In a vacuum, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed climate change package is the sort of bold move that many environmentalists would ordinarily cheer because it aims to quickly ramp up California’s efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions.

But the governor’s climate push has received a lukewarm response that could jeopardize his ability to get the landmark plan approved at the state Capitol before legislators must adjourn for the year next Wednesday.

Many environmentalists and legislators are skeptical over what they see as two major strings attached to Newsom’s proposal: He wants to delay the closure of California’s last nuclear power plant and carve out a role for carbon-capture technology, which activists say could give industry a loophole to avoid cutting emissions.

Newsom also wants lawmakers to approve his ambitious proposals to require California to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045, reduce emissions in all sectors and create safety zones around oil wells.

He rolled out a slate of major climate-related bills Aug. 12, declaring “later is too late” to act on the issue. Around the same time, Newsom unveiled a proposal to keep Diablo Canyon, the state’s last nuclear power plant, open five to 10 years longer to shore up the power supply.

RL Miller, president of Climate Hawks Vote, an environmental advocacy group, said while many activists are pleased to see Newsom champion climate legislation, they realize the timing is calculated.

“This is very much sweeteners for keeping Diablo open,” she said. “He’s prepared to give the environmentalists everything else that he thinks they want. It’s political expediency, I don’t know how else to put it.”

Newsom’s attempt to keep Diablo Canyon open has stirred opposition from environmentalists and Democratic legislators alike. In the state Assembly, progressives have floated an alternative, $3.7 billion plan that seeks to shore up the electrical grid by investing more in clean-energy sources and storage projects, as well as grants to make homes more energy efficient.

The governor’s push would undo a 2016 pact between legislators and then-Gov. Jerry Brown to close the nuclear plant by 2025, a deal struck with environmentalists and labor unions.

Newsom’s administration said extending the plant’s scheduled closure is “critical to ensure statewide energy system reliability” and avoid a repeat of August 2020, when the state had two nights of rolling blackouts.

His office said supply-chain problems and lengthy environmental reviews have delayed the construction of clean-energy systems. In other words, the state hasn’t built out its wind and solar grid as quickly as it had hoped when legislators agreed to close the nuclear plant about six years ago.

California gets about 8.6% of its power from Diablo Canyon, and 9.3% of its total electricity from nuclear sources, including power imported from other states. Renewable sources of power account for about 34% of the state’s power.

Newsom spokesman Anthony York said the governor’s climate proposals and his push to keep the nuclear plant open are “not formally linked.” But he said the efforts work in tandem because the state needs a mid-term source of clean energy to avoid relying on gas-fired power plants, particularly when soaring temperatures and wildfires strain the grid.

“Our primary concern is keeping the lights on,” he said. “Yes, we have to go faster (on clean, renewable energy). But we have a responsibility to ensure that all options are on the table.”

York said the plan from Assembly members to instead accelerate spending on renewable energy is “not a serious proposal.” He said Newsom believes the state needs to both keep Diablo Canyon open and double down on its efforts to build power systems.

fam, i said microsoft buying out blizzard and taking over WoW, OW2 and Diablo would be bad and nobody listened and now look at what's happening

>2000 layoffs. they "let go of" the people who did the best work. we're talking top/lead writers, animators, and artists. the ones who made all those gorgeous cinematics and deep, rich backstories. they just fired the incredible Soe -- the lady so passionate about OWL who did a phenomenal job there. fired. "laid off", whatever -- she's still out of a job for no goddamn reason.

and they made the horrible manager of call of duty the new president of blizzard ent. you know, the lady responsible for the massive downgrade in call of duty games post 2020? the lady who has all sorts of "revenue and marketing" under her belt? the one responsible for the egregious monetization system in CoD and the ridiculous New Carbon Copy CoD Every Single Year bullshit? head of the entire blizzard ent. company now, under phil spencer's thumb.

Tim Kilpin (c/o Enterprise Wire) Hasbro introduced two senior appointments to its Govt Management Workforce: Tim Kilpin will be part of as President, Toy, Licensing & Leisure, efficient April 24. He'll report back to CEO Chris Cocks and can oversee Hasbro’s multi-billion-dollar Client Merchandise Group, with a deal with optimizing the worth, relevance, and efficiency of the Firm’s strategic franchise manufacturers and IP. Kilpin brings in depth expertise within the client merchandise business. Tim joins Hasbro from PlayMonster Group LLC, the place he most just lately served as Govt Chairman since January 2023 and as CEO from January 2022. His background consists of serving as chief of Activision Blizzard’s Client Merchandise enterprise, Chief Industrial Officer for Mattel, Inc., and as Govt Vice-President, Franchise Administration at The Walt Disney Firm, the place he oversaw the creation and improvement of world cross-category franchise plans for Disney’s steady of content material and characters. Gina Goetter (c/o Enterprise Wire) Gina Goetter will be part of as Chief Monetary Officer, efficient Might 18, following the Firm’s Annual Assembly of Shareholders. As strategic accomplice to Cocks, she's going to work alongside him and different senior leaders in executing the Firm’s Blueprint 2.0, which features a deal with fewer, larger manufacturers; gaming; digital; and the Firm’s quickly rising direct to client and licensing enterprise, in addition to delivering the Firm’s Operational Excellence program and related price financial savings. She may even oversee Hasbro’s world enterprise operations as a part of her function. Goetter’s appointment follows the retirement of CFO Deborah Thomas, who will stay on the Firm in an advisory function all through the rest of the 12 months to make sure a easy transition. Goetter brings over 25 years of expertise throughout finance and accounting, with a demonstrated monitor report in driving robust monetary and operational outcomes. She joins Hasbro from Harley-Davidson, the place she has served as Chief Monetary Officer since 2020, chargeable for all facets of Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Investor Relations, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Previous to her time at Harley-Davidson, Goetter  was Senior Vice President of Finance for Tyson Meals’ Ready Meals Phase, and likewise spent 21 years at Basic Mills in quite a few more and more senior Finance roles   Sarah James World-building artistic lab Unattainable Objects has made Sarah James an Govt Producer, selling her from senior producer, a job she has held since earlier this 12 months. James attended the College of Georgia for Movie Manufacturing and Media Research earlier than starting her profession at Power BBDO in Chicago; first as an intern, then working her method as much as in-house producer. She later freelanced as an on-set producer earlier than touchdown at Ethos Studio as a submit producer. At Ethos, James’ first job was with Diablo/Google Play which served as her introduction to IO and her gateway into the digital manufacturing panorama. She post-produced a big marketing campaign for Sprite Limelight, a worldwide music experiment in partnership with iconic producer, singer, and songwriter James Blake, that aimed to shine a lightweight on trailblazing artists from around the globe. The large mission had greater than 300 deliverables, together with eight distinctive long-form movies and their cutdowns. Different model collaborations embody 5 Gum, Endlessly 21, SC Johnson, Lululemon, and Spotify’s “Viva Latina” activation. In her brief time with IO, she has labored with Diablo, Dell, Core Energy, and Merrell, with a specialty for fulfilling total campaigns versus single spots.   Joel MacDonald Cinesite has expanded its management staff, naming Joel MacDonald as Supervising Producer for its animation division. The promotion comes as Cinesite continues to increase its world animation capability by buying L’Atelier Animation, Assemblage

