LOL: Netflix Fires Its Head of Film Development, Apparently Due to Its Looming "Narnia" Disaster<br>Wokeslop Video Game Company Bioware Transitions to "Out of Business" (Pronouns Was/Were)

LOL: Netflix Fires Its Head of Film Development, Apparently Due to Its Looming "Narnia" Disaster
Wokeslop Video Game Company Bioware Transitions to "Out of Business" (Pronouns Was/Were)

I mentioned on Friday that Netflix had slashed 1,000 jobs, which is a 6% reduction in its total workforce.

It wasn't just the drones who got the sack.

"Everyone is collateral damage."
That's how one top Netflix insider summarized another bloody Monday at the streamer, which saw Dan Lin ousted as the company's head of film.
Following last week's 6% workforce reduction at Netflix -- which claimed victims including chief content officer Bela Bajaria and Lin's right-hand Doug Belgrad -- consensus said it was a matter of time before co-CEO Ted Sarandos would show Lin the door.
It took a day. On the heels of the Bajaria news on Thursday, Sarandos rang Lin on Friday to tell him he'd been dismissed, three sources told Variety. The exec kept his head up and pressed on through the weekend, appearing at Saturday's Academy Gala (in the same room as Sarandos) and at a Sunday tastemaker screening to support the filmmakers of "La Bola Negra." As has been summarized in many articles about the Netflix purge, creative leadership at the company is being overhauled amid poor stock performance and declining user engagement on the platform.

I wonder why. Clay Travis has a Conspiracy Theory:

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Netflix is firing all of its top creative leadership after their strategy of make every character gay and trans and every white person black failed to produce strong subscriber growth.

Competing narratives are flying about why Lin was let go, but they arrive at the same conclusion: In the end, it wasn't working....

There are also some interesting leaks around tension he's said to have with A-list filmmakers like Greta Gerwig and Ben Affleck, which we'll get to.
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Four sources with knowledge of the matter said that, indeed, Lin and Gerwig had a falling out during a Zoom call about the project earlier this year. On a virtual meeting populated by numerous Netflix executives, Lin is said to have been "dismissive" to the director in conversation about the progress of the film. Lin is known in town to be incredibly fair, but at times obtuse in his frankness. Word travelled fast around Netflix that the meeting had gone south, at which point sources said Bajaria called Gerwig's producer Amy Pascal to smooth things over. Two sources also said that Gerwig's new, all-powerful CAA agent Bryan Lourd went to Sarandos directly over the faux pas. Lin was subsequently disappeared from the film, all sources concurred, and Belgrad stepped in as the primary Netflix exec overseeing the project (until, of course, he was laid off last week).
None of the sources suggested the incident led to Lin's firing. One Lin defender said he's never "afraid to talk about how to make a movie better." Another person familiar with the company said there are any number of filmmakers who could say the same about Lin's delivery. While it may be juicy to speculate that Gerwig's follow-up to the game changer "Barbie" could be troubled, don't forget that the industry doubted that Margot Robbie film right up to opening weekend. "Barbie" grossed $1.44 billion at the worldwide box office and became the highest-earning release in the history of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Yes but that was an ideologically-driven feminist making a movie for her fellow feminists out of a toy property designed for girls. It was a natural fit. She didn't gender-bend Barbie, as she did with Aslan.

Actually I believe there was a "Trans Barbie" in the movie, but not the Barbie, and anyway, leftwing feminists are all about being Queer Allies. I don't think the Christian families who are the target audience for a Narnia reboot are going to enjoy the Everything for the Gays and the Girlies tone Gerwig will bring.

CosmicBookNews's Matt McGloin says he hears the Narnia film -- actually The Magician's Nephew -- is "woke slop."

"Narnia is a mega woke slop insanity," says the source. "Think Amazon Rings of Power but worse."
The $280 million movie is already in serious trouble inside Netflix, where insiders have called it "awful" and "a genuine problem."
That report also described friction between Gerwig and Lin over the film, with reshoots ordered after a summer test screening.
Now Lin is gone with the movie four months out.
The first trailer was hit with 62,000 dislikes and a wave of Marvel comparisons.
Narnia hits theaters and IMAX on February 12, 2027, with the Netflix streaming release following on April 2.
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CBN's source says there is a reason it is all happening now.

He claims that competition from the merged Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. corporation is the reason Netflix is making big moves.

"Now you know why Netflix was doing everything to stop the merger," says the source. "ParaBros is an existential threat."
"ParaBros" is the source's name for Skydance, the merged Paramount and Warner Bros. company that officially closed its deal on October 6.
"Did you see they fired Bela and Lin? Heads of series and movies in one week," the source continued, floored that both jobs turned over within days.
Our WB insiders add that Lin never got his faith-based projects off the ground at Netflix, which is another reason.
The warnings have been on the record for weeks.
On October 2, the Paramount source said flat out that "Netflix is in big trouble" and to expect major restructuring and firings.
Back on September 2, the source said Disney and Netflix "know what's coming and they're doing EVERYTHING to stop it."
And CBN's Narnia report, which flagged Lin and Bajaria as rumored to be on thin ice, ran October 14. Bajaria was out that same evening. Lin followed within days.
The firing landed alongside a TheWrap piece Monday arguing Netflix has a quality problem that may be impossible for any film chief to solve.
A top talent agent told the outlet that Lin faced the same challenge as his predecessor, Scott Stuber: the Netflix model demands too much volume to consistently put out high-quality movies.
CBN's source says that is not just a Netflix problem.
"DC Studios, Hulu, Starz, Marvel, and many others face the same problem," says the source. "Glut = Slop."
"Will ParaBros stop the madness? We shall see," the source continued. "Ellison wants to invest $$$ in quality but Kreiz is a penny pincher. The honeymoon won't last very long."

@ClayTravis https://t.co/9n42G2GfY5
— troy (@troyje84) October 20, 2026

In woke video game news: One of the biggest games studios, which used to pump out hit after hit, went full woke and is now closing its doors forever.

LOL, GFYS.

Video game studio BioWare announced it would close on Wednesday, marking an end to the organization that released some of the most popular video games in history.
Among the top titles from BioWare were Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Baldur's Gate series, and Mass Effect.
"For more than 30 years, BioWare has been more than a studio. It has been a home for storytellers, developers, and players who brought our worlds to life," the statement read. "Now, after more than three decades of shared adventures, BioWare is closing and early development on the next Mass Effect project is ending."
Comments on the studio's X post were generally negative, with many users blaming the company's recent release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a fantasy RPG that attracted negative publicity for its inclusion of transgender and left-wing political themes. The release received mixed reviews on Steam. The prior installment of the series, Dragon Age Inquisition, received mostly positive reviews.

I never played Inquisition but Larry O'Connor was obsessed with it.

Arthur Kimes
@ComradeArthur

For context, Dragon Age: Veilguard was the one where a character started doing pushups to punish themselves for using the wrong pronouns.
Yes, this was a turn-based fantasy RPG.

Yup:

🏳️‍🌈 Gavin
@jammach

Go woke?
Go broke.
BioWare has finally ended its slow, torturous suicide, started by the absolute mess of Mass Effect: Andromeda which shoehorned a ridiculous two dimensional girl boss as the lead. It should have been a well rounded, capable, believable female character but it was an insult.
They then followed this up with Dragon Age: Veilguard which introduced trans characters complete with customisable mastectomy scars and pronouns. Oh and one of the NPC characters is non binary and you get lectured about it in a 10min cut scene.
Veilguard flopped. Rightly so.
People want fantasy and escapism. They don't want lectures about how boring, bigoted and heterosexual they are.
So, good riddance BioWare.

People are still citing this woke abortion as the moment they realized that "creators" have absolutely no interest in pleasing the actual audience and just want to appeal to woke warrior "critics" at IGN and Screen Junkies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:27 PM

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1 first ish

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 21, 2026 04:27 PM (CWTWj)

2 i noodled

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 21, 2026 04:28 PM (CWTWj)

3 The Veilguard scenes look like something out of a Slaaneshi faction in Warhammer

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:29 PM (sKqQm)

4 What kind of an idiot watches Netflix?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at October 21, 2026 04:29 PM (8EQTH)

5 >>3 The Veilguard scenes look like something out of a Slaaneshi faction in Warhammer

a very geeky sentence which I mostly understood

People like Arthur K lose me when they start talking about anime. I don't get that stuff.

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:30 PM (1wjle)

6 >>>4 What kind of an idiot watches Netflix?

I turn on Netflix to see them treating race-blind casting like an amusement park!

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at October 21, 2026 04:30 PM (1wjle)

7 I suspect David Fincher not renewing his contract was as big, if not a bigger, factor in Lin's firing.

Fincher was the creative flagship.

And Lin wouldn't give him the budget for reshoots Fincher wanted on The Further MisAdventures of Cliff Booth, giving him enough only for a few days instead of a few weeks. And Fincher refused to renew his contract afterwards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:30 PM (qGAQr)

8 "Bela Bajaria"

Bela Lugosi >>> Bela Bajaria

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2026 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

9 but at times obtuse in his frankness.

I don't think the writer knows what either of these words means.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 21, 2026 04:31 PM (nEUC6)

10 Nooooo!!!

Posted by: Stephanie Stirling at October 21, 2026 04:31 PM (88C+u)

11 Following last week's 6% workforce reduction at Netflix -- which claimed victims including chief content officer Bela Bajaria and Lin's right-hand Doug Belgrad

It’s like they hire these people just because they have cool names.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

12 Anthem was that live service disaster, right?

I think Blizzard is the only one who can do live service right: attach it to Diablo.

No one else has Diablo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:31 PM (qGAQr)

13 "In woke video game news: One of the biggest games studios, which used to pump out hit after hit, went full woke and is now closing its doors forever."

What was BioWare's last "good" game, Mass Effect 2?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 21, 2026 04:31 PM (oPFtC)

14 >>>7 I suspect David Fincher not renewing his contract was as big, if not a bigger, factor in Lin's firing.

could be.

why didn't they do Mindhunter season 3?

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

15 "Wokeslop Video Game Company Bioware Transitions to "Out of Business" (Pronouns Was/Were)"

Nice turn of phrase Ace.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 21, 2026 04:32 PM (I43vL)

16 The Musk promotion photo is f'ing hilarious.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:32 PM (Ti9vn)

17 14 >>>7 I suspect David Fincher not renewing his contract was as big, if not a bigger, factor in Lin's firing.

could be.

why didn't they do Mindhunter season 3?

