But owning an anime DVD doesn’t mean you can charge people as a company to come see the movie in whatever venue you choose. Meaning, Mark’s profiting off the visuals created by Toei employees isn’t wholly legal via Japan’s non-clear fair use laws

This is a disingenuous argument. Funimation streaming them for free is part of an advertising/revshare deal between the companies involved. You get to watch them for free because of a deal made between content providers. What this guy did was without an agreement with Toei, violated someone’s copyright law, and got…

he’s not a media critic. He’s like the kid in school who does the book report by just reciting the plot.

i just jumped around in that Titan video and it’s 99% clips from the show, including other art from the show that i presume was not broadcast but put out as bonus content on DVDs, etc.

But the companies have ownership of the footage in the first place, so they can legally do what they want with the footage, regardless of whether it’s financially prudent or not. This reviewer doesn’t own the footage, or the rights to the footage, so your argument is silly.

At best, this reviewer might have a…

that is a key point. I’m from the Siskel and Ebert generation ( Christ I’m old).

This example is really dumb.

The footage is not unedited.

You don't need permission to do reviews bro

I don’t have the energy or interest to watch a ton of this, but I watched about one minute and saw no original content whatsoever. Sure, there were a few seconds of footage taken from the Simpsons, but the rest was all Toei.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with criticism, it appears he is using too much of the original content in his montages.

Word. I believe in fair use, but to build a company based on using other people’s work is rather a stretch.

But then why flag the how to draw videos as well when they don’t show any footage? These were all claimed to be manually flagged and not things caught up by a bot flagging tags or similar. It doesn’t make any sense.

Liara is so... a lot in ME1 that when playing the Legendary, I had to grit my teeth and force myself through those scenes with the knowledge of what was to come.

Oh, I feel that actually applies to a lot of the characters. I’d add Liara to the list as her story arc over the games is such that for me she is the true romantic choice for Shepard. However, not only is she really boring in ME1, but she is such a bizarre combination of wish fulfillment qualities. She is of this…

Garrus’ behaviour does get explained, it’s just that the companion “quests” in ME1 were very half-arsed.

So, approaching the Remaster, I remember loving Wrex and Garrus, but found it weird that I barely remembered them from ME1.

You know, something really troubling is how so many people have used Palestine as an excuse to fully pull off their masks and allow their antisemitism breathe right out in the open.

Look...Ian...I mean this in the nicest way possible, and I say this as a fellow progressive who has tried to get people to vote for Bernie twice in a row, and this isn’t directed at you specifically but at the group you are currently representing with this article...but please, shut the fuck up.

I totally agree, it’s not only the best song in the show but maybe the best song in musical theater in a very long time.