Good for him. I’m bummed about delays it might cause to Andor, but it needed to be done. 

I’ve seen TikTok after TikTok where these type of employees don’t care about you leaving a tip since they don’t see any of the money. Unless it’s a jar of cash on the counter, I assume the $$$ goes straight to the owner.

Definitely looking forward to it.

It also bears mentioning that Illuminated Worlds is designed by Stras Acimovic and Layla Adelman. The former did Scum and Villainy and was one of the designers on Blades in the Dark.

I hate this spread of tipping beyond traditional stuff like restaurants/bars/movers/etc. It’s just a way for even more companies to pass off their compensation costs on to customers.

In a similar case, 28-year-old Corey Gary was prompted to leave a tip at a self-service beer fridge in San Diego’s Petco Park. Gary told the Journal that he wasn’t clear where the money was going, but left 20% anyway.

I’m sorry, but this is purely management saying, “We’re not willing to pay employees enough.”

There is a guy who comes into my pub that looks like Stephen Dorff and I never fail to bring up Blade to him. I am a piece of shit and I love the Blade movies.

Without content those studios make no money. There is no purely AI generated content. If that should ever come to pass (AI writers creating scripts for AI actors to perform for AI animation to “film”) it will likely be rejected by the masses for its very artificiality. Unless you share the cynical dismissive attitude…

I’m not seeing anything to suggest that $250M doesn’t include stocks and option compensation. The numbers I’m seeing seem to say that his actual cash salary is $3.1M, and then [on some years] far higher with other comp. Nothing close to $430M, or anything to suggest 100% of execs clear that much.

I mean, solidarity,…

1. It's not in good enough shape for this to be true. 2. As several productions have already shown, the *other* unions are willing to support the WGA. So go ahead and try to produce AI scripts. See how many actors you get. See how many cinematographers show up. Try getting an editor. 3. Pretending that this "garbage"…

Okay. Let’s go with another example: Musk’s annual salary is approximately zero. Yes, really. Well, $23k because it’s the minimum allowable under California law. He is paid almost exclusive in stocks and compensations. In 2021, the value of a portion of his stocks and compensations from Tesla, for 3 years of work, was…

The fact that you have no clue is precisely why it’s so hard to have an honest conversation of about fair wages, reasonable taxation, and so forth. I’ll give you three guesses who created that ‘don’t talk about your wages’ narrative, but you should only need one.

The $250m is *JUST* the salary. The majority of CEO earnings do *NOT* come from their salaries. It comes from stocks and compensations. So if he’s being paid $250m in salary, he’s being paid *AT LEAST* that much in stocks and compensations. So it’s not $250m vs $430m. It’s $430m vs $500m at minimum.

David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, gets paid an annual salary of $250,000,000 per year and additional stocks and compensations on top of that. The math is real. It checks out.

Delay is the first step on the road to cancellation. This strike is already having positive outcomes, keep it up and maybe we won’t have to be subjected to another awful Blade movie at all. 

When a single upper-level executive from nearly every studio gets paid more per year than the total cost of what the WGA is asking for to better support all of its thousands of wildly underpaid writers (yes, seriously), the people who are literally the foundation of everything these studios produce, and the WGA’s…

That’s not too far off, sadly.

Technically, that is the case. Corporate in general have become more anti-worker/creative labor since the pandemic’s peak. The rise of AI and their rush to utilize it is of no surprise. I mean, Hollywood always devalued their writers, but they wanted to up the ante and just replace them altogether just to save a dime.

I think part of the reason Ken is getting this character arc over others, is because in the previous entries, everyone else has already gotten their big character defining moments.

Whereas Ken was always just a successful rich guy. And most of his “story” was a vehicle for Ryu. 

Company owned forums are always just toxicity, whining, and unanswered questions. Game subreddits are the only place I EVER find valuable discourse happening about a game anymore