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

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I read a while back that that was Fincher's decision. He didn't want to do a third.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:32 PM (qGAQr)

18 >>>Nice turn of phrase Ace.

thankssss!

(the extra sss are to sound like Steve Buscemi)

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)

19 18 >>>Nice turn of phrase Ace.

thankssss!

(the extra sss are to sound like Steve Buscemi)

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)

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Ace is a parseltongue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:33 PM (qGAQr)

20 I knew Musk was African!

Posted by: Rex B at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (hpzqB)

21 Didn't Dragon Age: Veilguard come out years ago? And it's just now become a problem?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (FZ29D)

22 We'll always have Prometheus.

Posted by: AoSHQ Movie Thread Commenters at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (0sNs1)

23 i passed Steve Buscemi as I entered a bathroom and he came out. I moved to let him pass, and he said "thanksss."

I just remembered that.

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (1wjle)

24 22 We'll always have Prometheus.

Posted by: AoSHQ Movie Thread Commenters at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (0sNs1)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:35 PM (qGAQr)

25 >>.21 Didn't Dragon Age: Veilguard come out years ago? And it's just now become a problem?

yeah like 2023, maybe? I think they've just had several bombs and eventually communists run out of other people's money.

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:35 PM (1wjle)

26 21 Didn't Dragon Age: Veilguard come out years ago? And it's just now become a problem?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (FZ29D)

Veilguard came out in 2024. According to the Interwebs:

• Player / Sales Milestone: Reached 1.5 million players/units sold.
• EA's Target: Expected roughly 3 million players.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (oPFtC)

27 People are still citing this woke abortion as the moment they realized that "creators" have absolutely no interest in pleasing the actual audience and just want to appeal to woke warrior "critics" at IGN and Screen Junkies.

This, too, is the story if Hollywood.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (6ydKt)

28 wow

no more BioWare

damn

they did suck now tho. it's still sad!

The Magician's Nephew is gonna blow chunks. that girl can't make a film that isn't autobiographical. she's solipsism personified

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (qBivk)

29 a fantasy RPG that attracted negative publicity for its inclusion of transgender and left-wing political themes

The game actually punished you for not being maximally gay. So nobody ever beat it except Talarico.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (2ocoG)

30 Netflix offers Zardoz. Just sayin. Still afraid to watch it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (Wp1X1)

31 Wokeslop is in the Oxford English Dictionary, right?

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (Oy/m2)

32 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (amcLV)

33 Alien Isolation > Mass Effect

I'm not playing games for relationships, but to throw molotov cocktails at unkillable xenomorphs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (qGAQr)

34 Netflix is firing all of its top creative leadership after their strategy of make every character gay and trans and every white person black failed to produce strong subscriber growth.

You don't say. You. Don't. Say.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

35 >>>Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

it's been a while

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

36 Good.

It is very, very rare if we see a movie on Netflix, Amazon or wherever the remote takes us at night. So rare we comment on the story being good.

The people who choose this garbage are either very stupid, liberal loons, or clueless of what anyone wants in 2026.

In general I hate everyone in Hollywood who dreams this crap up.

Is it because books are stupid now as well?

Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies and discovered watching online decades ago. I loved the entire movie, altho directed by Rob Reiner in one of his sane moments. The book given to him by his father.

The book and screenplay were rejected by many movie moguls til it was given to Reiner (who went loco and, as we all know, is now dead by his more insane son...and that was horrible no matter who Reiner was regarding his Trump blurtings of feces).

The theater opening of the movie did not make much $ due to weird marketing of wth is this? Comedy/romance/fairy tale?

It took being seen in homes to make it a hit and bring royalties. The casting was perfection.

I do wish they would give us cuts of Billy Crystal's ad libbing his parts. It was said Reiner had to leave the set he was laughing so hard.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (hzuYO)

37 21 Didn't Dragon Age: Veilguard come out years ago? And it's just now become a problem?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (FZ29D)

Late 2024, but they also flopped with Anthem(badly) and Mass Effect Andromeda(more modestly), though it's harder to argue those were due to wokeness.

If they weren't going to be killed by Veilguard, it's probable Mass Effect 5 was going to kill them, having had a prolonged development cycle and apparently not much to show for it.

EA was taken private and had a bunch of debt added to it so there's more pressure to perform.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (okun6)

38 A top talent agent told the outlet that Lin faced the same challenge as his predecessor, Scott Stuber: the Netflix model demands too much volume to consistently put out high-quality movies.

Well, they certainly nailed that one.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

39 Ace is a parseltongue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:33 PM (qGAQr)

Does he have a pet snake?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (6ydKt)

40 Yaay! Real life is giving me a chance to practice stoic lessons! Sweet.

Now, Bioware...did they do Baldur's Gate. That was a good game. Ahhh Minsc and Boo.

And one young actress on Instagram just announced we may get the gayest, gay of the gay show ever. 'Glee' is being reboot on Disney+!!

You can almost here unnatural sphincter movement.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)

41 > why didn't they do Mindhunter season 3?

Mindhunter was expensive. Fincher said Netflix wanted to either trim the budget or make it more mainstream to appeal to a wider audience. Fincher also said he was tired from his workload at the time.

Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (mkw2N)

42 >>> I think they've just had several bombs and eventually communists run out of other people's money.

They write it off, Jerry.

They write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (1wjle)

43 Netflix offers Zardoz. Just sayin. Still afraid to watch it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (Wp1X1)
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It's...weird. Still not sure what it's supposed to be about.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (amcLV)

44 Netflix is going downhill fast

the sheer number of ads they stick into films now! jeez

I swear they are singlehandedly responsible for the youngsters getting back into physical media

and/or pirating lol

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (qBivk)

45 Nertz.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (amcLV)

46 Queers of Wars also looking bleak
youtu.be/pml0NFBf3g0

Posted by: Stephanie Stirling at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (88C+u)

47 The Musk promotion photo is f'ing hilarious.
Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:32 PM (Ti9vn)

To be fair, Elon IS African American.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 21, 2026 04:38 PM (PSEDc)

48 off sock

Posted by: 88C+u at October 21, 2026 04:39 PM (88C+u)

49 38 A top talent agent told the outlet that Lin faced the same challenge as his predecessor, Scott Stuber: the Netflix model demands too much volume to consistently put out high-quality movies.

Well, they certainly nailed that one.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

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This is genuinely not that hard to manage.

You create tiers.

The bottom tier is cheap genre slop. You spend 8 weeks, max, making each thing, and pump them out constantly.

The middle tier. 16 weeks. More serious dramas and decently sized action movies and thrillers.

High tier. Elite filmmakers doing their thing. Netflix has the money. Just throw it at David Fincher to make whatever he wants every 2 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:39 PM (qGAQr)

50 26 21 Didn't Dragon Age: Veilguard come out years ago? And it's just now become a problem?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2026 04:34 PM (FZ29D)

Veilguard came out in 2024. According to the Interwebs:

• Player / Sales Milestone: Reached 1.5 million players/units sold.
• EA's Target: Expected roughly 3 million players.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (oPFtC)

The prior game, Dragon Age Inquisition, came out in 2014 with its last dlc in 2015. 9 years between games and mediocre sales(lots of those at deep discounts and the initial sales price being lower) doesn't work.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 04:39 PM (okun6)

51 btw Crystal Lake is good

the new AHS is terrible terrible

and the new Carrie is so so

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:40 PM (qBivk)

52 i passed Steve Buscemi as I entered a bathroom and he came out. I moved to let him pass, and he said
.......

"I'd give it a minute."

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2026 04:40 PM (UjdFS)

53 Mass Effect was woke garbage before woke garbage became popular.

The first two games were decent to very good, the rest of them...absolute trash.

Posted by: ballistic at October 21, 2026 04:40 PM (3BwY8)

54 >>>The bottom tier is cheap genre slop. You spend 8 weeks, max, making each thing, and pump them out constantly.

but why even f around with that crap? Other people make plenty of it. Tubi proves you can run a streaming platform based 90% on other people's cheap genre slop.

They should just write it off, Jerry.

Posted by: Kramer at October 21, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)

55 Those games were good, with the exception of Anthem (haven't played it). Then as the years went on staff changed and so did the work product. Magic that was there left.

Larian Studios took over Baldurs Gate, which is quite enjoyable.

Posted by: pb88 at October 21, 2026 04:41 PM (5cwR0)

56 I do wish they would give us cuts of Billy Crystal's ad libbing his parts. It was said Reiner had to leave the set he was laughing so hard.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (hzuYO)
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Crystal's role was almost entirely ad !ib.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 04:41 PM (amcLV)

57 Its grooming. Straight up. Burn the whole place down and salt the earth.

Posted by: to encourage the others at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (anL5R)

58 People are still citing this woke abortion as the moment they realized that "creators" have absolutely no interest in pleasing the actual audience and just want to appeal to woke warrior "critics" at IGN and Screen Junkies.
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They did a cultural Marxism.

They wore the skinsuit until it stank too badly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (RIvkX)

59 You create tiers.

The bottom tier is cheap genre slop. You spend 8 weeks, max, making each thing, and pump them out constantly.

The middle tier. 16 weeks. More serious dramas and decently sized action movies and thrillers.

High tier. Elite filmmakers doing their thing. Netflix has the money. Just throw it at David Fincher to make whatever he wants every 2 years.

You and I don't think it's that hard to manage. But if you're determined to make nothing but Rings of Power, Witcher, and other woke crap, it really doesn't matter what tier you're in. Nobody will watch it, and therein lies their problem. The dogs just don't like the dogfood.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

60 I don't remember signing up for Netflix yet occasionally I'll get a email from them.

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (Oy/m2)

61 Bukele is feeling a touch irritated

@nayibbukele
Translated from Haitian Creole
To the gang leaders and gang members holding our four compatriots hostage in Haiti:

Our kidnapped men are not combatants. They are aviation technicians who are part of our mission in Haiti, within the framework of an international mission. Our mission consists only of pilots and technical personnel, whose primary job is to carry out medical evacuations and save lives, not to wage war.

However, they were kidnapped in a cowardly manner while returning after buying food at a market in the area.

That is why, today, we have launched a military operation to rescue them. We have a single objective: to bring our four compatriots back home alive, without any harm.

However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today's attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive.

And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.

We still have time to avoid this.

Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was bef

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (nEUC6)

62 Since this is kind of a movie thread, I just watched the movie Freaks. Was the intention to make you not choose a side or to see that you will choose a side against your interests or something deeper?

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (Ti9vn)

63 I have Mass Affect in my Steam library but have ‘t played it.

Bought all three of the games in a bundle on sake for like $9.99 a few years ago.

