#monopolies are REALLY bad
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traewilson · 5 months ago
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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.
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hermitcraftx · 2 months ago
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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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sanshinexx · 2 years ago
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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]
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feelingtheaster99 · 7 months ago
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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
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musical-chick-13 · 5 months ago
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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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fellhellion · 1 year ago
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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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moe-broey · 2 years ago
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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.)
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seedlessmuffins · 1 year ago
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gotta love internet monopolies 🙄 this is like last summer all over again
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loveregrown · 11 months ago
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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!
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opikiquu · 1 year ago
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risingsouls · 2 years ago
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" This is why I don't play these asinine games. How absurd.... "
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liu-yu-xin · 2 years ago
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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
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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
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faedotexe · 2 months ago
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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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suck-my-figurative-dick · 7 months ago
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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.
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i3utterflyeffect · 7 months ago
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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
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