& Squeeze Animation, along with its ongoing in-house full-service animation productions together with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayham & Smurfs (Paramount Animation), Hitpig & Animal Farm (Aniventure), and co-creating the Iwájú collection (Kugali/Walt Disney Animation Studios). In his new function, underneath the route of World Head of Manufacturing Tamara Boutcher, MacDonald’s oversight will stretch throughout the worldwide animation enterprise managing a number of tasks from starting phases via completion and supply. Joel will likely be working carefully with present and potential shoppers, in addition to with our personal producers, VFX supervisors and their groups. MacDonald, who joined Cinesite in 2016, has greater than 15 years of expertise within the animation business. He has been concerned in lots of characteristic movies together with Disney’s The Jungle E book, Rocket Photos’ Gnomeo & Juliet and Tim Burton’s 9. Throughout his tenure at Cinesite, MacDonald has been the producer on Aniventure’s Riverdance: The Animated Journey, Warner Bros.’ House Jam: A New Legacy and extra just lately on Iwájú.   Matt McClurg Digital Area has appointed visualization knowledgeable and studio veteran Matt McClurg as its new Head of Visualization. McClurg will oversee the VFX studio’s full vary of visualization efforts, together with complete previz and postviz work and a digital manufacturing division that ranks among the many prime within the business. McClurg will leverage Digital Area’s superior instruments, honed over 30 years created revolutionary and award-winning work, to supply shoppers a visible illustration of what their remaining product will seem like. Together with overseeing Digital Area’s present and upcoming visualization tasks, McClurg will assist streamline and incorporate new pipelines that take full benefit of the VFX studio’s bespoke toolsets. That features its proprietary machine studying software program and AI-driven creations. McClurg may even proceed to guide the event of customized methods and processes created inside recreation engines, designed to present filmmakers new methods to observe and edit effects-heavy scenes remotely from wherever on the earth. McClurg’s close to 15-year profession consists of stops at each The Third Ground and twentieth Century Fox, and in 2014 he was employed by Pixomondo to assist create and run its previz division. In 2019, McClurg joined Digital Area as previz supervisor, overseeing a number of main options together with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Manner Residence, Steven Spielberg’s West Aspect Story and the Oscar-nominated Free Man. He was additionally closely concerned in a number of episodic previz tasks, together with HBO’s The Final of Us and Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville.   Daisuke Iwase Animoca Manufacturers Japan, a strategic subsidiary of Web3 firm Animoca Manufacturers Company Restricted, appointed Daisuke Iwase (岩瀬大輔) as its new CEO and consultant director, succeeding Motoki Tani. Iwase is the founding father of KLKTN, one of many corporations in Animoca Manufacturers’ portfolio — a blockchain firm that develops NFTs and digital collectibles with a deal with standard anime, manga, Okay-Pop and J-Pop. Previous to that, he was Group Chief Digital Officer for AIA Group and served on its Group Govt Committee. Earlier than AIA, he co-founded and served as Consultant Director and President of Lifenet Insurance coverage Firm. He holds a level from Harvard Enterprise Faculty, was named a Younger World Chief by the World Financial Discussion board, and is an avid jazz pianist.   L-R (prime): Dan’l Hewitt, Joey Boukadakis, Lars Wagner, (backside) Chris Meledandri [Alex J. Berliner/ABImages], David Martin Ramos, Jake Odgers, Joan Digba Extra Strikes: Web-first animation studio Invisible Universe introduced that business veterans Dan’l Hewitt and Joey Boukadakis have joined the corporate’s board of administrators. Every brings business information and expertise as artistic and strategic enterprise leaders throughout the digital leisure panorama.

DeAPlaneta Leisure introduced Lars Wagner will likely be DeAPlaneta Children & Household’s Director of two key European territories for the corporate: GSA (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) and CEE (Central & Jap Europe). Emmy-winning VFX Supervisor David Ramos (Recreation of Thrones) has joined the Rodeo VFX. Initially from Spain, Ramos will likely be based mostly on the studio’s Montreal HQ. Camp Fortunate has promoted Jake Odgers to Designer/VFX Artist. His credit embody tasks for JCPenney, TGI Friday’s, Yeti, Mongoose and P.F. Chang’s. Canada’s Youth Media Alliance introduced this 12 months’s Rising Expertise Award (offered by Sinking Ship Ent.) will go to Joan Digba, a Nigerian-born, British-bred Canadian author whose work spans youngsters’ animation to household drama. She has been an affiliate producer at Sinking Ship since 2020, and has written for Aunty B’s Home, Past Black Magnificence and Apple TV+’s new hybrid collection Jane. Illumination Founder & CEO Chris Meledandri (The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, Despicable Me, The Secret Lifetime of Pets) has been named the recipient of the 2023 CinemaCon Award of Excellence in Animation. The hitmaker producer will likely be honored with different award winners on April 27 through the Large Display screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas. https://guesthype.co.uk/?p=3675&feed_id=7194&cld=644336e68399d

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The 2020 Tony Awards Preview | Broadway Direct

Like the recent Olympics, the 2020 Tony Awards arrive after a lengthy delay necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. And amid enduring uncertainty, they are all the more eagerly anticipated by fans of Broadway theater and the industry serving them.

This year’s ceremony, set for September 26 at the Winter Garden Theatre, will be different on several counts. The number of productions recognized has been limited by the March 2020 shutdown, which prevented a bunch of high-profile shows from opening, and rendered others — including Ivo von Hove’s staging of West Side Story, and Girl From the North Country, the acclaimed musical weaving Bob Dylan songs into a book by Conor McPherson — ineligible, as many Tony voters had not been able to see them.

