Disney Is Making "Brutal" Payroll Cuts, Again
Plus: All the Woke Entertainment News I've Skipped for a Month

Iger is such a successful CEO that he has to lay off employees every three months.

More layoff news in what already has been a depressing week. Disney is in the middle of a new wave of cuts as part of a "cost-saving initiative," sources tell Deadline. We hear about 300 or so people are affected by the layoffs that started yesterday and are continuing today and tomorrow, with a possibility to stretch beyond that.

The positions -- all based in the U.S. -- are across Disney's corporate operations, including legal, HR, finance and communications, we hear. Among the divisions that are not impacted in this round are Parks, ESPN as well as Disney Entertainment.

HR? Do tell!

Disney's woke head of Animation has been fired -- I mean, this Stunning and Brave, Stronk and Empowered woman was promoted back to her old job, which is cranking out ever-more-soulless-and-cashgrabby sequels to Frozen.

Disney Animation had one hit with another soulless cashgrab sequel, In and Out 2. But that movie had to get emergency last-minute editing to remove all the gay messaging that was stuffed into it.

A new rumor claims that Disney and Pixar executives instructed the Inside Out 2 team to remove any possible gay interpretations from Inside Out 2 after Lightyear's box office failure.

A report from IGN's Alex Stedman, which cites multiple anonymous individuals at Disney, claims that Disney executives blamed the failure of Lightyear on its inclusion of a gay kiss. Lightyear only grossed $218.7 million according to The-Numbers. The film had an estimated production budget of $200 million.

One source told Stedman, "It is, as far as I know, still a thing, where leadership, they'll bring up Lightyear specifically and say, 'Oh, Lightyear was a financial failure because it had a queer kiss in it. That's not the reason the movie failed."

Despite this source's claim, Disney executives instructed Pixar creatives to make Inside Out 2 "less gay." Stedman writes, "Sources describe rumors that there was special care put into making the relationship between Riley and Val, a supporting character introduced in Inside Out 2, seem as platonic as possible, even requiring edits to the lighting and tone of certain scenes to remove any trace of 'romantic chemistry.'

One source told him that Pixar did "a lot of extra work to make sure that no one would potentially see them as not straight."

But that last-minute fix wasn't enough for Jennifer Lee to keep her job.

She leaves Walt Disney Animation with a complicated legacy: she destroyed the once elite money-making division for anti-male, anti-white woke ideology and cost the company billions.

Wait, I guess that's not really all that complicated.

With Jennifer Lee firmly in place as the head of Walt Disney Animation and her plans for 50/50 female/male animator equity in place, her next goal was to include diverse voices to lead the next generation of feature animation. In 2019, Lee announced the names of four storytellers to direct four new films (Variety).

From within WDA, Lee chose Josie Trinidad (story for Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet) and Marc Smith (director of story for Frozen II). Lee pulled the other two from outside. The first is Carlos Lopez Estrada, who directed Raya and the Last Dragon, and Iranian-American filmmaker Suzi Yoonessi (Unlovable and Dear Lemon Lima). Many of the veteran animators saw these hirings, particularly Estrada and Yoonessi, as WDA embracing DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion).

Disney had a long line of veteran animators investing time and energy in the hope that one day they would helm a Disney classic. Now, these scarce opportunities were given to people who were labeled diverse and never worked in animation. As uncovered in past D-Files, the "Old White Guys" were not given prominent scenes to animate in favor of inexperienced women of color. This snub began the slow and total exodus of veteran talent from Walt Disney Animation to competitor studios, including Skydance.

Alan Ng notes that there's an "untitled Disney anination" coming out Thanksgiving of this year. That movie was just revealed to be a soulless, cashgrabby sequel to Moana. Moana 2. Love the creativity.

But Moana 2 was already commissioned as a Disney Plus tv show. Disney is now scrambling to convert it into a film they can release in the Thanksgiving window.

Why all the last-minute scrambling? Ng thinks he knows why: Because Iger cancelled the movie one of Disney Animation's Four Woke Horsemen of the Apocalypse had been developing:

My sources tell me that the untitled Disney Animation was never supposed to be Moana 2 but a story spearheaded by diverse hire Suzi Yoonessi. Though Yoonessi had several successful live-action films under her belt, she may have found herself in over her head in the world of animation. It appears that Yoonessi's film was not only paused bu flat out canceled. This film was about to enter the launch sequence when Wish came out but was canceled at the last minute. This left Walt Disney Studios with only two films in theaters in 2024, Young Woman and the Sea at the beginning of the year and Mufasa at the end.

There are so many Woke Videogame Disasters that Imma have to speedrun them:

Ubisoft made a woke Assassin's Creed game. They finally set one of their historically-themed stealth actioners in Japan. (The game is about assassins that are essentially ninjas, so people have asked for a Japan-set game for years and years.)

But then they changed their minds and decided they hate money after all when they made the main character one of those very, very real "black samurais" you've heard so much about.

Oh and he's also gay.

They've delayed the game's release until next February. Ah, February -- the 12th best month to release a videogame. No thanks, Thanksgiving and Christmas! We don't need you!

A financial analyst described Ubisoft's sales collapse and its delaying of Assassin's Creed Shadows a "total meltdown" and the company's stock collapse proves that true.

Valliant Renegade reacted to the news that broke yesterday afternoon in the United States that Ubisoft was not only delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows, but that they were reducing their sales expectations for its second quarter by 30% from 500 million to 350-370 million [Euros]. On top of that the company also revised their entire year expectation to "around break-even" instead of profitability. He described it as a "total meltdown."

Valliant Renegade specifically reacted to the stock price crashing nearly 20% since the market opened this morning around 9 [Euros].

He stated, "A little over four years ago Ubisoft was trading at nearly 90 Euros. 9-0 euros. And four years and seven months later here we are nine euros. That means the company has shed 90% of its total market capitalization. And right now as this continues on, this is going to make Ubisoft worth probably less than $1 billion on the open market by the end of trading today."

They're trying to beat Disney at being Disney.

Ubisoft is already reeling from its release of an underperforming, glitchy, boring, woke Star Wars game.

In a document providing new financial targets for FY2024-25, Ubisoft drastically cut its net bookings projections for FY2024-25 from 500 million to 350-370m million [Euros]. The company explained the main reason for their net bookings being cut by up to 30% is "a reflection of decisions taken for Assassin's Creed Shadows and the softer than expected launch for Star Wars Outlaws.

Ubisoft's CEO denies that it is pushing "any particular agenda" -- but its website says it is pushing a woke agenda.

[Ubiosoft CEO Yves Guillemot] then concluded his remarks, "Finally, let me address some of the polarized comments around Ubisoft lately. I want to reaffirm that we are an entertainment-first company, creating games for the broadest possible audience, and our goal is not to push any specific agenda. We remain committed to creating games for fans and players that everyone can enjoy."

Guillemot repeated this prepared remark word-for-word during the company's Trading Update Call.

However, this is an obvious lie as Ubisoft's website makes it very clear it does have a specific agenda. On the company's Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility page, a statement from Raashi Sikka, Ubisoft's Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion says, "For Ubisoft, putting diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do means providing an environment where employees can thrive, building open-minded communities where players can connect, and creating games that reflect the diversity of the world we live in."

Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is such a huge, woke calamity that the studio itself probably will not survive it. Its original base game was woke trash, and they've sought to build on this non-success by giving people what they've always wanted: a gender-swapped Mr. Freeze.

Well, that didn't work, and the already small player base continued to crater.

But don't worry, they're righting the ship with an exciting new idea they've never tried before: Gender-swapping Deadshot.

See, this is Deadshot, not Mr. Freeze.

Different!

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is pursuing the Modern Audience by allowing people, in its character customization menus, to give characters masectomy scars so that "trans people can feel seen and validated."

You may think: Well, if this is all chosen by the player, what's the harm? Give everybody what they want?

Except if what you want is a woman with a womanly body. Because while the game has trans breast-chopping scars as a much-ballyhooed option, the maximum breast size you can give a woman is what looks like "full A-cups." You also can't give them butts.

It has been reported before that, supposedly, the command to make all female video game characters sexually ambiguous and masculine isn't just about feminists demanding that the "male gaze" always be disappointed, so that ugly women aren't forced to look at pretty women (even if fake videogame women) and feel emotionally triggered. The imperative also comes from trans activists, who want to see "women that look like themselves," that is to say: Men.

Reportedly, the trans-encouraging, real-women's-bodies-allergic game's sales are "piss poor."

YouTuber Doctor Disaster shared, "I have an acquaintance in the retail world, someone who runs nine stores that sells video games. And I am hearing that these ratios that we're seeing in damn near every video released for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, these ratios are correlating with piss poor pre-sales data. People are not connecting with The Veilguard because Dragon Age games are supposed to be dark and gritty and this just looks completely soft."

A couple of years ago, there was one videogame universally praised for not having any wokeness in it, and just delivering a solid, immersive game that players wanted. That game was the Third Person Samurai game Ghosts of Tsushima.

Well, they have a spin-off coming out, and you'll never guess.

Layden shared his comments while reacting to YouTuber Endymion's initial reaction to the game's trailer. He wrote, "Ghost of Tsushima sequel stars a Japanese woman samurai warrior because of course it does. They can't help themselves until every franchise that was built on masculinity is replaced by women."

He added, "Ghost of Yotei is (hopefully) a small spin off game, but if this is the true sequel & this is the new main character over Jin Sakai, f**k that. So sick of the forced girlboss narrative man."

YouTuber Mightykeef reacted to this by attacking Endymion and writing, "Man what an absolute loser."

Layden responded to this post writing, "1 It's a game. An entertainment. A story a team of creators believes in. They want to make this."

He added, "2 it's a game. If you don't like it, don't buy it. In fact, why not make the game you want yourself?"

They picked someone who will really appeal to The Modern Audience as the game's star, too.

Sucker Punch, a subsidiary of PlayStation Studios, announced their next title Ghost of Yōtei, a sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, and revealed that the game's main character, Atsu, will be voiced by radical activist Erika Ishii.

Sucker Punch shared on X, "We are thrilled that Atsu is played by the amazing Erika Ishii!"

Ishii is an radical activist, who claims in her X bio that she uses "all pronouns."

Furthermore, Ishii is activist that supports body mutilation. In June she encouraged her followers on X to support ForTheGworls that targets black individuals to encourage them to butcher themselves.

She wrote on X, "Non-Black folks looking to observe Juneteenth: Black nonprofits often receive aid in boom-or-bust cycles. This year, consider making a monthly pledge. Whether you donate, volunteer, or commit to learning please join me in my quest to be intentional & sustainable! I'm supporting: ForTheGworls a Black trans collective that helps pay for rent & gender affirming surgery in the Black LGBTQ community."

Ishii previously promoted the organization in 2023 as well, "Today, please consider supporting ForTheGworls, a Black trans-led nonprofit. Our Black trans siblings are especially vulnerable now, and I donated in honor of Juneteenth2023 & Pride2023. But please join me in pledging to do our best to support Black justice year round!"

In February 2023, ahead of the Hogwarts Legacy release, Ishii appeared to support the failed boycott of the game due to J.K. Rowling's outspoken stance on transgender activists. Ishii wrote, "I used to love Harry Potter. Went to every midnight release, cosplayed, was even in an HP themed improv group. Now I'm happy to instead support & be part of fantasy narratives where ALL are welcome. Trans community, we deserve our own better magic. I will always fight for that."

She included a video of her stating, "F**k Terfs."

In a subsequent post, Ishii added, "Muting, but wanted to reiterate: trans rights are human rights. I ask that instead of replying to negative comments to turn that effort towards positive action: a donation, sharing/supporting trans creators & trans joy, or checking in with your trans friends & their happiness!"

