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[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel%E2%80%99s-movie-math-comic-creators-claim-it%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cbait-and-switch%E2%80%9D-on-payments.609843/post-90270483


I love how they keep bring up this panel, as if the panel was created in isolation and was a self owned artist's peice.

 

[Uncle]

Or "hey Thanos just double/triple/quadruple the resources in the universe".

shrink everyone like that movie downsizing

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Maybe it needs a Twitter hashtag campaign, or appeals to Feige directly, but Marvel Studios should feel the pressure to correct this.

[Pissy F Benny]

as stupid as it sounds, a hash tag campaign is probably the best way of getting through to a studio, seeing as how most media these days get half of their stories from what people are bitching about on twitter.

(I have no idea what they're upset about)

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Not to dismiss this, as the dude should get paid regardless of my former comic nerd sperging, but MCU Thanos (“We need to kill half of the Universe to save the Universe”) is quite different as Comic Thanos (“I’m in love with Death, literally”)… not mention Thanos was pretty much a self admitted Darkseid homage/ripoff.

Jim Starlin created Thanos, Gamorrah, Drax, and Shang Chi, and still made more money from an unrecognisable 10 sec character cameo in Batman vs Superman than he has from the house of the mouse

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/discord-voice-chat-coming-to-xbox-consoles.609801/#post-90265239

Thread went pretty much how I expected, lol.

Never change, ERA.

Quit trying to make this a bigger deal than it is…lord….

[Pissy F Benny]

xbot bigots invading my discord?

[Pissy F Benny]

a ten fold increase in reports of being called a cigarillo in voice chats incoming

[HaughtyFrank]

It's amazing how no one has tainted their name more than J.K. Rowling.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quidditch-changes-its-name-to-distance-itself-from-jk-rowling.609966/



(and a billion other examples)

[Uncle]

a game that people only play because of its connection to harry potter and how it makes them feel like being a witch or wizard flying around on a broom

where you embarrassingly larp with a stick between your legs

and there's nothing really novel about the rules it's just balls and hoops



can you imagine anyone playing it without the harry potter connection? "ok honey I enrolled you in quadball for the summer, why are you crying, no you can't play football like your friends, this is good exercise, no I don't appreciate your insinuation that we're only doing this because of a book I read, those books are transphobic"

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

It's amazing how no one has tainted their name more than J.K. Rowling.

OP sauce says reasons include the fact "Quidditch" is trademarked by Global multinational and would inherently legally prevent them using that name in any publicity or promotional material, but weirdly its the "JKR is a meany (in retaliation) on twitter" that gets the OP and era focus

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

We have a thread for containing JK Rowling content

This isn't Rowling doing anything, though

Nor is most of that thread

[Taco Bell Tower]

We have a thread for containing JK Rowling content

This isn't Rowling doing anything, though

Nor is most of that thread

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-is-disturbing-to-watch%E2%80%A6-christofascist-indoctrination-ceremony.609186/page-3#post-90273603

We have issued a series of warnings here in order to ask users to stop with the taliban comparison. While you may not mean it this way, the comparison and the term "Christian Taliban" reinforce Islamophobic stereotypes that have been used to perpetuate discrimination against Muslims and Middle Easterners across the world. Keep in mind, we're not defending the taliban here, they're giant assholes, but we need to be cognizant of how the language we use reinforces negative stereotypes and can cause harm to each other. We don't need to implicate Muslims whenever we discuss religious extremism.

As such, we'd like to ask you guys not to use the comparison in the future.

[Kurt Russell]

"The Taliban are giant assholes" is the most millennial take I've ever read

[HaughtyFrank]

Please enact the same rule for Nazi comparisons. Very insensitive to Germans.

And don't assume I'm defending Nazis, they're giant assholes.

