#monopolies are REALLY bad
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Thinking about Wish, genuinely one of the most bafflingly incompetent incoherent films ever made by a mainstream film studio. It and (from the sounds of it, there was no way I was seeing this in theaters) Kung-Fu Panda 4 are true blue capitalist cinema - the marketers are king, the executives are God himself - and friends, they make the Old Testament God look like a prince of Hell. All attempts at creative thought subverted and stamped out at every turn, in favor of strictly what has been proven to work before. The test audiences know what they want, and the executives aren't here to gamble - they're here to invest in safe property.
The two archenemy of cinema, it seems, are the Test Audience and the Executive. Not incorrectly, I feel, but Wish (and KFP4 by the sounds of it) aren't enough to describe a failure like this. Wish is truly unique in its failure. From everything I've heard about the productions of both Wish and KFP2 point to a trend where the creative teams are at war with each other - one team wants to do things, well, creatively. Well, in other words. Wishing to take actions that make sense narratively even if they may not be brand friendly. Those who pushed for Wish to be traditionally animated; those who pushed for KFP4 to maintain a level of quality AT LEAST to the level of KFP3.
And then you have the other camp: what I call the executive-minded creative. The people who saw the demands for a return to traditional animation, remembered how traditional animation consistently financially flopped (thanks in no small part to deliberate sabotage on the part of film executives withholding marketing) and they decide to actively work against their own. Eventually, they settle on a compromise that works (for them and the executives) - hand-drawn textures on the animation. The end result looks like Disney made yet another Frozen-era Disney film, but now it has this bad image filter going on that makes it look worse.
Team members on Wish wanted to make a classic Disney villain again, but Disney execs and the team leaders in turn are under the impression that's not what sells, so they won't do it. The villain has to be complex-ish, nuanced-ish. Just nuanced enough to be more complicated than Maleficent, but not SO nuanced the audience might think the villain was actually right the whole time. The conflict between these two camps is never resolved because they are fundamentally diametrically opposed, and the result is King Magnifico, a villain who is written with such startling carelessness he is simultaneously too evil and too nice, and a character who it could very easily be argued didn't do anything that wrong.
Once upon a time, the archenemy of cinema was the executive. But I think we're seeing lately a rise in something more insidious and therefore effective - creatives who are so firmly molded by capitalist realism that they are, themselves, executives with pretensions of being creative. Nothing matters but what makes us richer. Any move that would jeopardize the money is inherently the wrong decision. To these false creatives, it's only art if it can sell. If these people are the next evolution of the creative, then my friends, we are in some deep shit here.
#disney#disney wish#kung fu panda#kung fu panda 4#capitalist realism#cinema#animation#criticism#moral of the story#monopolies are REALLY bad#break up all the big animation companies
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The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up
leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue
#jamies bad posts#like a simple example grian is an “unwilling” (though we all know thats bs) bodyguard/protector of scar#while martyn is a willing protector of ren#but i was just watching rendogs first episode and he says that his plan is to first go around attempting to trade with everyone#and it just. it STRIKES me how similar scar and ren are#they both have tempers when called for they both go around playing a friend to all and trying to trade#fuck it in the first few minutes of rens episode hes chasing rabbits around the desert#like ren and scar are two sides of the same coin in the context of third life#thats what makes the dogwarts/monopoly mountain arc so INTERESTING#because they both have goals good and bad and when you watch the others povs each side looks so... intimidating. so different#its only when you get really up close you realize theyre the same type of person#like martyn and grian idk just watching them interact is fun. its really fun#the way martyn gave grian a diamond sword in third life to protect him versus grian doing that w etho secret life#i can mostly think of just the little details but like. come ON#GO WATCH THEIR VIDEOS. ITS SO UNCANNY.#ren and scar genuinely drive me insaneee it drives me insaneee#ok like rendog makes a business out of enchanting and do you know what scar goes insane every season afterwards trying to get#the FUCKING enchanting table#if u like watcher lore u also get the yummy fact that grian and martyn were BOTH on evo#like....#the watcher/listener parallels. idk#third life#3rd life#trafficblr#traffic smp#life series#grian#gtws#goodtimeswithscar#gtwscar
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Fun times at the family game night 🥰
[More incorrect quotes with the gang here, now as a masterlist i just made because why not]
#monopoly bringing families together since 1935#yes i know that sentence doesn’t really work within the star wars universe but i do not care i’m saying it anyway#i don’t think i’ve ever actually made it to the end of a single monopoly game i’ve ever played#probably because none of us ever really know the rules and we’re just making shit up as we go#and because all of us are too scared to take any risks because it would just end with everyone upset with everyone and everything#i could see just the entire bad batch being sore losers#they all would probably still throw the game to let omega win because none of them want to make her sad#i would also throw for omega to be fair#not that i could beat her in the first place#she could and would absolutely kick my ass in monopoly#star wars#star wars the bad batch#star wars bad batch#the bad batch#bad batch#tbb#the bad batch fanart#bad batch fanart#tbb fanart#crosshair#echo#tech#omega#hunter#wrecker#the clone wars#star wars fanart#art#incorrect quotes#my art
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After the fakeout from Lou, I do NOT trust the intrepid heroes when they say “I passed” after reading those fucking cards
#man I bet Brennan had FUN planning this encounter#the man really knows how to build tension cause I am so scared for all of them#Spoopy nightmare first vibes#dimension 20#d20#fantasy high spoilers#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#fhjy ep 12#fhjy spoilers#I get why this episode is called Baron’s games right now#it’s like a monopoly with the taking of cards#baron from the baronies#Baron’s games#Baron’s games spoilers#live reaction#the intrepid heroes#say hi intrepid heroes#the bad kids#brennan lee mulligan
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The problem is. When I go, "Oh, this system is bullshit" and try to live outside it. My choices are still defined by that system. And that makes me feel really weird.