On the other hand, a new arrangement that will make the entire event available on Paramount Plus, beginning at 7 p.m. ET — with longtime Tonys home CBS broadcasting from 9 to 11 p.m. ET — will enable viewers at home to see awards given out in categories such as design, orchestration, and choreography. “We haven’t had all of our creatives and the awards recognizing them on the special since before my time,” notes Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, which presents the Tonys with the American Theatre Wing.

“The whole point of the show is to set an optimistic and realistic tone,” adds Heather Hitchens, the Wing’s president and CEO. “The theme of this show is that Broadway’s back — theater is safe if protocols are followed — and we have exciting new work for people to see.”

Both St. Martin and Hitchens point to the diversity of shows represented both in nominations for the 2019–2020 season as well as those premiering in the new season, which launched in August with the arrival of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over. Slave Play, another work by a Black playwright that transferred after earning praise Off-Broadway, is up for 12 Tonys, making it the most nominated play to date. Author Jeremy O. Harris was tapped for his provocative look at the roles race, gender, and sexuality play in contemporary relationships; director Robert O’Hara, leading actress Joaquina Kalukango, featured actors Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer, and featured actresses Chalia La Tour and Annie McNamara are among the other nominees.

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is also a contender in 12 categories, with celebrated Black artists including Adrienne Warren, who won raves for her performance as the titular rock and R&B icon, and this year’s Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Katori Hall among the nominees. The other productions up for Best Musical, Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge! The Musical respectively collected 15 and 14 nominations; both combine books by noted writers — Jagged Little Pill’s Diablo Cody and Moulin Rouge’s John Logan — with established music — Alanis Morissette’s for Jagged Little Pill, and various pop songs tracing several decades for Moulin Rouge!.

Consequently, none of the five candidates for best original score is a musical production. They include Slave Play and fellow Best Play nominees The Inheritance and The Sound Inside and new stagings of A Christmas Carol and Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo. (The theatrical concert David Byrne’s American Utopia is being honored with a Special Tony Award, as Springsteen on Broadway was in 2018.)

Only three revivals made the cut for Best Revival of a Play: a production of A Soldier’s Play showcasing Blair Underwood, a nominee for leading actor in a play, and David Alan Grier, up for featured actor; a Betrayal, featuring Tom Hiddleston, a contender for leading actor; and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, starring six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, nominated for leading actress.

Other stage and screen stars who are candidates at this year’s ceremony include Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, both for leading actor in Best Play nominee Sea Wall/A Life, a pair of one-man pieces respectively written by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne, each told from the perspective of a young husband and father. In the category for leading actress in a play, Mary-Louise Parker is acknowledged for Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside, an intimate mystery involving a cancer-stricken college professor and her alienated, prodigious student, also up for Best Play; and Laura Linney is nominated for My Name Is Lucy Barton, an adaptation of Alice Munro’s novel tracing a complex mother-daughter relationship.

Matthew López’s The Inheritance — up for 11 awards, and focused on gay men living in a New York haunted by a pandemic of the recent past, AIDS — yielded nominations for John Benjamin Hickey, for featured actor, and Lois Smith, for featured actress. (Cast members Andrew Burnap and Paul Hilton are nominees for leading and featured actor in turn, with Linda Vista’s Ian Barford also up for leading actor.) And a fifth Best Play contender, Grand Horizons — a comedy that dares to look at sex and marriage in the golden years — and the Broadway debut of Bess Wohl earned a nod for another duly cherished veteran, Jane Alexander, also for featured actress.

Musical theater favorites recognized include Danny Burstein, who earned a seventh Tony nomination for his featured performance in Moulin Rouge; Moulin Rouge’s Karen Olivo and Jagged Little Pill’s Elizabeth Stanley, completing the leading actress category; and Moulin Rouge’s Aaron Tveit, who, as a result of the relative dearth of musical productions in this abbreviated season, was the only performer nominated in the leading actor field. (He needs the approval of 60 percent of Tony voters to claim the prize.)

In vying for Best Direction of a Play, Slave Play’s O’Hara will face stiffer competition from lauded British directors Stephen Daldry (Inheritance) and Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal) and equally accomplished Americans David Cromer (Sound Inside) and Kenny Leon (Soldier’s Play). The directors tapped for their work on musicals are no less distinguished: British film and stage vet Phyllida Lloyd (TINA), Pill’s Diane Paulus, and Moulin Rouge’s Alex Timbers, who, between the two of them, have helmed some of the most admired musical productions of the past decade both on and Off-Broadway.

And thanks to this year’s multiplatform format, fans of the three musicals will get to see awards handed out to their choreographers and orchestrators — one of each, anyway. The nominees include Moulin Rouge’s Sonya Tayeh, whose collaborators have ranged from the Martha Graham Dance Company to Miley Cyrus, and Jagged Little Pill’s Tom Kitt, whose many credits as a composer include Next to Normal, for which he won both Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Variety writer and podcast host Gordon Cox adds that the 2020 Tony nominations would likely have presented “an entirely different race” had the rush of productions originally scheduled to open in late March and April of last year had been able to do so. Still, he believes there are “a significant group of people who think the Tonys can be a celebration, not just of a season that got overshadowed by the pandemic, but of a return to performances — to being able to sit in theatres, knock on wood. There are people looking for an opportunity to celebrate theater in general.”

