Partisan Brain Rot

The most generous reading of it is that media companies spent most of the day 2010s taking the core fanbase of their most valuable IPs. For granted, and so spent their efforts catering to everyone but the core fans in hope of growing their audience. Now they have no audience at all. Whoops!

Genuine question… Why do entertainment companies actively ignore the desire of their own fans? Star Wars fans have been begging them to remove “the message” from their shows. Doctor Who fans have been begging them to remove “the message” from their show. Star Trek fans have been begging them to remove “the message” from their shows. Stargate fans are begging them to not include “the message” in their upcoming content. Gamers of almost every genre have been begging them to remove “the message” from games. Yet these executives will not stop! Why do they have this insatiable need to insert their own beliefs into other people‘s entertainment?

Yes. I went on opening night and thought it was great. But that day was literally the high water mark of the entire Star Wars zeitgeist, after years of thoughtful, careful Disney hype. I went back and saw it a few weeks later and realized it had nothing beyond the surface. Never bothered with 8 or 9.

@Tahllinavian_20 I was actually someone who thought TFA had a lot of potential at first and then I thought about it some more and was like “oooooh, maybe not.”

Gonna have to respectfully disagree there. The concept of a planet sized Death Star being built without anyone in the Republic knowing ahead of time is one issue of a long list of many issues. It’s got the same issues as the Holdo Maneuver, where the spectacle is striking but the context is just dumb. That and I feel like the whole “Yelling at the head of the army” argument thing actually removes the weight from scene because it ceases to be intimidating and switches to instead be annoying. Not everyone has to be Thanos, but I’m imagining someone cold and calculative like Tarken giving a matter of fact, dead serious speech punctuated by the beam firing would make it hit much harder. It looks pretty, but has so many issues that it instantly loses appeal.

@PMccarthy26071 @Drachs1978 @Devon_Eriksen_ I don't have to. THEY would tell YOU the same thing I am. Moron.

@PartisanRot @Drachs1978 @Devon_Eriksen_ Tell that to the two founders he pushed out with his money.

Sandwich Shop Test. If a guy makes a trillion dollars, and you want to take the trillion dollars, and you say you will use the trillion dollar better than the guy who makes it... Run a small sandwich shop at a continuous profit for five years. Then you can tell me your plan. Otherwise, it's not worth my time to even listen.

@llVllisanthrope @fandompulse No, they just took money from the developer's centibillionaire daddy.

@fandompulse The issue is, IGN thinks of itself as some great gatekeeper for art and story and not something that reviews games for the average gamer. So you just have writers who are pretentious and annoying. So the game speaks to them. Thus, the 10/10

IGN awarded Mixtape a perfect 10/10 — one of the rarest scores in the publication's history. Mixtape peaked at 2,245 concurrent players on Steam. Xbox's official account responded to the backlash: "Reminder: just because you're not personally into a game, doesn't mean it's a bad game." Players called it "shallow, painfully self-important, and more interested in curated vibes than actual gameplay." The soundtrack licenses The Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, and The Cure — not an indie budget. This is the Concord pattern. When does gaming press reckon with the gap between its scores and its audience?

TRUE. As a white father of 5 I teach my children that blacks are extremely violent, have no impulse control, and are to be avoided at all costs. Any white parent who doesn't teach their children this, is doing their children a massive disservice due to their naivety and is literally putting their children's lives at risk. Fortunately I've made a ton of money so am able to raise my children in a country where there are no blacks, and send them to a private international school that no blacks can afford.

This is one of the most mentally ill articles ever written.

Yeah, what's happened in the African American community over the last 60 years is about the furthest things from "winning" I could imagine by any metric. No father, killing each other, begging for handouts from White people and the government, life expectancy 20 years below White people, etc. You'll never admit it, but if you're one of the smarter ones (~90 IQ) you know it deep down. Then again, based on these takes I'd put your IQ in the low 70s.

@GunslingerTX I guess we’re winning then. You had the monopoly on violence so i guessed we learned well from the good white folk

Jeff Metcalf in his own words Calls Karmelo Anthony a “Watermelon Felon”…. & Americans would like to make us believe he didn’t raise his sons to be bigots & this wasn’t about race…. If this was The fathers posture I can only imagine what he instilled in his sons

If it's all scripted, it makes no sense to concentrate all this power around him vs. diffusing it among multiple people. Or, if he's so loyal, they'd have given him back OpenAI instead of letting Altman steal it from him. Elon has amassed all this power and wealth because he is extremely good at running businesses and his businesses target extremely ambitious problems to solve.

