Ahhh I remember the days of 5 minutes ago when NFT bros were claiming that NFTs would protect artists. How quickly that charade fell.

I think it’s because they want a more balanced distribution of rotten vs fresh. Far more films are over 50% than under (at least least if we’re only counting films that becomes famous enough to get enough reviews to be meaningful), so they wanted to set the threshold for ‘fresh’ higher so as to actually pick out the…

I’m questioning why you felt it was necessary to call that out. It’s a nickname that he wears and occasionally introduces himself by. There is no need to be upset when it’s used. Nobody gives a shit in 2022 who did or didn’t give it to him.

“It’s gonna get R’lyeh weird” is genius.

This is just fetish Mad Libs at this point.

The implication being that a unionzed studio can’t produce top quality work. Which is BS.

Job security here at ABK rests with our ability to produce epic entertainment for our fans.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s hoping to get on a list over at Microsoft of some people who need payouts to quietly go away.

What absolutely staggers me is the mindset that this wasn’t instantly going to be copied, pasted, and blasted all over social media.

“In a direct relationship model... the company can swiftly make changes.”

I love the “direct relationship” bit...as if that direct relationship hasn’t been the core of their problems from the past few decades.

Job security here at ABK rests with our ability to produce epic entertainment for our fans

That’s a real bookshelf, that someone who regularly reads books has, as opposed to the decorative bookshelves functionally illiterate people have to look smart.

I feel like the part of this article that addresses what’s in the actual title, Emma Stone saying he’s a liar, is.... missing.

You’re clutching at straws. The problems are rife through the whole company, because managers are friends employed by other managers who were employed by mates in upper management who have friends on the board who are all there because they owe Bobby something in some way. Take out BK, suddenly the board has no…

Would you like the be the one that tells all the people doing the actual work there, the ones who were the victims of many of the injustices that occurred, that they should all lose their jobs because that would be for the best?

Nobody’s under the illusion that it will magically fix things. But company culture rots from the head. New leadership == the *opportunity* to fix things.

That’s really not what the article is suggesting. Regardless, Kotick “should” be removed as a first step. But Kotaku isn’t implying that getting rid of Kotick will magically fix the problem, particularly since the problem is largely systemic.

Maybe, but you still remove the original tumor.  You sure as shit don’t just leave it there to continue metastasizing.  There’s no path to wellness that doesn’t involve excision of the original source of the infection.