Superhero stories in general have a perhaps unresolvable thematic conflict with the police. There’s no real way to remove the subject of vigilantism from the equation. Regardless of whether a police force is portrayed as purely good or almost entirely corrupt, the message is that they’re unable to handle the level of…

It is absolutely allegorical to coming out, but that doesn’t mean she’s literally trans (or gay or anything else that “comes out”). That’s my point, it can function as an allegory or a reference or a nod without being literally true (and it’s the “literally true” part I’m arguing against, not anything else).

I found it kinda hilarious that a certain section of twitter is going all “we took all these little things and we used them to build our headcanon that gwen’s trans, and we’ll be very loud and vocal about it! — and if your headcanon is that she’s cis, just keep it to yourself”

I personally am trans, so I’m primed to look for it. But yeah, the argument that Gwen is personally trans is not compelling.

Thank you,

There’s a difference between identifying with a character and projecting on a character.

People can believe what they want but this seems like a stretch. 

Much love to the trans community but this ain’t it.

As a CIS white guy I always worry about venturing into this kind of discussion and I haven’t seen the movie yet (Monday!). But the evidence above seems pretty unpersuasive and it’s not hinted at anywhere else in her character. Having to hide half your life from your loved ones is a recurring theme of Spider-man (and…

I would have preferred to play as Ellie and lose during that fight. I hated every bit of it. Shooting who I considered the protagonist made me want to intentionally lose. I get that the story is meant to show that no one’s a hero and everything is grey but that didn’t make it easier. 

Needs more fingers being force-fed.

So to clarify that a bit, Lucas was involved with the writing side of Empire, just not the actual filming/production side. That said, he also brought on Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan to handle writing and rewriting, expanding and tweeking on his ideas, ect. This is in a noticeable contrast to the prequels, for…

I really think this article is missing what is actually happening here. This is akin to trying to stop the industrial revolution by burning down factories. It’s not going to make any difference, this revolution is happening, and attacking tools is just leading people to targetting their outrage in the wrong direction.

From a straight up quality standpoint, I must confess: I don’t think this video looks as dogshit as everyone is saying. That said I also don’t think that it looks incredible or like animation. The article puts it very well in saying that it’s AI assisted rotoscoping - except animation on a rotoscoped project still can…

So it’s auto-rotoscoped footage, jazzed up with a fancy anime filter.

So many people don’t understand what democratizing a media means. Democratizing a media means to make it usable by a wider audience. The camcorder democratized film making by making it accessible to the public. The internet democratized publishing by making it cheap & accessible. Flash democratized animation by making…

would you believe it that not all artists have formal training? There are plenty of self taught highly skilled artists that just do what they think looks good. Think of AI as a highly skilled amateur.

Kotaku articles have been fiery hot takes since 2019-ish. It really bugs me, it used to be my favourite news site, now I barely visit it. 

Overtly defining AI-generated images as “plagiarism” seems like a slippery slope that could lead to any art provably influenced by another person’s art as plagiarism. Yes, I get that the AI systems are literally TAKING- often against the will of the original artist- pieces of work and processing them to make it’s…

Here’s my regular reminder that you people have a problem with capitalism, not a problem with technology. All this pearl clutching over displaced artists completely misses the point that in a just world, the artists could continue to make their art without the threat of poverty and new technology like this wouldn’t…