Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step forward, he takes a step back. Meet me in the middle says the unjust man.
@billwithers47625 ай бұрын
Sounds like something Andrew Ryan would say.
@ArchangelExile5 ай бұрын
🤪
@karolo3204 ай бұрын
that's very funny I don't know why
@KingSpectre8445 ай бұрын
When reading the consulting company list, you skipped over James Mendez Hodes. The eagle eyed among you will remember him from the Extra Credits "Orcs are Black People" debacle.
@incurableromantic40065 ай бұрын
Ah yes - when they mean to call other people racist: and end up admitting how racist they themselves are. Classic.
@crimsonpotemkin5 ай бұрын
Oh i remember that one. The people who see an orc and goblin and think "ah yes, I know what these are, an african and a jew". Then they tell you you're the racist. They also made the "suddenly, you're a nazi. You didn't ask for this" video
@Kylephibbsky5 ай бұрын
Man that put me off their video game design videos almost entirely. Like how can you be so tone deaf and sanctimonious at the same time.
@NathanCassidy7215 ай бұрын
I forgot about that mostly because of Wizards of the Coast taking that criticism to heart. To the point where they sound like they are promoting the ideas of Francis Galton.
@insensitive9195 ай бұрын
Good catch.
@tylergoodman35605 ай бұрын
1: Kotaku doesn't have journalists, they're political activists trying to stay relevant. 2: Synder needs to delegate creative power. 3: These Disney projects being axed could be tax write-offs. 🎉
@incurableromantic40065 ай бұрын
You have to remember - no one who works for these MSM gaming outlets actually *wants* to be there. They're all looking for a job with Washington Post, or CNN or Huffington Post: and are slumming it in games media to build up their woke credentials.
@EmptyAltruism5 ай бұрын
Snyder needs to go away
@EmptyAltruism5 ай бұрын
@aker1993 🤭
@AnoneemusNoename5 ай бұрын
Snyder is not a writer. He needs to accept that reality and find himself people that can discern good writing from bad (as he obviously cannot when left to his own devices) and then he needs to get back to doing action projects where he sticks to the writer's and/or initial IP's vison. Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole were his best films (Man of Steel was okay too) cuz he had prior writing and setups by decent writers/comic book artists and all he had to do was bring it to life/live action and make it epic. (Man of Steel was okay too but everything else minus Sucker Punch, more on that later, imo is garbage.) He also needs to stop doing cocaine (he's almost always obviously high whenever i see him in interviews). There are many anyone can look up and see he is pretty much one rail short of a full blown manic episode. That sh*t isn't known for making one a super smart genius creative type. Good if you're a rock star that wants to put on an intense show otherwise it makes you into half a schizo retard (which is pretty much borne out by Army of the Dead and Rebel Moon) The only thing he did that was any good (people will disagree with me but they just didn't get the genius of that film) where he had a primary writing credit was Sucker Punch and it's pretty obvious Steve Shibuya did all the heavy lifting and Zack pretty much just wrote the fantasy/video game/anime/sci-fi sh*t and made it f*ckin awesome.
@MassacrisM5 ай бұрын
Snyder literally has like 2 decent movies (300 and Man of Steel) and they arent even exactly cinema masterpieces. I dont know why anybody has ever taken him seriously.
@thechicagobox5 ай бұрын
Your money is your power. Don’t give your power away to people that don’t respect you. We are all accountable for our actions, one way or another.
@ThePhilosophersYawn5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately they take it from you through taxes/government funds anyway but yea giving them your money voluntarily is another lvl of stupid.
@FreemanSC5 ай бұрын
I remember when entertainment was more about entertainment.
@docsavage86405 ай бұрын
It never was. It's historically has been about making money. The fools today forgot you can't do that without providing entertainment.
@worlddd77775 ай бұрын
@@docsavage8640 Yes, its always been about money and propaganda, only before they actually mixed in fun
@arkive115 ай бұрын
@@docsavage8640 "It never was, fools today forget how it really is!" *alright calm down Maverick. This isn't Reddit*
@BARACKOBMNANA5 ай бұрын
good ol days
@RiccBallard5 ай бұрын
Sorry, I am getting told old, now I can't remember those days clearly anymore, seems like so, so long ago.
@thatoneoctopus74945 ай бұрын
There's a reason Nintendo has stopped giving Kotaku their games early for review
@ZehRooKiE5 ай бұрын
Well there was another reason like them pirating their games. But yeah they suck lol
@AnoneemusNoename5 ай бұрын
There is a reason Kotaku was one of the first sites i clicked to add when i downloaded/installed the uBlacklist browser add-on. No regrets.
@hybrid9mm5 ай бұрын
@@ZehRooKiE did Nintendo sue them for it?
