Jurassic

Best Buy plans to cut out physical media in 2024. https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/101223-1100

Interesting food stuff:

I doubt that is happening, there is word about Disney selling off ABC and ESPN to balance out their losses as well as the Comcast / Hulu deal.

I've been following the SBF trial this week and there has been very damning testimony already. Gary Wang, the co-founder of FTX, testified that SBF directed Wang to code the system in a way to withdraw UNLIMITED customer funds from FTX. Alameda (where the money was funneled to) was also awarded a $65 billion line of credit at FTX, arrangements that were never disclosed to customers or investors. Alameda eventually borrowed as much as $14 billion from FTX.

Billy Mitchell in trouble:

I usually get one console during each generation. When I was a kid, I had an Atari, an NES, then a SNES. I played SNES through high school. After college I had a PS2, PS3, and PS4. I usually sell off a console when I don't care about it anymore. I only have a PS4 but I focus on PC gaming these days.

More Billy Mitchell wackiness:

If anyone likes to draw, brush pens are fun to work with but it takes a bit to get used to.

I use clips to attach pens to clipboards and inside of spiral notebooks.

Interesting developments regarding FTX, apparently Bankman-Fried's parents were almost as scummy as their son.

Dana Brooke has also been let go.

Clearly people have forgotten about the true OG of "Metroidvania."

A good rundown of the history of SBF / FTX and the problems they were built on:

Twitter / X currently buried in lawsuits by vendors regarding unpaid bills. Musk really is trying to burn it all to the ground. An exhaustive list of complaints and pending cases is included in the article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-unpaid-bills-dozens-of-lawsuits-try-to-force-twitter-aka-x-to-pay-up/

I assume Priest will take it off of Rollins soon. Judgment Day had a good summer collecting belts.

Jack Perry suspended indefinitely.

Been playing the Quake 2 Remaster and I am having a blast. A lot of great changes were applied to the game, not just a visual improvements but good quality of life updates. The AI changes has made things more challenging, such as the berserkers being an actual threat.