#I love being a woman so much but jfc am I having strange feelings about what that means in a societal sense lately#and like. obviously the most important thing is to unapologetically be my authentic self. which I try to do every day.#but sometimes it's VERY hard to tell what my authentic self is versus what I'm rebelling against versus what society tells me I am#and it would be GREAT if I could find OTHER PEOPLE who felt like this but that would require me airing out all my baggage and#no one wants that.#(okay. like. tame example. I think it's absolute bullshit that women are expected to shave. and for the most part I don't. and I don't care#whether other people do or not. but I HATE the way that armpit hair feels on my body. so I do usually shave that. I would shave that even i#there was no cultural expectation for women to shave at all. but I feel like a bad person for complying with this cultural standard even if#the reasons for it have nothing to do with gaining general acceptance or appealing to some Standard of Femininity.)#(and it's not that me making this choice is like. Inherently Feminist™ it's not. but it feels ANTI-feminist. and then if you map this to#a bunch of other more serious shit..............)#it's rough out here!#(and then there's the fact that I'm CONSTANTLY bombarded with '''''takes''''' claiming that women don't actually suffer under the patriarch#and that misogyny isn't real. but the t/rfs keep trying to have a monopoly on THAT conversation and I do NOT want to be associated#with them because THEY ARE ALSO WRONG. AND THEY DON'T ACTUALLY SUPPORT THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN LMAO)#(so then it's just like wow! I really do feel incredibly alone! nothing resonates with me at all!)#In the Vents
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90s run PAD has this rlly annoying trend where he very often write a female character being in love w miguel and suddenly her entire character shrinks down to the scope of what drama this provokes and it's near continually in service to the narratives of men (Gabriel and Miguel interpersonal drama for example). even when there are actually interesting things to be mined from this angle like w lyla its like. this is a pattern w you dude.
#my GOD we lost kasey nash in the wars skdfhjkdshfkjs#like. it sucked. the fact she goes from a revolutionary to primarily a wedge between gabri and miguel SUCKS.#for some reason its like folks pretend PAD also literally wasnt writing the kronom arc where character assasination is happening#left and right to prop up dana as a martry. when like he was literally just writing that.#like im sorry i love the 90s run too and i have a lot of sympathy for the strain the team wouldve been under while corp bullshit was#exploding above their heads but like. the fact PAD appears to like. just not be fucking bothered to explain what#danas thought processes are flipping from one belief to a wildly opposing one is just bad and tbh LAZY writing#and this is happening dozens of issues before the worst irl circumstances for the team even cropped up#tunes talks critical#can u tell im on my period lmao#tunes talks 2099#like even regarding xina. i think she escapes the worst of this writing treatment from PAD but like. the fact that the dimension PRIMARILY#explored in the text w her is around her relationship w miguel is honestly really disappointing. i LIKE that dimension yes but there is so#much more to explore with her! does she have friends outside of miguel (and if not does this tie into her apparent isolation from alchemax)#how does xina operate as a relatively independant and implied self employed individual in this world of corp monopolies#she CARES about the truth and fighting back against false narratives spun to consolidate power and profit so how does this extend into her#normal life? does she know about downtown when education wise this seems to be something utterly ommitted? what does she think about it?#what kind of hope did she hold regarding angela's work?#if she believes miguel to still work at alchemax why is this not a point of conflict between them? does she fear losing him? did she give#up trying? etc etc etc there are SO many compelling dimensions to explore w her and the text keeps them#largely sublimated to background details in the art. or what we can interpret as sublimated conflicts the characters dont want to address#but in terms of what is in the TEXT i want more. i want more as someone who really loves this fucking thing lmao
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Extremely messy doodle pile to honor an equally messy game LMFAO
(I'm not very far yet! Keep getting distracted and provoking level 50+ Pokemon in the mountains. For reference my team are in their low to mid 20s.)
