Funnily enough, I’ve just started buying physical media again the last few months. Well, at least my favorites. The last thing I’d want is for a streaming service to decide randomly to stop having what I want.

Bad idea when people are finally starting to realize your favorite media can forever disappear on the whims of random CEOs

Time to hoist the colors.

If you thought we were leaving AI discourse behind in 2023, I’m sorry to tell you that you were very, very wrong.

I once worked as an executive at a software company that prided itself on its dedication to user privacy. Imagine my frustration when board members would periodically want to meet with my teams and I to wax poetically about how they wished to.....monetize user data.

I mean...you saw how he doubled down on NFTs after the bottom dropped out.

“Kiryu also mentioned AI, saying that while the generative technology carried negative connotations...”

Wow, Squenix is just on the wrong side of literally every issue aren’t they

So Square Enix, whose entire marketing strategy is going to TEDx conferences to look for random keywords they can slap onto their quarterly earnings reports will... continue to use this as their entire business model.

“ Snyder took heavy aesthetic and stylistic notes from genre classics like Star Wars and Dune, without understanding the story and emotional beats that made those aforementioned franchises so beloved”

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

It’s more like “Holy shit, this Whopper I ordered has wilted lettuce, old cheese, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t even beef.”

Beautiful shitty movie from Zack Snyder, must be a day that ends in -y

Attempting to establish an original, engrossing science-fiction world is no small task, even for the most adept of writers, and it’s painfully clear that Snyder took heavy aesthetic and stylistic notes from genre classics like Star Wars and Dune, without understanding the story and emotional beats that made those…

Does anybody want to see the Batman V Superman director’s take on the popular game?

Hilarious! “Freeing humans from drudgery” oh how noble.  “Removing the cost of labour from the money-making machine, no matter how deleterious for the society the factory-owners don’t live in”, there ya go, FTFY.

What you WANT to do is raise capital gains taxes!

The rich don’t earn their money as income; what you’d be proposing would basically only affect upper-income professionals like doctors, lawyers, etc.

Honestly, I agree with you, but I think the solution is a lot more direct - make it illegal and the companies responsibility as far as things like fakes and lack of service you paid for (something that should’ve been true in the first place).

counterpoint. No.
Smoking isnt cool anymore, and theres no reason to leave it in. The only people i personally associate with it are middle aged folk who waste thousands of dollars a year on it and stuggle to quit, but cant, passing on basically nothing to their kids cuz they throw it away on tobacco. so coooooool.