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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Ubisoft’s bean counters had some trouble reading the market on this one.

    They left Steam because they felt the 30% cut that Valve takes for sales on their platform is way too high, but didn’t account that users of Steam are really entrenched into that platform and don’t want to leave just for the chance to play an Ubisoft title. So instead of seeing 70% of Steam sales of their games, they saw 0.














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    3 months ago

    It suddenly occurred to me how difficult it would be to make a Dorito from scratch.

    Youd need to grow corn, and several kinds of chilies and spices. You’d need a source of milk and rennet, you’d need a source of quicklime to treat the corn so you could make tortillas. And a lot of oil to fry it all in



  • For some reason it seems to be the aspiring young directors first feature length flick for the last few years or so.

    There are 2 approaches to consider here:

    • This is my first movie so I can get real weird with it and use “I’m still learning” as an excuse

    • This is my first movie so I better follow the formula so I can learn what rules I can break.

    Making a movie is expensive, even a cheap horror movie. When you’re not comfortable in the space yet, it’s very easy to do something rote so that you can be a little grounded.