You need self-insert girl-boss with English accent to fight the patriarchy, like a bunch of guys not taking inane girl-boss advice seriously when working on their wildly popular guy projects.

But she needs magic powers for the fantasy to be extra nice. Force choke the patriarchy, girl!

Netflix doesn't really hire competent people anymore.

Just special little dipshits with a chip on their shoulder and a massive entitlement complex.

Cargo-cult scientism is a foundational part of the religion.

You need the fake study because this is a traditional ritual required by The Science and rituals have to be observed.

That isn't really true though, in terms of the actual population, as amply demonstrated by the referendum in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum

The lowest result was in Ukraine and Russia itself.

The USSR broke apart because the elites wanted it broken apart.

Because the elites wanted what they got (massive wealth through corruption and graft and selling of privatized state enterprises for scrap, logistics control, etc. etc. etc.).

The elites were given this possibility because the USA basically promised them the possibility and provided bank accounts to store the wealth and yachts and houses in Italy to spend it on. Which is what I call being nice.

Russian elites today were instead promised pain and suffering instead of massive additional wealth. Given the stick instead of the carrot. Russian elites are pretty much 99% behind Putin and Xi, because anything is better than being a beggar under a bunch of whimsical sanctions applied willy-nilly by a bunch of fart-sniffing retards. And also they are ornery fucks who want revenge for having their stuff taken.

The war in Ukraine could have been won by the west in three easy steps 2 years ago, by being nice:

1. Remove all visa restrictions for all Russians everywhere
2. Give them all valid work/visa status
3. Completely free movement of all finance from Russia to anywhere

All economic orders are fake and gay by design because they depend on people believing each other.

The source of that faith is the only real difference, and theirs ran out. But it wouldn't have if they had a unifying factor such as an aggressive enemy.

The point is that the populace wasn't united behind the whole apparatus and was kind of very much against it. And the apparatus itself was massively disjointed and working against itself. KGB generals wanted nice cars, soft toilet paper and jeans just as much as, if not more, than the general populace.

Had the US tried actual aggression in the 80s, the populace (as well as the KGB) would have had a unified purpose which superseded caring about having nice cars, soft toilet paper and jeans. All that is secondary to crushing the aggressor. It's a historical thing imho. Russia is pretty much defined by a model of growth against existential threats from outside aggressors. I think Siberia is pretty much the only place they took over without someone from there trying to raid their lands (and enslave their people) first and even then I don't really know.

Just as an example, the Crimean tartars burned down Moscow about 400+ years ago, which is why Crimea was some hundred+ years later conquered by Russia. Even having your capital burned down is nothing, really, in the scheme of things.

So this whole "lets scare those russkies with a couple dozen ATACMS!" is doubly retarded. You could literally wipe out all of Moscow from the face of the Earth and that will just make every single Russian determined forever to put eventual boots on the ground in Washington, like they did with Paris after Napoleon burned down Moscow.

The West defeated the USSR by being nice.

The idiot asshats running foreign policy these days decided it would be a good idea to do the opposite.

It's like you know those ornery fucks that are historically famous for tolerating any amount of pain and coming together to do whatever it takes to punish an aggressor? Lets aggro them to teach them a lesson.

GG, retards.

Seriously, be nice to Russia, leave them alone, it will probably fall apart by itself for lack of purpose.

Need "having to deal with PMSing broads" leave.

Perfect

Good. Shows their incompetence in trying to brainwash the masses as well as writing a story.

Paying for a show to spread the narrative when no one is actually watching the show is waste of money, and even Disney doesn't have infinite money. I hope they pay for 10 more seasons upfront, but probably not even Disney is retarded enough for that.

But no one is really watching the shit on streaming platforms either.

Because no one -- surprise --- wants to watch shit.

So don't do it. There is nothing there but a demented, degenerate travesty wearing the skin-suit of something long dead.

Except those times when you have to say something like "As a white person, I am ashamed. We have to do better at letting in a bunch of criminals looking for handouts in an uncontrolled manner"

I never liked the Lordi song. It's the same eurotrash bland bullshit as always, but sideways.

Redguard Revolution! Fight the power, brother. Daedra did nothing wrong.

But you don't understand, they need way more focus on making TES lame and gay for the modern audience, and those fucks with their innovative 'fun' were ruining the lame and gay culture Bethesda has spent so much time cultivating.

Or they hate themselves for basically being sentient shit, and thus hate the world, because they externalize the blame. Meaning they need to make the world and everyone in it miserable for being guilty of them becoming a piece of sentient shit.

You can tell by the fact that so many of them end up killing themselves.

More like the negative return on investment isn't worth it when you've got cashflow issues.

But but but BRAND!!!

We neeeed BRAND!

You have to make it for THE MODERN AUDIENCE*!!1

*does not actually exist as an audience

Every other comic industry (like Manga or French BD) have been growing. Manga is growing something like 20% per year!

So it's not "the industry". People want to buy and read comics.

But they don't want to buy and read a bunch of runny diarrhea shat out by a bunch of conceited fart-sniffing activist morons who couldn't write a story if it hit them in their stupid smug self-satisfied face.

But only after boss-girling the patriarchy into submission.

It's not so much tools as giant budgets.

Yeah, dressed up in a skinsuit made out of the flesh of the first movies.

Fallout 4 was kind of a big meh when it came out. I got a refund and wrote it off Bethesda becoming shittier, just like all the other companies.

Is it actually worth playing these days?