#pokemon#pokemon sv#i do really wanna do more story stuff though i'm very invested now actually#yeah yeah yeah i talked shit but also. i can forgive anything. if you give me Character to fall deeply in love with.#anyway forgive my miraidon attempts LMFAO i'm VERY bad at drawing lizards/dragons it is always a nightmare for me#but i love my bike dog. he is so fucking cool. look at my bike dog boy#also unforgivable actually! unfair that arven has the monopoly on mullets in this game. feel like pure shit give me my mullet you bitch!!!!#sad! well there are other hairstyles.#i do like my little guy though. he's giving 'that classmate who's clearly queer in some way but-#-you can't tell if they're a transguy or nb or a lesbian'. very nostalgic actually#arven#nemona#my art
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gotta love internet monopolies 🙄 this is like last summer all over again
#rogers is down#for context for non canadians#rogers is like 90% ish of the internet providers here in canada and they control all the debit/credit transactions too#so rn there are internet connection problems for most of the country and you can only pay for things by cash#this happened last summer and it was so bad they had to cancel the weeknd's concert because the venue couldnt accept payment#also nobody could call 911#the internet provider monopoly really is something 🙃#k.txt
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This design makes me feel like I'm going to lose my mind it's so gorgeous it's doing evil shit to my brain. So perfectly Perce. Not something I would wear in real life I am not worthy of such things, of course, just, uuuuu!
#Also; today I tied a pink bow around Tsumunui's neck#The church had a brilliant time playing uno & monopoly. I felt bad because towards the end I felt like I was really babymoding... distracte#But how wonderful it was#I liked today despite the horrific start#❀
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#★ my art#art#★ my ocs#ropg#see i Could draw something Good. like. Of my oc’s backstory. Or i could draw over really bad draw the squad bases#specificially that one boat one#or the monopoly game one#YOU KNOW THE ONE.#oc-tober#oc tober
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" This is why I don't play these asinine games. How absurd.... "
#.:game commentary:.#// vegeta ♅#vegeta lost at monopoly#very quickly#in his defense we were playing on the mode where you can build up a property without a monopoly#and we really were just getting the shittiest rolls#and had no properties to mortgage when we landed on anything bad#but he's so mad 😂😂
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Another day another cpop group covering wayv on some show or concert or whatever the fuck. They will let anyone sing wayv's songs in china BUT wayv ... And its pissing me off especially hard because this group is first of all full of literal 12 year olds AND its the brother group of tnt who are notorious for covering kpop songs really badly
#they covered kick it and it was dogshit#and like thats fine thats whatever the worst thing is how annoying their fans are about it#theyre essentially the only mainstream cpop group in china period like this is what a lack of healthy competition in the industry does#because they really do suck so bad. but they have the monopoly on the cpop group market rn. fucking hate them#sidney talks shit
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do you want to come over to teach me your favourite card/board game so we can play it together orrr
#i'm not fucking playing monopoly with you i don't fucking care who you are i'm not fucking doing it that's the fucking line#literally anything else is welcome <3#teach me how to play chess. show me how to play solitaire not on a phone. talk me through your game with 50 rules#i want to learn and i want to enjoy it with you#it's a singleplayer game? not anymore. you're helping me play it. or i'm watching you#it's a multiplayer game? excellent. move over. where do i start#afterwards maybe i can show you mancala if you haven't played it? it's a quick little game to chill to#orrr maybe we could play battleships? i have a really bad edition and the pins always fall out it's ridiculous <3#orrr i have a few different puzzle games we could pick one each and work on our own thing?#it'd be a dream
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So i'm working on a tiny roll & write about being a giant dragonness and conquering the land and burninating the countryside and uh I'm kind of trying to make """"""art""""" for it lmao
chat is this cringe
#print and play#boardgames#also the base concept for this game was “fuck it today im making monopoly but good”#and uh it's kind of moving away from monopoly pretty fast#but im content knowing that the base structure of it still was an inspiration#like how can i take this dreadful gameplay and pump as much decision making into it as i can#and i did#well im saying monopoly but good but the first playtest wasnt that good honestly#it wasnt bad but it wasnt like ENGROSSING#idk the roll and write about fishing i did last week was a bit MORE#but also they're not on the same scale games kinda#but also also i think the next version is going to be really nice actually#but i kinda got sidetracked uhhhhhhh#i just hope i dont have to throw all of this graphic work to the garbage#haha that never happens i never EVER get sidetracked and work too hard on visuals before i should#no but actually the playtest felt kinda close to