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I forgot how awesome Queen of the Damned is. Criminally underappreciated film.

That is some fascist-tier beard the dudebro is rocking there.

Yeah the only real reason that One Nation is on such a surge is that the best the L/NP can throw up is Angus Taylor, and that's just too worthless even for the Australian right. If Albanese were even remotely intelligent Hanson being the defacto opposition would be a gift to Labor.

Rudd was a dickhead but an intelligent one, and insofar as we have to have politicians, given that good people can't reach leadership positions in government, that's probably the kind of person you want running things. We certainly don't need dumb thugs like Albanese or Abbott. Peas in a pod.

Oh yeah, I by no means support Japan’s Prime Minister and that article was terrible. I would just rather not have to deal with the embarrassment of Australia being run by a dumbarse that thinks people think he’s a cool frat bro.

Yeah it’s hard to shake the sense that history is going to be very unkind to Albanese and all he’ll be remembered for is being a dull-witted arsehole and manifestation of the very worst side of Australian masculinity.

Oh she’s veering hard into fascism in a way that makes Abe look soft. I loathe her but yeah, calling her “strange tee hee melons” is just fucking woeful.

Here's Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, casually insulting the Prime Minister of Japan via a "joke" that is both sexist AND racist. The rest of the world thinks Australia is a backwater of classless bogans (derogatory). Moments like this is why. www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

Oh yes sorry forgot I'll just park those millions of dollars I have in my back into Sony. That'll fix 'em.

And yeah focus groups make stories bland, and force directors to curb their creativity, but it's the path of least resistance. Do you think 99% of filmmakers want to take risks to be the next Kubrick and fight constantly with the entire system? No of course not. They just want their royalties.

I don't think you understand how focus groups work. The goal of focus groups is not to make sure every film is a hit, but ensure that the old story of 1 hit for 9 failures is evened out a bit. Big companies think in terms of portfolios, not individual projects.

Actually, Miyamoto's point is that game developers should make the games they want to rather than the games that keyboard warrior nerds bleat on about as though the artists owe them something. So... they should make an OoT remake rather than Mother 4, if that is what they want to do.

Wait you mean that the most memorable, interesting, creative and exciting video games are those that are made as works of art rather than corporate content that has been manufactured to the same best practice corporate content products? Perish the thought!

Also on the game development side, the Ghost of XXXX games being so lauded despite being so damn orientalist. Nothing surprising given how celebrated The Last Samurai is but, you know, the West as a collective culture never learns.

"Those weird Japanese" with the Yakuza series is one. Even when they like the game, a whole lot of people in the west see the Japanese in pejorative terms. And also the *hardcore* hatred of fanservice (see Dead or Alive) because Japan isn't the same puritanical culture as America.

It still pops up from time to time, BTW. "Weird Japan" or "Tee hee the Japanese are So QUIRKY" with the Yakuza series, for example. Or when they slam Japanese games for "representation" because that word means something different outside of America. It's all racism.

It's so incredibly frustrating because the whole promise and premise of capitalism is that we're meant to have collective, grassroots power in deciding where to spend our money. Somehow the corporations figured out how to work around that, and now we have no power.

Hitler's rise to power was also achieved thanks to the liberals and centrists who believed that Germany's democratic system and "voting harder" would be enough to stop Hitler. So, you know. Look at them Democrats while discussing history repeating yea.

Ask AI, because it “writes” about 99% of LinkedIn posts now.

Yeah I hate the place, and hate that it is essential. Nothing has done more to prove to me that capitalism and corporatism can indeed strip humanity out of humans quite like LinkedIn.