It’s because these are children in adult bodies throwing tantrums. I had zero interest in this game, which made me a bit sad because of how much I used to love Final Fantasy and the recent games don’t seem to be focused on me anymore, but that’s how it goes. You don’t buy it and you move on. Considering the sheer…

For the record, there are plenty of reasons why someone could “get” The Last Jedi and still not like it. But when people make bad, lazy arguments about it, I have a right to point out how they’re bad and lazy.

I don’t think Kylo was on an obvious redemption arc at all though. Abrams had him on a redemption arc, but I don’t think that was Johnson’s goal. In my mind, the redemption arc should have been over with Kylo taking over for Snoke as the new big bad. Trying to make him another Darth Vader to be redeemed at the end was…

Oh, I’m not going debate the merits of TLJ but there’s no way you can claim TRoS isn’t the worst film of the trilogy.

I never said the chase wasn’t relevant. I said it’s not the only thing that happens in the movie. In fact, it’s only a small part of the film despite being the framework on which its laid.

Well that is outright insulting to the art of filmmaking, as it is a profoundly lazy movie.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the sequel trilogy should have been set 100-200 years in the future. Sure, fans might have wanted to see the old gang back together, but spending so much time on the legacy characters meant giving them a truly depressing send-off—hey, guess your happy ending lasted all of a…

Don’t worry. Cool and stylish or not, you can still be the pompous dipshit with a college freshman’s understanding of dramatic structure and tension.

People sell their businesses because it will make them more money than not selling does, period. The people deciding to sell the business make a huge amount of money when the sell goes through because they own lots of stock in that business because that’s how many executives get paid these days. Their base salary is…

Remove the acquisitions from the equation and those studios are suddenly in better shape today. Most M&A happen because the process makes certain people money the whole “We’ll be leaner, more efficient, find synergies, etc.” is the corporate nonsense that gets spouted to justify making handful of rich people even…

“Have you looked at the list of studios acquired by Embracer? Of those, how many have you even heard of?”

“Given the fact that they chose to be acquired, that suggests that they weren’t financially secure before the acquisition.”

But you DID make an assumption. You assumed the OP was upset about acquisitions in general, despite the fact that we’re commenting on an article about a company for which its multiple acquisitions did not lead to financial stability for itself. You don’t see how that undermines the arguments you’re trying to make?

You’re making the flawed assumption that there is no reason for a successful and financially stable company to sell to another company. The owners may simply want to cash out, for a multitude of different reasons. They get some cash, and the employees are the ones left to deal with the fallout, good or bad.

| Given the fact that they chose to be acquired, that suggests that they weren’t financially secure before the acquisition.

Yeah these artists are now free from the burden of... pursuing art as a career

The ethically dubious thing about AI art specifically is that it’s trained on images that are stolen from artists without their knowledge or permission. It’s like money laundering, but for art. In fact you’re right, it’s not ethically dubious, it’s uneqivocally immoral, and should be illegal.

The article cites artists who’ve found themselves pushed out of work by AI, and since our ability to eat and have a roof over our heads is (unfortunately) tied to said work, this means AI has directly endagered their ability to survive.

If we took care of people, as a rule, in our society, than I would agree with you. 

“There is literally nothing ethically dubious about artificial intelligence.”