I collect books and have a number signed by people who are no longer with us. :(
One of the Wheel of Time books signed by Robert Jordan.
Martian Chronicles signed by Ray Bradbury.
X-Men #1 signed by Stan Lee.
The early Rocketeer appearances signed by Dave Stevens.
A Contract With God limited edition #33/125 signed by Will Eisner.
Thieve’s World graphic novels signed by Tim Sale.
Two people can’t run the same bureau.
You’d think there would be some government agency whose purpose it is to identify redundancies like that…
I don’t want you to digitize my handwriting, I want you to convert my handwriting to text.
Just got a replacement credit card yesterday, they don’t even put signature blocks on the back anymore.
To be fair, TikTok is not banned yet. There is no enforcement action against them. They are choosing to do this now to make a point.
Well, that’s great for you! Definitely not the norm though!
Continuing to work for the same company will only provide +2% to +4% per year regardless of knowledge gained. You aren’t paid for how much you know.
To get the large gains in income, you have to re-set your salary by changing jobs, at which point you get one big bump, then go back to +2% to +4% per year.
Films can have the same problem.
Notably the 4th film in the “Divergent” series was never made, although we got the first 3. The 3rd was a rushed failure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_(film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divergent_Series:_Insurgent
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divergent_Series:_Allegiant
Similarly, the film adaptation of the “His Dark Materials” series sputtered out after one film, Golden Compass:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)
It would take TWELVE YEARS to reboot the franchise as series television for HBO.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians was another notable failure which somehow got 2 films out of a 7 book series:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson_%26_the_Olympians:_The_Lightning_Thief
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson:_Sea_of_Monsters
It also would see a streaming reboot, this time 10 years later on Disney+
Even the perennial classic Narnia books had trouble in the film space, getting quite good adaptations of the first three books of seven before vanishing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_Prince_Caspian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader
We have mint too. Every time I think I’ve uprooted it all, it grows back.
Definitely getting into uncharted territory because the 38th state didn’t ratify until after a) the deadline had long since passed and b) 5 states had already “de-ratified”.
So, yes, 38 states have ratified the amendment, but only 33 currently.
Need to prune the roses real quick too…
It would look like a standard Xbox or Playstation controller, only instead of a right analog stick, there would be a trackball.
Right on the line, 0 to 20° here. Time to insulate the hoses and such.
I have functional music CDs from 1983 and gaming CDs on the Sega CD forward.
Not sure why anyone would think that, I have functional machines and games going back to the Atari 2600.
I watched this happen, it was death in slow motion. Sony never gave the Vita the resources it needed.
2011-2012 - Vita launches with 25 games.
E3 - 2012 - Sony skips the Vita at E3 and instead devotes 30 minutes to “Wonderbook”. When asked why they skipped their newly launched console, Sony explains that there’s only so much time during a keynote. The Wonderbook would not last the season.
E3 - 2013 - Vita games are shown, but they are chiefly indie games that are available on other platforns like Spelunky. Tearaway, the stand out exclusive title, would eventually sell only 14,000 copies and be ported to PS4.
E3 - 2014 - Sony skips the Vita at E3 and instead devotes 30 minutes to talk about the Powers TV show, a show which, at the time, had not even been cast and had nothing to actually show. Both the show and the video service it’s on would soon be cancelled.
2014 - Sony announces first party games are scaling back, hard to scale back from something that was barely there in the first place, and would focus primarily on Indie and 3rd party development.
2015 - Sony admits publicly that AAA development on the Vita has stopped at all internal Sony studios.
2018 - Physical game production stops.
2019 - Vita hardware production stops.
Yup, which is why I give folks a shot to change it before removing it. ;) Unless it’s clearly from the submitter.
Pretty much!
“My primary care physician retired, can you find me a new one?” that kind of thing.
There is no cease fire… yet. At best it’s proposed until Israel votes on it and even then, wouldn’t start until Sunday.
I’m not holding my breath.
And billionaires. 13 and counting.