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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Sounds like all the writer and actor strikes are going to last absolutely forever until they suddenly don't. The streamers and studios have truly disappeared far, far up their own assholes and haven't yet realized that when it comes to entertainment, AIs are just lovely chatbots or 14-fingered monster creation engines.

The current path probably leads to the streamers/studios going broke. Not because they'd prefer it to a deal, but because they're just that stupid. At least employment is low so writers and low-level actors can at least have some kind of work available, lovely as it is.

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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

My edgelord opinion is that RP1 is a solid movie and so is the accompanying song by Gunship

Also my head canon has it in the same universe as Idiocracy

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
Gunship songs are inherently good. RP1 is inherently bad. The world was only saved by gunship yet again

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006
If the message of RP1 was "everything you have ever loved is a commodity and has always been that way" it would have been a great movie. Well, that *was* the message, but not deliberately so.

Mappo
Apr 27, 2009
I enjoyed reading RP1, but Armada was straight-up garbage.

Also, Matt Gaetz is being investigated again.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-committee-investigation/index.html

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Tiny Timbs posted:

My edgelord opinion is that RP1 is a solid movie and so is the accompanying song by Gunship

Also my head canon has it in the same universe as Idiocracy

Its poo poo because its a misogynistic fairytale that actively encouraged and endorsed by Gamergate bros.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

CommieGIR posted:

Its poo poo because its a misogynistic fairytale that actively encouraged and endorsed by Gamergate bros.

The worst thing about Cline's garbage is they're not even good misogynistic fairy tales.

Like the James Bond franchise can be fairly described as a colonialist, regressive white male fantasy but it's still drat good entertainment.

Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jul 13, 2023

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Post the poem

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

RP1 was a garbage book and a garbage movie. It was nothing but attempts at pop culture relevance and nostalgia baiting for a story that was weakly put together for that sole purpose. If you remove all the references, or replace them with generic stand ins, and it's just a shittier version of every other young adult book.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I've said before that when I run the world, those caught maximizing shareholder value shall be punished by death.

https://twitter.com/LiamTCrowley/status/1679578535432781827?t=I4DY-L5xtpybPGe9KBA15g&s=19


quote:

"This 'groundbreaking' AI proposal that they gave us yesterday: they propose that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation," Crabtree-Ireland revealed at the press conference. "So if you think that's a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again."

Starting to think that anyone with "executive" or "CEO" in their title shall serve a prison sentence commiserate with their executive time. Sure, you can be President of the United States and chief executive - but enjoy your term-length prison sentence once you're done!

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1679574888233705474?t=P0MDyT3qh5uJY_1uC89NfQ&s=19

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...to-active-duty/ posted:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility. In furtherance of this operation, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, under their respective jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, not to exceed 3,000 total members at any one time, of whom not more than 450 may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve, as they deem necessary, and to terminate the service of those units and members ordered to active duty.

Interesting.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

McNally posted:

SAG is officially striking.

The first AI generated movie will release next week.

Between reboots, garbage, and the endless expansion cash grabs of the Star Wars and Marvel universes, it can't be any less imaginative than half the stuff Hollywood has shoveled out in the last 10 years.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

LOL. I feel bad for the folks out of work, but it's quite entertaining watching dipshit executives burn their industry to the ground over a few percentage points of profit.

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

CBJSprague24 posted:

Between reboots, garbage, and the endless expansion cash grabs of the Star Wars and Marvel universes, it can't be any less imaginative than half the stuff Hollywood has shoveled out in the last 10 years.

They shovel it out because people keep watching it because our society is populated by fuggin dipshits

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Platystemon posted:

Interesting.

what the gently caress do they need to call back anyone in IRR for?

Wrong Theory
Aug 27, 2005

Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code

CBJSprague24 posted:

Between reboots, garbage, and the endless expansion cash grabs of the Star Wars and Marvel universes, it can't be any less imaginative than half the stuff Hollywood has shoveled out in the last 10 years.

I should note that the reboots got really bad after the last strike in... 2008? I think? Remember the studios weren't getting new IPs so they had to rely on ones they already owned. Now last time the actors guild still played ball so that is different this time at least. I am especially salty about all the MCU stuff because I actually read comics back in the day when none of the culture was deemed "cool." :bahgawd: gently caress the bandwagons gimme Danny Ketch Ghost Rider.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President

Platystemon posted:

Interesting.

gently caress you if you’re still in, and also if you thought you were out :lmao:

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Platystemon posted:

Interesting.

Looks like some folks gonna get that sweet numeral on their mobilization ribbon.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless
July Current Events:

Preechr posted:

gently caress you if you’re still in

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009

Wingnut Ninja posted:

over a few percentage points of profit

Who are the shareholders benefiting though? Not arguing against your point, it's just that we're collectively complicit if we fund our retirement with market/index funds that include Disney and these other corps eking out the small bits of profit so number goes up

Executive bonuses are pretty excessive though

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Tiny Timbs posted:

My edgelord opinion is that RP1 is a solid movie and so is the accompanying song by Gunship

Also my head canon has it in the same universe as Idiocracy

DID SOMEONE SAY GUNSHIP?!

https://youtu.be/60ruvzfXQoE

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010

Against All Tyrants

Ultra Carp
Man I hope the studios get hosed.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Platystemon posted:

Interesting.

