Probably more likely than not. The studios are going to look at these people being unwilling to negotiate and wonder why they should even bother, so why not just go ahead and get the AI anyway.

The more telling one to me though was that the Writers demanded transparency on streaming numbers for the purpose of residuals, and the Studios slapped that one down so fast it left a sonic boom. Dont worry Hollywood, your deafening silence tells me everything I need to know.

I dont even understand what they expect me to say that I didnt there?

Reminds me of the people I saw trying to say Grosskreutz was a “Jewish” name when it is literally German for “Big Cross”. But it must be Jewish, after all Germans are so uncommon in the Midwest.

I make lawnmower gearboxes for an American company who primarily sells in the US, Canada, and Mexico, working in a shop that has been owned by the same family since it was founded.

I am a slave to globohomo, please send help.

So they (and you) are basing its range off of a missile that Finland both doesnt have and is still in development?

Also, unless he is talking about something else, that is literally just an MLRS system. There is nothing special about it at all other than the warheads are nicknamed "Grid Erasers" since you can wipe out an entire gridsquare with the rocket barrage. But Russia has the same thing (they have more actually), so what is the point.

Now, he could be talking about the GLMRS packs that Finland bought in 2022. But that cant be right, because those only have a range of ~150km and are so expensive you save them for important shit (like Ukraine was using them for ammo dumps).

But surely he cant be lying, right?

Hollywood is out here demanding more "diversity" then they overlook stories like that of examples of badasses from other cultures.

It is the most obvious sign to me about how it is all about power and not because they actually want to improve "diversity".

When you are so aggressively against Muslims you would literally fight 476:1 odds to the death rather than surrender.

Arent they supposed to carry it at all times for religious/cultural reasons?

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I am going to be totally honest. When I first heard the premise for it, I thought I would hate it. Then I ended up watching it in my college Anime Club as one of the ones that was voted on that season (along with Fire Force and Vinland Saga), and I thought I was going to be bored out of my skull.

Damn, I was so wrong. It doesnt sound great on just the premise, but it was hilarious. And I was very glad to be wrong about not liking it.

I would believe it. She actually liked Ken more than Barbie, because she thought he was funnier. And I have been seeing a lot more memes of Ken and how based he is even in more normie-aligned areas. It almost certainly got the Starship Troopers treatment, where their sincerely held beliefs are so outlandish and alien to the average person it comes off as a joke.

And since people think is a joke, they interact with it as a joke, which leaves them open to thinking maybe Ken was the one who was right.

Someone in here is from OKC, and they mentioned that the governor managed to shut down the BLM race riots by bombarding them with bean-bag rounds.

Could be thinking of me, since I remember telling you about that story happening in my neck of the woods. But in my case, it was Omaha, NE instead of OKC. But knowing the politics of Oklahoma, it wouldnt surprise me if it was the same thing happened down there.

If it is as on the nose with its misogyny as Barbie was with its misandry? And if it it starts with an absurd premise like the existence of a GI Joe Land? Then yeah, she probably would think it was a joke.

After all, I already know she hates that stuff because she has been upset when hardcore manhating was done in the past, especially on characters she likes. And she doesn’t like the other modern trend of them making all the female characters into being an absolute bitch and then calling it “girlboss”.

Which is why she mostly watches Anime now, where they still make characters that are interesting for both sexes and don’t step on each other’s toes.

My fiancé saw it without any idea of the creators, actors, or their beliefs. And she thought the movie was hilarious, and was intended as a satire of the hardcore Rad-Fem types with how Barbie was treating Ken.

And from what I have been seeing, that is what a lot of normies are taking away from it.

It is like a lot of Nolan historical movies (a la Dunkirk). I was expecting more about the Manhattan Project, but it is more about his life. And to that end, it jumps around a lot so you do need to be paying close attention. But if you are interested in the man, I do recommend it. And the parts where it did cover the Manhattan Project were interesting. And I do enjoy that they got the physics of a nuke right (which is rare in movies), where you see the blast long before you get hit with the shockwave. So there is an eerie quiet as you are watching the mushroom before everything gets blown over.

But I will say this. My fiancé went and saw it while I went to see Oppenheimer. And she ended up loving the movie and thought it was funny. But she doesnt really keep up with the sort of things we do, and she is utterly convinced that Barbie was making fun of the Ultra-Feminist types, and that nothing about it was serious.

And from what I have gathered second hand from other people who went and saw it and dont normally like woke stuff, it sounds like that is the prevailing sentiment. Which I imagine is not the reaction the actors or film makers wanted.

Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but I think my favorite subversion, and an example of one that is actually fun and interesting unlike most that happen today, off the top of my head is the twist about 2/3rds of the way through the Lego Movie. (and spoilers ahead for anyone who cares)

Basically, the entire time up to that point in the movie, it has seemed like a very simple children's movie. It has its moments where as an adult you can laugh at things, but most of the jokes are making fun of other movies, making fun of adults, show Lord Business as being evil because he wants everyone to follow the rules all the time, simple stuff like that.

Then the main character Emmett is forced to sacrifice himself to save everyone else in LegoLand from danger, so he jumps into a portal off the side of a cliff, disarming the bomb that he had been unwillingly made into the trigger for.

[SECOND SPOILER WARNING]

And then the whole movie shifts to the real world. Where we see that the reason it was all very simple and relied on pop culture references...was because it was the imagination of a child playing with the Lego set. And "Lord Business" is his dad, who the kid is upset about because he keeps getting scolded for playing with the Legos by his dad (who obsessively follows the instructions and built a model city out of them). And it actually ends in redemption where the dad realizes he was being a dick to his son and he starts treating him better and letting him use the Legos.

I have seen a lot of movies try to pull off a similar sort of twist, but few have been successful, and I wasnt expecting something that deep in a kids movie.

Actual walking? No. But you can get the camera down to street level, so you can at least see the city from the POV of your own citizens.

I would definitely recommend looking at the Dev Diaries if you want to know the exact changes they make or are adding. So far, they are making a ton of huge ones compared to the original game, most notable ones being things like:

1. Demand for different land value properties to reflect people's money needs for housing or apartments (instead of just trying to max out everything for the most taxes).

2. Significantly larger and more realistic sized city services, especially for power plants and airports. (Just to visualize scale, here is a Nuclear Plant in CS1 vs. the Coal Plant in CS2)

3. Telecoms now being a city service that needs to be provided for, which has never been a consideration in previous games of the genre.

4. There will be a much more complex economic model, where there are significantly more options for the goods Factories will make, markets can get saturated if you overproduce, and Offices now have output that follows the same demand laws (meaning there is actually a purpose to have both industry and office in a city).

5. They are yoinking the modular/upgradeable buildings from SimCity 2013, and putting them in a game that deserves such a feature.

And I know what you mean about time sink. But for me, that is part of the appeal. I like to play them while I am watching a movie, or on Youtube, or watching Anime. Because then I dont have to take my eyes off of the thing I am watching to babysit my game constantly.

The youth in the game are going to appear less because it's all based on reality

I dont understand what their point was in this article. They literally made a single blurb about how it is unfortunate that transportation (both private and public) will have a money cost to it, and that this is somehow unfortunate because younger citizens are the ones most affected by it. Then it just starts doing quotes from the dev diary that have nothing to do with their stance.

Personally, I am pretty hyped for the game, and from what I have seen with the Dev Dairies thus far, they are set to revolutionize the city building genre yet again after doing it with the first game. Which also involves dabbing on the corpse of SimCity because Cities: Skylines 2 is essentially looking like it is going to be everything SimCity 2013 wanted to be and do it better, while still not having to be force connected to the internet.

Disney doesnt have that kind of money though. They have barely $4B in assets and liquid cash they can use for acquisitions, and they are already being forced to either sell Hulu or buy out Comcast share (they dont have the cash for that, by the by). So you know damn well they dont have the cash to get copyright changed again, especially when they have pissed off a significant chunk of one party who will probably still say no just to spite them.

It really is amazing how much Iger has fucked it all up for his own pride.

I think it is a little bit harder for it to "get better" with Autism since it affects so much of brain function, and I would likely turn down any "cure" (for lack of a better terms) because I have no idea what it would change about me and the way I think at a most basic level. But like I said, it is different with Autism. The Blind and Deaf have no such excuse since theirs are 100% a disability with little to no benefit, unlike Autism where in high-functioning cases you are trading some social skills (which you can learn anyway) for things like improved memory and enhanced attention to detail.

At the same time, you are right about those who especially have low-function Autism, like the kind who can barely even speak. In those cases, I think it would be wise to find a way to if not "cure" them at least raise their function level.

The usual problem: For actual people who have it like me and just want to be normal people, it is something to get mad over. For the activist, it is just another case where the intersection of causes must be fulfilled.

As for me, I will have nothing to do with this. Because in general, I want nothing to do with the Autism advocacy groups. They are either raging, hardcore Leftist who do raging, hardcore Leftist things, or they act like Autism is a life destroyer in all cases and think that those who are high functioning (like myself) deserve to be treated with the same things as someone who is legitimately unable to care for themselves.

I am also leaning toward it being entirely in "for the memes" land.

I also put that Iron Oath game on my wishlist, so I guess let me know what the actual status of those reviews is.