@ZehRooKiE5 ай бұрын
@hybrid9mm doesn't seem like it. They were just blacklisted. Sony, Bethesda and Ubisoft apparently also have blacklisted them
@hybrid9mm5 ай бұрын
@@ZehRooKiE considering how Nintendo generally operates they got off lightly with just a blacklist, money changed hands for sure. How embarrassing to be blacklisted by those companies when your industry relies on them, that’s an epic failure.
@SpasticSqrl5 ай бұрын
What's amazing is that anyone who studied social marketing knows that making your audience angry or threatening them with cancellation actually hardens the existing values you want to change. They are not serious about being accountable to making positive change for the disenfranchised groups they claim to represent. It is a grift for the con humans surfing on this social blackmail and a way for activists to feel better about themselves with no ethics about the consequences of their extremism.
@Jdl3435 ай бұрын
As a long time gamer over forty years I have noticed the changes for the worst that have become more apparent. I was looking forward to the new Fable game but no thanks.
@macmcleod11885 ай бұрын
I don't think it's that simple because the writers and members of the production team are members of those disenfranchised groups. I think they're mistaking the people around them who were selected in an artificial manner for external reality. In their world minorities are overrepresented and people with different sexual preferences are overrepresented and this is put them completely out of contact with the majority of their customers. Who don't share those demographics.
@incurableromantic40065 ай бұрын
They don't see us as customers though - they see us as the enemy to be beaten down and overcome. It's far more important to them to signal they are loyal to the cult than it is to be popular.
@daviru025 ай бұрын
Well said
@Phantom_Communique5 ай бұрын
Mr H talking about diversity in programming vs diversity in casting - hit the nail right on the head 👌🏻 I think that was the most concise way to put it. Forcing diversity through casting leads to the same homogeneous tropes being repeated over and over.
@Relugus5 ай бұрын
And of course all upper-middle class, BAME, and Jewish.
@carlettoburacco92355 ай бұрын
These "journalists" forget that the games they "disapprove" and "belittle" from the 90s onwards are what have paid their salary all these years.
@nont184115 ай бұрын
Thanks to Sweet Baby Inc, now I know that Peter Parker is such a shit nephew to Aunt May, a horrible mentor to Miles Morales, a failure of a boyfriend to MJ, a disappointment to Harry and most importantly, an embarrassment of a Spider-Man to the whole city. That’s why he outright said that the city doesn’t need him anymore because it has a better hero like Miles.
@docsavage86405 ай бұрын
Miles Morales is pandering to an audience that doesn't exist, just 20 years ahead of time.
@r.e.z94285 ай бұрын
👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 Preach
@insensitive9195 ай бұрын
Now he can hang out with Jake and drink the green alien milk.
@SkorjOlafsen5 ай бұрын
I read that same op-ed by JJ Jameson in the Daily Bugle.
@AnoneemusNoename5 ай бұрын
@@SkorjOlafsen Nice one
@jogregg64425 ай бұрын
Best panel ever! More informed, more interesting, more impactful than any major media panel. Excellent.
@user-ug6bk4fx8m5 ай бұрын
Miles Morales is Miles Morales. Peter Parker is Spider-Man🕸️
@ravenRedwake5 ай бұрын
He’s a halfbreed nwah.
@docsavage86405 ай бұрын
Miles Morales is pandering to an audience that doesn't exist, just 20 years ahead of time.
@HowToChangeName5 ай бұрын
Miles is like Falcon replacing Captain America, they both good and have characters but they just never stand a chance to replace the real deal
@macmcleod11885 ай бұрын
@@Holybeatdown nah. Not really any more than any of the various Santa clause horror films are Santa clause. He's a different character and they reused the name to ride on the Spiderman character's popularity. And no more than the murderous Snyder variants of Batman and Superman characters are the real Superman and Batman. And no more than the mostly humorless paper white Domino is the same character as the dryly humorous and semi self-aware mixed race Domino from Deadpool. Even tho I like the one from the movie more, she's not the same character. She's a new, similar character.
@beavers19785 ай бұрын
@Holybeatdown Miles has very little traits that makes him stand out from Peter's other than the superficial. His personality, morals, and characterization are either identical to Peter's or severely undercooked when he tries to stand out on his own. Miles as a character is squarely placed in Peter's shadow and doesn't have an arc to move himself away from it. He's just there to fill the same space when Peter's not around, leaving the question of why bother to include Miles if he has nothing to make him special or unique. The only Spider-Man that can truly rival Peter is Miguel O'Hara since he's ACTUALLY unique and different.