[Crumb]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-is-disturbing-to-watch%E2%80%A6-christofascist-indoctrination-ceremony.609186/page-3#post-90273603

We have issued a series of warnings here in order to ask users to stop with the taliban comparison. While you may not mean it this way, the comparison and the term "Christian Taliban" reinforce Islamophobic stereotypes that have been used to perpetuate discrimination against Muslims and Middle Easterners across the world. Keep in mind, we're not defending the taliban here, they're giant assholes, but we need to be cognizant of how the language we use reinforces negative stereotypes and can cause harm to each other. We don't need to implicate Muslims whenever we discuss religious extremism.

As such, we'd like to ask you guys not to use the comparison in the future.

Ehem! 

[Propagandhim]

 

I forgot to remind myself, "Why care?"

[HaughtyFrank]

Is it really so hard for them to understand why the Taliban might currently be the most prominent example of religious extremists? The comparison merely makes it a point of reference. Don't worry, when those fanatic Christians start beheading people we'll come up with a name for them soon enough.

[Nintex]

Taliban are total chads, defeating both the Soviet and NATO armies with a minimal carbon footprint. 

[Propagandhim]

In this case, people in the thread are comparing "Christofascists" w/ the Taliban's adherence to brutal, draconian, religious doctrine (like forced marriages) not their acquiring of small arms thanks to the US, you stupid unbearable fuck.   It's a somewhat apt comparison on strictly religious terms, but the Islamophobia is just too strong, so we gotta go back to blaming CACs for every single problem on the face of the earth.  Absolutely no rock shall remain unturned.

[Pissy F Benny]

I suppose that he's technically correct in that I don't believe the Taliban (while a rotten bunch for sure) were ever an international terrorist group, that was Al Queda (if I'm wrong feel free to correct me).

[BisMarckie]

his parents bought him a wife lol

[Taco Bell Tower]

Wait, he's non-American?

[benjipwns]

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In this case, people in the thread are comparing "Christofascists" w/ the Taliban's adherence to brutal, draconian, religious doctrine (like forced marriages) not their acquiring of small arms thanks to the US, you stupid unbearable fuck.   It's a somewhat apt comparison on strictly religious terms, but the Islamophobia is just too strong, so we gotta go back to blaming CACs for every single problem on the face of the earth.  Absolutely no rock shall remain unturned.

You'd think that someone this worried about people taking a clear metaphor to blame one vaguely related set of people for the actions of another specifically named people who are terrible would take care to note that the mujahideen and Taliban were not the same. I guess they're all just "terrorists or fascists" who look alike to him.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-like-to-see-nintendo-direct-funerals-to-lay-dead-series-to-rest.609852/

After the recent rumours about something F-Zero related on the horizon being accompanied by a warning to temper expectations (meaning it'll likely be something other than a traditional F-Zero game), I got to thinking: What if Nintendo cut off all disappointment at the pass by holding "funerals" for their series have died?

These could consist of direct presentations that take looks back at the histories of series like Mother/Earthbound, Kid Icarus, Star Fox, F-Zero, etc., with developer interviews, anecdotes, development footage, and examples of impact (presence at game expos, adverts/billboards, cosplayers).

This could be a good way bring closure to fans of these series while simultaneously celebrating their lives.

[Propagandhim]

I suppose that he's technically correct in that I don't believe the Taliban (while a rotten bunch for sure) were ever an international terrorist group, that was Al Queda (if I'm wrong feel free to correct me).

But he's not correct about the comparison being offlimits because of US involvement.  The US supported the Taliban and built up their numbers which became an obvious problem, but the group itself, with their fanatical adherence to Islamic doctrine was there from the beginning.  The comparison is of strict adherence to religious beliefs - the evangelicals in America, and the Taliban in the Middle East...but Mess can't have anyone criticizing his relig...being phobic of his religion, so we have to now pivot to how the US supported the Taliban financially...as if that has anything to do with the comparison in the first place.

And Benji to the rescue - I'm making the same mistake as Mess and conflating the Taliban with the mujahideen.

