Remembering genius David Bowie and how he heralded 2016 – a year of exponential loss in showbiz history

I remembered something he’d said when I heard the news about David Bowie’s death on January 11, 2016. I’d stayed up all night writing about the Golden Globe Awards and was heading to a TV studio when it broke. I made it to the studio, but suddenly no one was interested in the Globes anymore – everyone was talking about Bowie, his incredible 50-year career, his lasting impact, and the heartbroken fans who were painting red lightning bolts on their faces.

20 Shocking Secrets About The Sopranos Revealed

Many consider The Sopranos to be one of the greatest TV shows ever made. It first aired on HBO on January 10, 1999, and introduced viewers to the complex character of Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini, along with his family – wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and children Meadow (Jamie Lynn Sigler) and Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) – and the dangerous lives of his fellow mobsters.

Nintendo Switch Fans Just Got Bad News About a Highly-Anticipated RPG

For those who love role-playing games, Baldur’s Gate 3 was the clear winner of 2023, and many consider it one of the greatest RPGs ever made. It also proved to be a commercial success. There was a lot of talk that Larian Studios’ award-winning game would eventually come to the Nintendo Switch, and when that didn’t materialize, people assumed it would be released for the next Nintendo console. However, it now seems the game won’t be coming to either system.

Polygon’s Fee Frenzy: 13.6M POL Burned! 😱💸

O, ye humble users of Polygon! Behold the spectacle of your own folly-13.6 million POL, a sum so vast it could purchase a kingdom, yet squandered on the whims of a network that thrives on your desperation. The fees, once a whisper, now roar like a tempest, and the token burning, a ritual of annihilation, leaves naught but ash in its wake.

Bitcoin’s All-Time Low: The Market Groans, Traders Wake Up 😂

This could be a reallocation and not a distribution, a rearrangement of the ledger rather than a victory march to oblivion. A tired AMBCrypto report stares at the Value Days Destroyed metric to illuminate the point. Meanwhile the network’s hashrate growth stalls, for Bitcoin trades below the miners’ breakeven cost of $95k-$96k, as if the engines of industry have paused for a smoke and a sigh.