DefinitelyNotAPhone

I'm begging liberals to remember the one cool thing they ever did, which was chopping off their monarchs' heads, and commit to that. Just that. Come on now, this is an argument that's been solved for like 200 years now: monarchs and aristocrats are dogshit and deserve to be forcibly removed from their positions of wealth and authority.

Mass financialization of studios and a need for high returns on investment to shareholders. That's it. You're not allowed to take risks as a showrunner or writer, because that might not pan out for the investors, which means you can't really make art because you're trapped in a formula that's been done so many times that there's legitimately no way to do anything new or interesting. And you can't do anything original because there's no existing market for it, so you've got to adapt something that already exists.

They won't finance more than 8 episodes (looking at you, Amazon), so you have to condense a storyline that won't fit into 8 episodes somehow, and you do that by hacking away at the source material until it's barely recognizable. In the process, every writer working for you is desperately trying to leave their mark on the final product so they can get some amount of creativity out of their systems, so now you've got 80 new subplots that they're practically demanding get in the show when you already don't have time to tell the story that already exists.

The end result is a mishmash of nonsensical plot elements, characters with no arcs (because there's no time to have them resolve their flaws, and focus groups show that viewers prefer characters once they've resolved their flaws so we'll just remove that element entirely!), abysmal pacing, and a final product that costs $300 million and looks like utter shit. Rinse and repeat until even the most treat-brained of viewers decides that this is a road too far and stop paying for the streaming services, at which point the whole industry will collapse under its own rotten weight and new TV content will be exclusively reality TV or gameshows.

I'm torn between this being satire, or some really fucking weird raceplay+politics play+incest goonbrained kink abomination. Because there's no way it's real; I refuse to believe even fascists are this fucking stupid.

"What a bizarre little town! I sure hope there aren't any serial killers aro-"click

Look, I just finished repressing the Wheel of Time show doing all this shit. It's very uncool of Hollywood to immediately retread it and put me in a position where I have to face it all again so soon.

Here's hoping Aang at least gets some agency in his own show?

Either an op, or just trolls looking for attention instead of actually furthering any sort of vegan cause. My personal favorite was them going after Warhammer 40k because some of the models had a fur cloak on them.

I had a company I used to work at hire McKinsey to do their thing. I found out about 7pm the night before the big layoffs hit because a coworker pinged me outside of work channels saying he couldn't log into Slack anymore, and that this was it. The next morning, 15% of the company didn't have a job, and half my team's functions (which were business critical, foundational level platforms) were now completely rudderless because they didn't think to check if they were firing the entirety of the people who managed them.

Shut up and kiss already, nerds!

I mean, it just kinda sounds like you want Monster Hunter then (or maybe MH: Stories given it's a turn based team RPG ala Pokemon).

I'm dying to hear you define any of these terms you're using. Please, open the window up to world of politics so incoherent it's like staring at an eldritch horror from beyond the veil of reality.

Just tearing the copper wires out of the walls without a shred of irony at this point.

Because conscripts are working out so well against Russia(n artillery) recently.