If you even have to ask, you don’t understand the dilemma here...

The only link between Suicide Squad and the Arkham games is that they take place in the same universe.

Fortnite is Fortnite, but the lacklustre sales of pretty much all the other money pipes out there tells us that there’s little general appetite for more games stacked with long-tail battle passes designed to keep the revenue flowing in.

I think it’s less about the actual requirement of the connection and more the justification of it.

“I earn what they work 40 hours a week to bring home in 5 minutes, therefore I must be working 480 times harder than them!”

...and their wallets stuffed full by the coal lobby!

I like how you subtly referenced the mis-spelling of ‘Becket’ in the original QL finale by misspelling Spider-Man!

I’d imagine, given Patrick Stewart’s age, is they’ll spin some characters out of Picard and have them cameo in other shows. The whole reason Picard had a short/back-to-back production schedule is likely concerns about hanging an entire show off the back of an octogenarian!

The artist, in the context of taxidermy, is still a person who has undertaken time and effort to produce something that looks decent, unless you’re this guy...

The problem with any situation that boils down to ‘why the fuck didn’t we educate these douchebags properly’ is the cat is already out of the bag - unrestrained free enterprise let a bunch of rich tech bros loose on everything with zero morals because they’ve never been told to wind their neck in at any point in their…

I’m sure that P&G’s marketing executives would absolutely love to be able to just type into a snazzy front end website that feeds into an AI machine learning shop stocked with a bazillion images of Mr. Clean “Give me a picture of Mr. Clean using the mop in this uploaded file that we can slap on the packaging of this…

Not really - both are being employed blatantly to generate profit for the person controlling the generator at the expense of the source image(s).

I think you yourself are adding a huge amount of nuance where there isn’t much - most AI Art Generators seem to be taking a number of images that fit a search term then are smushing them together into a new image that closely enough matches the original search whilst being fundamentally different, hence why you can…

Jesus christ, this is the easiest thing in the world to not fuck up and it feels like every company is hell-bent on making the worst possible decisions in any given moment.

The only exception to this is how we’ve seen the various doorbell companies interact with law enforcement, but I guess that’s a slightly different discussion.

They’re not. The companies with skin in the streaming game are all only putting their films in theatres for as little time as they can get away with, as the second they get onto their platforms, it’s 100% all their cash...

He was told by his legal guys that he was on the hook for tweeting about buying companies because every time he did it, their stock jumped, before crashing after realising it was a lie...

He’s only a ‘token’ $25 million a year. He’s not on $1, after you add in all the other perks and benefits...

That’s a thing worth remembering - like Musk, Zuck doesn’t actually have *that much money*... The majority of their ‘worth’ is tied up in the value of the companies they leech off of.

It’s neither. It’s almost purely to garnish their CV with the credentials you mention so that they will be able to move onto a better paid job within the next year.