What I find kind of funny about Martin’s answer is that no, I understand Melisandre quite well. She’s a religious zealot. And religious zealots can get fucked.

From what was said at the time, yes. It’s all GRRM’s outlines. Now whether he goes back and changes it for the book because of public backlash to the TV show (lmao at him actually finishing the books), remains to be seen. But what happened in the TV show is largely the destination GRRM was going to arrive at.

I feel like it should maybe be illegal for features that are present in a product you buy to be artificially restricted. Like, if not paying for heated seats or whatever meant they put cheaper seats in the car, that’s one thing. But to have all of the hardware and software necessary already in place and just a little…

You don’t WANT Full Self Driving. Musk is basically beta testing it on the general public, and many people have died. His “vision” is for a world where ALL cars are ALL self driving, and that there would be zero fatalities if that were ever to happen, so he’s trying to MAKE it happen by “perfecting” full self driving,…

How would you know if he criticised the union in the past, it wouldn’t have been remotely newsworthy. Ultimately as long as you follow the collective action you are entitled to say and think what you want. For these kinds of strikes I think the point he’s trying to make is the same some others do, is that they in…

Not only was that distinction nowhere in your post, making it impossible for me to know what you definition of “your group” was? but considering “soldiers” as a special caste with different rights is a really problematic view, especially when you take into account conscription.. And even if I agreed with that view,…

“Now they’re at war, and when you’re at war, you support your group.”

I agree. Unions are great and necessary, but they can become flawed, overly exclusive, violent, or corrupt. Just look at police unions....

You know what?

What a great comparison, since Japanese Twitter users are constantly mashing up the Nanking movie poster with a kids’ movie that came out at the same time. Remind me - which kids’ movie is it that they’re insensitively adding Prince Asaka to?

Can we just pass that already? The actions of the Japanese government were atrocities and are never to be forgiven, but let’s not use that to overlook the sensitive nature of what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

They’ve never explained recasts before (Terence Howard -> Don Cheadle, Ed Norton -> Mark Ruffalo). Why would they need to “explain” this one? Just recast the character and move on.

I mean there’s also the fact that you know the Infinity Stones are a thing because Marvel had crossovers about them like 3 times throughout the ‘90s, one of which being one of the most famous crossovers in history.

Thanos just showed up lurking in the background in mid credit scenes and not even doing anything how many times before he actually did something. Kang actually had a whole civ built in the microverse and giant statues of himself in the TVA after the first season of Loki, that’s way more exposure than Thanos got up…

It defeats the purpose of a boycott to continue boycotting people who’ve already agreed to your requests like the producers of these movies have.

They want to work for the studios who signed interim agreements agreeing to all of the demands the union is making. Those are the ones who got waivers.

Exactly. If MRC is heeding SAG-AFTRA rules, then they SHOULD be producing films! They’ll be making movies and earning money while the big studios can’t.

Yes, and framing like this doesn’t help:

Sarah Silverman is a dumbass who doesn’t understand that these projects were approved because they already meet the standards that SAG-AFTRA requested. The goal of the strike isn’t to stop movies from being made because we hate movies, it’s to hurt big companies pockets by halting their productions until they fix how…

“If you don’t watch FATWS, you won’t know how Sam became Captain America before Captain America 4. If you don’t watch WandaVision or Ms. Marvel, you won’t know who the other two leads in Captain Marvel 2 are. If you don’t watch Hawkeye, you won’t understand why Hailee Steinfeld randomly shows up in Avengers 6.”