Your last point is probably the most important. More faithful adaptations tend to be better movies overall, just because when studios don’t really give a fuck about the source material, they tend not to be that mindful of making a good movie in general.

Yep. You see the same thing in video games, where as soon as a publisher or platform holder gets away with egregious DRM or monetization practices, everyone else follows suit.

Ads are more effective when you aren’t paying attention to them. That’s why they put them on bus stops and the like where people are idle and zoned out.

I don’t mean art vs artist (I do have thoughts on that but that’s another conversation); I’m talking more about how people can’t separate talent from character. It’s a weird combination of hero-worship and Just World fallacy, or something.

Young end of millenial and I get called boomer occasionally. Words don’t have meanings anymore.

I think this is something people genuinely struggle with.

Idk, a lot of the “cartoonish self seriousness” in Snyder’s movies feels to me like an exaggerated version of that in Nolan’s Batman films.

Yeah, I more or less agree with you; was just making the tangential point that a lot of so called “anime adaptations” aren’t really anyway, even if they take most of their cues from a previous animated version.

You know Netflix puts those on any show it gets distribution rights for?

Tbf, in neither case was the animated version the original (nor One Piece for that matter).

People who make comparisons like that are worse than Hitler.

idk, for me I think doing what I loved for a living would turn it into work and take all the joy out of it.

They've been teasing Stilt-man so long it'd be hard not to make it anticlimactic.

No, it's obnoxious and always has been 

Tbf, the notion that a mega-derivative standalone flick is “original” compared to a franchise sequel that treads new ground has been a popular take for years now.

I’m only in my 30s, but years are already bleeding together for me. Nearly every game I can think of, it turns out I acquired or started last year. Elden Ring? Last year. What the Golf? Last year. PowerSlave: Exhumed? Last year, but I’m compelled to shoehorn it into every thread I can.

FTP/MTX targets whale customers. They don’t need most players to buy in, they just need to exploit those with poor impulse control or addictive tendencies.

This interview he did with Polygon is quite something:

Don’t forget that cloud computing was the same line trotted out, and promptly debunked, during the SimCity debacle shortly before.