Is it just me or does Nathan Drake show up in the last 10 seconds of the GTA VI trailer?
Musicals Hiding the Fact That They’re Musicals
I noticed this when Mean Girls the Musical: The Movie’s first trailer came out and featured zero singing, but apparently trailers for musicals hiding the fact that they’re musicals is a trend:
Airpods constant mute and unmute message
Are we all getting this alert over and over and over again every time we use AirPods?
Mac shortcut to auto quit Apple Music
Created a Shortcut on my Mac just to quit Apple Music every time it opens and open Spotify instead.
It’s not that I hate Apple Music that much, it’s just I constantly click the play/pause on my Airpods after a work call meaning to restart podcast/music on my iPhone. Be nice if Apple would let us configure that behavior. (I know, I know.)
Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie
New Mean Girls trailer is out…
Are they trying to keep it a secret that this is a musical? Or did they somehow screw this up and replace the songs with current pop music? Even the official website doesn’t seem to mention it at all except she has a musical note ring on in the movie poster.
The Marvels – ★★★★
Ventured out to theater on a Friday night to watch The Marvels with the entire family. Legit very funny and surprisingly short. Kids absolutely loved it and laughed out loud throughout. Rating: 4 stars
Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie
Well excuuuuuse me Princess… but Nintendo is apparently making a live-action Zelda movie.
Not exactly super confident based on the producer and director (only on their recent films) that were announced. I also find it interesting that they’ve decided to make it a movie and not TV, is that a sign it’s going to be big and expensive? Seems like live-action is riskier or at least makes it more likely this is a complete disaster? Will they be able to keep this PG with the darkness and violence inherent in the story.
Interestingly, Avi Arad is also credited as the creator of the Netflix’s kid show Super Monsters which my kids at least sometimes watched and I found it actually pretty solid.
NNG and AI articles
Pretty much half of the recent NNG articles recently have been about generative AI/chatbots: nngroup.com/articles/ Some of them are interesting, some of them are pretty empty. Guessing in general putting out five truly riveting articles per week on usability is tough.
Interesting to see them so heavy into AI including most of the recent articles from Jakob Nielsen himself.
Halloween Grinch
Being able to go back to almost completely ignoring Halloween might be the only thing I’m looking forward to when the kids move out of the house in another decade or so.
Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks
lol no
