrible now that a few days have passed since the news dropped. It has to be one of the worst recasting choices in history. They were always going to have an uphill battled replacing Cavill. He is a household name and he did a good job I think. But Liam Hemsworth... this is like they put absolutely zero effort into thinking of alternatives.

It was inevitable, the take-over has saddled them with interest payments of 1 billion a year, with a revenue that isn't even close to being able to sustain that. So they were always going to do cost-cutting at a crazy scale. What is harder to understand is that he is implementing new functionalities at the same time as laying off half his staff. That's not how it works in any well-run company.

Noted Africa expert Jordan Petersen? Damn, he is apparently well-versed in many fields. 😛

Mass lay-offs going on at Twitter. Apparently handled so shoddily that Elon already is facing a class action lawsuit over it.

Strangely her BFF Christen Harper has gone the other way and has her more natural weight from a few years ago back.

Well yeah, it's very old. See William Randolph Hearst, for instance. BTW, you can see the Bezos influence in the difference how the NY Times and the Washington Post have reported on the Twitter take-over. WaPo's editorial line about that event has been far more negative.

Is she going to be in The Last of Us HBO show? She posted an ad for it on her IG today.

There is also the difference in price. I believe Bezos paid just 250 million for the WaPo? That's a tiny fraction of what Musk had to pay for Twitter.

Well yeah, but why wouldn't she be? 1. She was once one of the most beautiful women in the world 2. She is only 56, so it's not like we are talking about an age in which you would expect all of her youthful beauty to have faded