Disney is diversifying their relationships, EA will continue to make games but it’s returning more to a scenario like it was with Lucasarts where they would work with external parties.

Ah here comes the grumpy gusses. Look, it’s not for us, everything doesn’t need to be for us. Let the people who enjoy it have it and we’ll just go on about our day watching the dozens of other things many of these same people make that we do enjoy.

You have been living on this planet over the last five or so years right? The mean intelligence of humanity has taken a steep dive. Kind of makes me sad.

There’s a lot of moments that 10 years ago I’d have said could never be brought to screen but we’re in a different world. It will need to be handled with grace and care but it’s possible. Time will tell.

Can’t wait, started at the top again. I’ve probably read that series a dozen times over the years. One of the few I returned to. I have to admit, I never got into the Daniel stuff that dropped after the series originally ended. I am going to make an effort to read that but this has me kind of excited. The casting is…

Having been a child in an emotionally abusive family I’m guessing this is not something you’ve experienced. Abuse is insidious and shifts your entire perception of self.

I’m so exceptionally excited for this show! This sounds like a brilliant deconstruction of the sitcom genre.

No argument they were and the surviving members are talented, but they were a niche prog rock band and remain so. They never really penetrated into the pop culture mainstream.

She was not a talent who sold a lot of music, she was akin to Rush. A niche musician who was respected by other musicians due to her talent in composition. While you disparage the industry you don’t appear to know about music.

The inherent flaw in her theory is it removes control over the management of production. Abdicating to an AI places it in the hands of an external force. It could be communist adjacent but I feel it wouldn’t align with the core values of the belief system. Anyhow, good to speak about something like this in a civil…

Or at least talk to her mom, a left leaning lawyer and journalist. I’m sure her mom is just face palming hard right now.

STOP! No, shut this the fuck down. I think her message here is stupid, I think recently she has been quite foolish but that is fucking idiotic and misogynistic. She is an exceptionally talented musician and visual artist. Her albums have had critical success and was, prior to her indulging in techbro stupidity, highly…

*sigh* That is not what communism is or does. Communism, at its core, is workers controlling the means of production. THAT is the core tenants of communism, everything above that is the toppings on the sociopolitical frozen yogurt. Some are good, some are bad, but at it’s core it’s about the systems of wealth being…

Except that’s the most shallow surface read at all. She doesn’t hold any ill will towards the dalmatians. The villain and where she directs all her ire is the Baroness. This scans as if you’re deliberately trying to mischaracterize the movie.

If you watch the film and think it’s “boring” then you really have some issues around excitement levels. Also, she’s 100% over the top and it speaks to that so *shrug*. Mileage may vary.

Point of order, 70s London. The key moment at the start was the 65 Spring Collection reveal, the bulk of the film takes place in the mid-70s during the Mod/Punk/Rocker era.

This is literally baked into Star Wars since the first OT movie.

No you can’t. The “lack” of political statement is in fact a political statement. Their avoidance is an indication of intent. In this case, their statement is they’re fine with objectifying people, profiting off their strife and ignoring the realities of those they are taking advantage of. If they want to do something…

I think it’s less of a case of critics or writers retconing him into one and more a case of the fans not reading the subtext (or the text for that matter) and thinking he was one.

Exactly, this is straight up a Dickensian story just leaning into the bad a bit more. Like where the urchin makes the wrong choice. People acting like this is “new” or a “trend” only think that because they are ignoring centuries of literature. For a character to be a protagonist in a piece of media they do not need…