Not only does Ishii support body mutilation and transgender ideology, but she also claims that the police are "white supremacist." Back in 2021, she wrote, "We will not let these terrorists shake our resolve. 2020 showed us that we WILL rise up and make our voices heard. Despite voter suppression, facing down a white supremacist police force, risking health & safety, we hit the polls & streets to say NO MORE. They can't stop us."

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On top of hiring Ishii, Sucker Punch hired former Insomniac Games Community Manager and Sweet Baby Inc. defender Thomas Hart to be the company's Community Manager beginning in April 2024. Hart announced he joined Sucker Punch writing on X, "Incredibly excited to announce that today is my first day at Sucker Punch as a Community Manager!"

He defended Sweet Baby Inc. just a month prior, "This whole Sweet Baby controversy is mind numbingly dumb. Most people have no idea how games are made or what a consultant does. Many don't even care to listen when someone tries to explain it to them. They would much rather have an other to demonize."

Sony just spent $400 million developing another woke game -- full of racial, sexual, and body diversity, because everyone dreams of being an obese yet agile assassin -- which immediately became one of the biggest disasters in years.

A designer says that the game's development was ruined by a "toxic positivity:" You simply were not allowed to point out the game's flaws, or question why we need even more obese black half-head-shaved lesbians as superheroes. Only cultish praise was permitted.

Next, he shared that there was a "toxic positivity vibe." He stated, "You weren't allowed to say anything internally about this game. About how something is wrong with it. Character designs are not right. They really, truly believed. This was Herman Hulst's baby apparently. And he internally was himself a massive champion of the game."

The game was so immediately repudiated by the public -- barely anyone bought this $400 million game, and I think I read the maximum number of players on the game's servers was like 750 worldwide in the first week -- that they shut down those servers after two weeks and the game's director reportedly stepped down.

Sweet Baby Inc. is a company of "diversity consultants" who are hired by videogame companies so that SJWs do not attack and boycott them. It's a racial/gay/trans shakedown, in other words.

One of their non-binary (of course) employees admitted that zis goal is "to burn the games industry to the ground." Can't have straight men deriving any Unapproved Pleasure!

A Sweet Baby Inc. employee named Camerin Wild, who claims to be non-binary, admitted that his goal is "burning the games industry to the ground."

In a presentation titled "How to Get Away With Murder Subverting Genre Expectations" at The Game Developers of Color Expo discovered by YouTuber Kirsche, Wild introduces himself saying he is a "narrative designer and sensitivity reader with a company called Sweet Baby Inc."

Wild, who according to Moby Games worked on Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Alan Wake II, The Crew: Motorfest, Kingdom EIghties, and God of War: Ragnarök, then declared "the stories we tell each other are way more than entertainment. They are how we create debate and preserve our collective values and beliefs. And we can and should make better more expansive, more representational content."

Then in a slide titled, "Cool, so why am I here?" One of the bullet points states, "Burning the games industry to the ground."

And you're doing a fantastic job of it.

In the next slide titled "So why am I still here?" One of the bullet points states, "To prove that space where whiteness doesn't have to live-is where some of the best stories are told."

Is there anything worth playing? Well, despite Games Workshop itself being increasingly woke, the licensed game Space Marine 2 is being hailed as throwback to when games were just fun and exciting.

And non-woke. The game is being attacked by leftists because someone at the company making the game -- possibly the CEO -- made the triggering statement that videogame designers should not be in the business of imposing their moral agenda on a captive audience, which caused all the mentally-ill internet addicts to begin showing their mental illnesses on the internet.

Hey man. CEO of Saber here. I love your videos. When we signed the deal to make Space Marine 2, all I wanted was a throwback game. We had the chance to work on something which by its nature was "old school". I can't even comprehend many of the current games that we play these days.

They are too complex and too much of an investment. We worked on Halo back in the day, and that game could be distilled down to the simplest of shooting loops, but it was entirely addicting. That is what we wanted to recapture. I hope that games like Space Marine 2 and Wukong are the start of a reversion to a time when games were simply about fun and immersion.

Oh my -- how offensive!

Below, some more about Disney.

The Acolyte was Disney's poorest-viewed and worst-rated Star Wars fan fiction effort. Its second season has been cancelled, or, rather, it hasn't been picked up for a second season. The Terminally Online Retards who spend every single day demanding that all IPs add gayness everywhere and race-swap all characters are melting down, because, at last, their decade of Marxist lies about "the modern audience" showing up to embrace these woke abortions have been rubbished.

This latest catastrophic failure cost $230 million -- and that's just what Disney admits.

The showrunner and non-binary diverse star of this show let everyone know right off the bat who this show was made for, when they eagerly agreed it was "the gayest Star Wars content ever." It was about, infamously, a coven of lesbian witches.

Now comes Disney's Agatha All Along, which is about, stop me if you heard this one before, a coven of lesbian witches (and one twink gay male).

But this is different from The Acolyte's lesbian space witches. These lesbian witches are earth-bound. Totally different concept!

And because it worked out so well for The Acolyte, a gay-agenda propagandist demands that each cast member affirm that it is "the gayest Marvel content ever," and each is glad to do so:

And how is it doing? As usual, the shill media is pushing this show and claiming it's a success, because everyone wants 24/7 all-gay programming. Obviously.

Variety spins, weakly, that it's "on par" with The Acolyte -- a show that was an undeniable bomb.

But it gets worse -- it's not "on par" with The Acolyte.

Its ratings are actually 40% less than what The Acolyte got in its first week, and The Acolyte was cancelled, despite the caterwauling from the Twitter weirdoes.

One day the childless cat lady white liberal female AWFLs will accept that not everyone is as Gay-Crazy as they are.

But today is not that day.

Comments

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1 I'll let the others know.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 03:59 PM (O7YUW)

2 Burn mouse, burn

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 27, 2024 04:00 PM (JMAcK)

3 Brutal payroll cuts. Sounds like a good start to me.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2024 04:00 PM (QNSds)

4 "Ace, do more Disney posts! We miss them!"

"Nah, bruh."
-Ace, publicly

"Fuck you all,...I'll give you what you asked for!"
-Ace, privately

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

5 Would have been first other than the scroll time x 2!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:01 PM (CEzQx)

6 Disney thread!


Yay!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:01 PM (v6JzV)

7 Is Disney down to fighting weight?

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2024 04:01 PM (sM0Q+)

8 I'm seeing a LOT of ads for the Disney parks right now, and I don't watch that much TV. I know they occasionally advertised, but nothing like this. They must be really hurting. I would say "Awwwww," but I wouldn't mean it.

Posted by: idgent at September 27, 2024 04:01 PM (PzOlS)

9 Eventually Iger's not going to be able to fudge the numbers, or bamboozle the investors with promises that he's got this. This is going to blow up in his face, bigtime.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 04:01 PM (O7YUW)

10 Oh, is it layoff season already? I still have my George Floyd decorations up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2024 04:02 PM (2UnvF)

11 Should check every Disney actor against P Diddy's guest lists.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 04:02 PM (93cE+)

12 Also, rumors that the Rey movie directed by the documentary filmmaker who said her job while directing Star Wars was to make white men uncomfortable has been shelved permanently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

13 Ace!
You have to stop!
The mouse failing is really giving me a schadenboner issues.

(and please continue!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2024 04:03 PM (ERw09)

14 The Peguin debuted recently, but you Birthday Party Clowns are still focused on Disney movies for kids and games for young adults! How about celebrating good media instead of ripping on products not aimed at you?!?!

Posted by: Ya Soy Zach at September 27, 2024 04:03 PM (JCZqz)

15 DIE DEI MOUSE, DIE.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2024 04:03 PM (Cus5s)

16 Ubisoft's CEO denies that it is pushing "any particular agenda" --
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And when they notice/respond, they are.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:04 PM (uJ65b)

17 Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is such a huge, woke calamity that the studio itself probably will not survive it. Its original base game was woke trash, and they've sought to build on this non-success by giving people what they've always wanted: a gender-swapped Mr. Freeze.

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"Look on the bright side, guys. Twitter was nice to us during launch."
-The CEO during his goodbye speech from his golden parachute provided yacht, on Zoom

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

18 I guess that cheerleading for the correct side is more important than having a job, because it doesn't require being a rocket scientist to figure out what might be the problems with Disney.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:04 PM (MQJVv)

19 Did the In and Out, In and Out, and In and Out Again porn filmmaker sue??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:04 PM (CEzQx)

20
The Left is thinking "To rebuild Disney, you must first burn it down". The stockholders think ... Geez, who gives a F what the stockholders think?

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2024 04:05 PM (rj6Yv)

21 The imperative also comes from trans activists, who want to see "women that look like themselves," that is to say: Men.
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Sure. Okay. So go ahead and cater to that market.

Just understand that this market is quite small. You can design and build for it, just be sure that you're not investing more than the market is worth in the exercise.

This is *the* core problem with the "woke" stuff across the board. It isn't that there's no market for it, it's that the market is tiny. This tiny market is very loud, but the noise far exceeds the size. You can't invest hundreds of millions in a product for a market sized in the hundreds of thousands. The math just doesn't work.

It's why the "Galactic Starcruiser" attraction failed, but "Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp" didn't. They're more alike than they are different. Both are focused on a tiny market of well-to-do middle-aged obsessives. There's money to be made there - but not if you spend half a billion dollars on infrastructure. The market can't support that. "Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp" doesn't build an arena for its events. It couldn't make money if it did.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:05 PM (HnUIn)

22 Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2024 04:02 PM (2UnvF)

LOL. Do you take them down for Halloween?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:05 PM (MQJVv)

23 Oh, is it layoff season already? I still have my George Floyd decorations up.
Posted by: Duke Lowell


George Floyd decorations can be modified for all holidays:
Halloween -- George Floyd jack-o'lantern;
Thanksgiving -- George Floyd in Pilgrim getup;
Christmas -- George Floyd Santa Claus;
Layoff Season -- Chauvin on Floyd's neck.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:05 PM (v6JzV)

24 I have to hand it to Disney, though. For everyone that thought the three Star Wars prequel movies were bad and you couldn't make anything worse...well, you proved them wrong, didn't ya?

Posted by: idgent at September 27, 2024 04:05 PM (PzOlS)

25 The game was so immediately repudiated by the public -- barely anyone bought this $400 million game, and I think I read the maximum number of players on the game's servers was like 750 worldwide in the first week -- that they shut down those servers after two weeks and the game's director reportedly stepped down.

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I see this as more of a indictment of the live service model of gaming at all.

You have to win opening weekend, so to speak, and you have to win it big to get AAA money back. If you don't, if the launch is soft, you don't have any time to make it back up. You shut everything down and can't make anymore money on it.

Cyberpunk, on the other hand, had a disastrous launch, fixed itself over years, and reportedly is in the black for Project CD Red.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

26 a gender-swapped Mr. Freeze.
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Ms. Frigid ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 04:06 PM (93cE+)

27 Ubisoft's CEO denies that it is pushing "any particular agenda" -- but its website says it is pushing a woke agenda.
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Don't discount the idea that he isn't lying. This is fairly common. "We don't have an agenda, we just do the right thing" or "what agenda? We're just being sensible, which all sensible people will understand." - these are common positions, and many of the people who hold those positions believe it.

If you're in deep enough, you can in fact fail to realize that you even *have* an agenda at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (HnUIn)

28 Rings of Power Season 2 is so bad, it can't even be mentioned in the same article as Disney's fiasco.

I've been watching Shad (of Shadiversity) review episodes 6 and 7. Each one is an epic marathon (2-3 hours EACH for a 45-50 minute episode) documenting the stupidity of the showrunners.

It's glorious.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (7fElN)

29 Penguins and Disney have been in cahoots for years. I'd bet you a thousand bottles of baby oil that Big Penguin is waiting to swoop in and take over.

Posted by: fd 49 at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (vFG9F)

30 But it gets worse -- it's not "on par" with The Acolyte.

Its ratings are actually 40% less than what The Acolyte got in its first week, and The Acolyte was cancelled, despite the caterwauling from the Twitter weirdoes.

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Considering the extended production schedule (it was announced, like, four years ago), I suspect Agatha may actually end up being more expensive than The Acolyte, as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

31 Ace, you've been saving up, haven't you? Quite the girthy and gainzzz post for a Friday.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (tT6L1)

32 26 a gender-swapped Mr. Freeze.
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Ms. Frigid ?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Sigh....

Posted by: Husbands Everywhere at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (JCZqz)

33 Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
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Didn't Earn Anything

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (CEzQx)

34 28 Rings of Power Season 2 is so bad, it can't even be mentioned in the same article as Disney's fiasco.

I've been watching Shad (of Shadiversity) review episodes 6 and 7. Each one is an epic marathon (2-3 hours EACH for a 45-50 minute episode) documenting the stupidity of the showrunners.

It's glorious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:07 PM (7fElN)

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I thought the trailers looked decent, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

35 Dear WMO,

First there was Hazel, then 35 years later, Hugo, then 35 years later, Helene.

Please consider skipping the letter H in 2059.

Earnestly,
The Carolinas

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (jOYm0)

36 Ha, this post coulda been written in Thai or Georgian, that's how much of it means anything to me. Separation from pop culture and especially "entertainment" robust and getting stronger.

Meanwhile the sounds of the MAG-TF demo at Miramar are wafting this way. Very noisy stuff, jets, choppers, armor, pyrotechnics. Only demo like it anywhere in the world AFAIK. Occasionally the sweet mechanical sound of .50 cal used to drift this way when they were using the ranges to the east, but that doesn't happen any more. Was fun explaining that sound to a neighbor.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (GcNJ2)

37 Lesbian star witches with special lesbian star witching powers. Boffo box office smash, or absolute insanity?

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

38 Ace, you've been saving up, haven't you? Quite the girthy and gainzzz post for a Friday.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024
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Yep. Big guy came out with an eye poke.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (uJ65b)

39 >>I've been watching Shad (of Shadiversity) review episodes 6 and 7. Each one is an epic marathon (2-3 hours EACH for a 45-50 minute episode) documenting the stupidity of the showrunners.


I liked the MemeCopium Videos re. "The Rangs of Power".

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (6dcSc)

40 Layden responded to this post writing, "1 It's a game. An entertainment. A story a team of creators believes in. They want to make this."

He added, "2 it's a game. If you don't like it, don't buy it. In fact, why not make the game you want yourself?"
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Be careful what you wish for.

"We made the thing *we* wanted" is bad business. You make the thing the *customer* wants. If you're lucky - and most people aren't - that will also be what you want. It doesn't have to be. Never conflate yourself with the customer. Down that road lies bankruptcy.

Yet virtually all cultural produce at the moment is created not for the audience, but for the producers themselves. It's what they want, so obviously it's also what the audience wants, right? RIGHT?!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (HnUIn)

41 I did some work for Ubisoft several years ago and met with CEO Yves Guillemot in his office. Tellingly, he left our meeting to fly to Davos.

Posted by: IanDeal at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (Dye5q)

42 Cyberpunk, on the other hand, had a disastrous launch, fixed itself over years, and reportedly is in the black for Project CD Red.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sounds similar to No Man's Sky, although I don't know if they ever turned a profit.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (JCZqz)

43 *reads post..

Nothing about Kathleen Kennedy getting fired..this saddens me...

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (V13WU)

44 A designer says that the game's development was ruined by a "toxic positivity:" You simply were not allowed to point out the game's flaws, or question why we need even more obese black half-head-shaved lesbians as superheroes. Only cultish praise was permitted.
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The old expression "nobody wants to hear that his baby is ugly" is applicable here. Nobody wants to hear it, and few want to say it.

But sometimes the baby is ugly. Real leadership is being able to hear that without losing your mind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:10 PM (HnUIn)

45 And oh by the way, a bunch of the Pixar employees they fired earlier this year were on explicit contracts that they accepted lower pay in return for bonuses based on the performance of the movies they put out.

Except they fired them BEFORE the movie came out and told them since they weren't 'working on' the movie when it released, they would get zero bonuses.

Of course if you're stupid enough to work for Disney, you get what you deserve.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 27, 2024 04:10 PM (lCHt6)

46 43 *reads post..

Nothing about Kathleen Kennedy getting fired..this saddens me...
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (V13WU)

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Doomcock's latest is about how Alex Kurtzman probably got fired from Paramount!


Maybe.

Who knows, really. But someone said something, and he made a 15 minute long video about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

47 I did some work for Ubisoft several years ago and met with CEO Yves Guillemot in his office. Tellingly, he left our meeting to fly to Davos.
Posted by: IanDeal
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Damn.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:10 PM (uJ65b)

48 I thought the trailers looked decent, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh, sure, they show the "good stuff" for the trailers, but trust me when I say this...Season 2 makes Season 1 look like Citizen Kane.

And when you start looking at the actual production quality, you can see how cheap and shoddy everything really is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:10 PM (7fElN)

49 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:05 PM (v6JzV)

Sombeboy near me has a grinning pumpkin head in a witches hat. It's kind of cute, actually. What I don't particularly care for is the about 25 ft high skeletons, and somebody else must have spent a fortune on regular size skeletons doing all kinds of things-mowing the lawn, talking on the phone, skateboarding. There must be ten of them in their yard.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:11 PM (MQJVv)

50 Yep. Big guy came out with an eye poke.
Posted by: scampydog

We didn't see nuffin'!

Posted by: WNBA Refs watching Caitlin Clark at September 27, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)

51 Variety spins, weakly, that it's "on par" with The Acolyte

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Is that like "your face and my dog's ass"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:11 PM (L/fGl)

52 ... "the stories we tell each other are way more than entertainment. They are how we create debate and preserve our collective values and beliefs. And we can and should make better more expansive, more representational content."
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There's a word you're looking for and it's not "entertainment" or "story." It's "propaganda."

Propaganda doesn't usually do well. We make fun of Soviet cinema for a reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:11 PM (HnUIn)

53 barely anyone bought this $400 million game
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Maybe they should lower the price if they want people to buy it??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (CEzQx)

54


These companies losing millions of dollars gives me a hardon.

Just sayin.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (et1vG)

55 Article at American Thinker says Secret Service had a expense paid vacation to Disney for a DIE extravaganza

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (fwDg9)

56 >>I thought the trailers looked decent, at least.


There's almost nothing even remotely good about it. Not story. Not production. Not the actors. Nothing.

It's pretty awesome.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (6dcSc)

57 Jordan Daley

@JDaIey

RIP DUMBLEDOOR September 27, 2023
RIP MCGONAGALL September 27, 2024

Exactly 1 year apart.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (TGPs7)

58 Reposted because on point.

Old and busted: Helping hands

New and cool: Kick him when he down

Employees At ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Maker Ubisoft Urged To Strike Following New RTO Policy—Why CEOs Are Doubling Down

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Near as I can make out. "RTO" means "return to office."

"Video-game giant Ubisoft, renowned for its Assassin's Creed franchise, is embroiled in a labor dispute following the French company’s plans to implement a three-day, in-office workweek."

Show up three days a week?!!! Are they slave drivers?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (L/fGl)

59 And of course typical woke crap.

No, Lightyear didn't fail because of a queer kiss.

It failed because THEY MADE A HUGE DEAL out of the fact that they included the queer kiss, as explicitly a middle finger to DeSantis and their nonsense lying about the so-called 'don't say gay' crap.

As with everything woke, its not that they do things like put a queer kiss in things. It's that they are incapable of doing anything other than screaming and jumping up and down and shoving it in your face that its there.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (lCHt6)

60 They are too complex and too much of an investment. We worked on Halo back in the day, and that game could be distilled down to the simplest of shooting loops, but it was entirely addicting. That is what we wanted to recapture. I hope that games like Space Marine 2 and Wukong are the start of a reversion to a time when games were simply about fun and immersion.
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"Too much of an investment." Exactly. Far, far too much of an investment set on targeting a small - or even decently large - *subset* of the market. If you're dumping these kinds of money into things, you have to target the *entire* market.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (HnUIn)

61
Video Games?

Star Citizen.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (rj6Yv)

62 "We made the thing *we* wanted" is bad business. You make the thing the *customer* wants. If you're lucky - and most people aren't - that will also be what you want. It doesn't have to be. Never conflate yourself with the customer. Down that road lies bankruptcy.

Yet virtually all cultural produce at the moment is created not for the audience, but for the producers themselves. It's what they want, so obviously it's also what the audience wants, right? RIGHT?!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:09 PM (HnUIn)
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Good point. Making the story YOU want to tell is art. Making the story OTHERS want to hear is business.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (7fElN)

63 Ace!
You have to stop!
The mouse failing is really giving me a schadenboner issues.

(and please continue!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2024 04:03 PM (ERw09)

Bingo!

I don't give a sh*t about the inside-baseball stuff, but every time Ace posts a "Disney is crashing and burning...More!" I laugh.

It's great that no matter how hard they push this vomit-inducing crap on America...America tunes out. My most fervent desire is to see the entire board destroyed, and Iger thrown out by security with one box of his things.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (d9fT1)

64 Doomcock is such a tease.

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (V13WU)

65 This latest catastrophic failure cost $230 million -- and that's just what Disney admits.
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So far. Plenty of money spent after that filing. We'll learn about that in about a year. We'll never know the marketing budget.

$300 million here, $300 million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

66 The Chinese hacking operation, Salt Typhoon, buried into US broadband networks in an effort to establish a foothold within the infrastructure and access sensitive data stored by telecommunications companies or launch damaging cyberattacks.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhcne8d

Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (gdH0L)

67 Propaganda doesn't usually do well. We make fun of Soviet cinema for a reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Beh!

Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: The Noted Soviet Filmaker Josef S. at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (TX4bP)

68 52 Propaganda doesn't usually do well. We make fun of Soviet cinema for a reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:11 PM (HnUIn)

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In my director runs, I occasionally come across something that's outright propaganda. Howard Hawks' Air Force. Akira Kurosawa's The Most Beautiful.

They're generally...not their best work.

However, propaganda can work. There's a Soviet movie called Soy Cuba, made in Cuba right after the revolution, and it's a series of short films. It's all about how the previous regime was evil and awful. The stories are actually fairly compelling.

Hero, the Jet Li movie from 20 years ago, is outright Chinese fascist propaganda. It's pretty fun.

It's hard to do right. You can never quite escape from the obviousness, but you have to actually have narrative skills to pull it off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

69 Listen, if I can just get a decent sequel to Disco Elysium, I'll be happier than a pig in sh*t, although, that's probably not going to happen because the guy who was the brainchild behind the game had it stolen from him Mark Zuckerberg style by an associate.

So, that sucks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (XV/Pl)

70 Thank you, Ace.
Also burn, Disney, burn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (xcxpd)

71 Is there anything worth playing? Well, despite Games Workshop itself being increasingly woke, the licensed game Space Marine 2 is being hailed as throwback to when games were just fun and exciting.
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I don't follow videogaming at all but some conservative blog I saw [I assume or, it just struck me, maybe Alex the Chick's X account??] reported players were pissed at an option to make female Space Marines.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (CEzQx)

72 "a gender-swapped Mr. Freeze."

Batman, Caped Crusader gender-swapped Oswald Cobblepot (the Penguin) to Oswalda.

I noped out of that right quick. You don't get to piss on my good memories of watching Batman the Animated Series with my daughters by pulling a stupid stunt like that. Introduce a new character if you want, but don't mess with the past.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (O7YUW)

73 It's great that no matter how hard they push this vomit-inducing crap on America...America tunes out. My most fervent desire is to see the entire board destroyed, and Iger thrown out by security with one box of his things.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 04:13 PM (d9fT1)

A box of DVDs.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (rj6Yv)

74 There's almost nothing even remotely good about it. Not story. Not production. Not the actors. Nothing.

It's pretty awesome.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:12 PM (6dcSc)
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Now, now...they do have a few decent actors. The problem is they are working with terrible scripts and directors.

The best acting in the world ain't gonna save it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (7fElN)

75 But it gets worse -- it's not "on par" with The Acolyte.

Its ratings are actually 40% less than what The Acolyte got in its first week, and The Acolyte was cancelled, despite the caterwauling from the Twitter weirdoes.
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Meh. One has nothing to do with the other. You can say - and believe - that one is "as good" as the other. That doesn't necessarily translate into success or failure.

But for most people, an opinion of "A is as good as B" also isn't relevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (HnUIn)

76 65 So far. Plenty of money spent after that filing. We'll learn about that in about a year. We'll never know the marketing budget.

$300 million here, $300 million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

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As long as those cruise ships go out full, Disney as a whole doesn't have much to worry about!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

77 Every conservative needs to learn to pirate.

If we're all invested in seeing Hollywood's financial collapse, pirating your entertainment gets us there faster.

Regarding video games, my understanding is a game called "Black Myth:Wukong" that was developed in China has been a massive hit, and isnt woke. Activists tried to get in cancelled because the developers wouldnt allow early reviews to engage in political topics like "feminist propaganda".

So they attempted to cancel it because the developers wanted to steer clear of politics.

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (wMRY8)

78 Disney has adopted the Henry Ford Credo:

You can have ANY Story you want. As long as it is Lame and Gay.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (6dcSc)

79 I'm really glad that my video-gaming ended with Pitfall on the Atari 2600 and that I only visited Disney once in 1977 and didn't really care to ever go back

Posted by: Chuck C at September 27, 2024 04:16 PM (yOPBE)

80 ... It's hard to do right. You can never quite escape from the obviousness, but you have to actually have narrative skills to pull it off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup. Propaganda *can* be good in terms of story and production and acting and whatnot, it just usually isn't. Quality - of anything - is downstream from the message. There are exceptions, of course. There always are. But the rule is that propaganda isn't going to be good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (HnUIn)

81 Afternoon.

Jennifer Lee basically lucked out with Frozen, was promoted well above her compete and proceeded to shit the bed with the one movie (Wish) Disney should have knocked out in order to celebrate their 100th anniversary.

Honestly, they should just go for broke and do a Kingdom Hearts movie. I never played the game but I'm certain that would be a license to print money.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (/o/tN)

82 >>> Next, he shared that there was a "toxic positivity vibe."

I shared this idea before, but the Kamala campaign strategy of swapping "joy" for Obama's "hope" doesn't work, precisely BECAUSE they have conditioned their followers to despise toxic positivity.

You can't feel joy if you are constantly offended and always afraid, as the dems have conditioned you to be.

You also can't feel joy because in the real world, you are smacked in the face with increasingly rising costs in your everyday life.

Kamala isn't talented enough to sell the joy lie. So it comes across as false and toxic.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (6Dzl0)

83 What is the French word for incompetence? Phone internet here.... 9600 baud dial up would be a world beating improvement.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:18 PM (uJ65b)

84 Sucker Punch, a subsidiary of PlayStation Studios

Give them credit for truth in naming.

Posted by: Chuck C at September 27, 2024 04:18 PM (yOPBE)

85 Disney has adopted the Henry Ford Credo:

You can have ANY Story you want. As long as it is Lame and Gay.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (6dcSc)

This needs to be made a meme.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:19 PM (/o/tN)

86 There was one black samurai. And he was not a ninja.

Amusingly that guy is going to star in more Japan focused movies/games/shows over the next 10 years then any actual important Japanese figure from history

Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 04:19 PM (oZhjI)

87 >> Next, he shared that there was a "toxic positivity vibe."


That is what the Beatles should have called the Sgt Peppers LP.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:19 PM (6dcSc)

88 Sombeboy near me has a grinning pumpkin head in a witches hat. It's kind of cute, actually. What I don't particularly care for is the about 25 ft high skeletons, and somebody else must have spent a fortune on regular size skeletons doing all kinds of things-mowing the lawn, talking on the phone, skateboarding. There must be ten of them in their yard.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Fen, on Wednesday, the docent group that I volunteer with took a field trip to the Frederick Douglass House in DC. It was an impressive place.

When we left, we turned down the nearest street, and the first thing we saw was an enormous, free-standing skeleton. Quite the early Halloween decoration.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

89 I've heard the theory that delaying Shadows until February will put the launch in Black History Month thereby making black Samurai OK. I had hoped that they would use any delay to dewokify it but apparently not. (I have no idea how much work that would be.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (L/fGl)

90 Shipuilder Newport News Shipbuilding, Va. informed the Department of Justice of faulty welds that may have been made intentionally on non-critical components on in-service Navy submarines and aircraft carriers, USNI News has learned.
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What's up with that? Non-critical components. Can't the union provide a better quality saboteur?

Posted by: Braenyard at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (gdH0L)

91 >>> Honestly, they should just go for broke and do a Kingdom Hearts movie. I never played the game but I'm certain that would be a license to print money. Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (/o/tN)

Yeah, that would be free money...Money press go brrrrrrr! Also making kingdom hearts skins for games likeFortnite.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (6Dzl0)

92 Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (6Dzl0)

Well said.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:21 PM (MQJVv)

93 89 I've heard the theory that delaying Shadows until February will put the launch in Black History Month thereby making black Samurai OK. I had hoped that they would use any delay to dewokify it but apparently not. (I have no idea how much work that would be.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (L/fGl)

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A game about Japan being held off to appeal to the black American identity?

I mean, I know that Dolomite had some sick Kung Fu moves, but that feels off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

94 Hezb leadership and Nasrallah cannot be reached (various reports). Twatters wag: "have they tried paging him?"

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:21 PM (GcNJ2)

95 Based upon the length of Ace's review, that movie was diseased goat ass of creepy pedo agitprop.

.. and now to read the details and see if I got it...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2024 04:22 PM (/lPRQ)

96
Willowed

Imagine a bodice ripper where the characters are all news hacks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:22 PM (BkEzK)

97 >>Hezb leadership and Nasrallah cannot be reached (various reports). Twatters wag: "have they tried paging him?"


Nice.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:22 PM (6dcSc)

98 As long as those cruise ships go out full, Disney as a whole doesn't have much to worry about!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

Do the math. Five ships, with four more planned.

Assume 3,000 person capacity, six day cruises. let's say they charge $2,000/person (which they can't).

$30 million/week gross income. $1.5 billion/year.

That doesn't cover Iger's f*ckups.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (d9fT1)

99 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

I would enjoy seeing the Frederick Douglass house. As far as Halloween, I think it may have eclipsed Christmas decorations, which is sad, IMO.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (MQJVv)

100 81 Afternoon.

Jennifer Lee basically lucked out with Frozen, was promoted well above her compete and proceeded to shit the bed with the one movie (Wish) Disney should have knocked out in order to celebrate their 100th anniversary.

Honestly, they should just go for broke and do a Kingdom Hearts movie. I never played the game but I'm certain that would be a license to print money.
Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (/o/tN)

Frozen, for all it's success (for the record, I mostly like it) was also given a little woke English on the ball. The original script had Anna in a romance with a male, it was changed into 'sisterly' love instead at the last moment. Also the 'sisterly' love is pretty much lesbian incest in the direct-to-video sequel 'A Case of Spring Fever'. So....there's that.

The porn is good, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

101
Hero, the Jet Li movie from 20 years ago, is outright Chinese fascist propaganda. It's pretty fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The last scene is all about crossbow vs longbow...
Prove me wrong...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (ERw09)

102 100 Frozen, for all it's success (for the record, I mostly like it) was also given a little woke English on the ball. The original script had Anna in a romance with a male, it was changed into 'sisterly' love instead at the last moment. Also the 'sisterly' love is pretty much lesbian incest in the direct-to-video sequel 'A Case of Spring Fever'. So....there's that.

The porn is good, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

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I think the second half is a complete narrative mess that trips all over itself to try and make things happen.

Tangled is better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

103 Anyone ever seen how a game is made? Yeah, they take the original basic game, put a new skin on it, move some stuff around and change some dialogue.

A brand new game requires tons of computer power and what not. Companies rarely make that investment.

*worked with a guy who used to work in the gaming industry. You think Hollywood is sleazy.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

104 >>> When we left, we turned down the nearest street, and the first thing we saw was an enormous, free-standing skeleton. Quite the early Halloween decoration.

Oh, I love those! Their eyes light up and move around at night.

If you buy a giant Jack Skellington one, just put a giant Santa hat on him...boom! Successfully transitioned to Christmas decorations the day after Halloween.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:24 PM (fPuA+)

105 Tropic Thunder is propaganda for rapper endorsed energy drinks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

106 80 ... It's hard to do right. You can never quite escape from the obviousness, but you have to actually have narrative skills to pull it off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup. Propaganda *can* be good in terms of story and production and acting and whatnot, it just usually isn't. Quality - of anything - is downstream from the message. There are exceptions, of course. There always are. But the rule is that propaganda isn't going to be good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:17 PM (HnUIn)

*Leni Riefenstahl has left the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

107 You really have to conclude that these woke-pushing companies are the gaming equivalent of suicide bombers. They are both willing to destroy themselves to advance their cause.

Posted by: SamIam at September 27, 2024 04:25 PM (oasF3)

108 They've delayed the game's release until next February. Ah, February -- the 12th best month to release a videogame. No thanks, Thanksgiving and Christmas! We don't need you!

Just so you know ace, February is actually a pretty popular month for big video game releases. Ubisoft is still fucked though.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:25 PM (aRLgQ)

109 Hero, the Jet Li movie from 20 years ago, is outright Chinese fascist propaganda. It's pretty fun.

It's hard to do right. You can never quite escape from the obviousness, but you have to actually have narrative skills to pull it off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
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yeah,, it is propaganda but man, is that a beautiful movie to watch.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 27, 2024 04:25 PM (tT6L1)

110 106 *Leni Riefenstahl has left the chat*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

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I liked her movies with Bridget van Hammersmark.

Too bad that she died in that theater fire in Paris, though. She could have made it in Hollywood had she survived WWII.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

111 I've heard the theory that delaying Shadows until February will put the launch in Black History Month thereby making black Samurai OK. I had hoped that they would use any delay to dewokify it but apparently not. (I have no idea how much work that would be.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:20 PM (L/fGl)
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I doubt it.

Ubisoft *already* had to reissue guidance for this fiscal year, and it's bad. They probably looked at the calendar and said, "pick the latest date that still leaves us a month or two in the fiscal calendar to put up *something* when we go talk to the shareholders, because they might literally barbecue us if we actually have literally nothing to show."

That put the date in February. I suspect "buy as much time as you can, but it get it out in time to rack up some sales before we go to the shareholders" is more likely than "Black History Month makes it okay." This is probably a coincidence and they didn't even realize it. Yet it's so stupid - yet so believable - that it makes them look even dumber.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2024 04:25 PM (HnUIn)

112 The porn is good, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

At the risk of turning this into a Frozen Anna/Elsa incest slashfic thread?

Elsa had great tits.

Best tits since The Little Mermaid.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (/o/tN)

113 Josie Trinidad (story for Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet)

I didn't watch Zootopia; but I was a yuuge bigleague fan of Wreck It Ralph, so saw Trinidad's sequel as soon as possible.
The sequel was about the biggest letdown I've ever suffered from a sequel. It was anti "toxic masculinity" from start to finish. It made Ralph's whole arc from the first movie into nothing.
Trinidad is exactly the person I would not hire to do anything beyond serving pumpkin lattes to the animators.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (gKWVE)

114 I would enjoy seeing the Frederick Douglass house. As far as Halloween, I think it may have eclipsed Christmas decorations, which is sad, IMO.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Agreed re the decorations. And the Douglass House is definitely worth seeing.

It is in Anacostia, which has a bad rep, but the part we were in, at least, seemed OK. A little bit down at heel, but not the crime-ridden slum I have always pictured it as. Actual houses and functioning businesses.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (v6JzV)

115 Related:

Barstool Sports @barstoolsports 3h
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Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (CEzQx)

116 I think the second half is a complete narrative mess that trips all over itself to try and make things happen.

Tangled is better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

Tangled is better.

I think the 'villain origin story' of Frozen is pretty good. They should have committed to the bit rather than make her Anna's soul mate.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (xcxpd)

117 If you buy a giant Jack Skellington one, just put a giant Santa hat on him...boom! Successfully transitioned to Christmas decorations the day after Halloween.
Posted by: LizLem

Someone in my son's neighborhood put up one of those giant Jack Skellintons last year. It was quite impressive..

Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (oaGWv)

118 113 I didn't watch Zootopia; but I was a yuuge bigleague fan of Wreck It Ralph, so saw Trinidad's sequel as soon as possible.
The sequel was about the biggest letdown I've ever suffered from a sequel. It was anti "toxic masculinity" from start to finish. It made Ralph's whole arc from the first movie into nothing.
Trinidad is exactly the person I would not hire to do anything beyond serving pumpkin lattes to the animators.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (gKWVE)

=========

I wrote a thing about the degradation of the message from LEGO Movie 1 to LEGO Movie 2 that I'm going to repeat at some point with Wreck it Ralph and its sequel.

The sequel is a direct attack on the first film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

119 I keep seeing the term toxic positivity and I searched for examples. Saying every cloud has a silver lining or everything happens for a reason is considered toxic.

It seems like the truth can never be allowed but at the same time you need to wallow in your misery and never try to find the bright side or be content with the things that went right in your life.

They are miserable scolds.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (uHd5d)

120 At the risk of turning this into a Frozen Anna/Elsa incest slashfic thread?

Elsa had great tits.

Best tits since The Little Mermaid.
Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (/o/tN)

And she was working those hips in the 'Let it Go' song. Damn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

121 115 Related:

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Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (CEzQx)

======

She looks slow in those action scenes.

But at least they address how a woman is always going to be smaller and weaker than a man in dialogue. It's something, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

122 78 Disney has adopted the Henry Ford Credo:

You can have ANY Story you want. As long as it is Lame and Gay.
Posted by: garrett at Septe


Don't forget put a chick in it to girl boss.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (uBBbP)

123 I'd hate to see Ubisoft die but I've decided to adopt the Doris Day approach, que sera sera. If it dies and helps to kill wokism, it'll be worth it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (L/fGl)

124 Plus: All the Woke Entertainment News I've Skipped for a Month

Gee, has it been a month already, Ace? Time flies like an arrow.

Thanks for keeping up with their perversion subversion.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (JRP2U)

125 "Gay content stuffed into it" is off-putting, in light of the last two tawdry topics posted here.

Posted by: Astrolube Corporation at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (CV8a5)

126 Zootopia's main song is called "Try Anything".

It's directed at kids.

Think it's part of the not so secret gay agenda?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

127 Ana De Armas Is Choking Goons Out In The First Trailer For The John Wick Spinoff 'Ballerina' buff.ly/3TIULq0

She weighs something like 90lbs wet. How is she overpowering anyone that isn't a toddler or already dead?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (oZhjI)

128 Israel's I24 news is reporting that the IDF is increasingly confident that they have killed Nasrallah. Some great news to end the week.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (1FWWQ)

129 Ahsoka, Acolyte, Agatha All Along. Disney might improve their fortunes if they move on to the letter B.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (eb5mD)

130 Animation is dead.
I'm seeing AI stuff on the YouTube that is pretty darned good.
Short clips now but that's going to grow exponentially.
The influencer and web-comic dreck they hired is more than dead weight.
Right now, the top level AI can take a script and make a movie in minutes. In a year or so, it'll be making that movie in real-time, as you type the script.

And same for video games--the centralized model that the woke have ruined is dead.
The huge studio of coders is dead. Right now, I'm already seeing ads for AI girlfriend games. Low end stuff.
The last of the home dedicated gaming consoles are likely already made. There won't be a PS6 or 7.
You'll be renting time on server to run the game you built.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (/lzai)

131 All kinds of diversity except the ones involving talent. What a sad and crappy world this has become. Like the Dark Ages.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (7leMO)

132 Too bad that she died in that theater fire in Paris, though. She could have made it in Hollywood had she survived WWII.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

I actually hate Inglorious Basterds, though there are some legendary scenes in it, as is usual for QT movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

133 131 All kinds of diversity except the ones involving talent. What a sad and crappy world this has become. Like the Dark Ages.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (7leMO)

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False.

They have highly talented people to even out the poorly talented ones.

The highly talented ones mop the floors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

134 I didn't watch Zootopia; but I was a yuuge bigleague fan of Wreck It Ralph, so saw Trinidad's sequel as soon as possible.
The sequel was about the biggest letdown I've ever suffered from a sequel. It was anti "toxic masculinity" from start to finish. It made Ralph's whole arc from the first movie into nothing.
Trinidad is exactly the person I would not hire to do anything beyond serving pumpkin lattes to the animators.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (gKWVE)

I wrote a thing about the degradation of the message from LEGO Movie 1 to LEGO Movie 2 that I'm going to repeat at some point with Wreck it Ralph and its sequel.

The sequel is a direct attack on the first film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

Wreck-It Ralph was a movie that firmly planted itself in the "okay and kinda forgettable" category.

The sequel was boring and stupid.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (/o/tN)

135 Reportedly, the trans-encouraging, real-women's-bodies-allergic game's sales are "piss poor."

Stuttering Craig, formerly of Screw Attack and now running the podcast Side Scrollers has an insider at a big box with 900 stores. Pre-orders there are 1068, so just over 1 per store.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (aRLgQ)

136 121 115 Related:

Barstool Sports @barstoolsports 3h
Ana De Armas Is Choking Goons Out In The First Trailer For The John Wick Spinoff 'Ballerina' buff.ly/3TIULq0
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 04:26 PM (CEzQx)

======

She looks slow in those action scenes.

But at least they address how a woman is always going to be smaller and weaker than a man in dialogue. It's something, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

Great. Does she do the flying muff smother move? Cause the guys never see that coming, or maybe the just dont want to counter it. Hard to tell.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (uBBbP)

137
"Activist" = Self-important douchebag troublemaker

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (y9nCu)

138 The sequel is a direct attack on the first film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

Hey, so was Gremlins 2.
The difference being that, the first movie was genuinely shite and deserved its pantsing.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

139 My favorite new VR game, Subside, is a skindiving simulator. It has you swimming around very realistic environments, such as a river, a flooded cavern, and a koi pond. It's relaxing, beautiful, and accurate.

The only complaint I have about it is that none of the fish are gay or black. It ruins an otherwise perfect VR experience.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (xCA6C)

140 This homeless dude is about to hit the road.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (72W6e)

141 "One day the childless cat lady white liberal female AWFLs will accept that not everyone is as Gay-Crazy as they are".

I don't think they gay-crazy. I think they are vulnerable narcissists that are afraid that if they don't go along with what they view as the popular agenda that they will be singled out which is what they fear the most.

Posted by: ryukyu at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (s68pH)

142 138 Hey, so was Gremlins 2.
The difference being that, the first movie was genuinely shite and deserved its pantsing.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

=========

Gremlins 2 is more of a playful ribbing of the first one and its logic. If it's an attack on anything, it's WB's desire for money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

143 And same for video games--the centralized model that the woke have ruined is dead.
The huge studio of coders is dead. Right now, I'm already seeing ads for AI girlfriend games. Low end stuff.
The last of the home dedicated gaming consoles are likely already made. There won't be a PS6 or 7.
You'll be renting time on server to run the game you built.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (/lzai)

Superhero MMO City of Heroes is back, as Homecoming. It's free to play, non-profit. They take donations to cover webhosting and the game is still damn fun. Best character creator ever made.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

144 I would like to see a Star Wars movie where the Ewoks roast and eat Jar Jar and a Wookie forcefucks Luke in the butt until his light saber falls off.

Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See at September 27, 2024 04:32 PM (vFG9F)

145 "Iran’s supreme leader convenes emergency meeting on Israeli strike targeting Nasrallah
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council at his residence, the New York Times reported Friday night, citing two Iranian officials familiar with the matter. The meeting is expected to focus on Tehran’s response to the Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s Dahieh district that targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah."

Some would say "Target Rich Environment" right there.

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:32 PM (V13WU)

146 139 My favorite new VR game, Subside, is a skindiving simulator. It has you swimming around very realistic environments, such as a river, a flooded cavern, and a koi pond. It's relaxing, beautiful, and accurate.

The only complaint I have about it is that none of the fish are gay or black. It ruins an otherwise perfect VR experience.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (xCA6C)

Does it have any octopi? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at September 27, 2024 04:32 PM (PiwSw)

147 Animation is dead.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM (/lzai)

American animation is. Or at least traditional 2D hand drawn animation is. It's all 3D CGI now.

Japanese are killing it in animation.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (/o/tN)

148 127 Ana De Armas Is Choking Goons Out In The First Trailer For The John Wick Spinoff 'Ballerina' buff.ly/3TIULq0

She weighs something like 90lbs wet. How is she overpowering anyone that isn't a toddler or already dead?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 04:28 PM

It would be more believable if she poisoned or just sniped the enemies. Sabotage their cars, I could think of plenty of different ways a female killer would get revenge and beating them up wouldn't be on the list.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (uHd5d)

149 Hero, the Jet Li movie from 20 years ago, is outright Chinese fascist propaganda. It's pretty fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes, but it's a beautiful movie. The message is clearly the people exist to serve the state.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (L/fGl)

150 Here's the thin. Can't the game company demand the sweet babies of the world to produce a document that shows how sales will go up if they implement theIR consulting ideas. Seems to me these companies are burning a lot of other people's money and it's pretty clear why. Sue the shit out of the sweet babies cause they know the woke products will fail.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (uBBbP)

151 >>Some would say "Target Rich Environment" right there.


Like the opening scene in Naked Gun 2 1/2.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (6dcSc)

152 Some of you seem to watch a lot of Disney cartoons. Is it because you have small children?

Posted by: I Can't Figure It at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (Pr4qS)

153 At some point the Lebanese are going to have to get their shit together and end the occupation. I don't know if there has been any action in this department. Maybe the leaders in Lebanon are waiting till it's safer.

I'd like to see a big rally or something.

Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (QB+5g)

154 Some would say "Target Rich Environment" right there.
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:32 PM (V13WU)

My time will come at last.

Posted by: Yazdegird IV at September 27, 2024 04:34 PM (gKWVE)

155 Hey, so was Gremlins 2.
The difference being that, the first movie was genuinely shite and deserved its pantsing.
Posted by: gKWVE
---------
Saw neither. But listened to a lot of Stripe punch lines.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:34 PM (uJ65b)

156 Here's some Disney video game news (a two-fer)... failed comics writer and suspected killer Zoe Quinn is lurking around the video game industry again, currently as the Lead Narrative Designer on Alien: Rogue Incursion. It's the first VR game set in the Alien franchise, which Disney now owns.

Prior to this, she's done contract work on a handful of poor-selling Marvel and DC one-offs and was a Senior Narrative Designer at Undead Labs, makers of State of Decay. Her name appears nowhere on any SoD credits, so she's basically parlayed successive failures into a gig for Disney.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 27, 2024 04:34 PM (hCzfy)

157 The problem with "get woke, go broke" is the go broke part took and takes too long and allowed the BS DEI and earlier woke crap to infiltrate into a bunch of companies.

I'm practically stone age for all the gaming and current culture products such as movies, tv, music etc. Hopefully as the rot destroys old companies some new companies are coming up that will stick to generating entertaining content.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 27, 2024 04:35 PM (CKOCg)

158 OK, I'm out. I'll come back when y'all are done talking about movies, video games, etc.

PS-As a born and bred Yankee, am I allowed to use "y'all?" I think it is an incredibly useful pronoun, but I don't want to commit cultural appropriation. The same question applies to "youse," "yinz," etc.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:35 PM (v6JzV)

159 >> At some point the Lebanese are going to have to get their shit together and end the occupation. I don't know if there has been any action in this department. Maybe the leaders in Lebanon are waiting till it's safer.


I can't imagine it would be easy to cleanse that population of Islamist Sympathizers.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:35 PM (6dcSc)

160 152 Some of you seem to watch a lot of Disney cartoons. Is it because you have small children?
Posted by: I Can't Figure It at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (Pr4qS)

Some people like to watch movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

161 Some of you seem to watch a lot of Disney cartoons. Is it because you have small children?
Posted by: I Can't Figure It at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (Pr4qS)

Some yes, some now. Being that this is the internet what unifies us all is that we're all dorks.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (/o/tN)

162 >>PS-As a born and bred Yankee, am I allowed to use "y'all?"


No. You have to say 'You All'.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (6dcSc)

163 160 Some people like to watch movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

======

What the fuck is a movie?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

164 I don't follow videogaming at all but some conservative blog I saw [I assume or, it just struck me, maybe Alex the Chick's X account??] reported players were pissed at an option to make female Space Marines.
Posted by: andycanuck

Yeah, the problem being that according to the original games/books the marines are male exclusively.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (IG4Id)

165
They have highly talented people to even out the poorly talented ones.

The highly talented ones mop the floors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

___________

Certain talents get you ahead. Others, objectively valuable as they are, not only don't get you ahead, they hold you back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (BkEzK)

166 It would be more believable if she poisoned or just sniped the enemies. Sabotage their cars, I could think of plenty of different ways a female killer would get revenge and beating them up wouldn't be on the list.

This was always my problem with Marvel's Black Widow

She's a great spy? So no one should know what she looks like, and if she kills someone it should be with a bomb, a poison or with a sniper rifle.

Instead she's kicking aliens in the face in downtown New York city standing next to The Hulk and Thor.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (oZhjI)

167 152 Some of you seem to watch a lot of Disney cartoons. Is it because you have small children?
Posted by: I Can't Figure It at September 27, 2024 04:33 PM (Pr4qS)

They used to be good.

Posted by: even Moana didn't suck too bad at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (gKWVE)

168 Puss in Boots The Last Wish was pretty awesome animation

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (7leMO)

169 162 >>PS-As a born and bred Yankee, am I allowed to use "y'all?"


No. You have to say 'You All'.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (6dcSc)

"Yinz"

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (/o/tN)

170 Yeah, the problem being that according to the original games/books the marines are male exclusively.

Yep. Plenty of female dark eldar but...she are generally, uh, trying to win over the male gaze or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (oZhjI)

171 All kinds of diversity except the ones involving talent. What a sad and crappy world this has become. Like the Dark Ages.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

The medieval period was one of immense creativity.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

172 141 "One day the childless cat lady white liberal female AWFLs will accept that not everyone is as Gay-Crazy as they are".

I don't think they gay-crazy. I think they are vulnerable narcissists that are afraid that if they don't go along with what they view as the popular agenda that they will be singled out which is what they fear the most.
Posted by: ryukyu at September 27, 2024 04:30 PM (s68pH)

No, fag hags are a real thing.

Childless cat ladies can't get enough of those swishy cocksuckers. They have a shared (repugnant) vision of femininity.

Posted by: it's gross at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (Pr4qS)

173 "PS-As a born and bred Yankee, am I allowed to use "y'all?" I think it is an incredibly useful pronoun, but I don't want to commit cultural appropriation. The same question applies to "youse," "yinz," etc.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus:"

I will allow it if you remove the apostrophe. My contention is that "yall" is word on it's own and the apostrophe is unnecessary.

Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See at September 27, 2024 04:38 PM (vFG9F)

174
The message is clearly the people exist to serve the state.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

__________

Isn't this a plank in the 2024 Democratic platform?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:38 PM (BkEzK)

175 Puss in Boots The Last Wish was pretty awesome animation
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (7leMO)

That's one I can definitely recommend. I was most pleasantly surprised.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:38 PM (/o/tN)

176 I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog.

Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See at September 27, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

177 163 160 Some people like to watch movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

======

What the fuck is a movie?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

*gets the hose*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

178 Tangled is better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers
_____

Try to keep a dry eye as the dad of a daughter when the * spoiler alert * king whose daughter who was stolen out of her crib on her first birthday and he sends out lanterns on every anniversary of her birthday in the hopes it will lead her home, is finally re-united with her.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 04:40 PM (93cE+)

179 177 What the fuck is a movie?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

*gets the hose*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

==========

It's an insane abode!
An insane abode!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

180 >> I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog


Vespa Chase Scene.

Suck it, French Connection!

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:40 PM (6dcSc)

181 The medieval period was one of immense creativity.

I took a course on medieval philosophy at one point. And I'm amazed at how little progress there has been since then. You've got Nietzsche getting into the question of what would it mean if God didn't exist/was dead and...that's about it.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2024 04:40 PM (oZhjI)

182 so that "trans people can feel seen and validated."
__________________

I don't want them to be seen, and most definitely not to be "validated." Validation is only relevant for valet parking at an upscale restaurant.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 27, 2024 04:40 PM (YqDXo)

183 I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog.
Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See at September 27, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

Drinking, Smoking, Screwing: The Ace Of Spades Story.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:40 PM (/o/tN)

184 I read/ heard that Lightyear failed because instead of being a movie about beloved character Lightyear, it was all about what a “toxic male” jerk Lightyear was. So, a bait and switch for families who took their young sons to see a movie about a favorite character were instead treated to a woke critique/ deconstruction of the character..

As Drinker might say, F$&@ off, Disney!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (GNi1e)

185 It's hilarious to me, while watching various YouTube commentary, to hear them speculate that The Acolyte might be "Willowed". They mean, removed from the streaming service for a tax write off like the ultra-woke Willow series, but every time I think they're late to post a comment.

Posted by: Beltway Elite at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (L26YF)

186 I'm just imagining all the Iranian big wigs sitting around a table in their stupid fucking robes and their stupid fucking hats:

"So, anyone know what to do now?"

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (2UnvF)

187
I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog.
Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See

__________

I can appear as a young John Barrymore.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (BkEzK)

188 176 I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog.
Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See at September 27, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

If you want one that would result from AoS commenters designing the thing -
youtu.be/tZftIfL5Sqw

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (gKWVE)

189 I recently was watching college football and saw (repeated times) ad for Disney parks where dad remembered a "Disney moment" with his adorable daughter. 'Course he had sort of a gay voice, but I think the rat is desperately trying to appeal to the normies. I'm not having any of it.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (G5Juy)

190 187
I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog.
Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See

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I can appear as a young John Barrymore.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (BkEzK)

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Zac Efron would play me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

191 AoS HQ : The Fast and The Furriest

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (6dcSc)

192 175 Puss in Boots The Last Wish was pretty awesome animation
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:37 PM (7leMO)

That's one I can definitely recommend. I was most pleasantly surprised.
Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:38 PM (/o/tN)


The Last Wish is excellent.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (aRLgQ)

193 I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog.
Posted by: AI Movies
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Cult classic for the fossil demo.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (uJ65b)

194 >>> Frozen, for all it's success (for the record, I mostly like it) was also given a little woke English on the ball. The original script had Anna in a romance with a male, it was changed into 'sisterly' love instead at the last moment


Elsa was supposed to be the villain, Hans a genuine good guy love interest. When the songwriters made "let it go" about the villain's motivations, they decided to switch villains. Problem is they already had planned out most of the movie. I actually like they focus on sisterly love as the twist.

Back when cracked was still actually funny, they created a fan theory that the trolls (who we learned form the beginning are meddlesome) bewitched things to turn Hans evil, so that Anna can end up with their beloved Kristoff. Because the writers plant few if any hints that Hans will become the bad guy. It was lazy writing of them, but making a billion+ cash cow forgives a lot of hasty storytelling sins.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (0+96D)

195 bonus, "An Iranian general, commander of the Quds Force’s Lebanon and Syria Corps, was also said to be in the building"

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:42 PM (V13WU)

196 No. You have to say 'You All'.
Posted by: garrett

No, being a concise, Midwestern Protestant, I grew up using "you" as both singular and plural. I have never used "you all."

But then I joined the Navy, and "y'all" entered my vocabulary. And it's one syllable, just like "you."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:42 PM (v6JzV)

197 Thank you for the detailed report.
I should, but do not, give a shit.
Not about Disney, not about the failed BossChick Bitches, not about which fa-ghott was emotionally impaled, and not about how much money has been put in a pile and burned for the rainbow cause.

I care about the cultural rot selfish, empowered, childless chick-brains have wrought on our once great nation. It is those cvnts and the cucked men that fear them who plowed a successful patriarchal and merit-based nation under, then quickly threw a party with such things as fat lesbians in pulpits showering the pretenders with guilt and shame. All to the thrilled delight of the faux-enlightened and spiritually polluted pew-sitters.

Our enemies are laughing at us while the ghosts of patriots cry at the loss.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at September 27, 2024 04:42 PM (2SaTL)

198 I can also recommend the EFAP episode where they did the comparison for CinemaWins vs CinemaSins of The Last Wish.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:43 PM (aRLgQ)

199 >>>What is the French word for incompetence?

"Macron"

Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2024 04:43 PM (Y1sOo)

200 Ana De Armas makes female rage fantasy movie involving keying her ex's car, eating a quart of ice cream and crying herself to sleep

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:43 PM (7leMO)

201 @176/AI Movies I Would Like To See:

"I would like to see a movie based on the comments at the Ace of Spades blog."

Ace's All Nood Review

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 04:43 PM (O7YUW)

202 I can appear as a young John Barrymore.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Lionel was much cooler.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (v6JzV)

203 200 Ana De Armas makes female rage fantasy movie involving keying her ex's car, eating a quart of ice cream and crying herself to sleep
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 27, 2024 04:43 PM (7leMO)

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The studio got sued when her scene in the movie Yesterday was cut. She's in the trailer, but not the movie.

I can't remember if the lawsuit was tossed or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

204 >>No, being a concise, Midwestern Protestant, I grew up using "you" as both singular and plural. I have never used "you all."


Yankees are steeped in the English Tradition.
You All is proper. That's all that matters.

Now. Care for a spot of tea?

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (6dcSc)

205 Frozen is responsible for giving us The Acolyte. Lesbian Headlamp saw that and was inspired to do her shitty show.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (aRLgQ)

206 Zac Efron would play me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers

Who would play CBD, J.J. And Ace?

Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (oaGWv)

207 I care about the cultural rot selfish, empowered, childless chick-brains have wrought on our once great nation. It is those cvnts and the cucked men that fear them who plowed a successful patriarchal and merit-based nation under, then quickly threw a party with such things as fat lesbians in pulpits showering the pretenders with guilt and shame. All to the thrilled delight of the faux-enlightened and spiritually polluted pew-sitters.

Our enemies are laughing at us while the ghosts of patriots cry at the loss.
Posted by: Dan Patterson


well said.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (W2Pud)

208 "PS-As a born and bred Yankee, am I allowed to use "y'all?" I think it is an incredibly useful pronoun, but I don't want to commit cultural appropriation. The same question applies to "youse," "yinz," etc.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus:"

I will allow it if you remove the apostrophe. My contention is that "yall" is word on it's own and the apostrophe is unnecessary.
Posted by: AI Movies I Would Like To See


I can grok that. "Yall" it is!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (v6JzV)

209 This is DC, but-

We saw the first episode of "The Penguin" last night.

Surprisingly, it was pretty good. A solid B, maybe B+.

There's some incipient woke-ification that might signal craptostic bed-shitting ahead but we'll see.

F'rinstance, Oz's sidekick is a Black Street kid he "gave a chance to" just cuz. And Oz's main antagonist is a dead mafia chief's crazy daughter.

But, so far, they've handled these elements well, integrating them into Oz's story instead of The Penguin being the sidekick in his own show.

Check it out. Streaming on Max.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (eDfFs)

210 I’ve been watching the old SCFY Stargate SG-1 shows, and it’s glaring how much better they are than current dreck from Disney or Rings of Power. And they were made with far less money and had 16 episodes per season.

I don’t think it just nostalgia either. The people working in entertainment nowadays seem to lack even basic competence in telling a story.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2024 04:45 PM (p0AVr)

211 And Ace?
Posted by: Tuna at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (oaGWv)


Warwick Davis.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:45 PM (aRLgQ)

212 youtu.be/tZftIfL5Sqw
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (gKWVE)

Okay, that was awesome.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (JHawQ)

213 It was lazy writing of them, but making a billion+ cash cow forgives a lot of hasty storytelling sins.
Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (0+96D)

Considering who I am, to quote a certain harpy chick actress, "it wasn't made for you," but I'm still going to say the story is not the worst thing about it.

It's the songs. They're the worst, but they get under people's skin, because that's what bad songs do. And I hate that singer the most, it's a style Dinsey seems to encourage, and she's the worst at it. And believe me, I've been inundated with all of Dinsey's product.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (dGCAG)

214 A Sweet Baby Inc. employee named Camerin Wild, who claims to be non-binary, admitted that his goal is "burning the games industry to the ground."

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Every leftist in every organization has the same goal for their industry. To kill it.

I assume that the Disney animation exec is looking for a job in the US flag industry.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (lTGtQ)

215 Pixar cartoons, pre Disney, were good. And unlike Disney, they were more suited for boys - none of the princessy stuff. Had a kid during peak Pixar - sounds like they’ve really gone off the rails.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (GNi1e)

216 @209/naturalfake: "But, so far, they've handled these elements well, integrating them into Oz's story instead of The Penguin being the sidekick in his own show. "

At least he's still Oswald and not Oswalda.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (O7YUW)

217 Oh, and I'm slowly starting to get what Web3 is.

Where Web2 was you consuming the content, Web3 is you interacting with the content and getting compensated for your time.

This stuff is crazy. I mean, we're at the "invention of the phonograph" stage now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (/lzai)

218 >> And Ace?


It would have to be a Gender and Race swapped Ace...

Leslie Jones would work.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2024 04:47 PM (6dcSc)

219 Oren Barsky on the twatters -

Here’s something you probably never thought would happen:

Nasrallah has been eliminated, and there are more people celebrating it in Lebanon today than at Columbia University.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:47 PM (SSuxC)

220 Why do crazy queer, prevert CEOs think the world is filled with perverts like them?

Posted by: TJ Jackson at September 27, 2024 04:48 PM (bXvrr)

221 210 I’ve been watching the old SCFY Stargate SG-1 shows, and it’s glaring how much better they are than current dreck from Disney or Rings of Power. And they were made with far less money and had 16 episodes per season.

I don’t think it just nostalgia either. The people working in entertainment nowadays seem to lack even basic competence in telling a story.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2024 04:45 PM (p0AVr)

SG-1 was more in the 20-25 episodes per season. And there's a Pluto TV channel dedicated to playing Stargate. Atlantis in the morning. And then Universe which you skip of course and then SG1 in the afternoon/evening. Occasionally the original movie and the TV movies play too.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:48 PM (aRLgQ)

222 Hey, where's the nood somebody posted about?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

223 This is DC, but-

We saw the first episode of "The Penguin" last night.

Surprisingly, it was pretty good. A solid B, maybe B+.

There's some incipient woke-ification that might signal craptostic bed-shitting ahead but we'll see.

F'rinstance, Oz's sidekick is a Black Street kid he "gave a chance to" just cuz. And Oz's main antagonist is a dead mafia chief's crazy daughter.

But, so far, they've handled these elements well, integrating them into Oz's story instead of The Penguin being the sidekick in his own show.

Check it out. Streaming on Max.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (eDfFs)
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Dunno why we anyone even wants to watch a "Penguin" show. "Gotham" was already doing it through most of its run. Other villains came and went, but Penguin was there through most of the 5 seasons.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:49 PM (7fElN)

224 Cameron Wild sounds like a peach.

It’s funny because Wild will be out of a job/profession, but creative people will continue to flourish.

Wreckers never win in the long run.

Oh, and seriously, these people cannot get over Gamergate. Psychos.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2024 04:49 PM (GNi1e)

225
And Ace?

________

The Peter Lorre in Casablanca

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:50 PM (BkEzK)

226 It would have to be a Gender and Race swapped Ace...
Posted by: garrett

No. I do not want girthy BIPOC homo porn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (v6JzV)

227 >> And Ace?
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Anyone from Nakatomi Plaza.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (uJ65b)

228 Helen is DeSantis' fault!

Senator-elect Carlos Guillermo Smith
@CarlosGSmith
With #HurricaneHelene barreling upon us, now is a GREAT time to remember Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill deleting all references to “climate change” from Florida law and eliminating energy efficient grant programs meant to reduce our carbon footprint.
We deserve better.

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Who knew the delete button could cause such havoc?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (L/fGl)

229 The studio got sued when her scene in the movie Yesterday was cut. She's in the trailer, but not the movie.

I can't remember if the lawsuit was tossed or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

lol, can't imagine that it would not be tossed

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (V13WU)

230 osted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:47 PM (SSuxC)

How do they confirm that he's been eliminated and didn't leave before the bombing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (MQJVv)

231 212 youtu.be/tZftIfL5Sqw
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (gKWVE)

Okay, that was awesome.
Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (JHawQ)

That is the proper usage of AI.

Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2024 04:52 PM (z+ik4)

232 I watched the most recent Ring of Power half way and there is a scene in it that’s is so f’ing stupid I had to take a break. The orcs are seiging a city, across a river. Then they dam the river. Not by building a dam. They shoot a nearby mountain with the trebs, and the mountain fails in river.

I guess it was Sissy Glass Mountain or some shit. Do they not know how mountains work?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2024 04:53 PM (p0AVr)

233 225
And Ace?

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The Peter Lorre in Casablanca

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2024 04:50 PM (BkEzK)

++++

LOL

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2024 04:53 PM (UprOq)

234 >>> Leni Riefenstahl has left the chat

In real life, she was friends with Marlene Dietrich, who despised Hitler and begged her to come to America with her.

Should have listened, instead of being Hitler's film puppet. She used her amazing gifts for filmmaking to deify pure evil.

She ended up dying old in obscurity, filming children in Africa and underwater animals like Cousteau.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2024 04:54 PM (XhGqN)

235 Ubisoft has been at this for a while. After an outstanding Farcry 5, they came out with a garbage Farcry 6.

Look for Bethesda to jump into the quicksand with the next installment of their Elder Scrolls series.

Posted by: Aquamaster at September 27, 2024 04:54 PM (6UBnW)

236 229 The studio got sued when her scene in the movie Yesterday was cut. She's in the trailer, but not the movie.

I can't remember if the lawsuit was tossed or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 27, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

lol, can't imagine that it would not be tossed
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (V13WU)


There's now a law in California I think where its illegal to do that sort of false advertising in a movie trailer. I don't think its been tossed yet probably because there haven't been that many challenges based on it.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:54 PM (aRLgQ)

237 Not clear the Quds Force a**hole was iced in the strike. One Eye-ranian media outlet denied it.

Likely some IRGC personnel no longer collecting paychecks, though. Don’t think any senior meetings like that are without the paymasters present. Several have been gloriously promoted to martyr status in the last few months, especially in Syria strikes.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:54 PM (SSuxC)

238 I watched the most recent Ring of Power half way and there is a scene in it that’s is so f’ing stupid I had to take a break. The orcs are seiging a city, across a river. Then they dam the river. Not by building a dam. They shoot a nearby mountain with the trebs, and the mountain fails in river.

I guess it was Sissy Glass Mountain or some shit. Do they not know how mountains work?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2024 04:53 PM (p0AVr)
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Shad spent about an hour discussing that one scene in his review of Episode 7.

And then it gets stupider when you see how the orcs plan to take down the walls...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:54 PM (7fElN)

239 A quick swoop through the aforementioned games issue brings the question "what in hell would make one watch such utter drivel"?

I refuse to waste an eyeball or eardrum on it, let alone the brain cells.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 27, 2024 04:55 PM (hKoQL)

240 How do they confirm that he's been eliminated and didn't leave before the bombing?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 04:51 PM (MQJVv)
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The IDF can hear what they are saying to each other internally.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2024 04:55 PM (zG664)

241 231 212 youtu.be/tZftIfL5Sqw
Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2024 04:41 PM (gKWVE)

Okay, that was awesome.
Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (JHawQ)

That is the proper usage of AI.
Posted by: Roy at September 27, 2024 04:52 PM (z+ik4)

Lord of the Rings. Fellowship of the Rednecks.
https://youtu.be/ahq6MF349Fw

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:56 PM (aRLgQ)

242 A quick swoop through the aforementioned games issue brings the question "what in hell would make one watch such utter drivel"?

I refuse to waste an eyeball or eardrum on it, let alone the brain cells.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 27, 2024 04:55 PM (hKoQL)
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Nobody's playing that drivel, which is why all the game studios are failing...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:56 PM (7fElN)

243 That is the proper usage of AI.
Posted by: Roy


Somebody can actually get those sloths to work?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (v6JzV)

244 216 @209/naturalfake: "But, so far, they've handled these elements well, integrating them into Oz's story instead of The Penguin being the sidekick in his own show. "

At least he's still Oswald and not Oswalda.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 04:46 PM (O7YUW)

Ah, you've seen Amazon's Animated Batman shitshow

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

245 They had been shooting the city wallls for weeks, days, who knows. The walls are, of course made of stone. Probably from the closest source of stone, like, idk, a mountain. But then half a dozen shots and the mountain crumbles.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (p0AVr)

246 And then it gets stupider when you see how the orcs plan to take down the walls...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:54 PM (7fElN)


And then Elrond makes out with his future mother-in-law

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (aRLgQ)

247 "She ended up dying old in obscurity, filming children in Africa and underwater animals like Cousteau.
Posted by: LizLem"

Uh huh. The penguin connection.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (vFG9F)

248 But then they changed their minds and decided they hate money after all when they made the main character one of those very, very real "black samurais" you've heard so much about.

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Old & Busted: Zorro, The Gay Blade.
New Hotness: Ninja, The Gay Black.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (0t0Ch)

249 Dunno why we anyone even wants to watch a "Penguin" show. "Gotham" was already doing it through most of its run. Other villains came and went, but Penguin was there through most of the 5 seasons.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 27, 2024 04:49 PM (7fElN)

Not sure, but-

I kinda hated "Gotham" and dropped out after...eh, maybe season 2. It was all tease and no sex.

"The Penguin" seems to be a smarter bird(!) with his rise being the point of the show. And it looks to be a cage fight in a sewer over a pile of garbage.

It caught my interest anyway.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (eDfFs)

250 Fenelon, what SFranpsycho said. Actually Hamas hits usually were confirmed directly or by intercepted intel, or other intel means. Hezbollah however has long posted their Ls online, with portraits of the fallen, for whatever reason. Sort of makes it easier to confirm kills. If the big cheese is mort, as seems likely, there'll be online postings. Not to mention the funeral - though I wonder if they'll have it in Lebanon, or Tehran.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:58 PM (GcNJ2)

251 I still want the Mouse to die but I do like the original Moana

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 04:59 PM (IyPmt)

252 Personally, I'm with Big Parrott. Better linguists than Big Penguin.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 27, 2024 05:00 PM (v6JzV)

253 I read this AM that The Union that represents Ubisoft France is advising all employee's to strike for 3 days in October.

https://tinyurl.com/y367tb6k

Up to you Ubisoft, but I would keep my head down and try and prove my worth.

Posted by: Picric at September 27, 2024 05:02 PM (13tTk)

254 Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2024 04:58 PM (GcNJ2)

Thanks to you and to San FranPsycho. It should have occurred to me that Israel was intercepting messages, and I am glad to hear that people in Lebanon are not all celebrating his deserved end.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:02 PM (MQJVv)

255 Can confirm, Space Marine 2 is the tits.

As in, there are none. But thats fine. Because I don't look for tatas in my grimdark dystopian scifi fantasy settings where there naught but war.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 27, 2024 05:02 PM (xtQPJ)

256 @244/Mark Andrew Edwards: "Ah, you've seen Amazon's Animated Batman shitshow"

Just enough of it to hit that point. See my comment #72.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 05:03 PM (O7YUW)

257 Not sure, but-

I kinda hated "Gotham" and dropped out after...eh, maybe season 2. It was all tease and no sex.

"The Penguin" seems to be a smarter bird(!) with his rise being the point of the show. And it looks to be a cage fight in a sewer over a pile of garbage.

It caught my interest anyway.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2024 04:57 PM (eDfFs)

I didn't mind Gotham...I may also watch Penguin if I get a free month of Max...

The Penguin is a great character to build a show around b/c his power has always come from his personnel and power building. He doesn't start rich. He doesn't start powerful. He doesn't have powers. He just starts by knowing what he wants, and doing anything to get it. A great villain concept.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 27, 2024 05:03 PM (exHjb)

258 I was looking at my Steam Library and I realized I don't have any new games. I have original games like Quake, Doom and Diablo with RDR2, and Elden Ring, but nothing has come out that is interesting to me. So I'll be getting Until Dawn remake for PC and the Silent Hill remake, but nothing that I've never played.

Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2024 05:04 PM (VihIQ)

259 FWIW in Space Marine 2, there's no option that I've come across to make a female Space Marine.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 27, 2024 05:04 PM (xtQPJ)

260 Cuts now, feel the joy later

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 05:04 PM (fwDg9)

261 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:02 PM (MQJVv)

meant "that some people in Lebanon ARE celebrating his deserved end.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2024 05:05 PM (MQJVv)

262 Good:

@icons_women 4m
🚨 Breaking: Boise State Women’s Volleyball refuses to play against team with a male player, becoming the first Mountain West Conference team to withdraw from a matchup against SJSU and the second team this season.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 05:05 PM (IG4Id)

263 @262 weft cut-loop: This is the way, and yes, GOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 05:06 PM (O7YUW)

264 Really disappointed to hear about the new Assassin's Creed.

I've been looking forward to it for FOREVER, and still play the shit out of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.

I had already set aside the money to buy a PS5 and the game; however, now I think I'll spend that money elsewhere.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 27, 2024 05:07 PM (FAbrK)

265 And then Elrond makes out with his future mother-in-law
_________

They watched some highlights of Jackson's films one afternoon, never read the books, and said "we got this!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 05:07 PM (93cE+)

266 Boise State Women’s Volleyball refuses to play against team with a male player

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2024 05:05 PM (IG4Id)

That is great news. I hope it becomes a tsunami.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2024 05:08 PM (d9fT1)

267 Space Marine 2 has been called "Testosterone: The Game"

The pledge scene from the game:

https://youtu.be/R1IaMSz8AFk

Posted by: Halfhand at September 27, 2024 05:09 PM (x/nfO)

268 I guess Kamala went to the border and blamed Trump for the problem because he stopped that cure-all the "Bi-Partisan" border bill

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:10 PM (IyPmt)

269 266 Boise State Women’s Volleyball refuses to play against team with a male player

Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Great news. Let's hope this approach takes.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 05:10 PM (uJ65b)

270 Disney is gonna get so broke they’ll have to release Song of the South in theaters.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 27, 2024 05:11 PM (GD2xa)

271 270 Disney is gonna get so broke they’ll have to release Song of the South in theaters.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 27, 2024 05:11 PM (GD2xa)

I actually like that movie

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2024 05:11 PM (IyPmt)

272 I hope Congress revokes all their copyright extensions

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 27, 2024 05:12 PM (GD2xa)

273 Now that is a post! Wow.

DisneyChannel used to be fun to have on in the background. Cute shows, the older stuff was laugh out loud funny at times.

But then, it became unsafe for parents to have on for kids starting with 'Andi Mack' and Disney's first gay character. The show wasn't that bad and didn't even mention 'gay' until the third season.

Then the channel became the BET of children's programming. Skewed heavily black. There were other channels to have on without the bullshit.

And that channel used to drag kids into other things Disney. But it's hard to use the channel as an advertising vehicle when no one's watching....

Posted by: Stateless at September 27, 2024 05:12 PM (jvJvP)

274 Good game tonight: Washington @ Rutgers 🏈

Posted by: Don Black at September 27, 2024 05:12 PM (/7KEl)

275 >>Breaking: Boise State Women’s Volleyball refuses to play against team with a male player, becoming the first Mountain West Conference team to withdraw from a matchup against SJSU and the second team this season.

Is that the mentally ill dude who can spike a ball at around 90 mph or something like that? I read about him a a week or so somewhere.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 27, 2024 05:12 PM (Y1sOo)

276 Watching President's Cup. Storming here, lost signal. Another reason not to like the French.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2024 05:13 PM (uJ65b)

277 Its original base game was woke trash, and they've sought to build on this non-success by giving people what they've always wanted: a gender-swapped Mr. Freeze.

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I have an ex-girlfriend who could be the Ms. Freeze model.

"But you've been cold to me so long ...
I'm crying icicles instead of tears"

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 05:13 PM (MGRmA)

278 A gay black samurai. The world has become a nonstop SNL sketch from the 90's.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2024 05:14 PM (lX8VI)

279 Just had a personal conversation with PM Netenyahoo about the Global Warming being the greatest threat to Israel's existence.

The rise of the Mederatianian Sea will destroy Israel before any other problem they face, and they should end the use of Fossil Fuels for their military vehicles. Electric Tanks and armed vehicles are the future of warfare.

Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 27, 2024 05:14 PM (VYql4)

280 Disney is gonna get so broke they’ll have to release Song of the South in theaters.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 27, 2024 05:11 PM (GD2xa)

This. This should be the goal.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 05:14 PM (krt76)

281 Space Marine 2 is a lot of fun. It's not particularly deep or long and doesn't need to be.

My only gripe is that ammo is a little too scarce. Or maybe the devs wanted me to swap weapons out more than I cared to. Still fun.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 27, 2024 05:14 PM (hCzfy)

282 We thought about leaving Disney channel on for our dog when we're out but decided on Nicktoons SpongeBob Chanel. At least spongebob isn't gay.

Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2024 05:14 PM (VihIQ)

283 Is that the mentally ill dude who can spike a ball at around 90 mph or something like that? I read about him a a week or so somewhere
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They picked him up from the Trans Portal.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 27, 2024 05:15 PM (93cE+)

284 "But you've been cold to me so long ...
I'm crying icicles instead of tears"

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The

My go to CD when I'm hitting the heavy bag.
Good for you!

Posted by: Stateless at September 27, 2024 05:15 PM (jvJvP)

285 .
NOOD

FBI Deleted Video of J6 "Bomb" Footage

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 05:16 PM (O7YUW)

286 Here's the thin. Can't the game company demand the sweet babies of the world to produce a document that shows how sales will go up if they implement theIR consulting ideas. Seems to me these companies are burning a lot of other people's money and it's pretty clear why. Sue the shit out of the sweet babies cause they know the woke products will fail.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Except you have the thing turned around. It's not that it will perform better...it's that if they don't, they'll make sure it performs worse.

In other words, it's effectively an extortion racket.

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 27, 2024 05:16 PM (OUMaO)

287 I had a 12PM appointment to get loaded at this place. I now finally have a door. Over four hours later.

Posted by: Robert at September 27, 2024 05:16 PM (krt76)

288 DAMN!! Erika Ishii definitely has a face made to do voice over work

Posted by: Stacy0311 at September 27, 2024 05:16 PM (mdI2J)

289 On Assassin's Creed: Shadows:

Nobody wants to play a game where a black man goes around killing Asians.

There's enough of that in San Francisco.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 27, 2024 05:17 PM (FAbrK)

290 You also can't give them butts.

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Brie Larson hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 05:17 PM (MGRmA)

291 " I am glad to hear that people in Lebanon are not all celebrating his deserved end."

Huh?

Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 05:17 PM (QB+5g)

292 Ok, why doesn't any of these entertainment idiots go watch any Pronhub or something? Lesbians are, in fact, super popular.

The "good looking lesbians", that is. You want to make your "coven of lesbian witches" movie? Make the lesbian witches hot and appealing to men (I.e. not hostile) and you'd probably get away with it.

For that matter, most women dress to impress other women, not men... and most women would rather watch a good looking woman than a troll in a dress too. The troll in the dress is the bad person! See the movie Matilda.

This shouldn't be that hard. But of course the people in charge are the trolls in the dress that want to be the movie star heroes.... and just cannot accept they aren't star quality.

Posted by: SimoHayha at September 27, 2024 05:21 PM (KfVMM)

293 There's an indie action-adventure game called "Squirrel With a Gun" which was released a month ago. Simple, basic, hilarious idea. I'm not a gamer but I'd play this just for the heck of it. I don't have any info on sales, but reviews are good. I am sure it cost a lot less to develop than the games mentioned above. This sort of idea is what game developers should be working on.

Posted by: DrAlice at September 27, 2024 05:21 PM (qIstC)

294 A designer says that the game's development was ruined by a "toxic positivity:" You simply were not allowed to point out the game's flaws, or question why we need even more obese black half-head-shaved lesbians as superheroes. Only cultish praise was permitted.

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Kommie-la/Tampon Tim 2024 -- Holistic Unburdening Toxic Positivity and Rising Joy!

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 05:22 PM (MGRmA)

295 @287/Robert: "I had a 12PM appointment to get loaded at this place. I now finally have a door. Over four hours later."

That's a great way to get owner-operators to shun your future load tenders. Hopefully this was a one-off and not indicative of ongoing problems like this.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2024 05:22 PM (O7YUW)

296 One of their non-binary (of course) employees admitted that zis goal is "to burn the games industry to the ground."

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Coming soon to a country near you.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 27, 2024 05:25 PM (MGRmA)

297 "This snub began the slow and total exodus of veteran talent from Walt Disney Animation to competitor studios, including Skydance."

This is what needs to happen. Skill and talent aren't something you can just replace. You can grab random people off the street for skin color and genitalia, but the end product, the output, is a function of its input. Garbage in, garbage out. If they don't have the actual skills, the output is going to be poor quality.

A company can coast on poor quality because of their name. But people will question themselves on why things are broken, or suck. Then they'll realize that, indeed, they suck, and why should they waste precious money on things that suck rather than finding a better use of it elsewhere. And just like that, the gradual death of a company then becomes sudden.

And those that actually have the skills, and spent their lives working hard at their vocation? The ones spat out because of racism and sexism and ageism? There need to be companies to scoop them up. To invest in actual talent, and create magic much like we saw decades ago.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 27, 2024 06:04 PM (QNMaY)

298 "Disney Animation had one hit with another soulless cashgrab sequel, In and Out 2."

Wow! Is that a Freudian slip or what?

Try getting the title right, at least.

Posted by: RNB at September 27, 2024 06:58 PM (xXBob)

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