People always make this complaint, but I really can’t blame the movie studios. Moviegoers have shown time and time again, that as much as they complain about the lack of original IPs, they don’t go see them when they come out. Movie studios want to make money. If the public has shown again and again that they’ll fork out $20 for a remake or some generic superhero crap, while completely ignoring original films… well, which do you think the studios are going to embrace?

Even the few original films that do come out have to be marketed in the same way a remake if they want any attention. “From the Producers of Nostalgically Popular Movie”, “From the Director of Big Series Everyone Knows”, “Starring That Actor Who Was in All Those Other Films You Used to Love”. Original movies can’t stand on their own anymore. The few that do are the rare exception, not the rule.

You went from water up to your waist to water up to your chest.

This post is asking about people who aren’t in the water at all and have a visceral reaction to the mere suggestion that they even look at water, let alone go in it.

I always like sharing this apocryphal story about Michael Dell. So Michael Dell went to the same high school I did, and the rumor goes that when he was there, a bitchy English teacher once told him he would never amount to anything.

Well years pass and he creates the computer company we know today. He returns to the school district and offers to donate computers to all their schools, from elementary thru high school. He only had one condition, fire the bitchy teacher who insulted him all those years ago.

The school district never confirmed it, but one year that teacher didn’t return, and sure enough, every school in the district suddenly got brand new Dell computers.

If art is important to you, and you admit the art style is important enough for you to choose not to play a game, AND considering how AI art has only been around a short time…

Then doesn’t that kind of highlight the struggles that non-artistic game designers have faced? Potentially great game design overlooked because of poor art?

So can you see how AI art, which may not be the best but is certainly better than someone without artistic talent, might open doors that were previously closed?

“AI art will never take off or be more popular than traditional art!” says the increasingly nervous traditional artists as millions flock towards using AI art.

Unless that movie is Snatch.

This meme would have worked a lot better a few years ago. Hell, even a few months ago.

Life is no longer uneventful, the trolly’s brakes have been cut and it is on fire, there are clearly people tied to the tracks and the trolley is already rolling over them.

It was supposed to be space travel… It was supposed to be space travel…

You don’t think the fact that lead just doesn’t smell all that much might be the better explanation?

I keep telling myself that I’m doing ok and everything is fine, but at least once a day I suddenly collapse and start quietly sobbing. It usually happens in the shower, but it can happen anytime I have a brief moment alone. Only lasts for about 1 to 5 minutes and then I’m back up doing whatever it was I was doing, but its happening more and more frequently, and it’s getting harder to pretend I’m not overwhelmed by everything.

There is so much chaos and uncertainty. When I look at the state of the world, it feels like giving up and screaming incoherently into the void is somehow the most rational response; and that trying to keep going is the real insanity.

1. You seem to think I buy those products either, I don’t.

2. There is a world of difference between the past actions of a company over 80 years ago vs the current, ongoing embrace of Nazi symbolism and ideals by a CEO who also happens to be trying to dismantle the country he lives in. You know there’s a difference, I know there’s a difference, you just don’t give a shit. You are a bad person.

there isn’t even a clear reason for any “boycott”

I know it’s a tough concept to grasp, but I was raised with the belief that you should punch Nazi’s in the face, not buy their shit.

Children.

Parents with children.

Keep in mind, they don’t need to actually like the film, as long as they are paying to see it.

Modern PDF signing creates a digital fingerprint showing the device it was used on, whose credentials were used, a timestamp, and even a location if location services are turned on.

But yea, I guess all that just can’t compete with the ironclad security of a fucking ink pen. Oh, sorry. A copy of an ink pen. So much more secure and traceable.

What if… gasp, what if you’re not the target audience?!

Everyone complaining about the poor quality of Disney’s live action remakes is overlooking the main reason why Disney is making them. They’re profitable.

With the relatively low cost compared to a traditional animated movie, the ability to lean on existing IP’s, and the fact that the main audience (children) don’t typically give a shit about quality, Disney has been raking in the money with these remakes. I don’t believe they’ve had a true “flop” (where they lost money) since they started.

The Disney that made original films and stories is long dead. And why wouldn’t it be? For all the complaints about the lack of originality in Hollywood, when a studio actually risks making one, it tends to be a bust. Going to a theater is an event, and people don’t want to risk their money on an unknown story. Money talks, and unfortunately it says that remakes and bland superhero movies are what the people want.

[I] Don’t care

Clearly. And that’s as far as anyone needs to read to know your opinion is worth less than wet single-ply toilet paper.

For those who liked Roger Rabbit, I’d highly recommend the new Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie. It was kind of slept on when it was released and deserves so much more attention. I think people just assumed it was a remake of the show, but the movie is entirely its own thing. The only thing you even have to know about the show is that it existed. The movie itself is pretty much just like Roger Rabbit, with multiple IP’s mixing together in the real world and some surprisingly dark themes.

I’d still probably say Roger Rabbit is overall a better movie, but Chip 'n Dale is very close.

Any book written by future historians that accurately talks about this period of time will have a chapter devoted to Pepe the Frog and… God damnit it’s all just so stupid.

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In your lifetime, rising sea levels won’t be an issue. In your kids lifetime is a different story, but we still got another 50+ years before sea levels will rise to a significant degree.

There are also no badges you can earn that ensure it always obeys you.