#marketing leads

[shinobicyrus]

One thing my brain keeps going back to about Pacific Rim (besides the rad giant robots) is the whole existence of kaiju organ harvesters and their implications.

Like, you have Hannibal Chau, a bizarre and interesting character, but we’re presented with a black market operation that seems mostly interested in the “alternative medicine” uses of kaiju parts.

But my brain demands to know: what does the corporate kaiju harvesting industry look like? Sure kaiju blood is toxic, but there are plenty of toxic materials that have useful applications. Are there chemical companies studying kaiju organs? Big-Pharma jumping on the kaiju bone-powder bandwagon? Are bio-tech firms studying kaiju hide to make tougher materials? Agribusinesses clamoring to acquire kaiju crap for fertilizer?

I’m picturing something like the age of whaling, when humans hunted giant animals and carved them up to feed insatiable industries. Whale-oil lighting lanterns for entire cities, whale-bone being used in everything from knick-knacks, tools, umbrellas, and corsets. Ambergris alone was used in perfumes, medicines, cooking. It was even added to wine as an aphrodisiac.

We glimpsed how kaiju affected pop-culture. Now picture a kaiju smashing a city, but the stock market going up for construction companies (rebuilding the cities), vulture real estate (buying the destroyed land cheap), and all the other corporations that profit from the systematic dismantling of a kaiju corpse and making money off of its parts. Sure, a city was roughed up and who knows how many thousands are dead, but it’s a better windfall when a kaiju makes landfall. It’s always less profitable when jaegers kill them too quickly; sea-based extractions are so much more expensive.

Imagine entire industries, entire economies that don’t just make money from the devastation of kaiju attacks, but grow dependent on them. And then the laws, the squabbles over those valuable, resource-rich kaiju corpses. If a kaiju attacks one country but keeps rampaging and is killed in the country next door, who has claim over the body? The party who was damaged more by it or the country where the corpse physically is? Bidding wars over “cleanup” contracts that cut corners and are only interested in collecting those sweet, sweet, kaiju parts as fast as possible, even if their official mandate is supposed to be the safe removal and cleanup of a toxic substance.

Once jaegers started getting efficient at killing kaiju, the people with all the money became less interested in solving the problem of kaiju attacks and switched to merely managing the industries that kaiju-killing feeds.

What? You want to put more resources into R&D to try and close the Breach? Whatever for? The kaiju comes out, jaegers kill it, and the “host country” gets the proceeds from the kaiju’s body. It’s a win-win for everyone. Why waste time, money, and effort solving a problem that isn’t a problem anymore?

Everything is under control.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese guzhuang fashion

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Y’ALL THE MARKETING TEAM DID PIXAR’S ELEMENTAL SO DIRTY

[kittychicha]

[the-bensolos]

No I’m SO sorry but it’s truly so funny to me that a lot of dudes going to see challengers for the idea that they’ll see a hot naked Zendaya and what they actually get treated to is tasteful and delicate aspects of the male form from the visionary that is Luca Guadagnino (and of course very very explicitly homoerotic imagery.) And there is a healthy amount of sexualization for both forms. But the fact that there is full frontal male nudity in this movie, the only true nudity in this movie is of the male form, marketed the way it is is just so good. Like I work in a theater and the amount of dudes coming out lambasting that this movie sucks is so fucking delicious. The way straight guys have to sit and accept the queerness of this movie that it EXISTS, that it’s beautiful and tender and gentle, and intimate, but also loud, and brash, and seeped into every conceivable corner adds another 10 on top of this already 10/10 movie.

[thehecklingmouse]

Alhaitham who thinks that his 'flirting' attempts with kaveh are working because kaveh held his hand for a couple minutes

[alicentflorent]

I swear Alicent’s entire storyline is some humiliation ritual which panders to the anti Alicent crowd who thinks she should repent for being a hypocrite and suffer for daring to hurt Rhaenyra

[solargeist]

Also thinking abt End cities in this AU, they’re busier and more like a proper city rather than just spaced towers.