UNIVERSAL PICTURES ANNOUNCES FILM BASED ON THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY OF MADONNA

September 15, 2020

Madonna is Co-Writing the Original Screenplay with Academy Award® Winner Diablo Cody, and the Project will be Produced by Three-Time Academy Award® Nominee Amy Pascal UNIVERSAL CITY, CA—September 15, 2020—Universal Pictures today announced that the studio is developing an ALL-NEW untitled project based on one of the world’s most influential icons, Madonna, who over an indelible five-decade career has had a groundbreaking impact as a musician, actress, director, author and entrepreneur who informs every aspect of global culture, transforming our understanding of art, sexuality, feminism and the role of women in entertainment. Madonna will direct the project and is co-writing the script with Academy Award® winner Diablo Cody (Juno, Tully).  Three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Pascal (Little Women, The Post, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and the Academy Award®-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), will produce for her Universal-based Pascal Pictures alongside Madonna.  Sara Zambreno and Guy Oseary will executive produce. “I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer – a human being, trying to make her way in this world,” said Madonna.  “The focus of this film will always be music.  Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive.  There are so many untold and inspiring stories and who better to tell it than me.  It’s essential to share the roller coaster ride of my life with my voice and vision.” “Madonna is the ultimate icon, humanitarian, artist and rebel.  With her singular gift of creating art that is as accessible as it is boundary-pushing, she has shaped our culture in a way very few others have,” said Donna Langley, Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.  “It’s an incredible honor for everyone at Universal to work alongside her, Diablo, and Amy to bring audiences and dedicated fans around the world her unvarnished story for the first time.” “This movie is an absolute labor of love for me,” said Amy Pascal.  “I have known Madonna since we made A League of Their Own together, and I can’t imagine anything more thrilling than collaborating with her and Diablo on bringing her true-life story to the big screen with Donna and our partners at Universal.” Madonna is a multi-award-winning artist, activist and humanitarian.  Certified the best-selling female music artist in history, she has sold 335 million records worldwide and remains the highest-grossing solo touring artist of all time.  Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, Madonna remains one of the most awarded and critically acclaimed artists in history, with 658 prominent global award nominations and 225 wins.  She has graced more than 4,700 coveted magazine covers worldwide.  Generations of world class artists celebrate her influence on their lives, work and personal style. Equally admired for her activism, Madonna is a freedom fighter and voice for the disenfranchised, fighting for LGBTQ rights, speaking out for gender equality and supporting orphans and vulnerable children through her non-profit organization, Raising Malawi. Madonna’s success on the big screen includes starring roles in films Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Dick Tracy (1990), A League of Their Own (1992) and Evita (1996), which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Madonna’s 1991 cult-classic Truth or Dare was the No. 1 grossing documentary from 1991 through 2002.  In 2011, Madonna made her theatrical directorial debut with the British historical romantic drama film she also co-wrote, W./E. She has also directed short films including Filth & Wisdom, SecretProjectRevolution along with Steven Klein, and created and produced the documentary I Am Because We Are about the children of Malawi. Diablo Cody is the Academy Award®-winning screenwriter of Juno.  She also wrote and produced Jennifer’s Body, starring Megan Fox; Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron; Ricki and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep; and most recently Tully, with Charlize Theron.  Cody created the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series United States of Tara with Steven Spielberg, which ran for three seasons on Showtime, as well as One Mississippi for Amazon with Tig Notaro. Senior Executive Vice President of Production Erik Baiers and Director of Development Lexi Barta will oversee the project on behalf of Universal Pictures. Madonna is represented by CAA and Maverick, and Cody is represented by WME, MXN Entertainment and McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP. About Universal Pictures Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com).  Universal Studios is part of NBCUniversal.  NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.  NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks.  NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Best 2012 games

10. Plague Inc

Man, remember 2012? Even in 2012 I thought that a game revolving around mutating a virus and trying to make it spread as much as possible was a little iffy at best. The game’s stance was pretty neutral at least; it wasn’t trying to make it seem cool or glorious, or pushing an ideal or agenda. Anyway, it was a weird, neat little game.  Ugh.

9.  Cave Story

It’s a cute little metroidvania game I had a good time with and didn’t think about too much. When I read about Cave Story, my respect grew for the game quite a bit. It was made by one person in his spare time over several years, and had a pretty big influence in the world of indie games. 

8. Sleeping Dogs

I’ve only dabbled with this one so far, but I liked what I saw a lot. It’s in the queue with a bunch of Yakuza games for me to get to. Putting it on the list might seem like a goof, but the oversight committee’s funding ran out in 2018 so it’s just me here in this room clacking away at the keys and shotgunning coffee. 

7. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

This game felt like a single player MMO, like an offline WoW - but in a good way? It’s generic hack and slash fantasy, mindless fun. Curt Schilling sure seems like a big asshole though. This game is getting rereleased in a few weeks and I do not understand why. Maybe the proceeds are going to the Rhode Island state government. 

6. Telltale’s The Walking Dead

Again, 2012 feels like a lot more than 8 years ago. The Walking Dead is the game that really spurred Telltale Studios into quickly growing then collapsing; they took on too many projects that were too similar and too expensive in too short a time. I’m reminded of how the Tony Hawk or Guitar Hero franchises were similarly driven into the ground. Only Telltale doesn’t have the resources to absorb that financial loss. It’s a shame for all the people who worked there. Their games. when they did, were something special. As for The Walking Dead, it was almost too good. I was captivated by the first few episodes, but the resolution of episode three made me feel ill in the same way the Sander Coen passage of BioShock did. 

5. Torchlight II

The internet says this released in the same year as Diablo III and my brain cannot process that. I played them both a lot, but my timeline is ruined. Anyway, Torchlight II is a good mindless action RPG that felt different enough from Diablo that there’s room for both. It’s more lighthearted which isn’t better but it is welcome. Torchlight III is in early access right now, y’all.

4. FTL: Faster Than Light

Well, I think we’re officially here. 8 years ago, this is the point where every blurb I write about these games is just me wiping drool from my chin and going Now I remember FTL you see there WAS no internet in those days of course and Bill Clinton was the president and you know how there’s Hillary Clinton? Well she married Bill and this was before I met your mother we had four cats named Bear and Socks because the grey one had white feet that LOOKED LIKE HE WAS WEARING SOCKS. 

Anyway, whoever had 2012 in the office pool, go collect your winnings. Might be able to arguably split with whoever had late 2020 for when I go around the fucking bend.

3. Fez

Fez is an incredibly charming and inventive game. It reminds me of Return of the Obra Dinn in that I love it, but I’m just not smart enough for it. Or the wrong kind of smart. The wrong kind of dumb. The game’s map and travel system - where each new zone seems to lead to 2 other new zones - creates an unreasonable anxiety within me. It’s a world I cannot catalogue and keep straight. The game is a 2D platformer, but you can rotate the world 90 degrees like a cube. The game requires spatial reasoning which is another tough one for me. Plus, I’m led to believe that the creator is an asshole. Fez is undeniably beautiful though.

2. Diablo III

Diablo III was a strange journey for me. I was absolutely in love with it right away. I tried all of the characters and played through the story with each. That enthusiasm eventually disappeared though, because all there was to do was play through the story again and again with increased difficulty settings, and on the hardest setting (Inferno) the game was soul-crushingly difficult. I remember finally getting into act II and being wholly unable to advance. Once I had that experience with one character, I stopped playing the game altogether; if that’s where this road leads, I’m not doing this again. 

Thanks to the reworking of the endgame with Adventure Mode and rift runs, Diablo III became one of my favorite games.

