SWChris

Dude thought he was IRLing GTA

@TheMouseAndMore Isn’t it because they are no longer the distributor and buying rights to use someone else’s logo for the movie you bought is really tricky from a legal perspective?

Watching the Muppet Movie (‘79) and Disney removed the Universal intro..it would play after the Henson intro and before the start where the Universal globe transitions to a movie prop globe

@spumdonor @GrimGriz Church libraries still have these books

You can know intellectually that we live in a "female-oriented" culture or whatever you want to call it, but you don't really experience that until you have a son & are looking for books at your local library about fire trucks or trains (which he suddenly became fascinated with at 20 months without any prompting) & without exaggeration, the only ones I could find were a single Thomas the Tank Engine book & one called "The Train" (how my eyes lit up!) which turned out to be about Native Americans forced to go to residential schools. Zip for anything about fire trucks or firefighters, not even in the Kids' Science / Technology section. I have begun to suspect that the emphasis on dinosaurs in our culture, besides providing unofficial promotion for the Jurassic Park franchise, exists to give boys a watered down outlet for masculine interests since dinosaurs are something powerful, with conflict & danger involved. But it's all inherently neutered, because they've been dead & gone since forever, they're safely in the past. A similar thing applies to superheroes; they're not real & their conflicts aren't really relatable so they're deemed acceptable for boys. Anyways, I know this has gotten worse since I was a kid in the 90s because yeah the libraries were run by libtard women then too, & there were plenty of books about dinosaurs in the wake of Jurassic Park, but there were also plenty of those Stephen Biesty cross-section books about castles etc, or Richard Scarry books about fire stations, & those books are still in print but the point of a public library (ostensibly) is to provide a well rounded opportunity for education. Of course they have a dedicated wall for whatever made up event like Latinx Heritage Month or Pacific Islander Appreciation month, but you'll have to hunt & peck for anything a normal young boy might be interested in.

Can’t wait for the nursing home scrapbooks.

@J0hnADouglas How much you want to bet the writing is terrible too? Ugliness tends to manifest in more than one way.

@SWChrisCreative I’m past wtf is wrong with you and I want to being back witch burnings. Clearly we didn’t burn enough

I found a book worse than the Minotaur milking smut book.

@m_anthonyharris The troupe of Bond villains known as the WEF might come close.

Is there a group that has been more detrimental to the world in the last 30 years than the Theater Kids?

@kasteter @IFLH23 This guy lives in Asia and is fronting for the UK via a VPN

@IFLH23 Any fruit or do you forgo them? Can't go wrong with meat and potatoes though. I'm personally gonna drink 2 buckets of Dunkin' donuts, eat a Hershey's chocolate bar and a 30cm pizza and pat my belly like a seal.

“Just found out Americans don’t have nutty-gums and fruit-jammed breadystackers…” “What’s that?” “It’s peanuted butter and a fruit jelly betwixt two slices of bread.” “You mean a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?” “That’s not like it at all, you Americans are so dense…”

TLDR “a real friend calls you out online in front of everyone and starts beefing with you for internet points until your friendship is in tatters and they’re hounded off the internet.”

@megbasham @FoxNews One reasonable guess is that they don’t as a rule cover foreign events when they don’t obviously have anything to do with American interests.

Yeah, OK, this is weird. I just searched to see if @FoxNews has done ANY coverage of the Unite the Kingdom rally in the last month and they have nothing. Not even one little digital story today. And they churn those things out in like 30 minutes. Something weird is going on with their total blackout on coverage of British protests against the foreign takeover of the West.

@sarahsalviander Oh no. I’m part of a YouTube mastermind with a bunch of realtors and right now all their scripts sound identical because they’re all using AI to write them. It will start becoming noticeable soon enough. Keep your voice unique and that will set you apart

I resent AI for its prolific use of three things: the em-dash, ellipsis, and "It's not just X, it's Y." I used these regularly in my writing pre-AI, and now I find myself editing them out of my social media posts. I tend to write longer posts in Word or Notepad, which produces em-dashes automatically. Just type two short dashes (--), and voila you get an em-dash. But when I paste these posts into X, it looks like AI wrote them. So, I manually replace em-dashes with short dashes, which: looks worse, is annoying, and takes time. I've cut way back on ellipsis... sigh. And try as I might, sometimes there just isn't a non-clunky way to say "It's not just X, it's Y." I'm curious what y'all think. Maybe I'm too sensitive to this and most people aren't looking for AI "tells" in social media posts. 🤷‍♀️

The criticism of Mango and Grok (lol) is more a joke meme at this point than anything justified. It’s going to be a very safe film that does nothing offensive just like The Clone Wars movie, and therefore no one will see it. Except me. Because I’m fine with “safe” right now.

@BMcGrewvy @MDusty663079 It’s great having neighbors like that. One of them mows my side yard because it joins up against hers and brings over things for the kids from time to time. Very nice lady.

@MDusty663079 One of them has already mowed my lawn for free!

I was slow getting out the door to pick up my Doordashed ahead of time McDonald's breakfast this morning, for which I spent a solid c. $16 but deemed the cost worth it on moving morning. It was gone. Vanished. Nice knowing you too, Lansing.

@Jack_Baris11 @sunnyright Nah. He simply wants to be reelected and this is the base now.

@sunnyright This guy was super pro Israel a year ago wtf happened. He must have gotten paid

“recognizing the ongoing Nakba” Holy fucking shit dude

@Eldonchorizo_ They’re worth taking seriously today because the company culture and many of the people they worked with are still there. It will be less valuable over time but no, they are not making up shit for clicks.

@Eldonchorizo_ They are people who worked there for a very long time at a very high level and so they do have insight into the psychology of the NOA marketing team and some of the developers and leadership they interacted with.

Did Kit and Krysta ever have deep access to Nintendo information or are they just making up shit for clicks?

All this means is the reviewer for Mixtape has no taste. 🤪

IGN has always been clear that review scores are the judgment of the tastes of the individual reviewer, not an “objective” measure of quality.

This sounds fun

@ImKingGinger That said, you have some good ideas.

@ImKingGinger I’m pretty sure their business is doing fine and these layoffs are not as drastic as reported in the, um, New York Magazine.

If Daily Wire hired me as a showrunner/producing consultant I'd turn the business around in three months. Here's how. First The Daily Wire needs to understand that live streaming has turned DW into AM Talk Radio. There has to be an acknowledgement and acceptance of this on the first phone call. Bring in young new talent. Live streams with actual live chat interaction. Legitimate long form debate. No sound bytes. Live in the field reporting, mixed with IRL style streaming. None of it would or could be controlled. None of it would be scripted. No PR or legal approvals. Hosts have full autonomy. Free Matt Walsh to do whatever he wants. Give hosts ownership of what they build. Authenticity is more valuable than accuracy. Allow hosts to screw up. Give them freedom to do so. All of this can be done without engaging in anti Israel, or Candace drama. I rightfully forgot to mention the entertainment side. That's because political organizations are not entertainment organizations. I'd sell or turn over the entertainment department to a completely separate business. You can't just move them to a separate floor. You do that. You win. It really is simple. But being willing to change things so drastically is hard. Call me.