I'm guessing the real purpose of this is to exercise/test the mobilization systems.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Acebuckeye13 posted:

Man I hope the studios get hosed.

Jimmy Smuts
Aug 8, 2000

gently caress you if you're in (oh wait that's me), gently caress you if you're out, hell just gently caress you. Bend over for Uncle Sam.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

Man I hope the studios get hosed.
Is this going to result in less superhero movies? Because sweet jesus, they seem to be unavoidable and I'm so sick of them. Like, I go on dates without a script & then we want to see a movie, and it's always SUPERHERO MOVIE 33 1/3, THE FINAL CHAPTER FOR REALZ THIS TIME that's the only thing playing without waiting for hours.

Jimmy Smuts fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jul 14, 2023

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Huh, this ended up in the wrong thread

not caring here fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jul 14, 2023

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

CBJSprague24 posted:

Between reboots, garbage, and the endless expansion cash grabs of the Star Wars and Marvel universes, it can't be any less imaginative than half the stuff Hollywood has shoveled out in the last 10 years.

Yeah especially with the studios somehow thinking their deaging tech works or is a good idea. Irishman, Captain Marvel, Indiana Jones, all looked terrible & I can’t take their storytelling seriously. Especially when it’s done with a 70s something star who should be stepping aside with dignity for the next generation.

Mandalorian was especially bad with CGI young Hamill. C’mon you got this big gap between 6 & 7 and could have Luke adventures so easily with a new actor. Wonder if Solo scared them off.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


A.o.D. posted:

I'm guessing the real purpose of this is to exercise/test the mobilization systems.

That’s gonna be my guess. However I’m still in my dwell time but I’ll see what Tom-foolery happens.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Milo and POTUS posted:

Post the poem

quote:

Nerd Porn Auteur
Ernest Cline

I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies

that are made for guys like me.

All the porn I've come across

was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males

Men who like their women stupid and submissive

Men who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos

with gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary

Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected

liposuctioned women

Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation

in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.

These aren't real women. They're objects.

And these movies aren't erotic. They're pathetic.

These vacuum-headed gently caress bunnies don't turn me on.

They disgust me.

And it's not that I'm against pornography.

I mean, I'm a guy. And guys need porn.

Fact.

"Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,"

Guys need porn.

But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.

I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:

Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world

is a woman who is smarter than you are.

You can have the whole cheerleading squad,

I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:

Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.

Oh yes.

First I want to copy her Trig homework,

and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her

for hours and hours

until she reluctantly asks if we can stop

because she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.

Summa cum laude, baby!

That is what I call erotic.

But do you ever see that kind of a woman in a contemporary adult film?

No.

Which is why I'm going to start writing and directing Geek Porno.

I shall be the quintessential Nerd Porn Auteur.

And the women in my porno movies will be the kind

that drive nerds like me mad with desire.

I'm talking about the girls that used to gently caress up the grading curve.

The girls in the Latin Club and the National Honor Society.

Chicks with weird clothes, braces, four eyes, and 4.0 GPAs.

Brainy articulate bookworms, with MENSA cards in their purses

and chips on their shoulders.

My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.

My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.

In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.

They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and

beat them repeatedly at chess

and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.

Buy stock in some hand cream companies

because there is about to be a major shortage.

And I'm not just talking about straight porn. Oh no.

There should be gently caress films for my nerd brethren

of all sexual orientations.

Gay nerd porn flicks with titles like "Dungeons and Drag-queens."

This idea is a loving gold mine.

I am gonna make millions,

because this country is full of database programmers

and electronics engineers

and they aren't getting the loving they so desperately need.

And you can help . . .

If you're an intelligent woman is interested in breaking into the adult film industry,

and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,

then you are hired.

It doesn't matter if you think you're overweight or unattractive.

It doesn't matter if you don't think you're beautiful.

You are beautiful. . .

And I will make you a star.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




They just announced a new album a few days ago!

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

so did he kill someone yet?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

What the gently caress was that.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Stultus Maximus posted:

What the gently caress was that.

pure, uncut cline

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Jesus christ

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

That's pure sexpest right there.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
ah, you lumbering, stupid brutes fetishize big boobs and butts on cheerleaders, but as an aueter and thinking man with a passion for smart women, I fetishize women with braces and glasses who are too clumsy for sports. clearly this is different and in no way alarming or problematic.

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

maffew buildings posted:

ah, you lumbering, stupid brutes fetishize big boobs and butts on cheerleaders, but as an aueter and thinking man with a passion for smart women, I fetishize women with braces and glasses who are too clumsy for sports. clearly this is different and in no way alarming or problematic.

currently tugging it to the physics student w scoliosis whose the brains of the class. think imma ask to see her notes tomorrow. gonna keep it lowkey

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo
currently casting for psycho psych hoes 1. really excited to get this new series started. not a psych major or social work grad student? No problem as I’m also looking for models for my other groundbreaking new adult series, anthro nerds starting anthropology students and myself in a scooby doo fursuit visiting and loving in various haunted locales.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012




lol what the gently caress is this poo poo

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ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Ernest Cline posted:

and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,

Ah, that epitomic test of the intelligent

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