[benjipwns]

It's not accurate to say the United States "created", "supported" or "built" the Taliban. The United States funded the broad mujahideen, years later after the war with the Soviets was over one group from one faction of the mujahideen formed the Taliban and later rose to power through the civil war.

Messofanego complained about "USA USA USA" then made a bunch of posts giving the USA credit for something it never did in his efforts to make some kind of weird gotcha against people saying Christian Taliban.

He also weirdly calls it "US intervention in a foreign country" which kinda pre-supposes that the decade long Soviet invasion with actual troops was homegrown. I'm pretty sure Mess doesn't oppose the US flooding goods and money into regions in other cases, like say Ukraine.

[Boredfrom]

Wait, he's non-American?

He lives in the UK.

[ShutUp]

This only happens for Jordan Peele. Folks are salivating to brand a nicca as "the next Shyamalan." Meanwhile Alex Garland be slingin' films in the 70s range and people were hyped for Men lol.

Regardless, Nope is getting a theatrical watch from me regardless.

Indeed. Shyamalan's big knocks were not just a years'-long string of HUGE misses, but that string being coupled with horrible acting and twist endings that exist only to recontextualize the movie and not to really hammer home an important narrative point. Jordan hasn't even been in the horror game long enough for any such comparisons to make sense, and even then these complaints fall apart when applied vacuously to his two movies to various degrees; like, no one can seriously argue that the acting threshold in his films is bad. It is specifically because he is a non-white American horror director (have to specify because at least folks here are superficially nicer to Asian horror directors), essentially having the audacity to exist in a space that does not "belong" to him while simultaneously being good at what he does enough to stand out and be just as hyped as white directors, that certain folks on Era are rooting for him to fail. It is plain as day to see.

JimCarreyWhoYaTalkinTo.gif

Who the fuck on Era talks about Peele like this? A few people not thinking it looks great and this weirdo goes into another fit of rage that goes unchecked. Wild the shit she gets away with saying.

 And Alex Garland has been around a tad longer than Peele, who releases his third film in two days. Odd comparison.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-like-to-see-nintendo-direct-funerals-to-lay-dead-series-to-rest.609852/

After the recent rumours about something F-Zero related on the horizon being accompanied by a warning to temper expectations (meaning it'll likely be something other than a traditional F-Zero game), I got to thinking: What if Nintendo cut off all disappointment at the pass by holding "funerals" for their series have died?

These could consist of direct presentations that take looks back at the histories of series like Mother/Earthbound, Kid Icarus, Star Fox, F-Zero, etc., with developer interviews, anecdotes, development footage, and examples of impact (presence at game expos, adverts/billboards, cosplayers).

This could be a good way bring closure to fans of these series while simultaneously celebrating their lives.

I would like Nintendo to sort of create a list of franchises that are active or dormant and which games are still in print.
In some cases games are started as a trilogy like Astral Chain but there's no way of knowing if they will ever make the other 2 games.

There also games that seemingly dissapear after just one production run (although digital releases have fixed some of that).
It's less weird than it sounds, Microsoft has EOL dates for software, car makers announce when models go out of production.

Nintendo announces a remake of Advance Wars and then it just vanishes and there doesn't seem to be any logic to what physical games are available and which are out of print.
Same for their hardware like controllers and chargers and whatnot.

[Pissy F Benny]

Wait, he's non-American?

He lives in the UK.

TERF Island*

[Boredfrom]

Not to dismiss this, as the dude should get paid regardless of my former comic nerd sperging, but MCU Thanos (“We need to kill half of the Universe to save the Universe”) is quite different as Comic Thanos (“I’m in love with Death, literally”)… not mention Thanos was pretty much a self admitted Darkseid homage/ripoff.

Jim Starlin created Thanos, Gamorrah, Drax, and Shang Chi, and still made more money from an unrecognisable 10 sec character cameo in Batman vs Superman than he has from the house of the mouse

 

Like I said, he DOES deserve the money. Just saying that MCU Thanos is almost a different character outside of “big  and powerful purple alien guy schemer that is too stubborn to give up his genocide”.