I heard it was good so figured why not.
I’ll get around to playing it one day, maybe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

64 >>>and the new Carrie is so so

I tried to watch it.

I wrote it off. Steven King's story was already super-lefty so this show was kind of stuck with that but they really doubled down on the "right wing crazies" stuff.

I heard it was blah.

Posted by: Kramer at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (1wjle)

65 man I like Bukele

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (qBivk)

66
I'm sooooo not a gamer. I tried, but everything bored me. I open up these consoles with more windows than Photoshop. You can boost your weapons by trading credits that you get by selling ingots that pop into your vault at the rate of 1 every 7 minutes, and cartoon characters with no elements of human psychology except "MUST. WIN. VICTORY." vie for resources.

For gamer morons, that's how it looks to a non-gamer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (mmrXZ)

67 55 Those games were good, with the exception of Anthem (haven't played it). Then as the years went on staff changed and so did the work product. Magic that was there left.

Larian Studios took over Baldurs Gate, which is quite enjoyable.

Posted by: pb88 at October 21, 2026 04:41 PM (5cwR0)

Baldur's Gate is held by Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro, Larian has said they aren't going to be doing 4 or more D&D games.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (okun6)

68 Ultimately, the streamers are going to have to come to the realization that there just isn't enough good content to justify all of them. Consolidation is the only way out.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

69 54 but why even f around with that crap? Other people make plenty of it. Tubi proves you can run a streaming platform based 90% on other people's cheap genre slop.

They should just write it off, Jerry.

Posted by: Kramer at October 21, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)

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Netflix apparently runs at a profit, like the only major streamer to do it.

And part of it is that they constantly have content to discover, and people like their formulaic genre slop.

But, yeah, there's a reason Disney abandoned the "pay extra for a new movie" model with Mulan and went back to theatrical releases after covid. Most of the time, there's just not enough money coming in from streaming to justify the massive costs.

Cheap genre stuff has always been the cash flow grease to the wheels of the film industry. From cheap westerns in the silent period to New Line existing because of Freddy Kreuger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (qGAQr)

70 I always preferred playing a female Revan in Star Wars: KOTOR.

Nice booty action whenever in motion, even for a 2003 release.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (5yDGQ)

71 i passed Steve Buscemi as I entered a bathroom and he came out. I moved to let him pass, and he said
.......

"I'd give it a minute."

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2026 04:40 PM

Do Not go in there!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (I43vL)

72 62 Since this is kind of a movie thread, I just watched the movie Freaks. Was the intention to make you not choose a side or to see that you will choose a side against your interests or something deeper?

I am not choosing any sides there lol

I've watched it many times and choosing sides did not occur to me?!?!

lol hey man we're all freaks at heart

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:44 PM (qBivk)

73 Did y'all see that someone found a severe issue with PHP and, instead of disclosing to the developers first and giving them a chance to mitigate it, disclosed immediately to the world?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:44 PM (mkw2N)

74 59 You and I don't think it's that hard to manage. But if you're determined to make nothing but Rings of Power, Witcher, and other woke crap, it really doesn't matter what tier you're in. Nobody will watch it, and therein lies their problem. The dogs just don't like the dogfood.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

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True nuf.

The message for the modern audience is a demanding mistress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:44 PM (qGAQr)

75 It's incredible that Netflix has spent like $200 million per movie to make like 20 big-budget but completely forgettable slopbuster movies.

Why would you do that? If you're going to make slop, just hire Dolph Lundgren for $3 million and do a fairly cheap 80s action movie for $30 million total.

And then write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at October 21, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)

76 60 I don't remember signing up for Netflix yet occasionally I'll get a email from them.
Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (Oy/m2)

They send me several emails a month to tell me what I’m missing and here’s a discount to resubscribe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

77 Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 21, 2026 04:42 PM (nEUC6)

The man walks the talk so I'm looking forward to the outcome.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:45 PM (Ti9vn)

78
However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today's attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive.

And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.

I wouldn't FAFO with a guy like Bukele, especially since I'm sure he's already been told by Trump that we've got his back.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

79
"Bela Bajaria"

Bela Lugosi >>> Bela Bajaria
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2026 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

Bela Lugosi >>> Bela Bajaria >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bela Abzug

Yes, I know there's supposed to be another L...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 21, 2026 04:45 PM (y9nCu)

80 Steve Buscemi officiated my marriage when I was 6 years old. Very long story.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (RIvkX)

81
We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.

We still have time to avoid this.

Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was bef
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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Wipe them out anyway, Bukele. The kidnapping alone justifies it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (mmrXZ)

82 62 Since this is kind of a movie thread, I just watched the movie Freaks. Was the intention to make you not choose a side or to see that you will choose a side against your interests or something deeper?

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM

Was that the one with the little 7 year old girl kept inside by her father? That was Lexi Kolker. She did an amazing job.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (Sco7b)

83 the word on X is that Netflix is trying to suck as much revenue as possible out of the US in order to offer their streaming to the rest of the world for less and corner the market out there?

maybe? I dunno

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (qBivk)

84 I hate EA so much! I was hoping they would do the smart thing and just try to sell off BioWare because I don't trust any other gaming company with their IP.

Thank private equity.

seeing all the fucking chuds doing victory laps and making pronoun jokes sucks. The studio didn’t die because of being fucking “woke”, it died because of capitalism causing the chasing of trends and starting the decline of the studio over the last 10 years. But they’re too dumb to see

One of assmolds chuds in a deleted response gave my reply here the popcorn award, and is commenting on my other posts not even related to DA lol

Gamers are famous for rooting for the destruction of the hobby at all costs. Seriously some deranged people.

The comments on X are vile, holy shit. I grew up with bioware, they really have a deep place within my heart. So very sorry to see them go.

hate these asmonkampf takes bro genuinely y’all drive me insane. Art always pushes boundaries...It has nothing to do with “California” or whatever your brain rot opinion farm told you. 100% executive ineptitude and the creatives get punished

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (t19vo)

85 75 It's incredible that Netflix has spent like $200 million per movie to make like 20 big-budget but completely forgettable slopbuster movies.

Why would you do that? If you're going to make slop, just hire Dolph Lundgren for $3 million and do a fairly cheap 80s action movie for $30 million total.

And then write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at October 21, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)

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AppleTV is just as bad.

Guy Ritchie made a $200 million Indiana Jones clone.

And no one saw it.

Fountain of Youth. It's bad. Probably his worst movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (qGAQr)

86 Meanwhile, Konami is reviving itself by bringing back new Silent Hill and Castlevania games.

Both are on my wishlist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (3cUTc)

87 Was that the one with the little 7 year old girl kept inside by her father? That was Lexi Kolker. She did an amazing job.

what the what

I thought he was talking about the old b/w one at the carnival? about carnival freaks?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (qBivk)

88 I'm a mystery fan so I checked out the series This Is Not a Murder Mystery on Prime. I really don't know what to make of it. It is so over the top woke, particularly for a show set in 1936 England, that I can see it as a satire. For example, one of the two investigating detectives is a black chick and the setting is Lord James' manor and Lord James is a chick. So I've decided to view it as a comedy/ satire and enjoy it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (ndZc7)

89 66
I'm sooooo not a gamer. I tried, but everything bored me. I open up these consoles with more windows than Photoshop. You can boost your weapons by trading credits that you get by selling ingots that pop into your vault at the rate of 1 every 7 minutes, and cartoon characters with no elements of human psychology except "MUST. WIN. VICTORY." vie for resources.

For gamer morons, that's how it looks to a non-gamer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM (mmrXZ)

Gaming is pretty broad, there are some genres where women are the majority of players. It sounds like you might've been playing a mobile game or something, which is generally designed to extract money and not very good.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (okun6)

90 I asked Duck AI what were Netflix's most successful films and it said:

KPop Demon Hunters
Red Notice
Carry-On
Don’t Look Up
The Adam Project

I saw Red Notice and it was bad - arguably the worst movie any of the three headliners have been in I haven't seen the others

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

91 86 Meanwhile, Konami is reviving itself by bringing back new Silent Hill and Castlevania games.

Both are on my wishlist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (3cUTc)

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Silent Hill f is supposed to be good, right?

Never got into the franchise, myself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (qGAQr)

92 Might be time for Haitians to learn Spanish.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (88C+u)

93 Did y'all see that someone found a severe issue with PHP and, instead of disclosing to the developers first and giving them a chance to mitigate it, disclosed immediately to the world?
Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:44 PM (mkw2N)
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Was that wrong?

Posted by: George Costanza at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (RIvkX)

94 > It's incredible that Netflix has spent like $200 million per movie to make like 20 big-budget but completely forgettable slopbuster movies.

Red Notice was awful. I turned it off.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (mkw2N)

95 >>>88 I'm a mystery fan so I checked out the series This Is Not a Murder Mystery on Prime. I really don't know what to make of it. It is so over the top woke, particularly for a show set in 1936 England, that I can see it as a satire. For example, one of the two investigating detectives is a black chick and the setting is Lord James' manor and Lord James is a chick. So I've decided to view it as a comedy/ satire and enjoy it.

kill me now

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (1wjle)

96 • Player / Sales Milestone: Reached 1.5 million players/units sold.
• EA's Target: Expected roughly 3 million players.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 21, 2026 04:36 PM (oPFtC)

The prior game, Dragon Age Inquisition, came out in 2014 with its last dlc in 2015. 9 years between games and mediocre sales(lots of those at deep discounts and the initial sales price being lower) doesn't work.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 04:39 PM (okun6)

EA also publishes the Sims series... which has also turned into woke garbage.

In Sims 4 you could create custom people for your town... make them Hetero, and the game would randomly change them to Bi or Gay.

And they went from making Vampires, Wizards, and Werewolves.... to Fairies....

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (mP0Kj)

97 90 I asked Duck AI what were Netflix's most successful films and it said:

KPop Demon Hunters
Red Notice
Carry-On
Don’t Look Up
The Adam Project

I saw Red Notice and it was bad - arguably the worst movie any of the three headliners have been in I haven't seen the others

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

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K-Pop Demon Hunter is getting a Criterion release in a month or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (qGAQr)

98 customisable (sic) mastectomy scars
_________________________________

Character creation is not like I remember. It was state of the art when they introduced the butt size slide lever, and the boob size slide lever. But, I'm a little confused how you would customize mastectomy scars.

