The Daily Dad

Things you might want to know, for May 20, 2023:

• PSA: Death Stranding Is Free On PC Right Now — I find it maddening to actually play, but as an experience, DS is as fascinating and stupid as all Kojima games. Definitely worth downloading as a freebie.
• ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Stan Maren Morris Turned Tom Schwartz’s Blubbering Into a Country Song
• “Marvel Comics in the 1970s” is a new book about a wild and trippy creative era — I dunno… I feel like identifying every “wild and trippy creative era” in modern comics is as simple as tracking Jack Kirby’s place of employment.
• Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power

• It’s the End of The CW As We Know It, and We’re Not Fine — Voyager, Everybody Hates Chris, Buffy, Dawson, Roswell, Veronica Mars, Gilmore, Smallville, Charmed, Felicity, Popular… even if you ignore the last decade of Arrowverse shows, the death of UPN/WB/CW is one more nail in my youth’s coffin.
• OpenAI launches free ChatGPT app for iOS — This thing has needed a native iOS/iPadOS app from the beginning, and I’m delighted it has finally arrived.
• Dynamite & Disney announce DISNEY VILLAINS: HADES comic series
• ‘Futurama’ returns July 24th as a Hulu original after a 10-year hiatus — …and honestly, I don’t care. I know Futurama is beloved by many, but I’ve always found it little more than “faintly amusing.” But I’m in favor of anything that keeps Katey Sagal employed, so I hope it works.
• Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back — Yeah, so… this does seem like a rather dumb idea.

• Watch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon — The first Scorsese movie I’ve been eager to watch in at least seven or eight years.
• A pan that makes both a pancake and a waffle… at the same time