pwnicholson

Cool story, but not where that comes from and not how that phrase is used.

“Just under the wire” means “just in time”, “at the last second”, etc.

It comes from horse racing and the wire they would strong across the finish line. Same as “down to the wire”

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/under--the--wire

Fair point. Even music has been turned into a continuous revenue model.

I don’t know a single investor that would not like a game studio that said “we have a massive back catalog of IP that is raking in cash with nearly no additional development or maintenance cost. We’ll try to keep making new games to keep the IP fresh and see if we hit it big again, but in the meantime, enjoy the money printing machine back catalog”.

It’s basically what Disney does at this point.

And, for that matter, record/music labels. Most records labels lose money on the majority of new artists they sign. It’s the 1-in-10 that break even and 1-1000 that go big and the 1-in-10,000 that fill out huge back catalog they just keep milking.

Sheesh. That is crazy. I grew up in evangelical churches in the southern USA and that’s a new one to me.

What do you mean? Like this one? Do please educate us if you know better.

They didn’t live in a world saturated in sugar. It was a very rare treat.

Also, depends on the ages here. A lot of 4 year olds can still be kept busy for a while by something like that. …If they haven’t been handed an iPad since they were 9 months old anyway.

Your explanation says that a post with 100k actually has 20k. What this guy is saying is that it does actually have 100k.

For vocalists in Western music traditions, the steps of a major scale (doesn’t matter the key) go by the names Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do instead of just 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 the way most other musicians refer to them.

They are saying that in the song ABC by the Jackson Five, the notes they sing in that relative key when they say “Do Re Mi” are actually “So La Do”

You mean re-filling. It was filled quite nicely with the original Thrawn Trilogy. Still glad some of that was salvaged and brought into canon.

I don’t remember sidewinder missiles ever coming up in Star Wars