Three categories:

1. Organ theft type scars (pronounced and infected)
2. Bad doctor due to DEI scars (also, pronounced with daily medication required to stay lucent)
3. Above average doctor, scars barely visible, but character shows them to every other character anyway.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

99
@nayibbukele
Translated from Haitian Creole

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Is that even a language you can write?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (mmrXZ)

100 Gaming is pretty broad, there are some genres where women are the majority of players. It sounds like you might've been playing a mobile game or something, which is generally designed to extract money and not very good.

I still play

Project Diablo and other than that PS4 (too cheap to upgrade). I still play DS! relaxing lol

also waiting for The Haunted Chocolatier bc I loved Stardew Valley. that one is a very girl-friendly game (it's hardly a game really)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (qBivk)

101 seeing all the fucking chuds doing victory laps and making pronoun jokes sucks. The studio didn’t die because of being fucking “woke”, it died because of capitalism causing the chasing of trends and starting the decline of the studio over the last 10 years. But they’re too dumb to see

So capitalism has been around since before Bioware and was the whole reason that they existed to begin with.

However the "trend" they were most recently chasing was...woke.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

102 "seeing all the fucking chuds doing victory laps and making pronoun jokes sucks. The studio didn’t die because of being fucking “woke”, it died because of capitalism causing the chasing of trends and starting the decline of the studio over the last 10 years. But they’re too dumb to see"

Uh, retard, if these companies were "chasing (of) trends", they'd make money and not go bankrupt.

I'll bet this guy's tits jiggled as he wrote that retardation out in anger.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 21, 2026 04:49 PM (oPFtC)

103 what the what

I thought he was talking about the old b/w one at the carnival? about carnival freaks?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (qBivk

Okay. Thee's an movie from about ten years ago. Lexi's about 16 or 17 now but it was filmed when she was 7.

Good movie. Kind of weird. But I enjoyed it.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 21, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

104 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:44 PM (qBivk)

You didn't find yourself rooting for the little girl to free her mother? I mean they had to make the humans cruel evil douchebags but even so.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:49 PM (Ti9vn)

105 The last Netflix slopbuster I saw was "The Gray Man" with Ryan Gosling directed by the Russo Brothers.

It was... okay, just slightly below mediocre.

It cost a fortune.

Why? What was the point of this? Who at Netflix or among the filmmakers was like "I have to make this movie, it's my passion"?

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle)

106 Fountain of Youth. It's bad. Probably his worst movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (qGAQr)

I think that one might be good tripping on mushrooms.

I found it weird.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

107 Might be time for Haitians to learn ~~Spanish~~ civilized behavior.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (88C+u)
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FIFY

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (amcLV)

108 Broward was truly great, once. Baldurs Gate II, Knights of the Old Republic. Mass Effect series. Jade Empire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

109 You didn't find yourself rooting for the little girl to free her mother? I mean they had to make the humans cruel evil douchebags but even so.

ok lol so this is a new film I missed

not Freaks

some other thing

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (qBivk)

110 I did just finish Mouse: PI for Hire recently.

FPS, in black and white, where you are a mouse who is a PI in Mouseburg investigating some cases that mostly come together in one big web of a plot.

Pretty fun.

I'd read the final boss fight was super hard, but I beat it in one go. Which was neat. Easier than Cuphead, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (qGAQr)

111 EA also publishes the Sims series... which has also turned into woke garbage.

In Sims 4 you could create custom people for your town... make them Hetero, and the game would randomly change them to Bi or Gay.

I remember when they introduced trannies...Now in a world where you can decide the sex of your character why would you do that?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

112 Gaming is pretty broad, there are some genres where women are the majority of players. It sounds like you might've been playing a mobile game or something, which is generally designed to extract money and not very good.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 04:47 PM (okun6)

Currently playing Grand Tactician Civil War... CSA campaign... but really waiting for them to do their Napoleon game...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (mP0Kj)

113 I asked Duck AI what were Netflix's most successful films and it said:

KPop Demon Hunters

KPop Demon Hunters was surprisingly good. People loved it. The only other one on that list I saw was Red Notice and I turned it off. It was so very bad.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (mkw2N)

114 94 > It's incredible that Netflix has spent like $200 million per movie to make like 20 big-budget but completely forgettable slopbuster movies.

Red Notice was awful. I turned it off.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (mkw2N)

There are a couple of lower-budget ones that Netflix did that aren't bad: ARC (sci-fi) and Seven in Heaven (weird, horror, sci-fi).

I wish they'd churn out more of these kinda solid B projects without big Hollywood actors.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (5FlBj)

115 have Mass Affect in my Steam library but have ‘t played it.

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Mass effect 2 gave me motion sickness never finished it. I think they used Yvonne Strahovsky for Miranda Lawson. Literally scanned her body. I think that kind of set off some of the feminists. You can supposedly get busy with her if you make certain dialogue choices. I dunno never finished it.

Posted by: I found it somewhat tedious at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (anL5R)

116 Was that the one with the little 7 year old girl kept inside by her father? That was Lexi Kolker. She did an amazing job.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 21, 2026 04:46 PM (Sco7b)

Yes.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (Ti9vn)

117 I'm sooooo not a gamer. I tried, but everything bored me. I open up these consoles with more windows than Photoshop. You can boost your weapons by trading credits that you get by selling ingots that pop into your vault at the rate of 1 every 7 minutes, and cartoon characters with no elements of human psychology except "MUST. WIN. VICTORY." vie for resources.

For gamer morons, that's how it looks to a non-gamer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2026 04:43 PM

I used to play online World of Warships game almost everyday. I had to quit for a few years until I finally got a new computer that could keep up the newer graphics.

After a couple of months I quit playing because the online server for the game is pretty much just one or two guys and everything else is bots. It's no challenge playing against bots.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (I43vL)

118 I would love to see Netflix shelve the Narnia movie like the Batgirl movie was shelved by Warner Bros. Took the tax write off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2026 04:52 PM (vJPf4)

119 112 Currently playing Grand Tactician Civil War... CSA campaign... but really waiting for them to do their Napoleon game...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (mP0Kj)

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I have Total War Napoleon.

It was my first "concentrated" Total War game, and I kind of bounced off the limited time period of the campaign. I want to go back to it, but it's one of like 5 Total War games I own and haven't played yet (Amazon Gaming gave away a bunch a year or so ago, so I have Three Kingdoms and Pharoah for free that I haven't played, plus I bought Troy in the last Steam Sale).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:52 PM (qGAQr)

120 Analysts have suggested that Netflix was relying on owning Warner Brothers and their vast and epic catalog to prop up their content and lacking it had to let people go. Also, it was very, very, many millions of dollars expensive to be in that fight to buy WB.

But overall the streaming idea is a stupid dream as I and others have noted here several times: there's just not the money in it that people somehow deluded themselves into believing would be there.

And yes, they spend hundreds of millions for make these streaming shows and for God's sake how were they supposed to make that money back???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 04:52 PM (TMNW7)

121 113 I asked Duck AI what were Netflix's most successful films and it said:

KPop Demon Hunters

KPop Demon Hunters was surprisingly good. People loved it. The only other one on that list I saw was Red Notice and I turned it off. It was so very bad.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (mkw2N)

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Netflix also didn't produce it. Sony did.

Netflix bought it from Sony after Sony decided against releasing it in theaters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:52 PM (qGAQr)

122 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:50 PM (qBivk)

It's a good movies. At least very interesting after the slow start.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Ti9vn)

123 The Barbie Movie did well because the messaging wasn’t as in your face as many of these movies. You could, in fact, ignore it and find much of it funny. You can’t do that with many of this stuff they put out.

The gender bending Aslan, for instance, is purposefully antagonistic dressed up as “art”. This is a Christian story written by a Christian theologian and there is no mistaking who Aslan represents. Just tell the story, make it eye candy, and stop trying to be controversial just for the sake of controversy.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

124 Is that even a language you can write?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

... sort of. I mean, English is basically Anglo-Norman Creole and we write in that. Some say Armenian is Phrygian-Parthian Creole. Even Persian is vastly simplified and distorted from what Darius chiseled onto that Behistan cliff.
I guess one difference between the English, Armenians, and Persians from Haitians is that we're not Haitians.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (88C+u)

125 I have Total War Napoleon.

Does that come with Panzer tanks??

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Oy/m2)

126 Why? What was the point of this? Who at Netflix or among the filmmakers was like "I have to make this movie, it's my passion"?

The problem is that the money filter has been gone for the last 10-15 years. In the past, people who made bad movies, aka flops, very quickly stopped getting asked to make new ones, sometimes after a single failure. Netflix and their brothers in woke don't care (or at least didn't) if the property makes money.

I think those days are rapidly coming to a close, because as the old saying goes, something that can't go on forever, won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

127 114 There are a couple of lower-budget ones that Netflix did that aren't bad: ARC (sci-fi) and Seven in Heaven (weird, horror, sci-fi).

I wish they'd churn out more of these kinda solid B projects without big Hollywood actors.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 21, 2026 04:51 PM (5FlBj)

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Rebel Ridge by Jeremy Saulnier.

Solid, solid stuff.

New trailer for his newest movie: Slayground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsReYk7AqPg

Looks awesome. Can't wait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (qGAQr)

128 I knew Netflix was a stupid trahs company with a good PR team way back when they hyped their exclusive on "Bird Box" in 2018.

So much hype. Hype hype hype.

I even got roped in to watching it.

Only to discover -- nothing really happens. THere ios no revelation. You never see the aliens.

Rip.

Off.

I said "Fuck Netflix" back then and I still feel that way.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (HD2n/)

129 I used to play the first version of Civilization. That's it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (RIvkX)

130 It's a good movies. At least very interesting after the slow start.

I'll try to watch it! lol it's just completely different from the Freaks I was thinking of!

if you saw THAT you would understand my confusion lol

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (qBivk)

131 As much as I expect Narnia to crater, I don't think that really weighed all that heavily on this decision, I think its just been coming for a while and their Hail Mary to buy WB didn't work out.

People who have had these services for years, be glad you lived in the days when you had a month of Netflix for 12 bucks with no ads. Because its going to go up, a lot and you'll get ads. And they are going to be expecting longer term commitments: six months, a year, five years, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (TMNW7)

132 Next I asked the Duck what are the top grossing games of the last 5 years:

Hogwarts Legacy - which the left tried to cancel because of Rowling

Black Myth: Wukong - which got some sort of traction for being anti-woke but I don't remember why

Palworld - a pokemon rip off

Helldivers 2 - which makes fun of the left's managed democracy...sort of.

Elden Ring - which people tell me is a study in frustration

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

133 I would love to see Netflix shelve the Narnia movie like the Batgirl movie was shelved by Warner Bros. Took the tax write off
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Doubt they can break the contracts with the theatres that easily. It's worse if they sign international distribution rights.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (nEUC6)

134 125 I have Total War Napoleon.

