There are outliers, obviously—KPop Demon Hunters, for example—but executive cowardice can be extremely powerful. The way mainstream, big-studio animation is developed, there's too much money on the line to weather too many flops. So, in the opinion of most, best to never try.
“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
George Lucas has really been vindicated in the past few years, because tell me that ain't exactly something Bezos (or Musk or Thiel) would pull, and we've all seen the state of Congress lately...
“It should be illegal to blame us if the thing we make hurts people” is the kind of opinion that would’ve doomed the airline industry and currently props up the businesses of guns, cars, and oil.
Anyone whining about declining birth rates whose solution is not universal health care, child care, and UBI is really just worried about too many of the "wrong" people having kids.
call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections.
I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.
saying that the scions shouldn't be in the next expac or complaining about scion fatigue is like saying that the next FF7 remake game shouldn't have tifa or barrett, or that FF16 should have only focused on clive
ff games are defined by their cast of characters, not just one singular MC.
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred. n.pr/41Zphja
People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of spillover diseases from those pangolins, giant rats and other exotic critters. n.pr/4cBJfqg
Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results. n.pr/4mizbFY