The article I saw said part of this was in response to people sharing their HBO Go password. Expect that to no longer be possible

Outland is a movie I loved without ever seeing it. Just like with Alien, I discovered Outland through the novelization, which was among the many SF books my older cousin sent me when he was done with them. Alan Dean Foster wrote both adaptations, and reading them together, it seemed like both movies were set in the same universe. You had the same level tech, the same view of space and corporations. I was so excited at the idea that there was this movie universe being created with "unrelated" films. Unfortunately, it turned out that wasn't the case 

His name would be "JimBOT" in that case. I mean, really.

Kickstarter for video games is, to me at least, interesting. I mean, on the one hand you're helping these games get funding they may need to finish the thing, often for just the cost of the game itself. On the other hand, the idea that pre-ordering games is a horrible thing is catching on, and what's a kickstarter but a very long range pre-order? You never know what you're going to get in the end, and even with games that end up being good rarely do they match what was promised. I may very well back this, but with the expectation there in fact may not be a game at the end.

The idea that the zombies "are us" also comes up at the end of the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, directed by Tom Savini (and surprisingly good). There it refers to the surviving humans acting as mindlessly as the undead.

Romero basically split the creative rights to do sequels to the original film with co-writer John Russo. Romero made his films with the phrase "of the Dead", while Russo used "Living Dead". He did the comedy horror series "Return of the Living Dead."

The days of a long running Doctor are probably over. Actors get too demanding the longer they stick around (as we saw from Baker). When Colin Baker was fired it was with the excuse that no Doctor should last more than 3 years (and they counted the year the show was off the air), and we seem to be sticking to that trend. Just be glad the trend is also to limit the reign of show runners.

You know, Guttenburg's Wiki page has no mention of No Soap, Radio. Someone should fix that I looked for episodes on youtube, but could only find two short chips. None had Trey.

Because I can, I posted links in my blog over on Storiesonline.net. So, with luck that will bring in a few donations. I actually mentioned Dorkman in one of my stories, A Leader Born. It was a fun throwaway bit as we were introduced to a character:

    The second source of her training was a pair of YouTube videos of some guys fighting with light sabers.

    She had watched those two fight over and over. One reason, of course, what that the guy with the glasses was damned cute. He was gay, yes, as she'd found out tracking him down to this movie podcast he did, but she could change that. Shanna had the half-written fanfic to prove it. The other reason she loved those fights was the style. Not so much the actual light saber stuff, but what they did apart from that. The two guys, whenever there was an opening, would punch and kick each other. The idea wasn't to score style points, it was to beat the other guy however possible. Punch them in the kidney, kick them in the knee, whatever. Just win.

    Before the green guy could react to her block of its attack, Shanna kicked her foot out, catching him in the leg. She jumped back.

I haven't heard of Podcast Pickle in a decade. What it is, or was, is a site for discovering new podcasts. Back in the day, when the iPod was this 5gig Mac-only device and iTunes just a program for ripping mp3's from your CD's, it was hard to learn about these new things called podcasts. Various sites sprung up which gathered info on them, sorted them by genre, and let you browse and search. Podcast Pickle was one of the better ones. Now that you can find them in the iTunes store, there's less of a need.

Then again, as they've said what matters is how it holds up as a movie. That it's an adaptation doesn't matter one whit.

I wonder how much of that comes from the creative side. Given it's all work for hire, if you come up with a new, brilliant idea for an attraction, Disney owns it and you see no royalties. Why give them your best stuff? Unless that's not the case.

Regarding animation, Hullabaloo is a crowd funded cel animated project a bunch of Disney animators are putting together.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hull … mated-film
Their pitch is they're trying to save cel animation by showing what it can do for a small budget, to get the kids into it. Given most anime is still 2D, I'd say it's not dying. Miyazaki's last film, The Wind Rises, cost $30 million for two hours of animation and looks incredible. Frozen cost $150 million. If you have the artists, you can do a good hand drawn cel animated film for a reasonable amount of money.

My question was laughed at and dismissed, which was fun

This is the first I'm hearing of an Avatar land in Disney World. While I love the idea, every time they do something like this I pull out Walt Disney's original pitch of what that land was going to be used for, and shed a tear for what could have been...

Then I laugh at how it could have crashed and burned spectacularly if they had tried 

https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/