These days, producers fund two “seasons” up front. I’d guess it’s less expensive to make two season of 10 episodes each at once than to make one season, hard stop, and then wait on approval for a second season. Having downtime while contracts are renegotiated, schedules managed, and sets sit unused can get expensive.
Maybe it’s petty of me, but I’d like to think that even an earnest attempt to appeal to old fans will fall on deaf ears. Besides the fact everything Trek has been shit for almost 20 years now, Paramount made it very clear those old fans were no longer wanted. I would be fine with there never being anymore Trek. It’s a relic of a bygone era and simply can’t be repeated. But there were enough idiots with no pride who insisted “Picard season 3 is so great because it has old characters in it” so that won’t happen.
What are these Christian Nationals I hear so much about? I know the FBI was concerned about them. I overheard people in my horror movie club talking about hoping for the opportunity to kill them (I just wanted to watch Friday the 13th movies with the club). What mass shootings and terrorist acts have Christian nationals done in the last 20 years to warrant such an attitude against them?
I could see them allowing race based discrimination but only certain ways. Black and brown people would be allowed a preference on drivers to avoid racist whites. Whites WON’T be able to prefer other whites because that would be discriminatory.
I’m sure they’re hoping this doesn’t come up and they won’t say anything until it does. When it does, even if a trans”woman” rapes a (real) female passenger to death with “her” girldick, they’ll recite the libtard mantra of “trans women are women.” If they don’t they’ll get the J. K. Rowling treatment and get shunned by thousands of virtue-signaling dipshits. I’m sure Lyft will appreciate it.
Marvel Rivals pulled it off in late 2024, which really put a damper on the Concord defense of “it’s impossible to make it in this field.” And it REALLY highlighted the difference in character design philosophy between those two games. Heck, Helldivers 2 found success earlier in 2024.
That said, it IS a tough nut to crack and a formula for success seems unattainable. It’s worth trying as much as any other business venture. It’s NOT worth spending a half billion dollars chasing the dream. As always when it comes to western devs these days, there is a retarded fear of reining in budgets. That’s what’s really hurting them.
Well you have to understand liberal logic. The parents of white shooters are responsible for raising monsters. The parents of black shooters are not responsible for raising monsters; slavery caused that. And white people are responsible for slavery.
I guess. But level progression (and 5 v 5) is shit that should’ve been there from the start. The fact it wasn’t leaves this at “they’ve only themselves to blame.” They were given the spotlight and proceeded to deliver subpar product.
They’ve been threatening the audience with Starfleet Academy for decades. When UPN first came out as a network and saw success with Voyager there were rumors of them doing something that would appeal to younger audiences. Setting a show in starfleet academy was a natural choice for that. Mercifully it didn’t happen, but I’ve seen the rumors crop up every time a new series was discussed. It was always assumed actually doing it would signal the death of Star Trek. And here we are.
My thoughts exactly. Everything is going to be about racism. It’ll be like scooby doo, except it’ll always be a straight, white, Christian male trying to keep down brown and black people under the alien mask. Anal probes? To buck break black men. Strange lights in the sky? Actually burning crosses to scare off black lesbians. Alien abductions? Oh you better believe that was ICE kidnapping minorities to send them “home.” Cattle mutilations? The white man culturally misappropriating barbecue, which was invented by blacks.
Is a generation of dipshits shouting “I can’t breathe” while resisting arrest going to be St. Floyd’s only contribution to the world? Well, I guess that’s more than I’ve contributed. But at least I never threatened to shoot a pregnant woman while robbing her. Also it’s funny how this “man” began demanding a female officer. How does it know none of those are female?