1. Journey

I’ve already written quite a bit about Journey, so let it suffice to say that it’s a unique experience that I’ll cherish always, and one of my favorite games ever.

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The Top Music Publishers Of 2021 Ranked By Global Revenue

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“From The Billboard Magazine Website – The Top Music Publishers Of 2021 Ranked By Global Revenue”

The music publishing industry was defined by a series of mega deals in 2021, including the sales of song catalogs by such superstars as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Def Leppard. The majors made the lion’s share of these acquisitions, but indies such as Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis and Larry Mestel’s Primary Wave were also very much in the game. Here’s how a dozen top publishers stacked up in terms of revenue last year, as well as a look at their progress in 2022.

The Top Music Publishers Of 2021 Ranked By Global Revenue

Music 1. Jon Platt  Chairman/CEO, Sony Music Publishing

Global revenue: $1.726B

Music publishing’s goliath rebranded from Sony/ATV to Sony Music Publishing and brokered deals with hot new talent — Olivia Rodrigo, The Kid LAROI and Kane Brown — while also scoring wins with some of Sony’s top legacy talent. SMP signed AC/DC, bought Bruce Springsteen’s masters and publishing in conjunction with Sony Music Entertainment for an estimated $500 million and acquired Paul Simon’s entire song catalog. ASCAP and BMI crowned SMP’s Nashville division country publisher of the year for the first time since 2021.

2022 momentum: Sony led Billboard’s first-quarter Publishers Quarterly on both the Hot 100 and Radio Airplay charts, with 22.65% and 24.67% market shares, respectively. In the latter category, the music publisher has been No. 1 in 37 out of the last 39 quarters. And SMP’s $465.03 million fiscal fourth-quarter revenue for the period ended March 31 represented a 14% increase from the corresponding period a year earlier when revenue was $408.2 million. Its total revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31 was $1.784 billion.

Music 2. Jody Gerson  Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing Group

Global revenue: $1.59B

UMPG’s aggressive dealmaking has narrowed the gap between it and Sony Music Publishing over the last seven years, and after closing 2020 with a deal to acquire Bob Dylan’s 60-year, 600-song catalog maintained its momentum in 2021 through deals with Lionel Richie, Clairo, Louis Bell and Julia Michaels. The publisher also extended its deal with Harry Styles and sealed licensing deals with TikTok and Triller.

2022 momentum: UMPG reached a deal with The Weeknd to take over administration of his highly lucrative song catalog once his deal with Kobalt expires. In the first quarter, the music publisher finished No. 2 on both the Hot 100 and Radio Airplay rankings with 20.40% and 21.74% of the market, respectively.

Music 3. Guy Moot  Co-chair/CEO, Warner Chappell Music  Carianne Marshall  Co-chair/COO, Warner Chappell Music

Global revenue: $817.0M

Warner Chappell upped its game in 2021 with acquisitions of David Bowie’s publishing catalog, renewal deals with Madonna and the estate of George Michael, and new deals with Cardi B, Anderson .Paak and Daniel Caesar. It also promoted Ryan Press to president of North America.

2022 momentum: The company finished at No. 3 on the Hot 100 publishers ranking, with a 14.99% market share in the first quarter, but dropped to No. 4 behind Kobalt on the Radio Airplay ranking with 15.51% of the market. Warner Chappell also signed up-and-coming Mexican singer-songwriter Natanael Cano (“Soy El Diablo”) to a worldwide publishing deal.

Music 4. Merck Mercuriadis Founder/CEO, Hipgnosis Song Management/Hipgnosis Songs Fund/Hipgnosis Songs Capital

Estimated global revenue: $161M

After a $1 billion spending spree in the first six months of 2021 that included the publishing catalogs of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, music publishing’s provocateur spent the second half orchestrating a $1-billion investment partnership with Blackstone.

2022 momentum: Signed a worldwide publishing deal with R&B star Normani and, in the first quarter, finished at No. 6 on the Radio Airplay publishers ranking with 3.28% and at No. 7 on the Hot 100 ranking with 3.23%.

Music 5. Larry Mestel  Founder/CEO/president of music publishing, Primary Wave Music

Estimated global revenue: $161M

According to Mestel, Primary Wave raised the value of its assets to $2 billion through deals with the estates of James Brown and Bing Crosby, Chris Isaak and Sun Records. The company also owns a major chunk of the Prince estate.

2022 momentum: Primary Wave expanded its stakes in Def Leppard’s publishing and recording royalty income from some of its biggest hits, including “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Rock of Ages,” and acquired key rights from Bob Dylan’s share of the Traveling Wilburys catalog, including master royalties and neighboring rights royalties from the group’s output. But a Minnesota judge rejected the company’s proposal that Prince’s assets be placed in a single holding company in which all heirs would be shareholders.

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Blizzard Hints at Possible ‘Diablo II’ Remake Announcement Coming This Year

Hot on the heels of Blizzard’s announcement earlier this week about their merger with Vicarious Visions, Activision Blizzard’s chief financial officer and president of emerging businesses Dennis M. Durkin dropped hints during the company’s fourth quarter calendar 2020 financial results conference call that we might be seeing that Diablo II remake this year. Continue reading

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Deadmau5, Kygo, More to Perform at Virtual DisDance Festival, Plus Broadcast of Exclusive 2011 Avicii Set

Virtual DisDance Festival flaunts a dream lineup for EDM fans.

In perhaps the most mammoth virtual music festival lineup to emerge from the pandemic, SiriusXMtoday announced the first-ever Virtual DisDance Festival. The landmark livestreaming event, which begins on Friday, May 22nd at 4PM ET (1PM PST) and ends on Sunday, May 24th, will be hosted by The Chainsmokers, who have been on a musical hiatus in 2020.

Listeners who wants to dance from the comfort of their kitchens will be able to join the party via SiriusXM's BPM channel as well as the SiriusXM app. Flaunting a dream lineup of sorts for EDM fans, the staggering bill features a slew of the dance music industry's elite DJs, including Afrojack, Alesso, Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, Kaskade, Kygo, Love Regenerator (Calvin Harris), Major Lazer, Marshmello, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, and Tiësto.

Virtual DisDance Festival will also broadcast a 2011 set from the late dance music icon Avicii, placing a poignant cherry on top of a harbinger of a virtual festival. That performance will air on Saturday, May 23rd at 5PM ET (2PM PST).