@tubby18335 ай бұрын
What makes the Batman death so much worse is how horrible of a person Arkham Harley actually is. In the lore, disguised Joker and Harley convinced a wealthy oil baron to construct an amusement park for his dying daughter. After the amusement park was complete, Joker and Harley secretly killed the daughter and then talked the baron into killing himself by using some pills the pair gave him. Harley specifically told the baron that "the pain will only get worse" and that "there is no point in going on". He was told his suicide would be painless, but of course that was a lie. In reality the pills were a nerve toxin that basically caused the baron to laugh himself to death. With him gone, Joker and Harley took over the amusement park and used it as a base of operations. Thats just ONE example of the horrible things Harley has done. And THIS is the person SSKTJL has lecturing Batman on morality.
@nont184115 ай бұрын
Arkham Harley is probably the most evil version of Harley ever made and Sweet Baby Inc and Rocksteady too think it’s a good idea to make her have a moral high ground over a BRAINWASHED Batman (emphasis on “brainwashed”).
@scottski025 ай бұрын
Arguably worse, she helped Joker torture and brainwash Jason Todd for well over a year. And Rocksteady had the utter gall to make HER lecture Batman
@tubby18335 ай бұрын
@scottski02 Yeah if I remember right there was a comic panel of her waterboarding Jason Todd while casually taking on the phone lol.
@tubby18335 ай бұрын
@nont18411 Exactly. But as long as we get our girl boss moment nothing else matters right? 🤡
@barret-xiii5 ай бұрын
@@tubby1833And the capper is how the shot is followed with a clattering shell casing sound effect... From a revolver! There was stupidity abound in the development offices!
@Dunebat5 ай бұрын
I laugh at the fact that the Sweet Baby Inc. CEO and the villain from Stephen King's "The Perfect Storm" both have the same motto: "Give me what I want and I will go away."
@IndenturedYoutubeSlave5 ай бұрын
it blackrock and vanguard are the ones forcing the companies to comply through invest and corporate loans/lines of credit.
@imantsjansons50095 ай бұрын
I asked Google about their biggest shareholders, and there they are both between them: Vanguard group 7,16% and BlackRock 6.17%. So no wonder about the "17th century British king eating a watermelon" in Gemini interpretation.
@theupperechelon76345 ай бұрын
The third one is State Street and you have the unholy triumvirate known as the ESG tyrants.
@Relugus5 ай бұрын
Blackrock is an Israeli backed subversive operation.
@Zardox-The-Heretic-Slayer5 ай бұрын
the problem is (RE sweet baby) that during gamergate, people did shitloads of research and undercovered so much damning shit about these types of people, no one thought that they had a leg to stand on and yet gamergate lost. and no, there wasn't "some misogyny mixed in there", that's what the opponents said in order to get rid of gamergate and that's what they will be saying about you in 10 years time. Anita didn't fulfil her kickstarter promises, got criticized and she said it was "sexism". Zoe Quinn got caught fucking 5 people for positive game reviews, got called out for it and she said it was "sexism" Brianna Wu turned up halfway through out of nowhere pretending to be a victim even though no one had heard of her and made "herself" a victim before anyone said shit about her. so no, there was no misogyny in there, just professional victims claiming that there was with zero proof, zero screenshots and zero credibility.
@superbusstarodub5 ай бұрын
He's a new zealander
@AnoneemusNoename5 ай бұрын
All correct except the part about gamergate not winning. This is just what winning looks like unfortunately and we've been doing it for years now. Same with comicsgate. Gaming and comics are dead of their feet and have been for awhile now. There is just so much money in gaming from the monetization and gambling mechanics they've forced into it there are only small victories, but all the real gamers have gone to indie games. Make a good indie game and you're set for life. That was never a thing before. We made that happen. We made it so real comic book artists and writers can go solo and prosper. They could never do that before either. Wins all around.
@OsellaSquadraCorse5 ай бұрын
@@AnoneemusNoename Aye, it's basically putting out a fire. You 'win' because the fire is out, but everything is still burned to ashes...
@chrisscena95095 ай бұрын
Briana Wu is a dude.
@hope-cat48945 ай бұрын
I remember someone making a game where you punch Anita. That was the go-to example I remember being brought up during that time.
@Dude-co6cx5 ай бұрын
What doesn't make sense is losing money to get a better interest rate on loans...unless it's money-laundering and fraud.
@Langley_Ackerman195 ай бұрын
Agree
@JeThoreau_5 ай бұрын
Welcome to how the fiat financial system works. Money laundering and fraud. Bitcoin fixes this by replacing the central banks
@johnlaney22115 ай бұрын
They are spelling out why my gaming has recently shifted to indie games
@viviennewestwoodruinedmylife5 ай бұрын
Indie games are wayyy more woke because no one cares about them. All i see is generic looking minorities in a generic open world. Maybe theres a few good ones but most are shit.
