they will simply change their brand a little and walk away, you have to remember you want people who are obnoxious and useless to be your patsy's your antias not your Gaimans.
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they will simply change their brand a little and walk away, you have to remember you want people who are obnoxious and useless to be your patsy's your antias not your Gaimans.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I may not like either, but I pity the Gaimans if they have to force themselves to tone themselves down due to circumstance instead of realizing things on their own
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Someone's been showboating without their permission.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
And will be allowed to do whatever they want anyway
Honestly, it shows that given Disney’s financial straits where they’re willing to lay off or put at financial risk many lower level employees, they really show favor when it comes to political hires
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Another franchise failure.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
I saw spoilers for the last of us sequel. People didn't like it.
Something about an LGBT character a golf club and a main character?
Something about an LGBT character a golf club and a main character?
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
You know, making even a single videogame costs a LOT of money and that’s even with badly treated programmers
I wonder how long it’d take for them to “unionize” in a way of “It’s not just higher fucking pay we want/need, we want to NOT have to deal with that bitch you hired! The writing is fucking shit and this company’s fucking dying!”
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
If nothing else I'm eternally thankful that the day Nintendo goes woke is the day the universe suffers it heat death. Now if only they could get a decent online service for their consules setup.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I wish they could have DOOM ETERNAL be available on their online store already
Terthna
Professional Lurker
Unfortunately, while Nintendo of Japan is thankfully immune; Nintendo of America is a different story altogether. I still remember all the controversy surrounding the localization of Fire Emblem Fates done by Nintendo Treehouse, and how the employees of said division went on social media to spout the typical regressive left rhetoric in response; about how anyone who criticized their work was racist, sexist, and whatever "ist" they could think of.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
Given the pandemic and the whole "pencils down" thing, apparently Indies are now a thing for comic book writers/artists.....but they make their stuff for publishers and retailers and their customer isn't the retailer's customer
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
It'd certainly be a better investment.
Argent
Well-known member
Or better yet for 10 dollars you can get both Terminator 1 and 2 on Amazon.
Remember why we liked the franchise before a log list of flops starting with Terminator 3 to Dark Fate.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
See ya.
So, popping in for discussion here, but Order of the Stick is another casualty.
I can't say it has gone woke all of a sudden, or that this last comic (#1202) is the straw that broke the camel's back. It's been a long process where the comic has slowly gotten more woke and less funny.
Used to be background stuff that you could ignore, like Rich Burlew beclowning himself in the forum or in the author's notes to his books. But in the last book, it crept into the story, starting with a side character saying "by the way, I am a LESBIAN!" At the same time that Haley her past immaturity and sexualized dress "seemed like a good idea at the time." Yes, Rich Burlew was apologizing for sexualizing a stick figure.
What followed was a book that... Just wasn't funny. It had its high points, and those points were really high. It also had low points that dragged on and on. The whole subplot about flying through the mountain pass could have been cut from the story entirely, and I doubt anybody would have complained. And the main story arc is... Don't get me wrong, Durkon converting a vampire through the power of emotional turmoil and understanding was one of the best moments in the comic, and the reveal about the true nature of reality was one of the biggest curve balls this story has yet thrown. But it's wrapped up in a plodding story arc that isn't just tedious, it feels preachy. If you are a Resistance! type who thinks Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election and that the electoral college is just an outdated legal technicality, then Utterly Dwarfed was for you.
It's not fair to say that it was entirely humorless. There was one moment with a herd of chaos giraffes that had me laughing as hard as "Stop oppressing my culture you ethnocentric bitch!". The humor was just thinner, and the character arcs were flatter, and the characters themselves just don't have much chemistry anymore. All that was left was the Order interacting with one-off characters rather than each other, and mindnumbingly bad feminist messaging.
I guess what prompted this rant is this dialogue in the latest comic, which was probably supposed to be a joke but just made the alpha male leader of the Order look like a BuzzFeed writer with a major in gender studies:
Haley: "Wow, [Wind Walk] is amazing! We're like genies!"
Roy: "Ooo, uh, actually Celia says that word's not cool. Apparently it has its roots in the lamp-based oppression of people of vapor."
I can't say it has gone woke all of a sudden, or that this last comic (#1202) is the straw that broke the camel's back. It's been a long process where the comic has slowly gotten more woke and less funny.
Used to be background stuff that you could ignore, like Rich Burlew beclowning himself in the forum or in the author's notes to his books. But in the last book, it crept into the story, starting with a side character saying "by the way, I am a LESBIAN!" At the same time that Haley her past immaturity and sexualized dress "seemed like a good idea at the time." Yes, Rich Burlew was apologizing for sexualizing a stick figure.
What followed was a book that... Just wasn't funny. It had its high points, and those points were really high. It also had low points that dragged on and on. The whole subplot about flying through the mountain pass could have been cut from the story entirely, and I doubt anybody would have complained. And the main story arc is... Don't get me wrong, Durkon converting a vampire through the power of emotional turmoil and understanding was one of the best moments in the comic, and the reveal about the true nature of reality was one of the biggest curve balls this story has yet thrown. But it's wrapped up in a plodding story arc that isn't just tedious, it feels preachy. If you are a Resistance! type who thinks Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election and that the electoral college is just an outdated legal technicality, then Utterly Dwarfed was for you.
It's not fair to say that it was entirely humorless. There was one moment with a herd of chaos giraffes that had me laughing as hard as "Stop oppressing my culture you ethnocentric bitch!". The humor was just thinner, and the character arcs were flatter, and the characters themselves just don't have much chemistry anymore. All that was left was the Order interacting with one-off characters rather than each other, and mindnumbingly bad feminist messaging.
I guess what prompted this rant is this dialogue in the latest comic, which was probably supposed to be a joke but just made the alpha male leader of the Order look like a BuzzFeed writer with a major in gender studies:
Haley: "Wow, [Wind Walk] is amazing! We're like genies!"
Roy: "Ooo, uh, actually Celia says that word's not cool. Apparently it has its roots in the lamp-based oppression of people of vapor."
Reads more like Roy is completely whipped. In a realistic situation, his gf would grow bored and ditch him.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I thought being PC was what gets you girls
Then again, have you seen those ladies?