While it's still the same old Underworld fantasy playground of gloomy cinematography and histrionic acting, much has
changed behind the scenes for the latest installment.
For much of this season we have been wondering if the best players like Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil were going to be persuaded to stay and that will be an even bigger question if there are to be
changes behind the scenes as well.
«The past year has seen the rise of the Time's Up and #MeToo movements, which have transformed the conversation in the industry and among the movie - going public, and are
driving change behind the scenes and in the media,» said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD's president, in the study.
Instead of hearing «oh, we'll fix it next time» from a Sonic Team spokesperson and then nothing happens to follow up on that halfhearted enthusiasm, we're actually seeing some
behavioral changes behind the scenes with the delays and design decisions and even choice of staffing.
Google made a number of big
changes behind the scenes too, like switching to a new JIT compiler to speed up apps, supported the Vulkan API for faster 3D rendering, and enabled OEMs to support its DayDream Virtual Reality platform.
However,
things changed behind the scenes recently as this functionality can be enabled thanks to the Google app checking if the client app is debuggable and not Google's own app.
BTCC and two of China's other biggest exchanges, Huboi and OkCoin, earlier this week introduced transaction fees for trading on their platforms, with suspicion that the PBoC forced
the change behind the scenes.
Whilst the trio in front of the cameras remains the same, it's
all change behind the scenes, with the movie having new writers (Shauna Cross, Johnny Rosenthal) and a new director (Mark Waters).
While
some changes behind the scenes to how the game actually works render the first Homeworld HD a bit different from its original release - there's no refuelling, for one, making your strike ships (which also repaired when they had to head back for fuel) rather pointless - it is, in the most part, great fun.
Most activists prefer to agitate for
change behind the scenes, but some prefer to be more public: Carl Icahn (I read King Icahn at least once a year) is the king of the activists — he's 77 now, but is more of top of his game today than he was 30 yrs ago!