pwnicholson

Interesting. I didn't know there would be minimums like that.

The only people doing this are loaded with enough cash or assets to not have to take out a mortgage. They'll be fine.

You can't get a new mortgage without insurance

Anyone going without home insurance is paying cash for their house. No bank would give someone a mortgage on a property that could turn to ashes with no insurance.

I initially read that as "Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat."

Which isn't really wrong either.

Every decade after the 1920s has been special for cinema for the generation that treasured it.

"Delaying"

Their claims are based largely on building artificial islands which extends their 200 miles from the coast claims (by aging more coast). This US claim isn't extending coast (so no control of the water column or surface), only continental shelf and mining rights

I think that's the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

Exactly. Early Marvel was deeply about character and their depth and character flaws that made them interesting. Thor, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, and especially Tony Stark were interesting and complex personalities. (Bruce Banner and Clint Barton...eh).

The stories in recent Marvel products are fine. Mildly interesting serials. Ok popcorn fare.

But the character development has been getting more and more lacking. Even Thor has been reduced to 'dumb blonde'/'dumb entitled rich kid' gags.

I think that's part of what makes Loki one of the only really interesting outings for Marvel recently. He stayed reasonably conflicted and complex.

I assume someone somewhere decided that it was going to net a profit (after already sunk production costs and yet-to-be-spent promoting costs and other obligations) of less than $30 million.

So if given the choice between hoping it maybe makes $20-40 million in net profit vs a guaranteed $30 million as a tax write-off, that's easy math for the number crunchers.

I have no idea but they could also have decided they didn't want to spend to promote it. It costs a fortune in money up front to promote movies these days, even after the movie is 'in the can'. Money is getting more and more expensive with interest rates going up, so financing even promotional costs is more expensive.

"Status Report" is great, and the rest are good enough and the episode was really fun.

Glad they did it, but I'm not looking for an annual occurrence. I can love it and also say 1 is enough. Same with the Lower Decks crossover

Most of the people you're thinking about as a problem haven't read the Bible either. They'd think the stuff Jesus said was commie, bleeding-heart, socialist stuff (because it is)