Unfortunately, his Peloton instructor couldn’t hear Nolan’s response because the background music drowned out his words.

I call bullshit on NOBODY at the company knowing. Someone at that turd factory knew *exactly* what they were doing.

That’s totally understandable but deniability is also the entire point of dogwhistles. They use code and implication to publicly signal eachother in a way they normally couldn’t.

I have no idea about the people making this game, I think it could easily be a coincidence, but maybe not - they’re dog whistles, indended to be subtle enough so that they can be slipped into everyday life, letting Nazis identify each other or show support without being so obvious as a swastika; they’re designed to be…

You’re not wrong in that it feels like a stretch, but that’s very much how these groups build their dog whistles. Their language and the structure of the references to their reprehensible beliefs and the ideological underpinnings thereof is all very carefully structured in such a way that it can be hand-waved as ‘a…

I was going to make a joke about how the game characters seemed to let eighty seven infestations happen before finally doing something, but then I read further into the article, and now it isn´t funny anymore.

“Early innovators in AI, such as Google, Adobe, and Microsoft, offered to protect users in court if they found themselves mired in a copyright case, but these companies are being accused of copyright infringement themselves.”

I can respect the kid has some serious psychiatric problems and needs help just for the safety of himself and others, but a life sentence smacks strongly of “We could solve this problem, or at least try, but we don’t want to.”

Yeah. The final season would be, what will Guillermo do next? I assume the vamps are all going to think about the future and then ultimately fall back into their old rhythms (one of the show’s ongoing premise-jokes being that vampires have a huge amount of trouble changing as people).

Bam Sarbanti is doing a piece to ca-me-rah!

First of all, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

This is a good run and I could sort of tell it might be winding down since Guillermo’s storyline essentially ended last season

Fer cryin out loud, if they’re genuinely upset over this, then they have too much time on their hands.

That’s very much a “them” problem. If you stop catering to that crowd over damn near everything, many of these so called problems wouldn’t exist. It’s a movie, not your entire life. Recast and let the complainers shout into the void.

Best approach: Recast Kang, and simply don’t comment on the fact that he looks different. The characters don’t need to acknowledge it. It’s the same character played by a different actor, it’s happened before, it doesn’t need in-world explanations.

Or, y’know, just do fun movies that are largely self-contained and not designed to set up a multipart crossover epic.

I think Marvel at least somewhat anticipated this, hence them recently bring Michael Waldron on to re-write both Secret Wars and Kang Dynasty (which will obviously get a new title), which I all but guarantee are expressly being re-written to either get rid of Kang entirely or change enough that another actor could…

Yup, and JRR Tolkien himself sold the media rights to the franchise in 1969, and did so for the money to send his grandkids to good schools. He never had a huge problem with that. When people were first sniffing after the film rights in the late 1950s, he and his literary agent agreed that their policy would be “Cash…

“The “franchise IP” label is technically accurate for something like Lord of the Rings, but that doesn’t quite feel right when applied to J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary masterwork.”

She’s an executive producer on a lot of projects, but if you specifically look at what she personally produced on the ground?