I really liked it, the cast had a Guardians of the Galaxy feel where the scraggly misfits bond together as a found family.

This was the first blockbuster in years that didn’t feel so Pre-Vid, set-piece led, rather instead starting with good characters and fashioning scenarios for them to interact within. If this fails at the box office, we truly don't deserve nice things.

They tend to think that corporate culture filters down from the top and all they have to do is tell someone to do something and it gets done. This is primarily because the further up the line they go, the less institutional understanding of the function of the company they have. The top is where the ideas come from,…

The concept of institutional knowledge is deeply undervalued by these corporations. It’s good to have employees who have been there for a while and know not only how things work, but also the history behind processes and decision making. 

Artist who makes their living with their own art

There’s a lot of space between “renting art” and “purchasing art”. A successful artist will usually negotiate keeping the rights of the piece, but the contract will include the rights for the original purpose of the art being transferred to the purchaser. I.e. if an artist creates a piece for use as Fortnite splash…

That person who works for weeks to make the same amount of money usually isn’t designing an asset or a product for a company who can then turn around and make millions of dollars off of that asset or product.

It’s almost as if the average person should be paid more.

“ That’s more than I make in a month working 40+ hours a week doing a “real” job.”

What exactly do you mean by a “real” job? Are you trying to say that your job is somehow more real than hers or did you put the quotations because you understand that that’s not really the correct contextual word? “Traditional” job might be apt, but illustrator is a very real job, it takes time, effort, mental…

The agents claimed that all the contracts “had set conditions for fee and terms,” and that the company “did not have the time and manpower to negotiate each one separately.”

The rich do spend - they spend it on themselves and often at the expense of everyone else. Those megayachts aren’t figments of the imagination.

Haha, no. They spend outrageous amounts on tacky and meaningless nothings. The real reason they stay rich is because they weaken labor organizing. 

Ugh, the worst part is, they’ll find someone desperate enough to take the deal. Not that that’s the individual artist’s fault. And I imagine we’re not too far off from large corporations just using AI art generators for whatever Epic was looking for.

I hate the world we live in.

“The rich are continuing to be among the cheapest.”

There’s a lesson in there.

If given the option I run my PS5 games on graphics over performance mode every time. Ray tracing and 4k is far more important to me than 60fps. My brain adjusts just fine to 30fps as long as it’s stable. And sometimes the 60 just feels unnatural to me. 

Honestly, considering its quality, there’s probably more bang for your buck if you’re not getting the sequel.

And that’s why they’re *still* doing the minimum. 

There’s no such thing as limited supply anymore. If you want a game on release day, you can get it.

It is very funny to lose a court case, appeal and then have the appellate judge basically say “you should have lost harder.”