Does that come with Panzer tanks??

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Oy/m2)

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It would make getting across Northern Italy a whole lot easier, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (qGAQr)

135 Probably a stupid question but TMJ have you watched the documentary Milius?

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (Ti9vn)

136 > The studio didn’t die because of being fucking “woke”, it died because of capitalism causing the chasing of trends and starting the decline of the studio over the last 10 years.

Heh. Capitalism rewards giving people what they want. That's true. But "chasing trends" is a poor strategy for figuring out what people want. That's not Capitalism's fault.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (mkw2N)

137 Rebel Ridge by Jeremy Saulnier.

Solid, solid stuff.

New trailer for his newest movie: Slayground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsReYk7AqPg

Looks awesome. Can't wait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (qGAQr)

I've been meaning to see Rebel Ridge.

I really like Blue Ruin and Green Room.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (5FlBj)

138 I have Total War Napoleon.

It was my first "concentrated" Total War game, and I kind of bounced off the limited time period of the campaign. I want to go back to it, but it's one of like 5 Total War games I own and haven't played yet (Amazon Gaming gave away a bunch a year or so ago, so I have Three Kingdoms and Pharoah for free that I haven't played, plus I bought Troy in the last Steam Sale).

Best TA game is Warhammer 3.

But if you want the Napoleon experience try Europa Universalis - 2 or 4.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

139 Both helldivers are awesome games

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (qBivk)

140 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (qBivk)

I'm aware of the old movie about circus people though never have watched it. But that is funny when related to my question.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (Ti9vn)

141 >>>I knew Netflix was a stupid trahs company with a good PR team way back when they hyped their exclusive on "Bird Box" in 2018.

So much hype. Hype hype hype.

I even got roped in to watching it

...

lol. I remember everyone being very stupid and praising that like it was really somethin'.

People are dumb. They are irrational when they start forming mobs and cliques and gassing each other up with nonsense.

Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (1wjle)

142 > Sony decided against releasing it in theaters.

Big mistake. Big. Huge!

Posted by: Julia "Hooker" Roberts at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (mkw2N)

143 Does that come with Panzer tanks??

That reminds me why hasn't anyone remade Panzer General for modern computers?

I tried the Fantasy General remake and it ended up boring me

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

144 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:52 PM (qGAQr)

I'm really liking the Battles in Grand Tac Civ War... the maps are LARGE enough that you can actually pull flanking maneuvers... and time scale allows follow on Corps to arrive via road, mid battle... something Total War series hasn't figured out yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (mP0Kj)

145 137 I've been meaning to see Rebel Ridge.

I really like Blue Ruin and Green Room.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (5FlBj)

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Blue Ruin is amazing. I love Green Room.

Saulnier is just about ground zero for my, "Well, are there ANY good filmmakers who are less than 80 years old?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (qGAQr)

146 Yes, WB does have a large catalog with many great movies.

It’s what makes HBO Max a better value than Netflix.

It has a selection of new and old shows.

The TCM section usually has some great old movies and some recent ones from the 90s and 2000s.

If I had to buy one streaming service other than Prime I’d pick Max.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (6ydKt)

147 Looked up Total War Napoleon, sad I don't have a computer

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (Ia/+0)

148 The last truly good things Netflix made were Three Body Problem and Altered Carbon. Both had lots of wokeness, but they were at least good. Netflix cancelled AC because it was too expensive, yet spent far more on the woke crap without batting an eyelash. TBP is soon to premier its 2nd season. I'm praying they haven't gone wogue (woke + rogue) in S2 of TBP.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (Riz8t)

149 We need to take all the movie execs, lock them in a room and make them watch Klaus. And tell them more of this, less of whatever else they are trying to do.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (ZdaMQ)

150 138 Best TA game is Warhammer 3.

But if you want the Napoleon experience try Europa Universalis - 2 or 4.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

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I have Warhammer 1, and I think limited access to the whole map in Warhammer 3.

I do have the sequels on my wishlist. One day I'll actually include them in a sale purchase.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (qGAQr)

151 I'm neither a gamer or Netflix subscriber. . Sorry for trying to turn this into a movie thread.

Posted by: polynikes at October 21, 2026 04:57 PM (Ti9vn)

152 Netflix has had some really good stuff but they have a few major flaws in addition to putting out an awful lot of crap:
1) they pay too much for this stuff.
2) Even the good stuff is released binge style which only works well for content with Many episodes, like 3 years of shows old school where it was 20 shows a season
3) they go freaking years between seasons which is insane and indefensible
4) At best this retains viewers, it does not draw new ones, so there's no additional revenue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

153 Three Body Problem was good.

Honestly it seemed kind of anti-woke to me.

The basic plot (SPOILERS) of a woman deciding aliens can't be worse then communists and bringing them to earth where a spoiled rich westerner helps her seems pretty spot on.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

154 134 125 I have Total War Napoleon.

Does that come with Panzer tanks??

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Oy/m2)

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It would make getting across Northern Italy a whole lot easier, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:54 PM (qGAQr)

Hearts of Iron 4? LOL... the never ending series of Pay to Play DLC...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (mP0Kj)

155 Sorry for trying to turn this into a movie thread.

Well that's another flaw for Netflix: they ignore the massively lucrative and high publicity theatrical market. If they had put out, say, Terminal List in theaters for 3 months first, they'd have made more money. Their fixation on being streaming only is hurting their potential earnings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (TMNW7)

156 A top talent agent told the outlet that Lin faced the same challenge as his predecessor, Scott Stuber: the Netflix model demands too much volume to consistently put out high-quality movies.

Well, they certainly nailed that one.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

Hollywood did just fine the model of having volume. You just make some low budget, some experimental, some mid budget and only a few high quality and expensive - mostly sure things with proven teams.

A product of that is you could develop and train people who could make a movie that looked good without high cost and appealed to many audiences.

Now they put crap producers and writers with axes to grind against their audience. What movies are successful? Those that don't attack the audience like Barbie or Oppenheimer.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (uhVAy)

157 I have Total War Napoleon.

Does that come with Panzer tanks??
Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2026 04:53 PM (Oy/m2)
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Um...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (amcLV)

158 Too bad for Mass Effect fans. Maybe someone like Sabre Interactive, who the wokesters hate, can pick up the IP and do something with it.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (oDvAq)

159 See at The Federalist the Supreme Robes are allowing a Commissar Judge to let prisoners sex change treatments

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Ia/+0)

160 used to play the first version of Civilization. That's it."

Command and Conquer... back in the Generals day.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2026 04:59 PM (pfXMo)

161
I have Warhammer 1, and I think limited access to the whole map in Warhammer 3.

I do have the sequels on my wishlist. One day I'll actually include them in a sale purchase.

They've put years of work into Warhammer 3 making all the factions play differently. Its pretty amazing honestly.

But...TA is too abstracted if you want a real historically based strategy game (hence EU)

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

162 People who have had these services for years, be glad you lived in the days when you had a month of Netflix for 12 bucks with no ads. Because its going to go up, a lot and you'll get ads. And they are going to be expecting longer term commitments: six months, a year, five years, etc.

Them: People are cancelling Netflix right and left! What shall we do?!

The Suits: Raise the price, force ads on them, and make it woke!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

163 Bioware. Wtf autocucmber.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

164 I remember playing Hearts of Iron 1 as Brazil and conquering the world.

They'd written the US AI to be very passive before Pearl Harbor.

and...

NO ON EXPECTS THE LATIN INVASION

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (sKqQm)

165 It was my first "concentrated" Total War game, and I kind of bounced off the limited time period of the campaign. I want to go back to it, but it's one of like 5 Total War games I own and haven't played yet (Amazon Gaming gave away a bunch a year or so ago, so I have Three Kingdoms and Pharoah for free that I haven't played, plus I bought Troy in the last Steam Sale).
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Rome is the granddaddy of the all. Napoleon is a lot more difficult, but less epic. You gotta play it a lot to figure out the sequence of not just things to build or units to create but also the order of cities to attack. Its all about no wasted turns. Which sort of sucked the creativity out of it for me. Rome is very replayable. There are a lot of mods for it, and if you get frustrated easily, a lot of cheats.

Posted by: also no motion sickness at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (anL5R)

166 >>>And Lin wouldn't give him the budget for reshoots Fincher wanted on The Further MisAdventures of Cliff Booth, giving him enough only for a few days instead of a few weeks. And Fincher refused to renew his contract afterwards.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:30 PM (qGAQr)

Interesting, I believe Fincher made "The Killer" under Netflix and that was outstanding.

Posted by: Max Power at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (SwyyQ)

167 161 They've put years of work into Warhammer 3 making all the factions play differently. Its pretty amazing honestly.

But...TA is too abstracted if you want a real historically based strategy game (hence EU)

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

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I've had EU recommended to me before.

I should just get 3 at some point and dive in. Should be cheap enough for a test run.

Hell, I spent $23 on No Man's Sky after endless conversations with ChatGPT on whether I'd like it or not. Spoiler: I like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (qGAQr)

168 So, some guy gets a $200 million dollar budget for a movie.

I'm very curious how closely the money is tracked by the accountants. You'd think every last dollar has to be accounted for.

But I kind of think it's more like giving Ukraine a billion dollars. No one knows what happens to it - they just FEEL GOOD knowing they tried.

Meanwhile, hookers and coke all around...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)

169 Best thing about old Netflix was that they had almost any title you could imagine available on disk.

Sure you had to wait a couple of days for it to come in the mail but who really needs to see a movie TODAY?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm)

170 They've put years of work into Warhammer 3 making all the factions play differently. Its pretty amazing honestly.

But...TA is too abstracted if you want a real historically based strategy game (hence EU)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)
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I'm looking forward to the release of Medieval 3.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (amcLV)

171 kill me now
Posted by: ace at October 21, 2026 04:48 PM (1wjle)

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We hate it when the wimpy series writers stop after a max of 8 shows til the next season.

Part of going back to school pain when I was young was knowing TV's current shows were back, baybee! At least 20 or more shows for the school year, ending in May.

Now these prima donnas can't be bothered as 6 or 8 exhaust them.

We'll start something then say,nah. Usually due to stupid, now and then mindless gore (altho we are ok with violence after Justified and 24 numbed our brains).

I miss shows like Justified and Longmire. Or anything I can get into. We are watching Marshall and Tulsa King just to watch something. My dude hates Dana Delaney, by the way. I was watching, knew her voice, and her name popped into my memory.

This is beside the point, but she denies plastic surgery except Botox,that she quit after an eye drooping. Bull. She and Jennifer Anniston have had chin implants or something wacky and look more masculine. I will die on this hill.

I'm binging China Beach with Delaney, and there is no way she didn't mess herself up with plastic surgery. In the movie, Tombstone, she still looked normal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (hzuYO)

172 Saulnier is just about ground zero for my, "Well, are there ANY good filmmakers who are less than 80 years old?"

Having gone into a much more indepth study of directors over the years, I want to test a theory on you I have brought up here before: directors go in cycles, and in the past we've had wave come and wave go with short periods (if at all) between the waves. You had the earliest directors, who phased into the mid 20th ceutnry masters, who phased into the 70s masters and... um... that's pretty much it.

Who's our next Spielberg? Who is going to replace guys like Cameron and Ridley Scott? All these guys who have been there putting out stuff all our lives are gone or going. Some should have retired years ago like Scott.

There just does not seem to be a new coming wave of great directors. Villeneuve and Nolan are not making it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (TMNW7)

173 163 Rome is the granddaddy of the all. Napoleon is a lot more difficult, but less epic. You gotta play it a lot to figure out the sequence of not just things to build or units to create but also the order of cities to attack. Its all about no wasted turns. Which sort of sucked the creativity out of it for me. Rome is very replayable. There are a lot of mods for it, and if you get frustrated easily, a lot of cheats.

Posted by: also no motion sickness at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (anL5R)

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First Rome is a game I always have on my Steam Deck, but Medieval II is always going to be my favorite of that era.

Looking forward to Medieval III most of all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (qGAQr)

174 I've had EU recommended to me before.

I should just get 3 at some point and dive in. Should be cheap enough for a test run.

EU4 > EU3.

They basically remade the game between 2 and 3 and didn't resolve everything with the new game before 4.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

175
Hell, I spent $23 on No Man's Sky after endless conversations with ChatGPT on whether I'd like it or not. Spoiler: I like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (qGAQr)

No Man's Sky has had a pretty incredible redemption arc from launching with nothing to do to having years of free content releases.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 05:03 PM (okun6)

176 166 Interesting, I believe Fincher made "The Killer" under Netflix and that was outstanding.

Posted by: Max Power at October 21, 2026 05:01 PM (SwyyQ)

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He did.

Fincher had an exclusive contract with Netflix for like 15 years.

First project was Game of Cards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:03 PM (qGAQr)

177 Who's our next Spielberg? Who is going to replace guys like Cameron and Ridley Scott? All these guys who have been there putting out stuff all our lives are gone or going. Some should have retired years ago like Scott.

There just does not seem to be a new coming wave of great directors. Villeneuve and Nolan are not making it.

Look at AI videos on YouTube. That's where you'll find them.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2026 05:03 PM (Riz8t)

178 Its hilarious that they list 'Anthem'. A shit game that barely anyone played, development was stopped at release, and then the game shut down - after people paid real money to play it - almost immediately.

Anthem was the worst piece of work they put out. Yes, worse than ME Andromeda and DA Transgender - at least those games reasonably worked.

Posted by: Agammamon at October 21, 2026 05:04 PM (NRQST)

179 Best TA game is Warhammer 3.

But if you want the Napoleon experience try Europa Universalis - 2 or 4.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

EU4 is at too high a level to really get the nappy experience and the engine is getting creaky as well at the end of the run of the game. Its great for pain the map your color fun. I've seen a game called Lines of Battle that is a simple Nap Era tactical battle game.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:04 PM (uhVAy)

180 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

I’ve only liked three shows on Netflix.
Altered Carbon, Stranger Things, and Squid Game and all if them started to suck their second or third season, Altered Carbon only got two seasons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:04 PM (6ydKt)

181 172
Who's our next Spielberg? Who is going to replace guys like Cameron and Ridley Scott? All these guys who have been there putting out stuff all our lives are gone or going. Some should have retired years ago like Scott.

There just does not seem to be a new coming wave of great directors. Villeneuve and Nolan are not making it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (TMNW7)

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I pay so little attention to modern film in that framing, that I'd have to really research and think about it.

I mean, if I have to settle on Shawn Levy, I might kill myself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:05 PM (qGAQr)

182 I’ll add Ozark to the list too.
And, once again, it went sideways after a few seasons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

183 174
EU4 > EU3.

They basically remade the game between 2 and 3 and didn't resolve everything with the new game before 4.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

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Noted!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:05 PM (qGAQr)

184 180

The last Squid Games was dumb. They should have stopped after the first one.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2026 05:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

185 175
No Man's Sky has had a pretty incredible redemption arc from launching with nothing to do to having years of free content releases.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 05:03 PM (okun6)

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I can find myself lost on a world dredging up resources for a ship I just found, trying to make it flyable so I can keep it, for like 4 straight hours. I did not think it would work on me like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:06 PM (qGAQr)

186 the Netflix model demands too much volume to consistently put out high-quality movies.

Disney had the same problem. Like five years ago they announced this huge wave of stuff they were gonna put out, and I just looked at it with dismay: it was too much, too fast. It takes time to put out good movies, and there's only so much talent out there that CAN make anything good.

If you require too much output, then even the best, fastest workers cannot keep up and you end up with Bob the Janitor doing coverage for your Star Wars movie. And to make matters worse, they started casting diectors and writers rather than hiring: what do they look like? What are their politics? What is their proclivity in the bedroom? Put them in charge!

Marvel put out like 8 movies and TV shows based solely on the talent having worked on the Rick & Morty show. That they were asian and black and women and homosexual was just icing on top of the cake!

But it turns out that the cake was made of reasty dog crap because they didn't have what it takes to actually make a movie or a TV show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:06 PM (TMNW7)

187 There just does not seem to be a new coming wave of great directors. Villeneuve and Nolan are not making it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (TMNW7)

They seem to be plucking directors from YouTube and making bank here lately.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

188 I am unfamiliar with both BioWare and recent Netflix works.

They pissed on the values I hold dear long ago. I, along with millions of others apparently, withheld our $$$. As it should be.

Provide a product for me that I like and I'll give you $$.

I'm funny that way.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 21, 2026 05:07 PM (V8Zwm)

189 Bah! Humbug! Haven't played a video game since pong. It is possible that I have become a grumpy old man.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2026 05:07 PM (XeU6L)

190 Saw Stranger Things on the Netflickers (had a free subscription for a while, can't recall how that happened). I liked the first two seasons. Third was okay. Stopped after that. And we no longer have Netflickers, nor do we want it.

BTW, Mike's mom was a smoke-show...

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 21, 2026 05:07 PM (PSEDc)

191 Who's our next Spielberg? Who is going to replace guys like Cameron and Ridley Scott? All these guys who have been there putting out stuff all our lives are gone or going. Some should have retired years ago like Scott.

There just does not seem to be a new coming wave of great directors. Villeneuve and Nolan are not making it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:02 PM (TMNW7)

Problem is in about the 60s the 'minor leagues' of movies was cut off by TV and the lack of cheap local theatres to make B movies and play them. What allows you to slide in a new director is either to have him working with an A list one, or to have some experience doing smaller projects. Once you quit refilling that pool of people, you eventually run out.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

192 I pay so little attention to modern film in that framing, that I'd have to really research and think about it.

Its not that there's no talent out there, guys like Eggers is a visionary, I don't usually like his stuff but I have to admit that Guillermo del Toro is very good.

I'm just not seeing those super talented populist entertainment directors that change movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:08 PM (TMNW7)

193 Hearts of Iron III was great. I remember setting up my units on the border one time (air and land for Germany) and then realizing there was a layer of command support that I had not accounted for when setting the units in position. So, rather than redirecting units, I spent the next three hours reorganizing everything down to the unit level (division, army, group etc etc.) Each trying to take advantage of a different leaders strengths.

Three hours, real time. Then I realized that the game had snooker my particular brand of autism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

194 >"12 Anthem was that live service disaster, right?

I think Blizzard is the only one who can do live service right: attach it to Diablo.

No one else has Diablo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 04:31 PM (qGAQr)

Actually, everyone has Diablo. D4 isn't even the most popular game in the Diablo franchise, let alone in the aRPG genre.

Shit story - where again some young woman is the key to everything and the player mostly stands around while her story is told to you. Shallow gameplay. And they gouge you for money every step of the way.

Games really not even playable now if you haven't forked over another $80 for the two expansions.

POE has been going strong for 13 years, you might spend 30 bucks for some stash tabs and that's it. Diablo 2 has been chucking along for 26 years.

Posted by: Agammamon at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (NRQST)

195 Look at AI videos on YouTube. That's where you'll find them.

We're 5-10 years out but yeah I could see a whole new crop of talent coming out of AI indy stuff because they totally bypass the Hollywood gatekeepers and their systems.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (TMNW7)

196 The last Squid Games was dumb. They should have stopped after the first one.
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2026 05:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

I watched half of the last season and they cut it off in a cliffhanger to make you wait six months for the second half and I never went back for the rest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

197 I can find myself lost on a world dredging up resources for a ship I just found, trying to make it flyable so I can keep it, for like 4 straight hours. I did not think it would work on me like that.
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Oh, so its survival sci fi? Interesting.

Posted by: also no motion sickness at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (anL5R)

198 I can find myself lost on a world dredging up resources for a ship I just found, trying to make it flyable so I can keep it, for like 4 straight hours. I did not think it would work on me like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:06 PM (qGAQr)

From what I saw that part was fun from day 1. It was the nothing that was there at launch beyond that that was an issue. Seems like they have done a lot with their recovery to fix that.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)

199 194
Games really not even playable now if you haven't forked over another $80 for the two expansions.

POE has been going strong for 13 years, you might spend 30 bucks for some stash tabs and that's it. Diablo 2 has been chucking along for 26 years.

Posted by: Agammamon at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (NRQST)

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DIV is one of the most profitable games in history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:11 PM (qGAQr)

200 Greta Gerwig is an A-list figure? Grade inflation!

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 21, 2026 05:11 PM (7s9Qe)

201 They seem to be plucking directors from YouTube and making bank here lately.

Certainly they are making money. I don't like horror much and have not seen Backrooms or Obsession so I can't say how well done they are or how innovative.

