It’s an old trope. It also goes with “someone with a father wouldn’t spend money on this” etc., etc., or a bunch of other ideas that somehow the consumers are inherently wrong.

No - but it did prove that she was not an innocent participant and it’s easily arguable she was equally culpable in their dynamic. I think this is where the left (as has the right) has lost the center in general.

It’s not - but it’s an easy trick because it wedges an employee into 1 of 3 scenarios:

I mean, no one had that award show anyway. Those people are all shunted to the technical awards no one watches. Honestly, if a drunken electrician or carpenter or focus puller showed up on camera “to tell us all what’s really up”, that might actually disrupt the public’s current relationship with those award shows…

The modern movement against the Oscars and film awards is really a modern phenomenon you didn’t see until maybe the 2000's and really when everyone and their mother started having an opinion on the host. They were an artistic analogue to Sports events and you don’t really see the anger towards them until Fox News…

The complaint about CGI in Animation is pretty much the same one you have in real films. It’s cheaper to do (in some cases) and it tends to kill a lot of professions to the point that only CGI remains (because it’s cheapest).

There’s a lot that goes into the politics of the body though. For a while, the Senate has at least had some level of civility in it with the House mainly consisting of Republicans playing to a base that didn’t want to see any bipartisanship whatsoever.

It’s weird McCarthy would think he would get the same treatment…

Probably the issue there is teaching itself is a discipline in and of itself and just because you could teach in the 90's doesn’t mean what you did works in 2020 and vice versa.

I suspect - no he didn’t.

This mostly -

I basically stopped waiting for Sony and just bought an Xbox Series X. I’m sure I’d like the PS5 as well as my last devices have been Playstations, but I’ve been fairly unimpressed with Sony’s attempts to keep the market stocked and I’ve gotten the distinct impression that sort of like their exclusives, leadership…

I think you can pretty much give Cameron the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t an idiot and read it more as a story writing joke.

I read the original, not the edit.  So yea.

I mean you’ve sort of got him pegged. I’d contrast this with John Carmack who left Meta after 3+ years because he just couldn’t get anything optimized.

People act like companies can be “50 people” all the time because frankly they’re idiots. A startup can be 50 to 15 people no problem.

I mean I kind of agree with you? What’s interesting to me about this case is it’s making the argument Microsoft can’t grow this big because if it does, it can do the things other companies are doing which already suggests problems with the market to begin with and that things in it aren’t necessarily done towards an…

I was actually a member of the now defunct site Whedonesque. Whedon was absolutely a monster when it came to Nepotism. It was not only his family, but he would rely on the same actors in everything.

Exactly.

Sure - but that move to block distribution to other platforms would be a valid FTC case. The idea that someone COULD do that is not really that valid since most Games or Movie publishing is basically already based on a a monopoly of IP as a premise.

Ultimately the line between nepotism and privilege becomes indistiguishable at a point. If it’s not related to you the author in what you do then I think that’s fine. But all nepotism is by definition: the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving…