Fuller context: Twitter laid off four-fifths of its workforce because Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing, then re-hired two of those fifths when even he couldn’t bullshit his way around how catastrophically moronic that choice was.

Cost-cutting is reasonable. But lying about cost-cutting and the efficacy of your…

I’ll definitely agree that it’s a Rorschach test. But I think I’m more well-founded in my distrust of a WBDiscovery executive than others’ seeming trust.

For my supports, see: capitalism, history of.

I do. I recognize the films he’s made. He’s become big mostly because of disposable copy-paste comedies and horrors like the Seltzer-Friedberg “oeuvre” and the Conjuring movies and their imitators, and recently produced some of the better DC films. But at the end of the day, he’s an executive producer at a major…

I actually don’t care about the film particularly. I just understand better why people come out of the woodwork to be sad when art, even crappy art, is essentially destroyed, than when people come out of the woodwork to attack the critics of corporations as somehow being more disingenuous than the corporation.

Your…

The full quote asks us to believe that a c-suite member of a modern American corporation cares so much about his creative collaborators that he didn’t release a project they worked on for years and only appeared to be a money loser at exactly the same time as a leadership regime change and a draconian debt reduction…

No one is entitled to anything, but swallowing the PR nonsense that a corporation is acting with the best interests of their customers in mind and isn’t lying to you, all so you can pretend that a project led by a minority was sure to fail except for the whining of the libs? That’s far more American than anything…

Because it requires belief that these executives equate “well made” with “money making” when the incoming CEO is otherwise bringing in hundreds of shitty reality shows and in the presence of many other terrible DC films already. It also requires belief that this isn’t part of a well-publicized and well-reported debt…

There are no addictive or indeed monetizing qualities to the vaccine. It would be far better for these companies if we all took repetitive palliatives on a daily or weekly basis instead of preventatives that are, at best, administered for a few dollars a dose every few months. It’s why the main grift from Republicans…

They are a world-renowned collection of climate scientists, engineers, and economists.

You are an internet rando.

Hmmm, yes, I will completely dismiss their expertise and methodolgy in favor of YOU, because you have what I will only presume they don’t: chutzpah. And really, isn’t THAT what matters in science?

...Oh, I’m…

I think this one response from Sarah Silverman probably sums up the best possible response one can truthfully have when it turns out one of your friends is on the “gross monster” spectrum:

Dude, he literally posted a link from the South Park website and labels it with the episode. Season 9, episode 6. Which is indeed “The Death of Eric Cartman”. It’s the one where Cartman thinks he’s a ghost because the other three boys have chosen to entirely ignore him, and Butters, because he’s isn’t in on the…

Now this produced a genuine “funny because it’s true” lol

The answer is buried in your questions: the “license out” part. WB/Discovery is now the exclusive rights holder to DC-related media and WB animation. Even if they wanted to shop Batgirl or Scoob around, the licensing would be a nightmare for any potential buyer, especially because one of the co-licensors would be…

That’s like saying Phillip Morris was unsueable because it was the gas stations selling their cigarettes, not them.

Yeah. We all get that. Stipulated. But considering how all enveloping and obvious that is, it’s pretty much saying “Guns don’t kill people, entropy does” and acting like it’s supposed to be a helpful, insightful or empathetic addition to the conversation.

That’s before noting that the concept of copyright and ownership…

You know, if you stab a TikTok-er in the dead of winter... steam will rise up from the wounds. Indians believed it was his Mountain Dew Game Fuel escaping from his body.

Oh, ffs. And there’s no inherent problem with breaking nuclear bonds to produce energy, either, but at least Oppenheimer had the humility to be like “Oh, shit, the real-world applications of this are fucked up” and act like that actually matters since the real world is where, you know, people live.

Stop being defensive,…

It’s worth noting that “tanked” in this case is a relative term. There are plenty of successful streamers with a “mere” 1k consistent viewers.

He’s basically a community college film student that also happens to have California-architect money. His films have such a “I’m a teenager who is only encountering how storytelling actually works for the very first time” feel to them.

Also, for anyone looking up details on Breen, I hope you are as delighted as I was…

Soderbergh often intentionally uses people who can’t act so it has more verisimilitude. Carano being cast in that film as the lead is fundamentally no different than the cast of Bubble being entirely non-professional actors (or not actors at all), and just like Bubble, it bizarrely worked really well once folks…