"We're thrilled to be providing a top-notch line up of some of the biggest names in Dance music in our first-ever Virtual DisDance Festival. The virtual event will bring the festival experience to life and entertain Dance music fans nationwide with original performances and appearances they won't want to miss," said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer of SiriusXM. "Our listeners can continue to count on SiriusXM to keep them close to their favorite artists and to deliver great exclusive, original, and entertaining content. Our Virtual DisDance Festival is no exception."

Moreover, Virtual DisDance Festival will benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund in its mission to aid those in the music community experiencing pitfalls associated by the pandemic. Earlier in May, we reported that the fund was sadly depleted of its funds.

You can check out the full Virtual DisDance Festival lineup below.

SiriusXM BPM's Virtual DisDance Festival Line-Up: Above & Beyond Afrojack Alesso Alison Wonderland Armin van Buuren 3LAU Cash Cash CID Dabin Deadmau5 Don Diablo Duke & Jones Galantis Gryffin JOYRYDE Kaskade Krewella Kygo Lost Kings Loud Luxury Love Regenerator (Calvin Harris) Major Lazer Marshmello Martin Garrix MK Nicky Romero Oliver Heldens Paul Oakenfold Sam Feldt Sikdope Slushii Steve Aoki Tiësto Tritonal Valentino Khan Yellow Claw Young Bombs

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Pacific Rim Headcanon: The Early Years Timeline, 2025

For those who’ve forgotten, this timeline accompanies my Generation K prequel series for Pacific Rim.  It is my headcanon mixed with movie, novel, and extended canons of every kaiju attack and other significant events in the Kaiju War, including several original Jaeger characters and lots of original kaiju, based on the movie canon that the number of attacks steadily increased after 2013.  See end of post for links to the previous years and a guide to my original Jaegers.

NOTE: This installment includes the events of the movie, but with my series’ variations on who lives and who dies.

January 8, 2025 (15 days since last attack):  Harbinger, Category IV, attacks Seattle and is killed by Chrome Brutus.

Romeo Blue also engages, but is destroyed, and its pilots, Bruce and Trevin Gage, former Army Rangers, are killed.

Jaeger Program co-founder and Drift creator Caitlin Lightcap suffers a nervous breakdown shortly after.

January 30, 2025 (22 days since last attack): Infernius, Category IV, attacks Antofagasta, Chile and is killed by Puma Real.

Amazon Delta is destroyed, and her pilots, Reynaldo and Isabel Khouri of Ecuador, are killed.

January 31, 2025:  The United Nations announces that the Jaeger Program will sunset in the next six months.  U.S. President Jerald Lunk withdraws all American funding for the Jaeger Program in favor of the Anti-Kaiju Wall.

Los Angeles Shatterdome closes.

February 16, 2025 (17 days since last attack):  Nocnitsa, Category IV, attacks Wakkanai, Japan and is killed by Cherno Alpha.

Cherno’s partner, Tacit Ronin, is destroyed, and its pilots, Daniel Oliver of Australia and Evelyn Nakano of Japan/UK, are killed.

March 9, 2025 (21 days since last attack):  Grotesque, Category III, attacks  Tanch'ŏn, North Korea and is killed by Nova Hyperion and Horizon Brave.

Bering Tiger (”Tigress”) of Russia is destroyed, and her pilots, cousins Katarina and Yelena Pevelina of Russia, are killed.

March 23, 2025 (14 days since last attack):  Shelim attacks Kanazawa, Japan and is killed by Nova Hyperion.

Nova’s partner, Hydra Corinthian, is destroyed, but her pilots, American couple Kennedy LaRue and Stephanie Lanphier, survive with severe injuries.

April 15, 2025 (24 days since last attack):   Aipaloovik attacks Fuzhou, China, and is destroyed by Echo Saber and Puma Real.

May 4, 2025 (18 days since last attack):  Laceron attacks Prince Rupert, Canada and is killed by Nova Hyperion.

Nova’s partner, Chrome Brutus, is destroyed and his pilots, Canadian cousins Ilisapie Flint and Zeke Amarok, are killed.

May 17, 2025 (13 days since last attack):   Topielec attacks  Nakhodka, Russia and is killed by Eden Assassin.

Nova Hyperion is destroyed, but her pilots, Pang So-Yi and An Yuna of South Korea, survive with severe injuries.

Butterfly Sword is destroyed, and her pilots, Indian/Chinese siblings Chane and Maina Siddha, are killed.

June 2, 2025 (16 days since last attack): Bestreal attacks Shanghai, China and is killed by Shaolin Rogue, Echo Saber, and Diablo Intercept.

Shaolin Rogue is destroyed, and his pilots, Fei-Yen Wang and Huan Che, are killed.

June 23, 2025 (21 days since last attack): Cerberus attacks Lima Peru and is killed by Horizon Brave.

Horizon makes the kill but his reactor is critically damaged and suffers a meltdown.  

His pilots,  Xichi Po and Lo Hin Shen, are rescued by their chopper support crews, but die of radiation poisoning within 24 hours.

Diablo Intercept is also destroyed and both of his pilots are killed in the battle.

July 3, 2025 (10 days since last attack):  Putreskull attacks Panama City, Panama and is killed by Echo Saber.

Puma Real is destroyed, but her pilots, Panamanian twins Carlos and Jordana Chen, survive.  However, both are diagnosed with cancer.

July 10, 2025:  Panama City Shatterdome closes, and its commanding officer, Marshal Columbina Quijano, is forced into retirement for publicly condemning her government and the UN’s desertion of the Jaeger Program.

July 16, 2025 (13 days since last attack):   Bagiennik attacks Tokyo, Japan and is killed by Eden Assassin and Echo Saber.

Eden Assassin is destroyed, but both pilots survive.  Left hemisphere Peter Lepp dies of his injuries, but his wife, Hedy Keres, survives and returns to their native Estonia to raise her stepdaughter.

Echo Saber is destroyed, but both pilots, Japanese sisters Ami and Rena Tanaka, survive with severe injuries.

July 20, 2025:  Tokyo Shatterdome closes.  Its commanding officer, Admiral Daichi Yamamoto, dies mysteriously.

July 21, 2025:  Vladivostok Shatterdome closes.  Its commanding officer, Russian Colonel Pavel Rabinov, remains a supporter of the Jaeger Program and convinces Russia to commit support troops and ships (and a 2-megaton bomb) for Operation Pitfall.

Cherno Alpha and the Kaidanovskys depart for Hong Kong Shatterdome

July 22, 2025:  Sydney Shatterdome closes.  Its commanding officer, Marshal Blake Ketteridge, retires.

