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@TheOnceler said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

@Ghost said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

A variant of the term, cancel culture, describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior in their past that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media, is "canceled"

Have there been modern authors who have been boycotted by people for having different/unpopular opinions or having taken a different direction in content than some random "fans" (airquotes: faaaans) desired?

Yeah. That's not really what she said? But also, you're deffo right. It's so sad the way that people protesting her shitty opinions has made it so JK Rowling is unable to sell any books.

The quote said that cancel culture had made modern authors afraid to write content that wasn't cute, fuzzy bunnies. That's how I read it.

Sounds like Denyse just got PMOwned

@TheOnceler Correct. I havent read a book since I was nine. Let's keep it constructive; this isnt the Hog pit.

TMW you find out that a gamer that you'd crossed paths with multiple times at conventions and other gaming events is...

...currently on trial for being a serial killer who decapitated two women.

I take no responsibility for this derail

@Auspice No wonder the house elves and Hogwarts janitor were such assholes.

@Tinuviel sorry. Your SO is mine now.

Well...mine and Danny Devito's.

NEXT STOP??? FULL WEIRD

People are out of their fucking minds for giving Godzilla a low Rotten Tomatos score.

Out. Of. They. Minds.

@Auspice The whole community needs to get on the IASIP train. We'd be much more tightly knit and love each other more if we all believed in the plight of patriotic birdmen soldier pro wrestlers with drawn-on abs.

#birdsofwar #dontmesswiththeseeggsnow

I love my life.

Currently someone is claiming my SO 'threatened them' because she made a joke about how someone should shit on their car.

I wish I could make this up. We went from telepathic alien communication last week to apparently being a part of some vicious ring of threatening 'car shitters' this week.

@Ganymede said in Incentives for RP:

I presume you mean voluntary positions of leadership

Oh. Absolutely.

Unless it's StalinMush(tm). Then, mandated leadership is encouraged and bannings for failure/cowardice (enforced by staff-appointed Commissar) will help keep the people strong.

@Pandora said in Fandom and entitlement:

like gays are a distraction that had better have a good excuse for existing.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Clearly the public is divided on certain subjects, and with that has come a bit of division on what people want to see on screen.

I think people forget sometimes that these movie studios are in the business of trying to grab as much money as possible when a movie is released, so they try to hit that sweet spot where as many people as possible will tell TAKE MY MONEY. Out of focus groups, polls, etc they try to digure out demographically what will track well with audiences. If 80% of the people polled said "I dont care if the relationship on screen is LGBTQ+, but would rather not see sex on the screen" and 20% said "I would not see this movie unless there's a sex scene", the smart movie studio goes with the 80% (just an example).

I think people sometimes read waaaaaay too much into casting decisions or screentime decisions as being about social politics and representation, when it's probably more accurate to say that in INDIE production there's more of that and in MAJOR studios it's a lot more...demographics and cash intake forecasting.

@Groth Died doing it, but met that goal. In my manager's book that's "Meets Expectations". I'd call it a win.

ETA. My phone auto corrected manager to master. Fuck you, phone.

@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:

@BetterNow said in Good or New Movies Review:

guy in a rubber chicken suit.

Come on now, it wasn't that bad back in the day...

Bobcat.

@faraday I dig your positive chi approach.

Problem? Roll out the cupcakes, beer, karaoke, and fun. Everyone likes fun.

Don't move back. Move forward. Word.

@Sparks Hell yes.

I'm gonna say it's my favorite since Godzilla 2000, which is my go-to Gojira flick.

You can do a lot with bar/coffee RP if you think about it.

Darts can be a wonderful and terrible thing.

@BetterNow said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Ghost I wish we'd gotten some better looks at the others. There was another MUTO, the mammoth, Kumonga, the one from the mountain that may or may not have been Anguirus, but they said 17, so with G, Rodan, Ghidorah, and Mothra, and Kong that is 8 others we haven't seen yet.

And God I hope we see them. I know Kong vs (His Eminence the One and True King) Gojira is greenlit, but I hope they bring in enough cheddar to keep going after that. I'd love to see some classic "Gojira loses his shit and Queen Mosura kicks his ass into being chill again" kaiju combat.

@Groth said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

While using someones likeness without their consent is iffy, I consider it a victimless crime unless they happen to know about it.

We could test this.

I'll need one person to send me their best picture of themselves. I wont say WHOSE picture that is, but I'll put it on a random game and wriggle into some TS with this person as the PB (using descriptions from PB photo in scene), then post the log.

If no one feels weird about it, then it's not weird.

Not that I think it's entirely right, but when you're attempting to finance a movie that costs over 170 million to make + 100 million in advertising, and you're told that not digging too deeply into any subject matter in the movie could be the difference between losing 10 million or profiting 50+ million...it may not be the entitlement answer people want, but for the super high budget money making projects these movies are, it makes sense.

There are movies where it's wrong to avoid the content, and movies where it's more reasonable to downplay it. In the end you've got to understand that the huge budget movie companies that fund these movies are less concerned about whether or not specific wishes are met and more about the investment.