Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium
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Went to see Dunkirk in Imax yesterday, fucking amazing by the way, and begs the question.... What has Christopher Nolan been doing ITTL? I'm going to assume Memento came out mostly as OTL in 2000. Maybe no Carrie-Anne Moss, with no Matrix I'm curious how her career has went. Insomnia in 2002 is a toss up? And in 2004 he would be working on Batman OTL. What project is taking its place?
Uh... I don't want to omit any, but so far...
Nintendo: Rare, Argonaut, Retro (Telenet Japan was recently spun back off, though they're still only making games for Nintendo, we have plans for them within the next few years...not big plans, but plans)
Apple: Ion Storm (sort of)
Microsoft: Psygnosis, Looking Glass
There are others for all three, but these are the biggest worth mentioning and the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Lane is going to address the issue MAJORLY over its next few seasons. That would be the most notable show addressing these issues at the moment.
Memento still happens, Insomnia doesn't. We might touch on Nolan in the 2004 movie update. Carrie-Anne Moss wasn't in OTL Memento but yeah, she's still doing extremely well.
Linkin Park is doing fine. Maybe slightly better than IOTL. Soundgarden still did their 1994 album but as of 2004 TTL they're not together anymore. Audioslave didn't happen either, right now Chris Cornell is doing solo stuff.
I wonder, is it too late to save Minardi, the Formula One team, and prevent them from becoming the feeder team to Red Bull as Toro Rosso? Sure, Minardi as a team kind of sucked, but they were Formula One's resident loveable losers, and they had the best coffee in the whole championship.
Also, since Al Gore has made a big deal out of the environment, I wonder if Formula E could become more important than in OTL, at least in the United States: I can see Tesla competing with a team in the championship, for example.
Also, since Al Gore has made a big deal out of the environment, I wonder if Formula E could become more important than in OTL, at least in the United States: I can see Tesla competing with a team in the championship, for example.
Actually, speaking of Tesla, @RySenkari How is Elon Musk doing ITTL, as of 2004?
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Formula One isn't really my area of expertise, so I'd have to look a bit more into this to know for sure what to do with Minardi.
As for Formula E, I think it or some form of it could become a thing later on.
Elon Musk is still working for Mark Cuban at Lycos, which is running Angelfire, currently the second most popular social networking site after Friendster. The two are good friends and have been pitching ideas at each other for quite some time. Cuban is very interested in investing in some of Musk's projects, so it's still not clear whether the two will enter into a joint business venture together or if Musk will sell off his stock in Lycos to Cuban and go on his own. If he does so, that stock will probably be worth at least two billion dollars, which, when combined with Musk's Paypal money, will make him significantly richer than he was at this point IOTL.
Annnnnnnnd linking the video:Well, I mean, you know. He'll die at some point. Just not soon.
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Let's not tempt fate, shall we?
Fate should learn to resist temptation. On the other hand, I haven't had much luck with that either.
The OJ Simpson murder/suicide for sure, as well as the odyssey of Bobby Knight in the early 2000s (how he was on the verge of losing his job until he won the NCAA championship in 2000). There'd be more but those are the two I can think of for now. as for the sports networks, no big changes.
We'll cover all those details in the iPod Play release post.
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