[benjipwns]

It is specifically because he is a non-white American horror director (have to specify because at least folks here are superficially nicer to Asian horror directors)

[Uncle]

[clothedmacuser]

You can tell that Nepenthe is praying Nope does poorly at the box office so she can blame everyone.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-like-to-see-nintendo-direct-funerals-to-lay-dead-series-to-rest.609852/

After the recent rumours about something F-Zero related on the horizon being accompanied by a warning to temper expectations (meaning it'll likely be something other than a traditional F-Zero game), I got to thinking: What if Nintendo cut off all disappointment at the pass by holding "funerals" for their series have died?

These could consist of direct presentations that take looks back at the histories of series like Mother/Earthbound, Kid Icarus, Star Fox, F-Zero, etc., with developer interviews, anecdotes, development footage, and examples of impact (presence at game expos, adverts/billboards, cosplayers).

This could be a good way bring closure to fans of these series while simultaneously celebrating their lives.

the fan mindshare suicide of this

who would ever do this? sony holds a funeral for jak, or microsoft holds a funeral for blinx, ea holds a funeral for sim city

and then later you remaster or rerelease a game so technically it's not dead so why the hell did you hold the funeral

"due to the passionate fan outcry after our funeral we are pleased to announce a new twisted metal"



from the poll:

I would appreciate the closure & opportunity for reminiscence

bitch you can reminisce now, it's all anyone ever does
 

[ShutUp]

Nope has the “worst” reviews of his now three movies (still good reviews though) so it’s not exactly a stretch for some to wonder if the shine is wearing off. Us did damn near identically at the box office as Get Out and yet it seems Us was never talked about the way Get Out was.

[Polident Hive]

https://twitter.com/OANN/status/1549812479575801856

This only happens for Jordan Peele. Folks are salivating to brand a nicca as "the next Shyamalan." Meanwhile Alex Garland be slingin' films in the 70s range and people were hyped for Men lol.

Regardless, Nope is getting a theatrical watch from me regardless.

Indeed. Shyamalan's big knocks were not just a years'-long string of HUGE misses, but that string being coupled with horrible acting and twist endings that exist only to recontextualize the movie and not to really hammer home an important narrative point. Jordan hasn't even been in the horror game long enough for any such comparisons to make sense, and even then these complaints fall apart when applied vacuously to his two movies to various degrees; like, no one can seriously argue that the acting threshold in his films is bad. It is specifically because he is a non-white American horror director (have to specify because at least folks here are superficially nicer to Asian horror directors), essentially having the audacity to exist in a space that does not "belong" to him while simultaneously being good at what he does enough to stand out and be just as hyped as white directors, that certain folks on Era are rooting for him to fail. It is plain as day to see.

JimCarreyWhoYaTalkinTo.gif

Who the fuck on Era talks about Peele like this? A few people not thinking it looks great and this weirdo goes into another fit of rage that goes unchecked. Wild the shit she gets away with saying.

 And Alex Garland has been around a tad longer than Peele, who releases his third film in two days. Odd comparison.

M Night in his day was called the next Spielberg lol. That famous non-white director.

Giving Peele a lot of credit for limiting himself. He spoke about Hollywood coming at him with huge offers. They wanted him for The Flash and Akira at a point. But he’s kept himself on a smaller scale to make his movies.

[Uncle]

Is it as good as Us and Get Out? Nope. – Scott Mendelson, Forbes

[Joe Molotov]

Nope has the “worst” reviews of his now three movies (still good reviews though) so it’s not exactly a stretch for some to wonder if the shine is wearing off. Us did damn near identically at the box office as Get Out and yet it seems Us was never talked about the way Get Out was.

But this Alex Garland nicca was slingin' films in the 70's!

