Suits can override their art directors, or replace them with someone willing to play ball.

Mostly hope rests with indie devs, but that’s not too terribly new given the big business of micro transactions and forced online play only.

Well, somewhat good news: The best stuff of the times is generally still available, often legally for cheap, or even cheaper otherwise. As long as you aren’t purist about original copies on original hardware.

Business folks calling the shots over the artists cut back their hours and insist they let the slop generator make up the difference.

Every corner that can be cut to make running the business cheaper does get cut, and this is a pretty big possibility of corners to cut. It’s worthwhile to adamantly express the market for quality work.

And he was probably much much smarter then compared to now

capitalism

Think Epstein’s network crossed economic ideological boundaries. Noam Chomsky considered Epstein a good friend while simultaneously being a staunch critic of capitalism. There are signs of being connected to the USSR, China, North Korea, … If Epstein connected with fame or power, it didn’t matter what ‘system’ was in play.

Yeah, I don’t get why people like the default tone of those LLMs, they are so grating on me. When I get slop emailed that so greatly amused the person who prompted it, I can’t believe they are eager to share rather than repulsed at how cringey it was.

Execs in this sort of company are narrative first, facts a distant second. LLMs speak their language, something agreeable that sounds right whether it is or not.

BTW, investors are largely in the same boat, they are investing with having no realistic way to know whether the nice things being said are backed by reality up front. They only know if/when it goes down in a blaze.

Further in gaming, maybe they tank some headliner properties with bad reviews if the mess them up, but it’s possible that most of the ‘sold’ games barely even get played, thanks to Steam hoarding. A lot of businesses can coast on past glory for years and years before things blow up, if at all.

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With fish, you just need to fight more to earn that kill.

We’ve had quite a recent history of nations thinking they will have a quick, easy offensive and be done with it.

It’s set before the movie, sidestepping that problem.

But Iran is a Russian supplier, so strategically, the more US can burn through Iran military capability, the less they have to give to Russia.

Also, the longer the strait is blocked, the better Russia can do in the fossil fuel export situation. So Iran suffering military losses and the strait being open as soon as possible are also strategic imperatives for Ukraine.

I have no doubt they happened as random hand gestures, but they were not rock paper scissoring. The only thing that looks exactly like an intentional rock-paper-scissor would be the left picture, but just indicating “two” could look like that.

Meanwhile, I’d be “welcome to the team, you’d do fine here”.

Don’t get the white-knighting for Windows of all things. If you need Windows, ok, but that doesn’t mean everyone needs windows.

Sure, but also it becomes very unfunny even without that facet due to the awkward pauses. The pacing just gets mutilated as they ‘pause for laughter’.

A common trope is that some scene is just ‘funny’ with the laugh track, but without it, people just seem psycho, because they sit there, noiselessly after so many sentences.

I just don’t know, they’d have to be pretty different, or else have their life paths be ‘stunted’. There’s 20 years of off-camera developments to reconcile. 20s to early 30s characters versus 40s to 50s really should be in very different places in their lives.

Besides, looks like they are bringing back Alan Tudyk, so for that they pretty much have to be set before the movie. Or else pull some Palpatine crap.

Well, also, strategically any pain for Iran is good for Ukraine, since Iran supplies Russia.

The industry figured out people weren’t lying as you had Picard season 3 actually get warmly received after finally leaning into “tng just years later”, and the scrubs continuation, the king of the hill continuation, etc…

It’s been over 20 years, if they did live action they’d have to probably ruin it by aging up every character 20 years. Also have to tone down action or else have them “mentor” a younger crew, which would probably also ruin it.

Animation could be very good. I don’t get why you’d immediately be dismissive.

As various franchises have played with how to resurrect an “older” franchise, extending the original cast seems to be the winner, but this show wouldn’t survive the age up probably.

That coup attempt had zero military involvement. No one did anything to try to manage “loyalty” in the military or law enforcement organizations.

Now they’ve more aggressively asserted authority in those areas. Project 2025 folks saw an opportunity that was squandered with Trump’s first term and has to some extend seized upon it.

Of course with ICE being the most “successful” example, there can still be some hope, but they are loads closer to having the right pieces in place now than anyone did in Trump’s first term. Basically Trump inciting his random followers with no institutional support at all first time around.

Hitler’s first coup attempt failed too, and we all know how that went.