July 23, 2025 (7 days since last attack):  Mutavore attacks Sydney, Australia and breaches the Sydney Anti-Kaiju Wall before being destroyed by Striker Eureka.

After defeating Mutavore, Striker and the Hansens depart for Hong Kong Shatterdome.

July 25, 2025: Stacker Pentecost and Raleigh Becket arrive in Hong Kong Shatterdome.

July 27, 2025 (6 days since last attack):  Leatherback and Otachi attack Hong Kong.  Battle of Victoria Harbor destroys Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon.  Gipsy Danger kills Otachi and Leatherback.

Cherno Alpha is destroyed but the Kaidanovskys survive.

Crimson Typhoon is destroyed, and Hu Wei is killed, but ejects his brothers Cheung and Jin, saving their lives.

July 31, 2025 (3 days since last attack):  Operation Pitfall.  Striker Eureka and Gipsy Danger battle Scunner, Raiju, and Slattern at the Breach.

Stacker Pentecost knocks Chuck Hansen unconscious and forcibly ejects his escape pod before detonating the payload and destroying Striker Eureka.

Chuck survives with force injuries and decompression sickness.

Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket survive the destruction of Gipsy Danger and the Breach.

Mako suffers fractures and nerve damage to her sword arm and hip and oxygen deprivation.

Raleigh suffers radiation poisoning and brain damage from piloting solo a second time.  Both suffer decompression sickness.

Here are the links to my blog entries about the headcanons that make up my Pacific Rim fanfic series:

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Mark-4 Jaegers.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Mark-3 Jaegers.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Mark-2 Jaegers.

Fanon/Side-Story:  Yankee Star, America’s Mark-2 Jaeger.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  Talon “Tango” Tasmania.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Shatterdome Commanding Officers

Generation K: Original Character Master List.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2013-2015.

Pacific Rim Headcanon: The Early Years Timeline, 2016-2017.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2018.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2019.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2020.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2021.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2022.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2023.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2024.

Really dumb, probably out of no where question, but how old is everyone in Fallen Hero?

I am in a hurry, so here is the non-proofread timeline for the game, with everyone’s ages (and a lot of other stuff)

History of the Fallen Hero earth.

1945: World War II ends, but the technological arms race continues. The United States and the Soviet Union both 'recruit' available German and Japanese scientists, taking full advantage of what they learned from the more unconscionable experiments during the war.

1951: The Korean War very nearly turns nuclear when the first Chinese Type 52 bipedal tanks help push the UN-forces out of the mountains and nearly out of the country. Though clumsy and slow, they prove to be useful in the mountainous terrain, leading to an upswing in the powered armor industry.

1955: The Soviet Union announces that they have successfully created the first functional, cybernetic limb replacement. This is widely considered as the start of the Cyber Race.

1957: The Soviet Union manages to successfully interface man and machine, leading to a quantum leap in power armor technology as bipedal movement patterns become a lot more organic.

1960's: The US repeatedly release new versions of their powered armor suits as the Vietnam war rages, the lighter, more maneuverable armors being a lot more suitable for the terrain. Various upgrades for soldiers are becoming more and more common, and the nickname 'Mods' is coined for those changed by the cybernetic implants.

1968: The first so-called 'Masked Heroes' appear in public, modded veterans from the Vietnam war angered by their treatment by government of society. Very soon afterwards, new villains also takes to the stage, and the police finds it increasingly difficult to deal with disturbed people with military training and equipment.

1971: A metabolic diet pill launched without proper product testing turns out to have uncommon and dangerous side effect. Though most users die or are crippled, a certain lucky few develop powers hitherto unseen in man. The pill is quickly nicknamed the 'Hero Drug' and though it is pulled off the market, use and research continues. People who have gained powers are nicknamed 'Boosts' in the media.

1976: The Hero Drug is declared an illegal narcotic, banned after causing the deaths of untold thousands of people. Still, the lure is too strong, and research moves underground and behind securely locked corporate doors.

1979: Steel is born.

1980: The Year of Hell. The Big One hits the West Coast, the San Andreas fault causes a massive earthquake to strike Los Angeles, which triggers the Cascadia subduction zone a few days later. The massive earthquake and resulting tsunami throws the whole west coast into disarray with more than 150 000 estimated dead and missing. As if this was not enough, three months later the Mammoth Lake volcanic system reawakens, and the resulting eruption destroys any hope of quickly salvaging the west.

1981: The US government is nearly paralyzed by refugees as well as the rain of ash covering most of the Midwest. President Clark declares martial law.

1982: Ortega is born.

1980s: Aftershocks ravage the west coast, halting any rebuilding effort. Little by little rebuilding turns to evacuation, all efforts being put into getting the Midwest back on its feet to regain a stable food supply. Food Riots are common and several armed uprisings against the increasingly authoritarian government are struck down by the military.

1984: Los Angeles is renamed 'Los Diablos' in a famous documentary; 'The Angels of Los Diablos' about the rescue efforts.

1986: The GeniTech corporation patents the creation of lab-grown stem cell organs, revolutionizing transplant industry.

Late 80s: Estimated birth of the MC.

Early 90s: Fed up with the increasingly suffocating yoke of the federal government, more and more people start moving back into the ruins of the west, starting the recolonization. A disproportionate amount of these people are enhanced heroes and villains, both modded and boosts fleeing government control.

1992: In an effort to increase private industry investments, the West Coast is declare a free economic zone, where there will only be the most minimal of federal government oversight. No taxes. No regulations.

1992: The GeniTech corporation patents whole-body stem cell clones, allowing for large scale harvesting of replacement organs. Following a tumultuous debate about the ethics involved, they are one of the first companies that moves their corporate headquarters to Los Diablos to escape regulation.

1993: The Re-Gene project is first revealed in a NYT article, claiming it dates back to the seventies with the goal of making androids for use in war. The author, Tim Mazetti, was killed in a traffic accident soon afterwards. Lady Argent is born.

1996: The city of Los Diablos is up and running, the first Mayor is elected, and it is starting to look more and more like a functional city. With the huge changes to the coastline, large tracts of South Bay are abandoned and the city shuffles inland. Herald is born.

1997: Appalled at the lack of law and order in the free economic zone, or the FEZ as people call it, the newly elected President Ross creates the Marshal system. Recruiting some of the most famous masked heroes of the region, he funds the 'Rangers' initiative in order to stem the worst excesses of the enhanced populace.

