Comment Re:Damn republicans and their woke solar (Score 1) 46
That's really what this is about. Power. Not electric power the power to tell you what to do by controlling whether you have electricity or not. Whether you can drive into work.
I've been working around new hires for decades. Some hit the ground running, some fail miserably, abut almost all need a lot of peer group interaction before they become proficient employees.
I'll assume you're American. You're demonstrating 100% of anti-union propaganda. YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT A UNION IS.
And no, you don't have "two bosses", moron.
All caps yelling and name calling tells me all I need to know about you.
Critic reviews suggest it's not a bad movie at all, but I'll wait for it to come on streaming.
It might be a wonderful film. But relating to what I said, I'm not going to see it.
There have been some duds from Disney, like most of The Mandalorian after season 1, Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka... Giving the fans what they claim to want is usually a recipe for disaster, and it shows with those.
The critic/fans I follow. were liking Mandalorian 1 Didn't like the book of Boba Fett, and were mixed on Ahsoka, a number said it was walking, walking, walking, and thought Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka was okay except that the fight scenes seemed too choreographed and slow. I know a lot of Fans were looking forward to Ahsoka were looking forward to that adaptation, since there wouldn't be sex or race swapping, Which when a person knows the story, it would be admittedly annoying to have, say Stephen Colbert cast as Ahsoka.
But also the fans for SW (and at least half the Trek fans) are extremely toxic and tend to ruin anything that is actually good.
If fans ruin any thing that is actually good, perhaps the SW and Trek universes should go away. And don't forget Tolkien's army of fans, some who have dedicated their academic lives to the study of his writings. Some people say the Tolkien scholar who quit on the Amazon LOTR prequel, saying that they were not respecting the material was toxic.
Andor seems to be an exception, but Acolyte was actually a decent idea, and Last Jedi was probably the only hope the franchise had of moving forward.
I've noted in here that I could have written a good SW version of "The Acolyte" using the premise of lesbian space witches. What was provided was pretty dull stuff.
It's like Meyer said around the time he did Wrath of Khan. The fans don't know what they want until you give it to them. On paper that movie should have sucked - Very little fan service, a sequel to a TV show episode, beloved characters make mistakes or die, Kirk has a son out of nowhere, it's a submarine thriller in space... But it works really, really well. If it was released today, the internet would get wind of Kirk needing glasses, and spend the year leading up to release panning it as the worse thing ever, an insult to their intelligence, not understanding Trek at all, and generally trying to destroy it in every way possible.
I will note that you apparently believe that fans of SW and ST want to have something they loved torn down and destroyed. I think that is odd.
Wrath of Kahn has some things that a lot of modern movies don't have. A good story line, the main characters are aging, but that process is incorporated into the story line, not put there to "subvert expectations". By the time WoK came out, a lot of the 60's fans were going through a bit go aging on their own. It had a conflict, a historical one to boot, as the aging enemies fought one another, Kahn with his incredible intelligence, Kirk with his experience.
And here is something most people overlook. Lighting and sound. Even back in the original ST, they understood lighting. In some of the new stuff, they appear to be stuck in dramatic mode.
Audio - this is a problem with movies in general today. Sound effects way too intense. Foley artists appear to rule the studio. And the dynamic range thing, they are intent at having a conversation almost at the threshold of hearing, followed by an incredibly loud sound. I cannot watch movies with sound in the evening after my wife has gone to bed. I have to put on closed captioning.
So, you're not reporting them, not emailing admins... but, you're trying to call them out as being equals as far as Jar Jar's stupidity... drinkypoo is much more intelligent than that.
Why exactly would someone "report" Drinkypoo?
He annoys some people. So do I. So does Armored Dragon, and ahem, you post ain't sunshine and puppy dogs. No one is doing anything that would get them kicked or even a stern talking to.
Relax a little, maybe enjoy an adult beverage or herb of your liking. Thoughts and prayers!
George Lucas said he was supposed to be the comic relief character. Outside of that, the character is pointless. The problem is he wasn't funny, he was just an annoying CG version of drinkypoo.
Sonavabeotch, you owe me a new keyboard, man! My soda went all over it when I read that.
+5 for making me snort! 8^)
Disney isn't going to let anyone do stuff with Star Wars or any of their properties. Same thing with Bond, now that Amazon owns it all.
Star Wars should've ended with the McGregor/Jackson ones (and, most definitely not had JarJar, or rewrote 'who shot first').
I think that the core problem is that Disney is a terrible fit for Star Wars in any form.
Star Wars was Space Cowboy Epic,
Disney excels at making Disney Princesses.
Both are legitimate, but it is really difficult to make a space cowboy movie when your talent is princesses.
Now that Hollywood has calcified into old-guard money and thinking, YouTube has become a great laboratory for filmmakers to hone their craft. Perhaps Disney will let a YouTube director have a crack at the next Star Wars movie?
You are correct, Youtube doesn't have teh present day constraints Disney does.
As for allowing a Youtuber get involved, maybe. After all they put Harvey Weinstein's secretary with no experience direct "The Acolyte" flop, so if a Youtuber with the proper political beliefs who is willing to take on the fans surfaces, they might just hire them.
They lost me at the lava battle.
I do hear I'm missing out on Andor.
Yup, you summed up the problem. The movies Disney put out in recent years were not good movies, and the fan base became alienated. They wrote off the movies and didn't watch or pay attention
So Disney can put out a decent Star Wars movie or show, and many just won't watch it.
In this case, my analysis is that trying to have a mute puppet who seems to mostly reach for things carry the movie couldn't get enough traction. So people willing to take a look on the first weekend saw it, went "Okay", and that was it.
Once upon a time, the fans would go see individual movies many times, and purchase all the swag. One critic I don't watch often has his walls filled with earlier action figures, models and other paraphernalia. All of that added to the bottom line, and Disney intentionally threw it away with it's new arc.
Making games isn't actually that easy? I've been doing it for 25 years, and making a game that's good that people enjoy requires, in no small part, that you yourself enjoy playing games, and that you understand what fun is.
That's a good insight - we're essentially talking about art. There's no real indication that AI can do the actually creative part. But I wonder if a union can either? Art is about allowing inspiration to hit somebody like lightning and allow it to rise to the top. Unions are about making rules for everything to enforce fairness, and I wonder if that will be the most creative environment. Of course top-down corporations struggle with it too especially as they get bigger.
Yeah, but there is good art and bad art. Unions - well, we must remember that once you have a union, you have two bosses, the Work boss and the union boss. So your concerns about the art of making games is well founded. And Unions are as much about lining their own pockets as enforcing fairness. That's the funny thing about those who claim that Unions are some sort of commie or socialist outfits - they are every bit as money hungry as the rest of us. They are not saviors of the downtrodden workers.
My point in all this is this is not a good time for programmers to organize. AI can and will take some jobs, even if the final sprucing up is handled by a few really good programmers. And if programmers refuse to return to the workplace, they better be the best in the world, people who hold the company by the short hairs, who can leave quickly and go to another place willing to pay money that is appropriate for their best in the world abilities.
You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth. - Nicklaus Wirth