“Activations” is a PR/ Marketing term. You don’t hear it because functioning humans with a soul don’t talk like that.

Perhaps that doesn’t sound like losing, but this sure does: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1161070238/funko-pop-landfill

Cool, now prove Universal’s criminal intent in a court of law. The optics of the situation don’t meet burden of proof.

You’re confusing union-busting with strike-busting. They are not the same thing according to the law. Most laws having to do with strikes are about employees. What employers can and can’t do is far less defined - you can’t fire people, and you supposedly can’t retaliate. But there are plenty of methods to punish…

Plausible deniability. Despite the fact that you’re not supposed to trim trees in LA in the middle of summer, they can plead incompetence - very hard to prove that it was an intentional strike-busting tactic, regardless of optics. When I looked up the fines for what Universal did, it was minimum $5 and max $200 per…

Key phrase is “allegedly” - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-table-legs-covering-myth

Get ready to clutch your pearls then, because comic artist Wally Wood’s Disney Memorial Orgy poster regularly comes up at auction.

Enjoy a GenX eyeroll for your comment. Leave us out of it.

The SAG-AFTRA presidents are union members (eg actors) - Ed Asner and Melissa Gilbert were presidents as well. :D

From Black Mirror episode to real life dystopia in just a month. Has to be a new record.

You don’t have to wager, you’re absolutely right - the strike rules expressly forbid it:

Thank you for your expert testimony, I’m sure that Digital Eclipse will be thankful for your diligent market research.

Technically Karate Champ was released first (May vs Dec 1984) but the only reason that they look alike is because of the limitations of game art at the time. Both protagonists are wearing generic karategi, but the similarities end there. Karate Champ is an early, round-based fighting game while Karateka is a linear…

One of the first (if not THE first) machinimas was someone hacking Karateka into a non-interactive movie featuring the hero returning for payback after walking up to her in a combat stance ;) :

Zuck and Elon are both filth and people need to find better heroes. Phil Fung’s tweet above equally applies to addicted social media users - “it’s hard to stick to your principles when it’s against your interests”, in this case it’s that sweet, sweet outrage or validation dopamine fix.

Zuck is just the original dealer…

Lucasfilm’s bait-and-switch treatment of Finn’s arc in the sequel trilogy is what he has a problem with. Nothing in this video indicates that he had any issues with science fiction as a general rule. He has been trying to get an Attack the Block sequel off the ground, after all.

If they’d done the puppet show as you describe in Rise of Skywalker, the fandom just would have complained that it was another recycled idea from the OT -

Not necessarily. In the world of classical 2D animation, there’s a role called an inbetweener...the people who draw all the frames in between, after the key pose animator and breakdown artist have done their passes.

With the advent of 3D digital animation, the program becomes your inbetweener. They interpolate between…

Adam Conover explains this in less than 5 minutes:

“Vast majority” is not data, and the buck does not stop with Kennedy - she has to report to Iger and Chapek, and they set the pace.