It does sort of make me chuckle that first world problems have replaced our horror movies. Unkillable guy with a machete butchering horny teenagers? Bah, we have a house with extra yellow rooms! SCARY kids!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:12 PM (TMNW7)

202 Look at AI videos on YouTube. That's where you'll find them.

We're 5-10 years out but yeah I could see a whole new crop of talent coming out of AI indy stuff because they totally bypass the Hollywood gatekeepers and their systems.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (TMNW7)

They just need to keep being outside of Hollywood to make it work. Drowning themselves in the old system will destroy them.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)

203 197 I can find myself lost on a world dredging up resources for a ship I just found, trying to make it flyable so I can keep it, for like 4 straight hours. I did not think it would work on me like that.
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Oh, so its survival sci fi? Interesting.

Posted by: also no motion sickness at October 21, 2026 05:10 PM (anL5R)

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In part. There's base building. There's exploration. There's a story about an alien signal I've barely scratched.

There's upgrading your ship so you can further and faster.

There are space battles.

The openness is what was holding me back from purchase originally, but I've cottoned to it pretty well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:12 PM (qGAQr)

204 Think about the world of wokism, ghey and trans market they are writing this crap for.

They are playing to them: 9%, roughly, of gheys of all stripes of their stolen rainbow. Less of the bi's and cis and whatever else they've dreamed up this week.

For trans: 1.1%

THIS is their market audience and no wonder they are flops, trying to put black people DEI's as queens of the UK or Europe. Mixing sexes for traditional roles. It is retarded thinking that most people would pay to see this crap.

Then dumbing down even further with very bad writing.

It was the last big writers's strike that sunk them. I don't even remember when that was.

Instead of really, really bad cinema sequels try to be original. This may be too much to ask in 2026. Pathetic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 21, 2026 05:13 PM (hzuYO)

205 191 Oldcat, today studios hand over big budget movies to DEI interns.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2026 05:13 PM (bX16E)

206 Oh, so its survival sci fi? Interesting.

NMS is hard to pin down. It's primary loop is exploration and discovery, but there's something there for everyone. I enjoy the corvette building feature they added.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2026 05:13 PM (oDvAq)

207 Speaking of Warhammer and woke there is an argument I see now because they made Slaanesh ugly and hermaphroditic.

Slaanesh is supposed to be among other things the god of lust and well this is his/her herald: https://tinyurl.com/u8w9abtv

On the one hand its stupid - the servants of the god of war look like murders, the servants of the god of disease look disgusting, and the servants of the good of magic look like aliens. So presumably the Slaaneshi followers should look more like Morathi (hot half nekkid elf queen)

But on the other hand the chaos gods are BAD. They enjoy screwing with people. So it makes perfect sense that Slaaneshi demons would use illusion to get you to want them and then look like, well, crab armed DIADs when you wake up in the morning, sort of like the danger of beer googles at a Boston area bar.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:13 PM (sKqQm)

208 190 Saw Stranger Things on the Netflickers (had a free subscription for a while, can't recall how that happened). I liked the first two seasons. Third was okay. Stopped after that. And we no longer have Netflickers, nor do we want it.

BTW, Mike's mom was a smoke-show...
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 21, 2026 05:07 PM (PSEDc)

The site ace linked cosmicbook dot news covered the finale. I never saw the show. The group is ready to go up against a great terror and..........

some guy comes out as gay before the big fight.

This is why conservatives should NEVER watch a show until it's completely over. Star Trek Strange New Worlds which has had some great shows and had younger Kirk, Spock, Uhura, hottie Chapel and Scottie had cool episodes.

Overall, not too bad. But the last 2 season 4 episodes - gay crap just because they would. I won't watch any more new series until they're completed simply because of that reason.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 21, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)

209 Unkillable guy with a machete butchering horny teenagers? Bah, we have a house with extra yellow rooms! SCARY kids!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:12 PM (TMNW7)

I think people were just happy that the rooms weren’t lecturing them about their privilege.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

210 There's like 1,000 YouTube AI videos of creepy anthropomorphic strawberries making out.

Netflix is a graveyard of ideas, and indy AI videos are a million times worse.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2026 05:14 PM (mkw2N)

211 I loved Baulders Gate I&II and Icewind Dale I&II. Played Neverwinter Nights but never finished. My interest level in gaming is pretty much zero now. Used to enjoy it a lot though. More into racing sims (Grand Prix Legends is the BEST) but haven't played in a very long time. Sad to hear about Bioware but not surprised. A lot of those companies are going to go tits up. Buggy software, poor gameplay, horrible SJW messaging shoehorned in. They killed themselves and they will learn no lessons from it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2026 05:15 PM (sAmhv)

212 Mass effect: Andromeda was an absolutely dynamite concept, let down in the implementation.

Thats when I knew their writing and game making were going to shit. Female characters were just a bit too manly. And dialogue was horrific and they wasted the talents of Clancey Brown. Just sad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2026 05:15 PM (zZu0s)

213 Hearts of Iron III was great. I remember setting up my units on the border one time (air and land for Germany) and then realizing there was a layer of command support that I had not accounted for when setting the units in position. So, rather than redirecting units, I spent the next three hours reorganizing everything down to the unit level (division, army, group etc etc.) Each trying to take advantage of a different leaders strengths.

Three hours, real time. Then I realized that the game had snooker my particular brand of autism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

There's a game on the East Front who's name escape me but its a hex and counter game to computer. But yes when you go into the game you can add extra assets to your units and detach them which really changes the game. Divisional more or less, breakdown to brigades.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)

214 Doom II broke me. I haven't gamed since.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2026 05:15 PM (FbiR5)

215
Speaking of movies....

We saw "Whalefall".

I read the book and this is one of the rare cases where the movie is better than the novel, however....

"Whalefall" is not a good movie...it's just oh...okay, I suppose. For the same problem that the book has.

It's loaded with whinging Daddy Issues.

As long as it sticks with the clean aspects of survival adventur, it's fine and enjoyable for about 2/3rds of the movie, but it the final act we go full Daddy Issues and a mystical confusion of the the main characters father talking as the Spirit of the Whale or vice-versa.

This mistake murders any excitement that the climactic escape should engender and turns it boring.

Sad.

Probably worth a "free" watch on streaming.
If you've got nothing better to do.
Or, have big ole Daddy Issues yourself.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2026 05:15 PM (YSUhf)

216 Meritocracy is dead in the West. It's not what you know, it's who you blow.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2026 05:15 PM (bX16E)

217 Slaaneshi demons would use illusion to get you to want them and then look like, well, crab armed DIADs when you wake up in the morning, sort of like the danger of beer googles at a Boston area bar.
==
yeah it was all fun and games while she was snorting a line of ketamine off my dong, but then I woke up the next morning and had crabs....

Posted by: not a cornell grad but at October 21, 2026 05:16 PM (anL5R)

218 I said "Fuck Netflix" back then and I still feel that way.
Posted by: zombie

Netflix stopped having anything I was interested in watching after they dropped best Top Gear and "Chef and my Fridge".

And then the Cuties thing (and the fact that gay stuff kept showing up in my recommendations despite my efforts to go through the content filters and exclude all the gay stuff) sealed it for me.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 21, 2026 05:16 PM (vJrRc)

219 I'll bet this guy's tits jiggled as he wrote that retardation out in anger.
Posted by: Thrawn

Pics? Probably not....I'll see if I can find something...

https://tinyurl.com/mryexvj3

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 21, 2026 05:16 PM (t19vo)

220 I remember watching American Gods and found the premise interesting and Ian McShane played his role perfectly.

And then for no reason that hey to add a 15m hairy dude on hairy gene dude sex scene.

I left to go to the bathroom and get snacks and was amazed that I came back and it was still going

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:16 PM (sKqQm)

221 189 Bah! Humbug! Haven't played a video game since pong. It is possible that I have become a grumpy old man.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

You and me both. I excelled at Pinball, though.

Posted by: Grizzled Goomer at October 21, 2026 05:17 PM (EdP2u)

222 >>>Wokeslop Video Game Company Bioware Transitions to "Out of Business" (Pronouns Was/Were)

LMAO

Dumbasses.

Diversity is your doom.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2026 05:17 PM (eXLHo)

223 Quit Netflix when they went all in with Bathhouse Barry. Haven’t particularly missed it. Not onto fake and gay, even in the White House.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 21, 2026 05:17 PM (HIfQz)

224 I pretty much gave up on video gaming when I couldn't complete Doom I.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2026 05:18 PM (vTZFs)

225 Here's a cool WH40k edit from "Secret Level" if anyone's interested.

https://youtu.be/r9nAaYKTrR4

Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2026 05:18 PM (oDvAq)

226 And then for no reason that hey to add a 15m hairy dude on hairy gene dude sex scene.
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I quit watching after that. Even Mr. Wednesday being entertainingly sociopathic couldn't get me back.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 05:18 PM (amcLV)

227 224 I pretty much gave up on video gaming when I couldn't complete Doom I.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2026 05:18 PM (vTZFs)

=========

I beat that again recently.

Second hardest difficulty.

All four chapters of the original, but the next couple of chapters that were the expansions.

And then DOOM II.

And then I'm replaying DOOM 2016 because I got it for free (Amazon Gaming, people, I'm tellin' ya, I think it's still free right now).

Damn...that's a series that doesn't lag.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:19 PM (qGAQr)

228 I think people were just happy that the rooms weren’t lecturing them about their privilege.

There is a billion dollar comedy out there with someone just spoofing movie making today with DEI requirements, intimacy coordinators, union requirements, taxes, etc done ZAZ or even Mel Brooks style. There is so much to make fun of there that they will never touch.

THe writer who comes up with a great story based on a property, the casting director who replaces the lead with a fat black woman, the producer's notes to make it for a modern audience, the publicist who insists they have to meet Oscar requirements, it goes on on what you can mock.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:20 PM (TMNW7)

229 191 Oldcat, today studios hand over big budget movies to DEI interns.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2026 05:13 PM (bX16E)

They want someone controllable, safe. But even if you replaced that management, there's no pool of people with the right experience level to be creative if you let them, and be able to pull it off.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:20 PM (uhVAy)

230 Oh, I forgot.
I did watch all of the Marvel Studios shows on Netflix was back when they were the only game in town.

Dardevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage and The Defenders series.

They were at least half-way decent shows even if I was rolling my eyes half the time.

Netflix and Disney couldn’t even produce that level of quality these days if they tried.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

231 226 And then for no reason that hey to add a 15m hairy dude on hairy gene dude sex scene.
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I quit watching after that. Even Mr. Wednesday being entertainingly sociopathic couldn't get me back.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 05:18 PM (amcLV)

I'd love a website that just gives movies a pass - fail grade.
Even one joke, one little innuendo - fail.

Do entire series too after they're over. One little woke piece of crap - fail.

