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Oh yeah we were all laughing about that
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Literally writing a better movie off the top of my head
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Like imagine he revealed himself to be alive to his GF in the first act and she was in on his plans...or possibly the voice of reason telling him not to kill, which would actually explain why he didn't just mow through the bad guys immediately
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The only reason he had a new face is so there could be this shock reveal while also allowing Sheen to have face time, and like...that's so poorly thought out. Classic Shyamalan style "holding the twist to the end just so you can end with a twist" when it would have been better to drop it sooner
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Also he's back to kill the people who killed him but studiously avoids doing so for much of the movie
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I would really like someone to explain why the titular Wraith, who is apparently a revenant of some kind, is treated like The Terminator with access to futuristic technology
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"DEI" was itself a bit of sleight-of-hand, a compromise tossed to the masses that would allow corporations to continue to ravage the environment and economy while appearing "caring", and Andreessen is apparently too dumb and petulant to realize that
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I couldn't help but notice that in that article where Andreessen complained about how all the people coming up in his companies were now "woke" and he was going to put a stop to it, he lumped together basic inclusiveness with wanting more moral business practices, which are not the same thing
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It's just that it makes no sense in the long term to plant a flag against "DEI"--the cultural bulwarks that let wealthy corporate owners get away with that stuff are still tumbling despite everything. But corporations still might see value in going along with it in the short term.
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I mean, to be clear, there's obviously a powerful wind blowing against "diversity" as a cultural thing, from the top down, and it could potentially be easier for a corporation to roll with it in the short term. I in no way trust them to genuinely fight against the Nazis.
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Don't want to paint "rational self-interest" or corporate greed as the thing that will naturally save us from the Nazis but it's another way in which the "anti-DEI" bullshit is swimming against the tide and likely won't last
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Hey hey let's not get crazy here
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The lengths you have to go to to make a product profitable when you are specifically excluding women, PoC, LGBT+ people, etc., outside of some very very specific niches, requires an awful lot of cultural contortion and, frequently, government interference
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The fact that big businesses DON'T always embrace the most inclusive policies, both for hiring and marketing, is a good indicator of how capitalism doesn't actually pursue the most rational profit motives and is in fact ideologically driven
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Wyiff
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That's what bugs me, if they're hedging their bets because they're worried about being sued it's beside the point. The current chuds will just sue them for no reason at all if they're pissed off, and even if they lose they'll just drag it out punitively, so why not just report accurately
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Part of the problem is that we, as a society, simply don't value art anymore. Art should be given freely. It's not a real job. It's not respectable. We're glad people do it but we tell our children not to. Artists are not craftspeople, they're elitist dreamers who don't actually DO anything.
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Amateur dogshit is the loam in which professional-grade work grows.
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I did a comedic sword and sorcery comic back in the day called Lemuria, it's a little problematic looking back on it but yes, it was based on Lemurians being South Asian and Pacific Islander
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Who doesn't like salt?
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God I just realized, Blofeld is, in addition to being an unstable rogue mad scientist with a cult-like organization and wacky plans, a guy who spends a bunch of his time trying to gain a noble title
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Bond vs Blofeld in 2025 would unavoidably be a political commentary. Why not lean into that?