I think the problem a lot of IP franchises are running into is a crop rotation one - this stuff has to lie fallow for a bit if you want new people to feel like it's theirs and they're seeing something magical and fresh in it

LET A WHITE BOY DREAM

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

I fuckin’ read the Donkey’s dialogue in Eddie Murphy’s voice too

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

The fact is as culturally omnipresent as long Minions and Baby Yoda periods seem they’re all pale imitations of the true long Mania that never left us, the one true king

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

"I'm depressed" - so what so is everyone - 'hi depressed i'm dad' - no ironic detachment "I suffer from melancholia" - sounds like an exciting exotic disease - people love lars von trier - five syllables in one word shows you're doin okay in this economy - maybe opens the door to say 'ennui'

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

comply maliciously or not at all

The Illinois House and Senate have both passed a junk fee ban. The bill outlaws the hidden charges that get added onto tickets, hotels, tech service and more. It now heads to the desk of Gov. Pritzker, who says he'll sign it.

We Hurt People

Boycott Barnes and Noble. Loudly. Right fucking now. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Hey remember how Michael Bay's horrible treatment of Megan Fox--when she was underage AND after she quit his films as an adult--got completely brushed aside by folks cause "Ambulance and Pain & Gain were good, he is an AUTEUR"? The dude has never hidden what a shitbird he is

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

The bill wouldn't have passed without 8 Democrats voting for it.

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

that's what's missing from this conversation: an acknowledgement that even if we did not need a single tax dollar from the rich to fund public policy, taxing them into oblivion would still be the right thing to do in and of itself

This caused corporate America to boycott North Carolina ten years ago

i got inspired by this pic #xmen #cyclops #jeangrey #jott

I picked up mmz for two seconds and it's all I can think about #ロックマンゼロ #megamanzero

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

eventually "developing FFXI" is going to be one of those longstanding japanese crafts where only a few aged masters remain and they do the NHK documentary about the one guy who's the youngest apprentice at 47 and still gets up at the crack of dawn to tend to the mill

another quiet night in gotham. they fixed the bank. theres no way its going to happen again

Consume e g g

this is a masterpiece

This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.

Final Fantasy XI marked its 24th anniversary with Producer Yoji Fujito announcing a focus on "expanding the game's foundation". “The game's success has forced us to update our long-term goals... the FFXI team will be hard at work to reach its 30th anniversary. www.xeznaff.com/post/final-f...

it's so funny in that sega investor report they were like "for some reason we didn't make our money back from the evil gacha game sonic rumble party" and you turn on sonic rumble party and it's like "pay us $750 for sonic's iconic bedazzled crop top and we've added the cast of bobby's world"

We are launching the same week as a new Absolute title so that's gonna be The Big Book. But hey if you're picking up ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW*, a comic about men in power thought untouchable being killed, grab SEVEN WIVES, a mystery comic about what happens after a powerful untouchable man is killed.

every time I think I should be nicer to economists, one opens their mouth and says something like: “why should I verify the sources i cite?”

My biggest takeaway so far working through the Claremont run is that if you are familiar with the X-Men via other media properties like the movies, the old animated series, various video games etc, you are not prepared for the level of space opera derangement it contains.

This all does feel like a societal-level commitment to elder abuse, after all the years of Facebook fake news and Whatsapp forwards, a lot of people are primed to have their brains instantly cooked by AI. Sad to know that we've already seen all the writing we're going to get from Tokarczuk

I understand why people watch a superhero movie and dismiss all superheroes as "lone cowboy with bazooka saves the day" but my early understanding of showing up for a community came from superhero comics. There's fights, but Batman brings Solomon Grundy food and leaves him alone when possible, etc.

I mean, for fuck's sake Geoff inks over Nick pencils Nick inks over Geoff pencils

Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

these current team runs where you have 8 characters that only get 6 issues together are crazy. it's like watching a pilot episode. WHERE are the bizarre lived-in soap opera team dynamics

Alessio Zonno drawing a Power Rangers comic book that throws together Power Rangers from random seasons from the 30 year history of the show...That's Art, to me.

What non-superhero fans don't understand about my love for superhero comics is that they are weird and they used to be even weirder. I don't like MCU so much. I like that comic runs used to go on for like 100 issues and the whole time I'd be like, what the Hell am I reading???

That said, Matrix WILL return, I promise.

Watching through ER for the first time, and I always love when network tv shows don’t know how video games work. John Carter brought a kid a Game Gear to play Mortal Kombat multiplayer even though they only have one console

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

OPTIMUS PRIME SUPER MODE Finally finished with this piece! One of my favorite Prime designs of all time, UT era just had that super robot flair that I love. #transformers #maccadam