They’re structured almost like bird houses, and markets below, boats glide effortlessly through the air above them

Watchers tend to wear dark clothing, blending into dark skies and void, but at home in the city they pop out from the lighter coloured homes.

Grian doesn’t get to visit without his Watcher around, everythings too big and he has no money.

Everyone stares at him, he can feel every look as he passes by.

Despite his best efforts to prove himself, he accidentally ends up hiding in Her wings a bit, almost afraid he’ll be stepped on otherwise

[rassicas]

D’you find Nintendo’s marketing of Side Order to be kind of…lacking? Because I recall Octo Expansion getting much more attention from them in the lead up to its launch. Interviews, gameplay, story beats, character profiles, etc.

not really, i like not knowing. i do wish we got more interviews with splatoon's devs though, we haven't been seeing them as much as we did pre S3. tho if we see another dev interview it'd be nice to see it after side order so they can get more spoilery with their answers. i get the sense that during s2's development there was a sense of uncertainty from the devs regarding the success of a DLC (i remember during s1 the devs expressed much surprise at how well the game was received, and this sense of uncertainty is part of why salmon run ran only limited time slots in s2). i think this is what led to more marketing and interviews and such pre octo expansion...it sure seemed to work, i dont think we ever got actual sales numbers but its clear OE sold really well, and imo the fanbase for splatoon didnt really boom until after DLC (and of course even more so with S3). now during splatoon 3, the game pulls in a daily number of players higher than splatoon 2's peak. they dont need to sell the splatoon experience so hard like they used to. the trailer we got in september i think was good in getting people interested in side order, especially for existing fans. they can afford to be more cagey about the story and gameplay.

[satan-wishes-he-was-me]

JUST NOTICED THAT WHENEVER AMBROSIUS IS GOING AGAIST THE INSTITUTE AND FOR BAL HIS EYELIGHTS ARE TRIANGLES. NO ONE TOUCH ME I CANT

[of-mutts-and-men]

How does one acquire a person that will dress me in pup gear and take me to a gay bar. Asking for me.

[pharawee]

The trailer for Secret Love is out but we still don't have a release date & platform. Save us gagaoolala. Gagaoolala save us. 🙏

[bigassbowlingballhead]

i'm going to try and finish margins today, I've only got three chapters left easy peasy. then i gotta decide which book i got yesterday i'm starting next.

[loppiopio]

in water, fleas will drown.

[ladyalicentshightower]

I think people overestimate how feminist team black is. If someone brings up how Baela should be the heir to Driftmark, it's always "she would've been Queen if not for the Greens!", ignoring that 1, she would be Queen consort, not a Queen in her own right, and 2 she has a legitimate claim in her own right to Driftmark. Team Black's goal is to crown Rhaenyra, but Rhaenyra becoming Queen isn't a win for feminism because it does nothing to dismantle the rest of the patriarchal system that exists in Westeros. From what we've gotten so far, it reads that Rhaenyra wants to be the exception and not the rule. Rhaenyra has made a lot of bad political decisions, which means she can't acknowledge Baela's claim because it would weaken her own claim (blatantly admitting her eldest sons are illegitimate would not end well for her to say the least). So she betrothes Jace and Luke to Baela and Rhaena to kind of atone for that, like as a consolation prize Baela will be Queen and Rhaena will be lady of Driftmark, neither of them would hold either title in their own right. It's good matches because the kids like each other and will treat each other well, but it's not a feminist win or a feministic liberation. It's usurpation, usurpation that takes place because Rhaenyra has to do damage control after having illegitimate children and after a serious of bad political decisions (both hers and her fathers, Viserys is the arbiter of this entire mess). To me, Rhaenyra is very reminiscent of Mary Queen of Scots, I can see a lot of elements drawn from Mary's history in Rhaenyra's story and character, down to their sons eventually taking the crown they failed to claim/keep.

[pumpkin-spice-ed]

hbo not-promoting ofmd s2 like it's a surprise album drop