Announcement here. The only potential upside I'm seeing is that the project is being run by fans of Medieval II, and even then I can't verify that they're not the "I've always loved Medieval II but it's racist and sexist" type of "fans".

The last Total War game I played was Napoleon so it's been a long time since I've kept up with CA, but frankly they were doing a lot of anti-consumer shit even back in 09/10. Since then they've gone woke with Rome 2 (the bullshit surrounding female generals) and they've fucked over historical fans with the Warhammer series (I have no opinion on Warhammer itself, I'm just opposed to it being in a historical franchise). I'm skeptical that this will even be worth pirating.

I've been having issues with archive.is over the last month or so and I know others have had the same issue. Back when when it worked properly I noticed that links would often redirect to a different top level domain. It seems that was a way to keep the site working and for whatever reason the TLD switching stopped working. But you can change the TLD in URL manually and every time I've tried that at least one of them will work. For example if archive.is/xyz doesn't work try archive.ph/xyz.

Here's the list of TLDs I've seen:

.is .ph .vn .md

It's kind of a pain especially on mobile but it is a solution if you care enough to see the archive.

My mom wanted to see a movie over the weekend and giving the SpongeBob movie a shot looked like the best option. I didn't have very high hopes since the series went to shit 20 years ago but it was an okay movie. It wasn't amazing but it blows the last 20 years of the series out of the water. The negativity surrounding it seems out of place considering the slop that passes for entertainment these days. Even the CGI animation wasn't too awful since they used a style that approximated the original 2D animation. It's not a must see by any means but if you're a fan of the Sponge and want something to do on a lazy weekend I can recommend it.