@PartisanRot @BradMiller1010 @elonmusk Your argument against him saying he’s a government plant is to point out how rare it is to have not one but 3 trillion dollar companies that heavily rely on government contracts. lmfao

If there's any cult more ridiculous than the Trump cult, it's the Elon cult. The dude is a weird technoccultist who basically serves as the avatar of the tech elite arm of the global power structure. If you believe @elonmusk is rich just because he's smart, then you have no idea how the world works. You probably also believe he purchased Twitter because he cares about free speech. You probably still believe DOGE was about eliminating govt waste & corruption. Elon is not the richest person in the world. He's the richest person we're allowed to know about. Within the real world power dynamics, he's a middle manager at best. He's rich because he's useful to the globalist asset managers. He's been allowed to become wealthy because it's part of his scripted persona. This persona is useful in getting normie morons to suspend all judgment & get on board with the implementation of the technocrat takeover. Elon's role is essential in building out the data collection/surveillance infrastructure of the control grid. If he were to refuse to do the bidding of his masters, his stock value would plummet & his wealth would evaporate. He knows this, which is why he does what he's told. You guys have got to stop worshipping your overlords. It's pathetic.

I saw something today saying that Elon's current wealth is equal to 3.7% of US GDP, whereas Rockefeller's topped out at about 3%. The US also accounts for a much higher percentage of world GDP than it did in JDR's heyday, so I think based on those I would consider Elon to be more wealthy.

@PartisanRot @BradMiller1010 @elonmusk Well are you counting for debasement. I would argue that Rockefeller had more relative wealth than elon with 1 billion Dollars.

@dodsonduane7 @HistoryWJacob 🤣🤣🤣

@HistoryWJacob Elon is a career criminal, from mob style skimming schemes to out right fraud, to inciting sedition.

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. To put that in perspective, John D. Rockefeller’s peak fortune is estimated on the high end at 3% of U.S. GDP. Musk’s current wealth sits at 3.1%-3.7% of today’s U.S. GDP. I think it is safe to say that Musk can be crowned as the richest figure America has ever seen.

@HistoryWJacob US GDP is also presumably a much higher percentage of global GDP than it was in Rockefeller's heyday.

@PMccarthy26071 @Drachs1978 @Devon_Eriksen_ He bought Tesla when they didn't even have a prototype vehicle and turned them into the biggest car company in the world. Trying to say he didn't found it is stupid, the company was barely more than an idea when he joined.

@PartisanRot @Drachs1978 @Devon_Eriksen_ He didn't found Tesla. He bought into it and kicked out the original owner because he had more money and didn't like him. Yeah he founded a few. But he bought x too.

@BowesChay Fun fact: if you invested in all the public, female-founded, female-led companies in the US that IPO'd in the last 10 years, you'd have lost over 95% of your investment. There are no females on this list because women are not cut out for business.

Where are the Women?

@BurrowBeliever @velvetmilkman0 @zuim257 Turns out it does.

@velvetmilkman0 @zuim257 No amount of hard work makes you $800 billion dollars in a year

Elon was worth 400 million like a year ago Please explain to me how he tripled his net worth by just working hard

@0urlady0fsorr0w @birdicator177 You really think saving the environment, advancing space travel, and beaming Internet to every deal zone on earth aren't advancing humanity? Give me a break dude 🙄

@PartisanRot @birdicator177 Absolutamente ninguna de esas cosas es útil para la humanidad. Ninguna, salvo tal vez los vehículos eléctricos pero no sirve de nada si no se optimiza y se hace accesible.

i think people wouldn't hate billionares (and now trillionaires) as much if they actually did anything of value with all that money instead of sitting on it like a Dragon so that more money comes in.

@brianeskow It makes me have to suffer through hundreds of concave brain takes from leftoids on the Internet.

What effect does Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire have on your life?

Musk's capital deployment has founded three (3) different trillion dollar companies. Those companies: (1) single-handedly created the EV industry (and even gave away Tesla IP to encourage competition), (2) invented reusable rockets and given humanity a big boost in the space race, and essentially created AI as we know it. One of his other big investments also freed the world from the yoke of left wing censorship. Someone would have to be astoundingly arrogant (and wrong) to think they could deploy capital better than him- he's literally objectively better at it than anyone else on earth.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Any person who could spend a trillion dollars better than Musk knows better than to spend 5 years running a sandwich shop. That's a trap.

@RoKhanna US state and federal governments ALREADY invest more tax dollars per capita in healthcare and education than almost anywhere else in the world. The system you have produced with that investment is a sick joke.

This the basic difference. Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous. Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.

Ro, a 5% tax on Elon's net worth couldn't even pay for 50 miles for California HSR. How on earth do you think you wasteful bureaucrats could ever get it to pay for universal undergraduate tuition? You guys' problem is youve done such a shit job as custodians of taxpayer funds that even for policies I'm hugely in favor of, I know that trusting the government to solve them is just lighting our money on fire.

Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?