[HaughtyFrank]

Which RE member is this?

https://twitter.com/adamtotscomix/status/1549815986714558475

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/1549849194277457920

[close]

[ShutUp]

Nope has the “worst” reviews of his now three movies (still good reviews though) so it’s not exactly a stretch for some to wonder if the shine is wearing off. Us did damn near identically at the box office as Get Out and yet it seems Us was never talked about the way Get Out was.

But this Alex Garland nicca was slingin' films in the 70's!

Someone gonna eat a ban when they point out Nope is heading for the 70’s too

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/got-house-of-the-dragon-official-trailer-released.609906/

Just give me spectacle and black/ brown people actually doing shit on this show.

the one thing that matters more than anything else in entertainment media 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

/

[VomKriege]

People always loved making very definitive predictions about the quality of some upcoming movies, then about the box office returns and now the review aggregates... I wonder if the current trend of rooting for a film (you anticipate) to fail so as to chastise audiences or the JOKER IS GOING TO CAUSE INCEL MASS SHOOTINGS is a weird branch off from the whole internet hype machine.

[VomKriege]

I'd be shocked if Peele didn't eventually end up among lots of short lists for GOAT horror director (or just GOAT director overall since he seems to be expanding his horizons a bit).

Sir put down the phone I beg of you.

[VomKriege]

I really don't remember Garland getting the director hype that Peele got after Get Out, though, for any of his movies.

Probably because he's just not considered that interesting or talented a director as compared to Peele. Which you think would cause people on Era to be far more discerning about him. 🤔

"Paweł Pawlikowski ? Must not be very good, never seen that name hyped."

[VomKriege]

Also didn't Peele "fail" with a lukewarm received reboot of the Twilight Zone he was tied to ?

[FUME5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-some-legenday-threads-in-eras-near-5-year-history.610074/

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-some-legenday-threads-in-eras-near-5-year-history.610074/

For me it was definitely the 2020 US election. The emotions I've felt from feeling like shit thinking Biden was going to lose, to him actually winning was a wild roller-coaster lol. I kept refreshing that thread like every 5 seconds it was bad for my anxiety lol.

[benjipwns]

And it begins:

Was the one where the guy predicted the Mortal Kombat game (I think it was MK at least) but was doubted by many, only to return YEARS LATER when the game was announced a ERA thread or was it back on the old place?

[Polident Hive]

Just say gaf. It’s been five years. gaf probably doesn’t exist anymore.

[Boredfrom]

Also didn't Peele "fail" with a lukewarm received reboot of the Twilight Zone he was tied to ?

Yeah, nobody seems to remember that reboot.

[Uncle]

looking back at all these wonderful classic threads and every single one is a wasteland of fun and good-natured posts with a giant "banned" or "user-requested ban" or "user-requested account deletion" stamped across them 

[BadAss2961]

I'd be shocked if Peele didn't eventually end up among lots of short lists for GOAT horror director (or just GOAT director overall since he seems to be expanding his horizons a bit).

Sir put down the phone I beg of you.

More like Peele is quickly becoming black M. Night Shyamalan, cliche as it might sound. Talented with a passion for innovation, but with an inescapable footprint completely devoid of nuance, along with shameless self plugging marketing to match. One hit movie and it's A JORDAN PEELE FILM ever since. lol

Like M. Night, his name will probably become a bit of a poisoned meme eventually. But he'll make something good every now and then when he tones it down some.

[ShutUp]

Only true classic thread is Cerium announcing he was making off with 4 million and not giving the janitors a dime.

[benjipwns]

Only true classic thread is Cerium announcing he was making off with 4 million and not giving the janitors a dime.

FACT CHECK: The staff did not want to sully Doing The Work with filthy lucre which literally corrupts one's blood. It was entirely their choice and they refused. If you're a true ally you can put your money where you mouth is and donate to Nepenthe's ko-fi.

[Propagandhim]

We're never gonna have a thread like that ever again. 

 

[BIONIC]

That thread is only classic due to all the FUN TAGS handed out very organically