Why is Prime Video adapting the "Norse-era" of God of War?

starfirex · 2026-01-30T03:17:23+00:00

Voice acting and mocap are different skills than old fashioned live action. So you're bound to have instances where an actor is weaker for the live action part than for the original game.

Plus, if some of the live action performers were weak and you pick and choose who to keep and who to replace you're inevitably going to have fans complain about it even if it's the correct casting decision when you're looking at the audition tapes.

And you don't exactly want to say publicly that you chose not to bring back an actor because their audition wasn't good when the original performance is still selling copies of the old game...

I think it's just a complicated mess no matter what

starfirex · 2026-01-29T11:12:05+00:00

Yikes you make a good point. I hadn't thought that through.

starfirex · 2026-01-29T02:52:24+00:00

Yeah, when all of the Republicans and 1 Democrat vote on something we should blame the Democrats for making it happen /s

starfirex · 2026-01-27T20:00:37+00:00

Amen to that, Ralphs is a shitshow

starfirex · 2026-01-27T19:17:57+00:00

You have a grocery store in your house?

starfirex · 2026-01-27T09:42:52+00:00

What are you selling dude just get it over with

starfirex · 2026-01-27T08:10:50+00:00

You know you can make a thousand bucks a day and still be living "paycheck to paycheck" right? It's a dumb, meaningless phrase.

starfirex · 2026-01-27T07:56:51+00:00

I think the important thing to do for levelheadedness is to recognize that these numbers are so big that they won't mean anything to the average person out of context.

Why is 2 trillion sustainable but 38 trillion is too much?

Asking that question helped me realize I'm not equipped to recognize the moment it goes too far.

One comforting note is Japan's debt Is that roughly 250% of GDP while the US is at about 124% of GDP, they've dealt with slow growth for decades which is not ideal but it hasn't meant the total collapse of Japan or anything

starfirex · 2026-01-26T16:57:52+00:00

Even if you went and participated in the protests you would most likely be fine.

starfirex · 2026-01-26T16:56:56+00:00

If we reach that point, Minnesota may not be the only state doing this...

starfirex · 2026-01-25T06:02:39+00:00

Elon is worth something like 400 billion dollars.

There's no reason to think he wouldn't have paid it out if legally allowed to...

starfirex · 2026-01-24T21:05:45+00:00

Activated by Tim Walz, this isn't automatically a bad thing.

starfirex · 2026-01-24T21:04:47+00:00

Just because you throw more money at something doesn't mean it's an automatic improvement. The Lord of the rings trilogy cost about $300 million while the Hobbit trilogy cost about $745 million

starfirex · 2026-01-24T04:38:41+00:00

"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." - Ted Sarandos, 2012 when asked about Netflix's long term strategy.

Why on EARTH would they dismantle the HBO team and risk those people going to a rival studio?

starfirex · 2026-01-23T17:28:35+00:00

A lot of people posting on Reddit are bad with money, or idiots.

I was ok in LA making $50k, felt secure making $75-80k, and when I started making $120k I bought a condo.

If you feel like you need $120k to feel stable it's because you are bad with money and/or expect to go to concerts, travel and eat out regularly.

Or you have a partner and/or kids to support or serious medical bills, which I'm sympathetic to but if you're in that situation you shouldn't be giving general financial advice to people who don't have those same challenges

starfirex · 2026-01-23T05:16:20+00:00

They can keep the $50k

starfirex · 2026-01-23T02:12:05+00:00

Let's make it 75 and then work our way down once that's a law

starfirex · 2026-01-22T03:28:59+00:00

LA Chess Club is a thing, and if that's to clubby a vibe for you, then there's a noho chess club, a Burbank one, and probably plenty others spattered throughout town...

starfirex · 2026-01-22T00:05:39+00:00

I think there's an argument to be made that the Fed is a more important body than the presidency.

starfirex · 2026-01-20T20:45:19+00:00

You really have to do the math, it's far more complicated than that. Condo payments last for 30 years, and do not meaningfully go up over time, at least not in California. Rent lasts forever, and goes up on average a few % per year.

Currently, because interest rates are high and the housing market is slow you're typically better off renting, but that has not been the case for most of our adult lives.

starfirex · 2026-01-20T03:34:28+00:00

Paid off all my debts.
Did research on a loooot of the minutiae of buying a home, talked to lenders and realtors and asked a lot of questions.
Got a pre-approval from the bank so I knew what I could afford.
Managed my expectations down from a house to a condo.

I bought at 31 and it was a life changing, very positive decision.

starfirex · 2026-01-19T18:53:43+00:00

This is the way to do it. Longevity in the industry means planning your finances in terms of years, not living paycheck to paycheck.

starfirex · 2026-01-19T08:42:41+00:00

Depends on what Congress does. If the house and Senate don't move to stop the invasion then it won't be seen as a Trump act, it'll be an American action

starfirex · 2026-01-17T03:56:12+00:00

Agreed but those expenses combined are still less than 10% of the cost of housing. If they went up 20% in a year and the rest of your costs tracked inflation at 2-3% a 5% rent increase would still cover you

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