The real deal with Wayland Smithers is that he’s Mr. Burns’ assistant. He’s in his early 40s, is unmarried and currently resides in Springfield.

Her mom should be pissed that she revived Natalie but didn’t ask for Gary too.

Her mom was amazed when Natalie first appeared and later on in the series asked if she could build an AI Gary too.

Additionally Mephisto didn’t revive Natalie (at the end of the series), he gave Riri the tools to revive Natalie. It is possible Riri will revive Gary next. Riri also didn’t seem to fully understand what she created/revived because she didn’t expect that Natalie could touch her. I expect everyone is just going to be amazed at what Riri did.

As for paperwork, they live in a post-blip society with aliens, androids and wizards. Sure this is weird, but they’ll figure it out. In fact Natalie returning might get the attention of some big names like SWORD or Doctor Strange.

We inheriting quite a budget crunch.

Yeah, that would be a good opening weekend.

If we compare it to 2024 releases it would put it about 5th for the year, similar to Wicked.

But comparing different films is hard because some films cost most than others. For example Wicked cost $150m and Superman cost $225m.

So, roughly, you want a film at a minimum to make back twice its budget, three times its budget is the real goal and anything above that is a huge hit. Films with low marketing can be happier at 2x the budget, films with high marketing (like Superman) really want to reach that 3x goal.

The most money you’ll ever make is opening weekend. The weekends that follow are usually half that amount, sometimes wayyyy less (depends on the film quality/hype/etc.)

So $115m the first weekend, plus (let’s say ~1/3rd) 40m and then plus (let’s say ~1/3rd again) 15m. So that’s, assuming a really conservative trajectory, ~170m domestic. You can probably get a little more but Fantastic 4 comes out later in the month, but let’s give it another $10m, to come to a total of $180m.

Now the film cost $225m and has a ton of marketing. So $180m is less than $225m. BUT! That’s all domestic so far. A film trending this high of an opening weekend domestically will probably double that amount internationally, especially if it is released in China and most superhero films are.

So at the moment it’s trending, assuming some worst case numbers, to be an acceptable release, probably a slight loss once you include marketing.

BUT the $115m starting point is also a pretty conservative starting point. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 opened at $150m. Man of Steel opened at $155m. So a $150m+ opening wouldn’t be unreasonable. Guardians of the Galaxy also only went down 1/2 week to week instead of 1/3. Man of Steel similar held well, but not as good.

BUT Captain America Brave New World opened to $100m and was down 1/4 week to week. Thunderbolts was about the same but didn’t do as good internationally. And sadly The Suicide Squad only opened to $25m and didn’t make back it’s budget (yes, the film that basically handed James Gunn the DC universe.)

BUT Deadpool & Wolverine opened to ~$300m and ultimately pulled in over $1b once it was done.

So. As I said, yeah that would be a good opening weekend. But it could trend to just being ok or it could trend to be a HUGE success.

Reddit sorta half did it with the “other discussions” or duplicate tab.

As an example,

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/1lvi6kb/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to_make_cancelling/

I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn’t robust enough.

I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.

Similarly https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Would be treated as separate articles.

These are all fixable problems, but require work.

Okay, but this is where you register as a sex offender.

The Garbage Man!

Oh the garbage man can!

Correct!

But at that point just do weekly releases. Two binges a month apart is the worst of all the options.

Alright Bob, now it’s personal.

It’s true. Half a point, rounding up to the nearest whole point!

I agree that more time should have been spent developing characters. I got the vibe from several episodes that this was supposed to be an 8 or 10 episode series, but it was forced during editing down to 6.

I don’t think she’s supposed to be a hero or a villain. Look at where Tony Stark is at the start of Iron Man. He runs one of the worlds biggest weapons manufacturing companies. That’s not hero or villain. But he is being used by villains to do villainous things. That’s where Riri’s story is.

She’s trying to figure out life and what she wants is simple, she wants her friend back. She wasn’t planning on it, but it happened.

Apart from being rushed I thought the show really worked well.

So we all know that Tyrion is a time traveler, that’s spelled out pretty clearly in the books. What’s lesser known is that Oberyn is also a time traveler. Oberyn, more commonly known as The Red Viper went back in time and had a daughter, Tyrion, with Lady Joanna Lannister. The Red Viper name comes from his connections with snakes. As established in Loki season 2 snakes, the Oroboros, represent time and the infinite. Infinity, as we know from the Pixar film Toy Story, is both “to” and “beyond”. The “two” are of course Jamie and Cersei Lannister. The “beyond” is beyond the wall.

So at that point it’s pretty explanatory.

It was 3 years between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and then 4 years between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. We’re certainly trending upwards.

I mean I think watching the season it felt like we were building to something fun. Even the penultimate episode, while being a bunch of random shit, was interesting. The problem is the last episode was just absolute garbage. It felt rushed with tons of cut scenes and context. Then after main story was over we got a weird season long story in 15 minutes plus radical character changes.

However all of the most crappy stuff happened AFTER they realized they weren’t getting renewed by Disney.

So it’s more like they shot themselves in the foot, and then did it again.

It fits a little, he is a father to many bastard daughters. We don’t see it but we do hear that he raises them with great care and respect.

So I did some digging and there are a few interesting answers.

The first is that any version of Superman who landed in earth prior to 1940 may fall under the Nationality Act of 1940. The act grants birthright citizenship to “children found in the United States with unknown parentage”. So the Kent’s would not technically need to lie for Clark to be granted citizenship. A baby randomly found in Kansas could reasonably be assumed (even if incorrect) to have been born in the US and granted citizenship.

However the second answer is better because it was already answered in one Superman story. The “Armageddon 2001” storyline has Superman running for and eventually being elected President. To be elected President you must be a natural born citizen. The argument is that the “pod” Superman arrived in was actually a “Kryptonian Birthing Matrix”.

Unlike in most films and modern media, where Superman’s parents put him in a rocket as a baby and send him away, the “Kryptonian Birthing Matrix” is all Superman has ever known. He wasn’t born and then put in a rocket, he was always inside the “Birthing Matrix”. As a result when he landed on Earth and left the “Birthing Matrix”, that is when he was actually born.

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo.

To add, before the change the Gentoo wiki was a top resource when it came to Linux questions. Even if you didn’t use Gentoo you could find detailed information on how various parts of Linux worked.

One day the Gentoo wiki died. It got temporary mirrors quickly, but it took a long time to get up and working again. This left a huge opening for another wiki, the Arch wiki, to become the new top resource.

I suspect, for a number of reasons, Arch was always going to replace Gentoo as the “True Linux Explorer”, but the wiki outage accelerated it.

Actually, and this may not apply to the current/new Superman but likely would the original Superman, based on the Nationality Act of 1940 Superman could be considered a child found in the United States with unknown parentage.

That’s the one. It’s weird because Flanders is the namesake of Flanderization and in this episode he’s at AA for his drinking, but in previous and future episodes we see the keg in his rumpus room. Also he’s a mixology in a previous episode.

Boy I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.