1999: A breakthrough in energy technology leads to the first plasma reactors, leading to ever more compact cybernetics. Ortega becomes a mod. Hollow Ground declares themselves the kingpin of Los Diablos.

2000: The increasingly recovering US is flexing its muscles in the middle east, leading to a series of proxy wars with the ailing Soviet Union. The first known sighting of a Re-Gene on the battlefield. Ortega debuts as Charge.

2002: Ortega joins the Rangers.

2004: A huge scandal rocks the Re-Gene project after their operatives are suspected of human rights abuses in another proxy war in Panama. It is never brought to court as the Re-Genes themselves are androids with artificial minds, but the scandal moves the project back underground where it remains ever since.

2005: The Special Directive is formed, rumored to be a black-ops strike team of Re-Genes, deployed against anyone deemed dangerous enough by the government.

2007: Ortega is promoted to Marshal after the death of Marshal Hood at the hands of Hollow Ground.

2008: Sidestep debuts as a vigilante.

2011: The Nanosurge hits Los Diablos, a runaway nano-weapon devouring all flesh before it is contained by an alliance of heroes led by the Rangers. Sidestep plays a vital part in its defeat.

2013: The Heartbreak incident. Sidestep and Anathema are believed killed. Ortega retires as Marshal and hero, replaced by Steel.

2014: Ortega returns from retirement, joining the Rangers once more as Charge.

2017: MC returns to Los Diablos under an assumed identity.

2020: Now.

In essence, what endears romantic comedies to their most ardent supporters also is what bothers a lot of critics. Rom-coms, on the whole, are formulaic fantasies about everyday people who behave unrealistically in exceptional (and exceptionally well-lit) situations. The films usually adhere to a simplistic three-act structure that hinges on the viewer's emotional catharsis. The lovebirds meet and get to know each other in a montage scored to an upbeat pop song; clash, separate, and miss each other in a montage scored to a melancholy pop song; and ultimately reunite, with a coda scored to a cathartic pop song.

In Long Shot, the upbeat song is Blondie's "One Way or Another," the melancholy song is Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love" from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, and the cathartic song is Robyn's "Dancing on My Own," which is odd, given that the couple ends up together. By the way, given the genre, that's not a spoiler.

Pedestrian song choices aside, Long Shot is hit-and-miss. What works about it also is what works in all the good rom-coms: fundamentally, it's a story about two likable people putting in the time and effort to understand each other. As critic Wesley Morris wrote in a recent New York Times Magazine article about the dearth of modern rom-coms and why that's unfortunate: "Romantic comedy is the only genre committed to letting relatively ordinary people—no capes, no spaceships, no infinite sequels—figure out how to deal meaningfully with another human being." It's a fair point, and one that explains why Long Shot warrants a fair shake.

The more ordinary half of this movie's duo is a Brooklyn-based reporter named Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen, playing the raunchy/cuddly version of himself that he honed in Knocked Up and perfected in This Is the End). The object of Fred's affection is Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), who was Fred's babysitter when she was 16 and he was 13. Now, Charlotte is the U.S. secretary of state—celebrated, of course, for being the youngest and hottest person to hold the office—and she plans to run for president in 2020.

Like Harry and Sally, Edward and Vivian, Joe and Kathleen, and other exalted rom-com pairs, Fred and Charlotte represent a case of supposed opposites attracting. Fred, who writes for a local rag that evokes a mash-up of Vice and the Village Voice, is brash, unkempt, judgmental, and uncompromising. Charlotte, in her ambitious quest to actually save the world while climbing a slippery political ladder, is tactful, chic, open-minded, and persuadable. These two are idealistic humanitarians at heart; they bonded in adolescence over how deeply they cared about issues that most Americans ignored, like recycling and global warming. When they bump into each other as adults at a Manhattan charity event, one can almost see their kindred sparks. Obviously, it is unlikely that a guy who looks and acts like Rogen's character would enchant Theron's—and even more unlikely that she would hire him to punch up her speeches after watching him pillory a media mogul and then nosedive down a staircase. But common sense matters little in the pursuit of feel-good, against-all-odds, shoot-for-the-stars romance.

Director Jonathan Levine, who previously teamed with Rogen on 50/50 and The Night Before, works some glimmers of political satire and ribaldry into Long Shot's cavalcade of tropes. Many of the jokes are weak, eliciting light chuckles if anything; but the few knee-slappers that emerge from the film's most outrageous situations will likely be the moments for which Long Shot is best remembered, like when Charlotte negotiates the release of a hostage while high on MDMA.

Long Shot's strongest asset, though—which, upon reflection, also exposes the movie's greatest flaw—is Theron. For years she has excelled at dark comedy, evidenced by her prickly turns in the Jason Reitman-Diablo Cody films Young Adult and Tully, not to mention her off-kilter guest spot on Arrested Development. She's funny here, but only when the script gives her some edge to chew on, which doesn't happen enough.

Many critics have already categorized Long Shot as more like Veep meets Notting Hill than The American President. I, however, longed for Charlotte to be as acerbic, outré, and uproarious as Veep's Selina Meyer. I also bristled at Long Shot's conclusion: that the woman has to change for her man while he basically stays the same. (I guess he learned how to be less judgmental, or at least that's what the screenwriters want me to think.) In one of several explanation-laden scenes, Fred's best friend (O'Shea Jackson Jr.) tells him that he judges people too much in the name of white-knight liberalism. Meanwhile, Charlotte jeopardizes what she has wanted and worked for her entire life in the name of integrity, but also to publicly endorse and hold on to her man. It's a huge sacrifice that Fred does not reciprocate; but they're cute together, so the outcome is less offensive than it is disappointing.

Still, the movie ticks its post-Trump, post-MeToo feminist boxes in other ways, like showing how Charlotte and her advisers' concern with optics is justified. As a woman in politics, Charlotte knows full well that the general public will view her anger as hysterics, her assertiveness as bitchiness, and any misstep as more damning than one made by a man. Cowriters Dan Sterling (The Interview) and Liz Hannah (The Post) handle this material and the romantic side of Charlotte and Fred's relationship best, though neither element is as daring or clever as it could have been.

But here's the thing: rom-coms, probably more than films of any other genre, are supposed to be vehicles for escapism. Rom-com fans rely on them for this, too, especially when the current climate—both the political and literal—is inflamed. Ergo, Long Shot accomplishes what any decent romantic comedy sets out to do: induce some laughs, awwws, and sighs of relief at a tidy, happy ending.