According to the Twitch leaks he makes about $100k a month, and he got a mortgage on a fairly nice piece of property in West Hollywood. Yeah, he’s rich, but this idea that he’s slinging millions is not based in reality. He’s only been doing this for three years and he didn’t make it big until 2020, it’s very recent…

It’ll take a while yet, but the younger generations are definitely shifting more and more leftward. There’s so much resentment building up over economic inequality, climate change, etc. It’s been really heartening to see leftist content growing on online platforms. Obviously there’s still all the RW propaganda, but it…

It was bad phrasing, for sure, but in context he was basically talking about 9/11 being a consequence of America’s own foreign policy, and I absolutely agree with that. As a nation, we “had it coming.” IE “America deserved it,” not “American civilians deserved it."

From what I’ve seen, Pepe has pretty much been reclaimed. I don’t really see it used for dogwhistling anymore, and nowadays it’s just used as a sort of collective representation of Twitch chat. I’m a bit too old for Twitch chat so I don't really know the ins-and-outs, but that’s the impression I get from watching VoDs…

We can barely get bills including corporate regulations and tax hikes passed and you think the government can be expected to effectively do the work of labor unions? I don’t disagree with you in principle but how are you going to achieve this when Congress is still full of Republicans and Neoliberals?

Just checked the leaked payouts out of curiosity, and he makes about $100k a month, and he only really blew up during the 2020 elections so it’s still relatively new wealth. Obviously is a shitload of money, but it’s not like he can just dump a few million. He’s already raised more from this merch line than he earns…

$17/h seems pretty low for California, but... small steps, I guess? It’s actually pretty amazing how many of their demands the ABK alliance has managed to get ATVI to cave on.

And on top of all the legal and cultural problems they’ve been dealing with — some of which actually dating back quite far — they’ve had the shift to work-at-home piled on top of it.

Good steps but still far from addressing all the issues. And the massive pay cut is nice but it’s barely a drop in the bucket compared to all the money he’s already hoarded.

Shows up in the latter part of the season, casting is being kept secret for now.

I don’t know why there’s all this debate about whether or not Ed will appear when the showrunner already confirmed they’re being introduced towards the end of the season and they’re keeping the casting a secret.

I don’t entirely disagree with you, but I think IP law is an absolute necessity to protect creators. There are definitely problems with current IP law — it can be easily abused (IE patent trolls), and penalties are ridiculously harsh. But without it, you’d have the market flooded with bootlegs and scams, and creatives…

Cassidy, and people are already starting to call him “Cass” for brevity.

It’s... not really easy. In fact it’s probably kind of expensive since they need to create new assets and have a bunch of voice actors re-record a shitload of dialogue in a bunch of different languages.

You’re not wrong, but the developers have come out and said this change wasn’t mandated by corporate, it’s something they wanted to do internally, while still trying to pressure corporate to meet their demands.

How exactly does this change established lore? They’re revealing that McCree isn’t his real name, which is something that was already implied in dialogue in the game, and working it into the story by having him cast aside his alias and using his real name.

Him using aliases was part of his schtick before the game even launched. They had social media posts by him using the alias “Joel Morricone” as part of the pre-launch worldbuilding stuff.

You’re using the word “reactionary” wrong, btw. It has a very specific meaning, not just “in reaction to.”

To be fair, they’re not trying to make everyone forget the old name. They’re keeping it as part of his backstory and leaning into some previous hints that Jesse McCree wasn’t his real name to justify the change.