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itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-be-… In my latest substack I defend Nintendo's pricing of the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World

Fun fact; you're both right in a way you'd hate No or more limited Right To Buy, councils would respond to rising demand for houses by tearing down council houses to pack more housing units into the space Maybe they'd really go for it & save some estates to sell off for a profit

OPINION: Forget Princess Peach, it's Nintendo that might need rescuing as it battles tariffs, inflation and its Switch 2 pricing backlash, writes Will Cooling cityam.com/can-mario-resc…

Rumblings Netflix isn't thrilled with the viewing figures? Nerves about having a Trump appearance forced upon them? Reading the Internet criticism that they absolutely do not care about

Grant Morrison remains undefeated

I have now seen multiple people claim last night's main event was the best match in WrestleMania history. Friends, we have not gatekeeped nearly hard enough.

Watching Wrestlemania, the first time I've watched a WWE show in years. Some random thoughts: - The production is overwhelming. The commentary is awful and overbearing. The camera work is dreadful and action detracts from the action. It's all just too much.

Friends don't let friends conflate panel-based survey data with computer counts of streams

No one deserves to be in the WON HOF more than Jon Briley

Children on this app think that every match result by default should be putting over the lesser star and any time that doesn't happen is because they refused to do the job

I love that AEW has just produced quietly confident, too great to be called maintenance shows but they are still maintenance shows episodes while everyone is rubbernecking WWE DESTROYING that rock solid secure six months ago seemingly fan goodwill.

A thread from Modi on H*ndred sales Put aside reputation/involvement & consider the points on merit (or not) Certainly (cf Fanos Hira) there’s been little/no scrutiny of strategy Where are stories about current extension to closing the deals? Footy media would be all over it

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-be-… The second part of my look at the Star Wars sequels looks at the mistakes made by both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. It would be a tad glib that we want from too few ideas to too many, but that doesn't mean its not true.

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-be-… ICYMI the second part of my look at the Star Wars sequels is now up. I praise George Lucas's plotting, how JJ Abrams storyhacks kinda tricked us all to love The Force Awakens & how Rian Johnson very nearly delivered everything the new trilogy needed

To be fair, as somebody who has spend eight years studying the IMDb, one suspects that the low rating for “The Story and the Engine” is due to the same reason that “Black Panther” and “Captain Marvel” are the only billion dollar Marvel Studios films not to make the IMDb 250.

In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOi