Comic book nerd: "Look, right here on page 52 of the August 1983 issue of Captain America World Crisis Hjorkajork Invasion (third in of the 52-issue series), it shows Cap wearing the Indivisibility Ring on his MIDDLE finger, not his RING finger; the canon reason for that is probably the injury he sustained fighting the Chartreuse Calavera in Alternate Universe Capitano Mexico's Foiled Fiesta, spring of '78. Cap took a burritorang straight to his hand that would definitely have left him with some recurring tendonitis. Your HAVE TO move the ring, IT'S A CRITICAL CALLBACK that HINTS AT Capitano Mexico's possible return from the Null Zone!"
Comic book illustrator: "Dude, '83, huh? Yeah, that was definitely before I dried out. Probably an absinthe year, I think. I put the ring on his middle finger, huh? Sheee-it, go figure."Go back and read some of the letters from comic book nerds in old marvel issues, it's literally the same shit they harangue about today just 30 fucking years ago.
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200,000 Deadpool & Wolverine slopfests are ready, with a million more well on the way
That may be so, but it also had some pretty egregious fanservice with the inclusion of OT characters even when it made no sense.
I dunno if you've watched that docuseries about Dan Schneider's tenure at Nickelodeon, but it details exactly that
it is 2024 and fandoms have more power than industrial unionism. the Fandom Relations Act of 2026 will make it illegal to use media to challenge any conceptions whatsoever
If Trump wins, he's going to die shortly after being inaugurated and JD Vance is going to fuck all of the furniture in the Oval Office. Then he will dissolve the Department of Labor and replace it with the Department of Fandoms.
How to usher in a brave new era of art and theater
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fund one season direct to netflix with no intention of finishing the story
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hire showrunners (i don't know what a showrunner is but every time i hear the term it's associated with some travesty of storytelling so i assume it's bad"
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focus group everything around the loudest, angriest
assholes you can assemble in a room
Think of a showrunner as the lead editor on a newspaper. They're not the one writing all the stories, but they're the one who is supposed to make the whole greater than the sum of its' parts
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Imagining a room full of sweaty dinguses telling some suit "don't put women in the game, but if you do make them hot, but not hot like a super model, no they can't look like real women, it's gotta be hot like a Bratz doll, y-yeah and big ol' titties too, the smaller the boobs the more WOKE it is and WOKE is BAD."
Oh, oh, oh. And if you put a hot woman in the game she has to be a submissive damsel in distress with no pronouns. Anything else would be part of Sweet Baby's DEI agenda
All four images look practically the same to me. Turns out what fans of each individual franchise wants is for none of them to be distinguishable from the others.
Phyrexians starting to look almost too on-the-nose.
That's all move posters for the last decade.
This is the movie poster for a movie about cities that are giant tanks.
The british city-tank goes around europe and has stolen all of its monuments.
I heard this movie was awful but I wanted to watch it anyway for Bolo-esque escapades. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Wish it had more tank city stuff but it wasn't Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred -tier like everyone said.
Honestly it's baffling. Who are these for? The actor isn't recognizable, and even if they were, they're wearing a mask. Is there some target audience who becomes interested when they hear it's about a person wearing a mask?
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Those posters are executive decisions. Execs do not understand cause and effect and cannot learn real lessons.
True, but "fans" aren't exactly helping the problem
It’s not even executives, as much as I love to blame them for anything, it’s actor’s agents. A lot of times it’s in the contracts they negotiate that the actor will appear in a certain amount of promotional material in a certain way, and they all want their face on the poster. And when you have 8 actors who all want their face on the poster, you end up with this garbage
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Expect whiter casts and every woman replaced by someone younger with bigger boobs.
Ahhhhhhhhhh i am going to keep screaming ahhhhhhhhh
This is 100% a result of gamergate teaching
that they can use harassment, doxxing, and outright terrorism. Fuckers just pulled it on Helldivers and ruined my beautiful space fascism simulator.And now these losers and going to proactively capitulate to actual, literal mob violence for some fucking reason. Good luck, dorks. Those hate campaigns aren't about getting what you want, they're about the joy of wielding power and hurting people.
Half-baked, depressed social theorizing time on my part.
The way they're all dropping any pretenses of being "progressive" in favor of catering to, like, frothing nerds just affirms the fact that culture is heading in an increasingly overt fascist direction. Sign of the times, I guess.
Yup. Making capitulation to whoever can organize the most visible reactionary hate campaign your official policy isn't going to lead anywhere good.
God I can't stand the "you are a loser" advertising of anything. Advertisers are just grown-up schoolyard bullies trying to psychologically torment us for
.The only GotY I recognize is Game of the YoRha edition of nier automata
I sincerely think Arrowhead panicked. The core team is only twenty people, they've had their heads down working on the game for years. Then a game that was intended to sell maybe a few hundred k units exploded, outsold most of the most popular games in history, and a niche comedy tactical shooter suddenly had a vast audience that... couldn't figure out how to deal with a a fairly basic charging mini-boss and felt oppressed by anti-tank weapons.
Despite having very good daily player numbers on steam I think the vast social media hate campaign, the endless tirades and histrionics on the main subreddit, and the outright harassment got to them and they basically just caved to the mob's demands. It didn't matter that they had a steady 25k players, all they were seeing was seething, unhinged anger from every direction.
But hey, their 24 peak is went up to 35k as of this writing, so gutting everything that made their labor of love special and unique was probably totally worth it!
I absolutely cannot understand it. They added difficulty 10 specifically to be extremely challenging for people who wanted that... and then hordes of people... complained it was too hard? They didn't say that, htey used words like "unfair" and "tedious" and "imbalanced", but in the end they were complainging that the 10th and most challenging of 10 fairly granular difficulty modes was too hard for them and they demanded it be made drastically easier.
They had ten difficulties to choose from, but they demanded to play on 10 and for 10 to be brought down to their level.
The whole episode legitimately caused me to re-assess... uhh... there's no not-arrogant way to say this, but my broad competencies compared to a normal person. I still can't really grasp how people were unable to deal with chargers at all. "Clumsy armored enemy that charges you but is vulnerable from behind" is one of the simplest and oldest stock game bosses and it absoltuely, competely, utterly defeated the problem solving abilities of at minimum hundreds of thousands of people and I'm still struggling to fit that in to how I view the potential and limits of other people.
I think a big chunk of it is; Normal people cannot cooperate with others.
Like, Vermintide, Darktide? Pretty niche games where cooperation is both necessary and enforced by special disabler and assassin enemies.
HD2, success also required cooperation, but it reached a massive audience and most of those people... just... don't... communicate. They don't ping, they don't use chat, they don't use voice. They don't even passively stick together. I worked out, it actually makes things exponentially worse when you have players that don't cooperate, because they trigger every patrol and spawn, they don't cover or protect each other, the players aren't making use of all their strats together. If you're all together you're rarely ever not going to have some gigantic bomb ready to go. BUt if it's four people running off alone they're gonna get overwhelmed even by minor threats. And since they don't know how to cooperate they don't know they have to cooperate, so when they get absolutely ruined by something that would be trivial for a squad working together they can only think that the game is being mean and punishing them.
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It's sad and pathetic. How did we get to the point where people can't even stay together and point at interesting things? We talk about alienation so much but this is it; People cannot communicate or cooperate at the simplest, most basic level.
Vermintide 2 has so many communication hotkeys/shortcuts it baffles me people don't call out threats and whatnot more often. People with natural bond who don't pick up tomes when another person has health duping/sharing is one of my pet peeves. I shouldn't even have to ask.
Champion is secretly the hardest difficulty (more than legend or cataclysm) because that's where all the """"solo carry"""" players congregate.
Yeah. I hate that.
"I'm great at the game so i'm going to run to the other side of the map alone and do objectives"
27s later
"Why didn't you jerks help me when i was getting killed by that monster i quit!"
And even if john helldiver is good enough to run off alone they never, ever think about whether the rest of the team can manage when they're at 3/4 instead of 4/4.
I absolutely cannot understand it.
That's because youre a fake gamer. Real gamers only play on the hardest difficulty, because they are the true elite. Only they are about to take on these difficult challenges that filthy causuals could never handle. So if the highest difficulty is too hard for a real
then its obviously unfair, poorly balanced, and badly implemented. Hope that helped
Nah, in the last month the devs released a "Balance Patch" that fundamentally changes how the game works. The effectiveness of most weapons was dramatically increased while most enemies, especially the big ones, were massively nerfed. The game is not more of a conventional horde shooter than it is Helldivers 2.
And now these losers and going to proactively capitulate to actual, literal mob violence for some fucking reason
This one is extra funny because the chuds complain that the left are the ones doing "minority mob violence" to get what they want from society.
Laughable chud delusions.
FINALLY. Nintendo needs to hire me so I can assign the appropriate genitals to ALL of the pokemon. I will work for CHEAP.
PR firm gets clients IP in news by pitching story of "did you know focus groups exist?"
They should hire me. I'd strongly push for what matters: introducing Goku as a character into every franchise. This fan demands it!!
RoP has many flaws that could probably be forgiven if it wasn't just such a slog to get through. Screwing up the canon and characters and everything is one thing but at least make it good. Jackson's films mess with the canon too but the original trilogy is still timeless because it was so well done
That's about when I stopped watching. So much wrong with that entire sequence. Lore wise, logic wise, story wise it was just so fuckin dumb. Galadriel is like Gil Galads great aunt she's like 1000 years older than him and here he is like banishing her to Valinor which isn't even a thing? "Auntie Galadriel, you've been bad, get on this boat and go to heaven and don't come back". Scolding her like a child when she is in fact older and more powerful? Canonically she would have a husband and CHILD at this point (both are absent from the show completely so I guess who cares) and Gil Galads like, get the fuck outta here, fuck your family I guess. And she meets Sauron in human form guy RANDOMLY FLOATING ON THE OCEAN because of course. Ugh.
Sauron was just some dude that Galadriel randomly ran into after she jumped off the boat
Wait what? Isn’t Sauron basically like, a lesser god or high level angel? Isn’t this an established thing?
So about the canon thing, did Amazon manage to purchase all of the rights to the Tolkien canon or what? I'd assume they have almost infinite money to spend on it, so why not adapt it properly?
Amazon ONLY has the rights to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, and The Hobbit. They cannot use anything from The Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle Earth, etc. That's why they had to take liberties with the canon.
E) I saw somewhere Amazon acquired the rights to use some of the Silmarillion in April, dunno how exactly that shakes out, though.
Why the fuck couldn't they spend more money then lmao
I don't know the whole story, but from what I understand the Tolkien estate signed an agreement with another party in the 60's that had a clause (Matching Right) where if any further Tolkein IP film rights were available for purchase they would essentially have first dibs. The Tolkien estate are I guess piece-mealing stuff from those extended sources so Amazon can use it without opening up the properties for full rights purchasing.
I'd love it if someone else had more or better info on this.
I wanted to like RoP because the costumers really put in work. The characters all look amazing. But yeah too boring. I wanted a lot more stinky hobbits and the big man and they kept jumping to storylines that had no gas.
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