I don’t disagree with the basic premise, but “As **Picard** reminds us”?!?!?!? To quote the man, “I laughed out loud”. Maybe Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds, but Picard has been one clunker after another. Even worse for the premise, this season potentially being the best yet is because it’s clearly copying Wrath of…

To be fair, copyright/trademark/patent scooping, both nefarious and benign (i.e. coincident co-creation of the same or extremely similar work at nearly the same time), existed LONG before AI.

I understand the argument being made. You’re arguing the technicalities by which the wealthy may continue to fuck the average citizen (yes, even in “just” video games) by stipulating that because a precedent has been lasting means it is worthy. In internet comments, not a court. Well-acktually-ing reasonable contempt…

“But legally speaking the legal system works the same way for anybody”

Tell me you’re part of a privileged class in America without telling me you’re part of a privileged class in America.

Counterpoint: Ben Carson is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who went through a decade of post-secondary education. He’s also a blithering idiot when it comes to policy or even his own religious catechism, where he seems to believe that the pyramids of Egypt were not monuments to dead people, but gigantic grain silos.

His desperate whiny nebbishness throughout that film is honestly Oscar worthy:

“*manhandling doctor* Where did you put my wife?!”
“Sh-she’s dead, sir, they took here to the morgue!”
“The MORGUE?!?! ...She’ll be FURIOUS!”

You guys have cars?

It’s the same rube-ass nonsense that makes people vote for a billionaire that lives on the top of a literally gold-plated apartment building in the middle of Manhattan because he told them that his opponent was a New York elitist.

I actually don’t think so, barring some standout scenes with deLancie that you can catch on Youtube.

They DID put the Mother 1 translation on there. We’ll see?

Ok. Let’s be real clear here.

Justin Roiland fucked this up. Not anyone who hates his shit enough to not watch a TV show he was on, anymore than people can’t watch, say, Braveheart anymore because of Mel Gibson.

Justin Roiland fucked this up. If anyone loses jobs, it’s because of him. Not because of people who can…

Me too. I don’t want it to suck. But a better ad would have helped me feel less dread about that prospect.

It’s also shot REALLY flat. It’s just so “TV”. At their best, many of Brooks’ best works were broadly cinematic in scope, aping the technical triumphs of the films he was parodying. Starting with Men in Tights, everything he did from then on looked like they were done on sub-USA Network budgets, and not as a joke.

And…

Everything I know I learned at the foot of the dread god Adele D’zeem.

Don’ You Go Rounin Roun to Re Ro, Pard Toe: Warsell Innit

Sure. But more people would be fine with it if these executives could just come out and say that. We all know shit happens (in this case, a $50 billion dollar debt albatross). Acting like we’re dumb enough to believe that it’s about protecting the artists involved? That’s when people’s hackles get raised.

Not many…

Ok, Scorsese. Let’s say I stipulate all that. Then your problem is with Safran, the guy whose full quote you wanted in the piece. Because he’s the one pretending this decision was about quality of art and respect for artists instead of economics, not me. He’s the one saying he’s trying not to “hurt” the reputations of…

Rare but possible. You just have to be a Falcons fan.

Which is partly why The Californians one of the better sketches on SNL. The specificity of LA natives inserting their preferred travel routes into every bit of the soap opera of their lives was pretty spot on.

It’s extra fun because Atlanta’s actual layout is an utter farcical nightmare of “This used to be a goat path, might as well try and cram four lanes on top of it” lunacy, and seeing them navigate it accurately deserves respect, not least because most Atlantans can’t/won’t navigate it accurately themselves.