That’s not really true. It’s considered a safer investment than many. But there are a lot of places where property appreciates very slowly and there’s taxes and upkeep in the meantime. Multi-millionaires aren’t buying modest, single-family homes in Winterville, North Carolina as an investment vehicle.

That it “encourages experimentation” is a cover

As someone who used to live there, I can assure you that housing in Winterville, North Carolina is not the least bit expensive.

As someone who used to live 10 minutes from where Jimmy bought property, it’s not much of an investment.

It definitely comes off as if Whibley is using the royal we in that statement since he’s the only member who’s been in the band since 1996. But to be fair, two of the current members have been in the band since the late ‘90s, as long as most of us have known that Sum 41 existed. So a bit more than session players.

True. Though the internet age has certainly heightened it. It’s a lot easy to get people to purchase an actual object or the use of a physical space. It’s a lot harder to convince them that they should pay for access to a digital space or product. Especially now that the early, Wild West days of the internet has…

Huh? Who is she harming?

Why is she terrible? Why is it not okay?

I don’t think the signs are super out of bounds or anything. But the fact that it was a controversy to begin with and something being brought up weeks later is dumb.

The strike isn’t to improve conditions only for writers who only do excellent things.

Yeah. The take at the time was more than the first one was bad and they improved incrementally as they went on. Though there are a lot of true revisionists who insist that all three are masterworks.

Well sure. If I was the specific person being referenced. But I wouldn’t get upset if someone said they had to redo the work of someone else at another company who did the same job as me. Why should I care? I’m assuming that the people holding the signs are not the specific Wednesday writers she was referring to, but…

To be clear, my writing is absolutely sacrosanct.

I guess I’m just tired of the “if we’re not making record profits every year, it’s the end of the world” mentality.

You’re right. The comment I was responding to just said “Star Wars movies,” but I see that the comment they were responding to said prequels specifically. Those films are not universally reviled either at this point, but they were closer at one point for sure.

Of course they are. But the fact that multiple people are making jokes about it and the fact that it got such wide coverage in the first place naturally leads me to believe that writers were actually offended by it. And I think that’s a silly thing to be offended by.

What? The Star Wars movies were universally reviled? Maybe The Rise of Skywalker but certainly not the entire series.

That’s fair I guess. It’s not like they’re burning her in effigy. I just feel like it’s such a minor thing to get hung up on weeks later. And it wasn’t just a single sign, apparently.

What a bunch of thin-skinned babies. I support their cause, but the idea that the script for a Netflix Addams Family revival is so sacrosanct that the star should be shamed for altering it is stupid. Writers are important, but bad writing exists.

“You remember when you went to Japan and at the airport they arrested you ‘cause you had some pot and it made all the papers and everything?”