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I expect lockdowns to come back neither in the US nor in the UK, but hope for them to come back in both places.
Stay at home if you're too afraid to go outside.
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I expect lockdowns to come back neither in the US nor in the UK, but hope for them to come back in both places.
Yeah, you can keep your economic and psychological ruin to yourself, thanks.
How much woke virtue signaling can one take? Even Bill Maher agrees.
Even famously pro-woke virtue signaling TV personality Bill Maher agrees!
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I expect lockdowns to come back neither in the US nor in the UK, but hope for them to come back in both places.
In the UK, lockdowns doubled mental health referrals amongst young people [1] and there was a sharp increase in alcohol related deaths [2]. I hope they don't return, given we now have a vaccine. I also doubt their efficacy, with cases declining in some cases before lockdowns began. They are not a cost-free public health tool, and it is unknown whether they have caused more harm than good. [1] https://www.theguardian.…
That is a good point, but it's not that we're weighing which of two decisions is good, only which is less bad. Certainly the laissez faire attitudes many places in the US, including my residence, have taken to dealing with the problem have also been not cost-free, and to say that it is unknown whether they have caused more harm than good seems to me to be a dramatic understatement.
I think people are just exhausted and numb to what Hollywood, etc has to offer.
Basically playing for nostalgia points, but making it shittier.
Good. I hope they all go out of business. Their predatory practices are the reason why social media is so toxic. I'm honestly amazed that companies haven't figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be and they are probably over spending on them [1]. [1] https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/research/resear...
> amazed that companies haven't figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be I was once asked to do some stats on the marketing effectiveness of a company I was at. Not my job but I really hated a couple of the people in the marketing dept so I went at the task anyway. I had long had suspicious that the advertising was mostly smoke and mirrors so I was glad to find out that I was right…
I have no idea about marketing, but as a consumer I know that I am influenced both positively and negatively at times with regards to products based on my experience with their marketing. I also have a feeling that marketing is more than just correlation between campaign and sales. I.e. what was the competition doing at the same time. Marketing I assume is also about avoiding churn, or making the overall market bigger (e.g. PS5 ads may also help Xbox sales, game sales etc..)
In general it feels a bit creepy to me when someone suggests that people losing their jobs is a happy ending. Therefore I accept I am also replying with bias…
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I've had it with the Marvel Overextended Universe, and Star [Wars|Gate|Trek|Craft]. Time for something new.
I will watch Picard season two whenever it comes out. I just ordered STG:1 on DVD, and will probably do Atlantis after that. If keeping up with the Cardashians had been what I thought it was, I would definitely be watching that too. Those aren't bad TV shows, unlike most of Marvel. I think maybe that is because they actually believe in/stand for something, as opposed to just being boobs and fights.
As somebody who only consumes tv that my friends/family watch (which includes scifi and not "reality" tv), I thought there was some weird show about Cardassians for a blissful decade...
How about hollywood starts making GOOD content again?
I remember when the first Avengers movie came out, a lot of my industry friends repeated some nonsense line about how we need to see Blockbusters so that the money can trickle down to independent filmmakers and riskier ideas. 10 years later and the market is saturated with super hero films, the independent directors are all directing Disney blockbusters, and the riskier ideas only get a spotlight during Oscar season…
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> The black and white couple with only gay Asian children under 10 with a Latino teenager makes everything into a farce. That doesn't happen. No one is writing movies where people who aren't Latino just have Latino children to score "progressive points" or whatever. Interracial couples do exist. Asians and Latinos exist, and their portrayal in media isn't any more "progressive" than portraying any other race or ethni…
> I doubt there is anyone in any minority group who feels mocked by greater representation. But, as a Gay Black Asian Latino yourself, you can probably tell us what it's like. Are you unfamiliar with the concept of tokenism? To me and to many others, though not to you, certain parts seem to exist purely to collect diversity points. This seems like pandering to me, and I expect it is insulting to anyone who views it t…
Just feels like there's a bit of goalpost-moving in this subthread. The poster farther up was annoyed that there are shows where seemingly all the characters have some non-cis-straight-white characteristic to them. And now you're talking about nearly the opposite, all-cis-straight-white casts except for a token something-else.
Which is it, eh? If y'all want to disingenuously whine about more diversity in casting, at least get your stories straight...
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In a movie landscape of formulaic sequels, uninspired remakes, endless superhero flicks, and a total lack of original ips... why is more diversity the first factor you jump to?
Same story but more diversity in casting
Instead of taking a new story, and making a new movie with something we haven't seen before 50 times (and here they can take some story from an actually diverse world), they take an old story (eg snow white), that we've seen many times, in many forms (books, cartoons, movies, comics,...), and replace the actress who should have "skin white as snow" (literal quote from the book) with someone more "diverse".
Africa and asia are huge places, with many different people and cultures and that creates many tales, stories and legends... And hollywood? Let's take a 1960s cartoon (eg 101. dalmatians), make Anita black, and then make a movie out of that.. or (previously mentioned) snow white, make her columbian, and make (another) movie out of that. Are they really so incompetent, that they cannot create anything new? Or are the beancounters stopping any risks, so they feed us 200+ year old fairytales, that we've seen before?