There's asian stuff to watch and older shows.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 21, 2026 05:21 PM (Sco7b)

232 I pretty much gave up on video gaming when I couldn't complete Doom I.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2026 05:18 PM (vTZFs)

its about the journey not the destination.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)

233 The guy that did Doom was given a big budget to make his next game and produced Daikatana which was a major flop, and almost ended his career

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:21 PM (sKqQm)

234 I remember watching American Gods and
==
to be fair, the gay genie was in the book.

I mean it didn't go on for 15 minutes, but I read fast.

I thought Stardust was a great book. Then they made the pirate captain gay in the movie for no discernable reason.

Posted by: I used to like Neil Gaiman at October 21, 2026 05:21 PM (anL5R)

235 We've been telling these homos we don't want their gay, girlboss, preachy crap for decades. You'd have to be room temperature not to laugh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2026 05:22 PM (eXLHo)

236 I excelled at Pinball, though.
Posted by: Grizzled Goomer at October 21, 2026 05:17 PM (EdP2u)

Fireball FTW. No tilt.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 21, 2026 05:22 PM (HIfQz)

237 American Gods got axed unfinished bc Neil got MeToo'ed

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 21, 2026 05:22 PM (qBivk)

238 235 We've been telling these homos we don't want their gay, girlboss, preachy crap for decades. You'd have to be room temperature not to laugh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2026 05:22 PM (eXLHo)

=

"BUT YOU LIKED RIPLEY IN ALIENS, SO ACCEPT TURNING YOUR MALE SUPERHEROES OF CHILDHOOD INTO GAY CHICKS!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (qGAQr)

239 American Gods has he flaw of being written by Neil Gaiman so great concepts and bizarre, wild ideas but so twisted, perverted, soulless and hateful toward the good and right that it ruins its self.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (TMNW7)

240 The ending of the American Gods books sucked so maybe it is for the best the series never completed.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (sKqQm)

241 Here's a cool WH40k edit from "Secret Level" if anyone's interested.

https://youtu.be/r9nAaYKTrR4
==
Everything from Secret level is really good. Its on Prime.

Posted by: I used to like Neil Gaiman at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (anL5R)

242 I thought Stardust was a great book. Then they made the pirate captain gay in the movie for no discernable reason.
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That was, at least, played for laughs.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (amcLV)

243 American Gods had me fascinated when I watched it,

It is gay as hell in parts, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

244 We've been telling these homos we don't want their gay, girlboss, preachy crap for decades. You'd have to be room temperature not to laugh

"I don't get it, we made fun of and attacked our fans, betrayed everything they asked for, reversed all the things people liked about our games, focused on making a movie rather than a game, and put all our thought into what will make us more money rather than what makes a game fun and we went totally bankrupt!"
--Bioware

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:24 PM (TMNW7)

245 In the original Alien movie Ripley wasn't a fighter, she was just the best survivor.

They Sarah Connor'd her for the second movie just like they did in well Terminator 2.

In both cases they were good movies but that took away from it honestly.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:25 PM (sKqQm)

246 Is Earth Abides the series worth watching?

Posted by: nckate at October 21, 2026 05:25 PM (enNUy)

247 239 American Gods has he flaw of being written by Neil Gaiman so great concepts and bizarre, wild ideas but so twisted, perverted, soulless and hateful toward the good and right that it ruins its self.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (TMNW7)

I feel the same way about The Boys on Prime.

It is deranged.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

248 Henry Cavill is supposedly working on a 40K show. It could be gold it could be crap - Games Workshop has no idea why people like their universe and it obvious in how they use it and allow others to..."I mean we make our money off of figurines so we gotta make sure everything drives that business you know?"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

249 OT: Ilhan seems to be in hiding. There's a warrant out.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (88C+u)

250 The temptation for super-powered humans to be villains or criminals rather that super heroes is always interesting to me, when they aren't just devils *cough* Brightburn *cough*.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (FbiR5)

251 I also thought Neverwhere was pretty good book.

I never read Good Omens. Cowritten with Pratchett. I assumed it would just be full of blasphemy.

Not that I don't enjoy Pratchett, but satirizing heaven and hell seems a bit fraught for pop culture to take on.

Posted by: I used to like Neil Gaiman at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (anL5R)

252 120 Gillette has come up with a new shaving product: a razor for men to shave their *body hair*.
---

From Pixy, this morning.

Budweiser backed away from their stupidity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (vOxCS)

253 Neverwhere was written by Gaiman and would be a very interesting movie. Gaiman is a perv but he can come up with interesting books

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (vJPf4)

254 They Sarah Connor'd her for the second movie just like they did in well Terminator 2.

But she was still just a mom, in Aliens she wasn't a tough fighter trained to kill and all shredded. She was just desperate, backed up against a wall, and determined to not lose the child she had found after losing her own kids to the time she lost while frozen. It worked really well; Cameron writes women really well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (TMNW7)

255 "BUT YOU LIKED RIPLEY IN ALIENS, SO ACCEPT TURNING YOUR MALE SUPERHEROES OF CHILDHOOD INTO GAY CHICKS!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:23 PM (qGAQr)

Massive misread. Ripley dominated by appealing to maternal instinct. Mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2026 05:29 PM (eXLHo)

256 Jillette

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at October 21, 2026 05:29 PM (FbiR5)

257 "I don't get it, we made fun of and attacked our fans, betrayed everything they asked for, reversed all the things people liked about our games, focused on making a movie rather than a game, and put all our thought into what will make us more money rather than what makes a game fun and we went totally bankrupt!"
--Bioware
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:24 PM (TMNW7)

They didn't put *any* thought into what made them money, that is the core problem. Saying they wanted to destroy what made them money is a lot closer.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:29 PM (uhVAy)

258 254 But she was still just a mom, in Aliens she wasn't a tough fighter trained to kill and all shredded. She was just desperate, backed up against a wall, and determined to not lose the child she had found after losing her own kids to the time she lost while frozen. It worked really well; Cameron writes women really well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:28 PM (TMNW7)

====

Gale Ann Hurd writes women really well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 21, 2026 05:29 PM (qGAQr)

259 Nudity

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at October 21, 2026 05:30 PM (FbiR5)

260 I feel the same way about The Boys on Prime

The boys is soulless, it can be interesting as a change, but when EVERYTHING is soulless it just is miserable. Its like how Al Bundy the loser dad his family mocks is funny because its fresh, but when EVERY dad on TV is that, its not fun any more, its just cruel and hostile toward men.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:30 PM (TMNW7)

261 248 Henry Cavill is supposedly working on a 40K show. It could be gold it could be crap - Games Workshop has no idea why people like their universe and it obvious in how they use it and allow others to..."I mean we make our money off of figurines so we gotta make sure everything drives that business you know?"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

Games Workshop has been pretty free with their IP, and as a result there's a lot of good stuff, a lot of mediocre stuff, and a lot of crap. It seems to work as a model.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 21, 2026 05:30 PM (okun6)

262 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 21, 2026 05:30 PM (hG5L0)

263 Massive misread. Ripley dominated by appealing to maternal instinct. Mostly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2026 05:29 PM (eXLHo)

Yeah she's "Mama Cat" in defense of the kitten to the T.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 21, 2026 05:30 PM (uhVAy)

264 Gale Ann Hurd writes women really well.

Well, that is probably more accurate, but I have to give Cameron credit as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 21, 2026 05:31 PM (TMNW7)

265 Netflix is very useful if you want to learn a foreign language.

Posted by: Tes Torgerson at October 21, 2026 05:31 PM (6l60+)

266 QUICK NOOD!!!

Posted by: Max Power at October 21, 2026 05:33 PM (SwyyQ)

267 Yeah, all of Netflix's original content is unspeakably horrid dross.

But they're in good company there. That's every studio. None of them are any good at anything, so it's not like there's some better alternative in that regard.

My problem is their content library. The only reason for a streaming service to exist is so I can watch something that isn't shit or garbage - namely, things made more than about 20 years ago.

Netflix has - nothing good. If you liked a movie, haven't seen it in awhile, and think "hey, I'd like to watch that," you can count on it not being on Netflix. If they have anything close, it'll be an awful sequel, or low-budget knockoff, or whatever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2026 05:33 PM (BI5O2)

268 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2026 05:33 PM (zZu0s)

269 Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2026 05:25 PM (sKqQm)

Connor was a fighter in the second movie because she spent half her post-Terminator life trying to be mom to a soldier and the other half in prison doing pullups.
Ripley took a job as a longshoreperson in the space-docks because that was who was hiring, and it's not like she ever learned to code.

Posted by: James Cameron (1980s) did nothing wrong at October 21, 2026 05:34 PM (88C+u)

270 Does anyone Duke Nuke Em?

Posted by: Boskwing plover at October 21, 2026 05:35 PM (VMFAF)

271 I never played Inquisition but Larry O'Connor was obsessed with it.

nobody expects you to have played inquisition

Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2026 05:35 PM (sGtp+)

272 But she was still just a mom, in Aliens she wasn't a tough fighter trained to kill and all shredded. She was just desperate, backed up against a wall, and determined to not lose the child she had found after losing her own kids to the time she lost while frozen.
--
the best heroes are regular people who, due to circumstances, must do extraordinary things to survive, and in their struggle come realize they are not fighting alone. I 'm sort of in the Bertold Brecht camp.

A society that requires extraordinary individuals to fix its problems is weak or oppressive. A healthy society by definition, allows rationality and cooperative action to overcome crises. Ordinary flawed people save the day all the time.

Posted by: I'm not Bertold Brecht but at October 21, 2026 05:35 PM (anL5R)

273 You and me both. I excelled at Pinball, though.
Posted by: Grizzled Goomer
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Ha! Me also. I much prefer games that are truly 3 dimensional.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2026 05:37 PM (XeU6L)

274 "That reminds me why hasn't anyone remade Panzer General for modern computers?"

Panzer Korps and Panzer Korps II are remakes of the old Panzer General.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 21, 2026 05:42 PM (dyMal)

275 Order of Battle is also an updated Panzer General Clone.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 21, 2026 05:43 PM (dyMal)

276 Now to be fair, Bioware ceased to exist the minute they sold out to EA.

That's why they had to cram idiotic multiplayer into Mass Effect 3 that NOBODY wanted, instead of actually delivering on the promise that decisions you made in the first 2 games would matter (they didn't). And of course the INFAMOUS ending.

Going woke just accelerated the decline, but make no mistake, the second EA took over, Bioware was no longer the company that made absolute gems like KOTR or Mass Effect 1.

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