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GeekNights 20110728 - Horror
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss horror and what we enjoy in that genre of media. In other news, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a powerful argument for both the expansion and embracing of a fair-use culture, and Nintendo unprecedentedly cuts the price on the faltering DSI. Also, Scott has never seen Mazes and Monsters, and he lost his fancy water bottle (which he really, really needed to share).
- Scott's Thing - Alan Moore: An Extraordinary Q&A
- Rym's Thing - Garfield Minues Garfield: The Book
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Great bottle.
I agree that the movie itself was bad, but Tom Hanks, even though he had little to work with, did an excellent job in his role. All the other actors sucked, of course. I think it's a movie worth seeing for that reason alone, i.e. to see how a good actor can do a good job with a crappy role in a crappy movie. Don't watch it for the story. Just watch it for Tom Hanks.
1) The reason business's don't embrace the fair use culture the way Hasbro has is likely, because they don't see the amount of money they could potentially make from that additional market exposure as off setting or over taking the amount of money they see they could lose from it. So the invisible hand of Adam Smith is there, it's just that right now there isn't enough information showing them that they will make more money embracing fair use, once we start to see more examples of MLP fair use sorts of things the market will shift to embrace fair use.
2) Video games (in terms of console manufacturers,) already subsist on the razor/razorblade model. Generally consoles are sold at less then the cost of production, and then the console manufacturers make their money from licensing (such that if you want to release a game on the console you have to pay them a small amount of money for each game that sells.) The only real exception to this has been the Wii and possibly the 3DS (I'm not entirely sure, but the large price drop seems to indicate that this may have been the case.) The Wii was the first console that was sold at a profit at launch, and has always sold at a profit. Which is why Nintendo didn't ever actually need to release games for it, since they were making more money selling the console then they were from licensing or selling their own games.
Additionally you won't see the Xbox become a PC because of the above model. Why would I release a game for PC and pay Microsoft money for the ability to say it's "up to Xbox standard," when I can just release a game for PC without that. Microsoft has already been trying to do this with Games for Windows Live, which has always been a half assed failure. There is far more potential revenue for Microsoft to make a new console, and make money as the bouncer then try to act as a bouncer to a club where there is a big hole in the wall. Of course the same applies for Sony, which is perhaps seemingly very far behind the 360 in the US in terms of console sales, but the two are a lot closer when you take into account world wide sales data (I would say that there is definitely one more console generation at the current model, probably 2, before things start to change or there is consolidation.)
Then I stopped getting scared.
Then, much much later, I watched Event Horizon at the movies. Still remember contemplating if I should walk out or not!
God, I miss that feeling.
Oh, I guess, I like the little chill here and there as well, but it's a rare story that raises more than a little gooseflesh with me unless it involves an auto accident, or spiders, or heights, or some real world thing that I find scary.
He said that Davis et al. told him how it was going to be, and he was just happy to see them not pursue legal action against him. He was also really pleased that Davis loved the comics (enough to re-package and sell them).
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