good so im half confident that the changes im making will get it where i want it to be#its not a huge project anyways#like i started working on it friday i think#but i kept getting sidetracked i havent been efficient since thursday i think#well by sidetracked i mean setting up this tumblr#which is kind of also work if i want to try to have a Social Media Presence#well anyways i'm trying to find an artstyle that i can do with just a mouse and being Not Proficient At Art#and also one that works well with vector graphics because i'm already using illustrator for everything kind of#i could also maybe do pixel art i guess but it's so much more work idk#also im way too new at pixel art#this just feels like the natural next step after having been making icons for years and years#and by years and years i mean like four years#i think idk time flies so fucking fast#help#anyways
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interesting to see this become like the way youtube has become a sustainable rev stream for production. Like having just the income coming from YouTube and trying to partner with them seem like such a shit show for earlier creators and I think it’s interesting that nowadays channels will build a backlog before switching to another more lucrative platform. I could see the benefits but also it’s fun because I constantly have to keep moving on from my favourite creators because I’m so fucking broke. Glad they’re getting their bag, and I applaud them for like the business sense of creating an audience first before splitting off, think it’s interesting that this model of online production is more and more common.
Like I think I definitely started with Patreon when it became a good way for creators to get paid for the really long from videos that took months, think the old completely accessible YouTube productions are more and more a thing of the past. Ah well
Watcher is not removing their backlog of videos from YouTube. What is there will remain. source:
However, according to Bergara, Watcher is not fully exiting YouTube: It will still keep its backlog of videos on YouTube, and going forward will put the first episodes of new seasons on YouTube — while the full new seasons will be exclusively available on the Watcher streamer.
#My take#Basically bringing back cable very slowly lol but also YouTube as a monopoly when they don’t really allow creators to know how it works#Like I think monetizing YouTube really created the scenario and it’s interesting to see it play out#Don’t think I’m going to actually pay for anything I paid for like a month of drop out because I was in hell and I was like you know what#That one episode of drag queens and dnd was good I think it would fix me to see it#But other than that I haven’t bought#Any of the non YouTube exclusive content that my fav creators out out#But like I do think it’s fair it’s expensive to make that kind of stuff#back in the day I was considering following Contra points but now I’m like who gives a fuck about essiasts#Once I get a check though I might maybe check out Jenny Nicholson stuff because I do find it interesting but also like that leaves a bad#Taste in my mouth for some reason yeah idk#Like I don’t know I’m not gonna wish them hate for doing this but also like I do think of the less of them#Sometimes#and I rather find a new thing to watch them like support most channels really 😬#I think going forward it’s just gonna be like drop out or whatever where it’s like one month every few years ill buy access and binge
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Favorite color?
Something you think is cool?
Signature accessory or an accessory you wish you had?
oh shit! uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
my favorite color like. i'd tell you yes but it's generally in the range of pink, purple, aqua? i love a good blue but purple and pinks are nice and every color is so pretty it's wild
uh 'something that i think is cool' is really vague. sweats. i like biblically accurate angels/seraphim? those are neat to me. if i had to choose something to look like i'd probably choose that because what the fuck is identity, transcend humanity
signature accessory has gotta be headphones though. i never go anywhere w/o them. when i hang around in the house i take them off (and also i can't put them on rn bc i keep getting migraines for some reason and the headphones make it worse) but i do have the headphones autism.
if i had to pick a different one it'd probably be my shitty old ipad bc that's what i actually use to draw lol. i just call the apple pencil i have a tablet pen bc like. idk apple pencil just sounds snobby. it sounds like i'm proud that i paid 100 dollars for a stupid tech pen that has no way of attaching to your ipad that is made to be RIDICULOUSLY EASY TO LOSE SO YOU CAN BUY MORE. APPLE. I'M LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU.
anyways idk where this came from but. ty for the questions ig sdgkdsjglsdgksg
#tommy's foolery#sorry about using this to rant about the shittery of apple i really hate mobile devices these days#they're made to be bad and i need the monopoly to die rn. i am going to keep my shit for as long as i can and you CAN'T FUCKING STOP ME#my ipad has a malfunction w the screen but i KEEP DRAWINGGGGG BABEYYYYYYYY!!!#pitch posts#ahem. yes. monopolies are bad and we need to stand up against the new culture that mobile devices should be disposable and all that.#i'm insane from capitalism (negative)
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