Yeah part of her aforementioned savior complex apparently involves massively overestimating her own fame and notoriety.

//And Johns seemed like such a nice guy in his interviews.//

Fisher has said that he can’t go into detail about his allegations for legal reasons, and given that there’s now an active investigation that makes sense.

//I wish Sony would stop trying to milk Spider-Man’s supporting characters and/or villains for solo movies.//

So tired of the “it’s a joke” defense of racism. If you and your friends think it’s funny to throw around racial slurs “as a joke”, guess what, you’re racist.

I think since the rise in dominance of superhero media Sony has increasingly looked at Spider-Man as “their” character, almost to the point of it being an informal mascot. It makes sense that to Sony he’s their property so of course they’d make him a console exclusive. Not saying it’s good (it sucks actually) but Sony…

That’s fair, but I’d say there’s a difference in scale and mainstream attention between the two franchises, if I remember with Mafia III they were trying to reinvigorate the series with a fresh angle and actively tried to do something that pushed boundaries (and credit to them for that, those mechanics you mentioned…

From what I remember the Buzzfeed article(s) don’t have much about Ellen herself treating people poorly. But there’s a viral Twitter thread (from I want to say March?) that I think inspired the Buzzfeed piece and it’s filled with stories about people not being allowed to look at her, Ellen yelling at and humiliating…

I can only imagine the controversy and outcry if lynchings were depicted in the game, or even “Coloreds Only” or “Whites Only” signs, there would have been an insane amount of outrage over Rockstar included details like that in the game.

It’s based on Republican logic that “Black celebrity = Black votes”, it’s why Trump at the time was so happy to pose with Kanye and talk up his support; he believed it would instantly make him popular with “the Blacks” because that’s how these racist pieces of shit think. It’s why they were so embarrassing in their…

LOL a celebrity trying to go to bat for Ellen with “well she’s always been nice to me!”

The same NBC that tried to kill the Weinstein story? And employed and protected Matt Lauer?

Calling this “fanfic” was brilliant, it will be all I think about when I see or hear about this show from now on.

Ooh a promise to “do better”! Honestly this “oops, sorry, we donated to BLM and promise to do better in the future” garbage is the same BS every corporation has trotted out. Maybe it shouldn’t have taken multiple deaths, weeks of rioting and a backlash on social media to prompt you to give a Black person something to…

“Suburban housewives”, in 2020? Really?

Given how poorly the US has handled the pandemic and the fact that the AT&T CEO specifies that they have no interest in doing a partial release by region, it doesn’t seem like there’s going to be a major theatrical release in anything resembling a safe environment for at least another full calendar year (and that’s…

The idea behind the clowns thing, as I understand it, is self-deprecating; the players are essentially acknowledging that they are clowns for continuing to play a game that the developer has (seemingly but obviously not really) “given up” on. It’s a fun game that they still enjoy playing but they also would like…

Of course not, just highlighting that in the current media landscape there’s a lot of people taking sides (see some of the other comments to this post claiming “vindication” for Depp) and sometimes both are bad... but thanks for the condescending reply.

One thing this ongoing car wreck of a story is teaching me is that it’s totally possible for both sides to be scumbags. It’s not an either/or proposition.

Releasing a statement with the phrase “the incident was consensual” in it is a great way to convince me you’re a fucking rapist.