I think it’s fair to say there are probably more people who are actively seeking to murder random people approaching their their house than in previous eras, not even for profit, but for demented kudos with their Facebook friends (because let’s be real, they’re not using any other social network at that age) and to…

“One such trend is the idea that presenting a negative idea, even fictionally, means you must believe in it yourself.”

That’s a fair and interesting question. First off, I very much can’t claim to be psychic re: the US populace. I never expected Trump to get in. I didn’t expect Qanon to take off as a conspiracy theory - I honestly thought it was too dumb and would never go beyond chemtrails levels of popularity. And I thought Jan 6th…

Yeah it’s pretty funny how American commentators absolutely love, love, love to scream “LIBEL!!!!” about any kind of mild insulting suggestion or comment made or implied by an article, when it’s nearly impossible, relative to the rest of the West, to prove libel in the US. It goes all the way up - Trump used to love…

“The point of the movie is too satirize current day race relations using this alt history that was made up.”

Having a functioning, wealthy and and high-tech slave-state would require the world to be extremely racist (compared to the real world, which is already quite racist but nowhere near the level needed) and approving of slavery, including Asia and a bunch of post-colonial nations. It’s a particularly stupid form of…

Powerful - no that’s easy to do without glorifying. Badass can very easily become glorification, depending on the villains and their ideology (if they even have one), and what exactly you’re doing. So badass is much more dangerous ground.

“I remember the first, and plenty of alt-history does stuff like that.”

To be fair, even when/if the books come out I won’t have proof of that, because you’d reasonably be able to argue that maybe GRRM changed the ending of the books in response to the reception of whatever-the-hell-that-was in S8 (whether that was a clumsy but point-hitting speedrun of what he actually wanted, or just…

Which roles?

LOL. This is pretty funny revisionism on your part but it’s nothing more than that.

“what we got in seasons 7 and 8 might well have been the best anyone could reasonably hope for.”

The reason the shit-storm started for Confederate is because they and some other people working on the show described it in some detail, and it was looking pretty gross - among other things:

That’s untrue. It got long past “early development”, and indeed it stayed in development for nearly three years, with various people, including these two wankers insisting it was still a good idea. Only Charlottesville really knocked it on the head, and not even immediately then.

“right-wingers would be attacking it as “woke propaganda””

The other problem here is that 95% of the people responding to you have absolutely no clue whatsoever as to what Confederate was planned to actually be about and like. They seem to think it would be some modern take on 12 Years A Slave or something. In fact as I imagine you remember, it was going to be some insane…

I’ll be real - I don’t think they could afford him. Man doesn’t have many years left, and he wants to spend them helping the planet as much as he can. I could see him doing it for tens of millions he could pass on to an environmental charity or the like, but probably not less than that.

As someone who played the original, I definitely get the complaint, and was a little disappointed they went with the exact same aesthetic as the 2012 original (just with a lot more polys and so on).

Incredible. I had no idea re: McDonald’s.

Wow I did not know Michael Dorn was in FO:NV as well as FO2, that’s amazing. Absolutely top-tier cast there.