@Jackfromshack5 ай бұрын
AA is still great also
@callmeej83995 ай бұрын
Like all entertainment these days I just go to the past, (aside from Nintendo and from software for games)
@undercomposition5 ай бұрын
To go against what Mr H said at around 48:00, it's not that video games are more niche than movies because they are not. It's that participation is not passive. You actively play videogames rather than just watching a show or movie. The participation creates a greater bond to the user so they feel responsible for protecting the medium.
@BootySweat44915 ай бұрын
True. It’s why horror movies do nothing for me, but horror games (even the shitty ones) scare me to death lol
@MichaSennin5 ай бұрын
He also dismisses the simple but overall known fact that the gaming industry globally is bigger than the entire music and movie industry combined. that alone makes his statement entirely pointless.
@Jordo2465 ай бұрын
I can't believe there's people STILL denying that all this propaganda is being put into our entertainment when there's literally a myriad of these consulting agencies who job it is is to literally insert propaganda into entertainment.
@Acemanveryspecial4 ай бұрын
And they're very overt about it too.
@Blu3-Fir35 ай бұрын
You guys only scratched the tip of the iceberg, this rabbit hole goes much, much deeper. Sweet Baby Inc. is just ONE of many such consulting companies. While they might have gotten exposed, there are plenty of others that the people who work there can move to at any time. It's why they don't fear getting fired or losing their career because *everyone* involved in this thing is connected. Sweet Baby's origins go back all the way to Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn. And, those two were just the "faces" that were used as industry consultants before it was decided to switch to becoming a faceless company. Additionally, this is about way more than politics and the culture war grift - it's an epidemic of corruption that has completely infected the video game industry.
@mabusestestament5 ай бұрын
Corruption?
@Blu3-Fir35 ай бұрын
@@mabusestestamentThese companies are all in bed with one another, and the video game industry is willing to turn a blind eye to the blatant corruption and nepotism because they get a blank check from their "consulting work". That's what I mean by corruption.
@mabusestestament5 ай бұрын
@@Blu3-Fir3 Ah okay in that sense, thanks for elaborating🍻
@Blu3-Fir35 ай бұрын
@@mabusestestamentNp 👍
@NathanCassidy7215 ай бұрын
The whole company was started when the sister of Alec Holowka used money she inherited from his self-deletion to start Sweet Baby Inc in the first place. A paper trail was found last week to where it was revealed it was started to the tune of $7.7 million dollars. And the reason for Alec Holowka’s death? False accusations from Zoe Quinn.
@anthonysaylor81205 ай бұрын
I find it infinitely funny how the head of a company called _Sweet Baby_ derides her customers as "whiny babies."
@chillpengeru5 ай бұрын
Big Trouble in Little China is a good example of "im the main character!" when really theyre not at all and its hilarious and well done, and somehow also not mean spirited.
@pezdispencer1135 ай бұрын
None of these SBI defence articles never mention the targetted harrassment campaign people at SBI did to try to destriy the Steam group that only lists their work. They also tried to get the creators Steam account banned.
@AvarllanTelesto5 ай бұрын
Its also the fact that suicide squad was Kevin connroy's the voice of batman for nigh 35-40 years last acting roll before he died and they sent Batman off in such a disrespectful way at the same time is also why people aren't happy with how that went.
@AnoneemusNoename5 ай бұрын
Symbolically executing the patriarchy. They would prefer a BIPOC trans man voice Batman (which is all great afaic, so long as she sounds like and can do a great Kevin Conroy impersonation, merit based hiring/the right person for the job and all that lol but we all know they'd rather some effete twink to push their anti-masculine sentiment)
@hope-cat48945 ай бұрын
The killing of Batman in the game reminds me of that G4 interview question where they asked if you would cancel Batman. They have such a weird hate fetish for the character just because he's a billionaire.
@Girlycard10005 ай бұрын
@@hope-cat4894and he’s a straight white man, it’s the trifecta of everything they hate.
@Ganon9995 ай бұрын
This hyper political plague taking over almost every aspect of corporations and entertainment is so uncanny. It's obviously normal for everyone to have their opinions and beliefs, the problem now is they are being constantly forced on the public and immediately judged for not worshipping them. This whole movement of hysterical identity politics is truly a dangerous road, whatever your beliefs are there will always be an absolute scale of morality that we shouldn't ignore. Anyone manipulating the public with identity politics is absolutely not morally good, not even close.
@BaiHuJ5 ай бұрын
Strong shwing from Mr H this week in a good panel
@TheStacanova5 ай бұрын
The back story for “From Dusk til Dawn” is interesting, the idea for the film came from a special effects guy, who wasn’t a writer & he’d been pitching it to writers for awhile & no one liked it. So, when Tarantino was making Reservoir Dogs on the cheap, the effects guy said he would work on the film & do the effects for the movie at “scale” price, saving QT tons of budget, on the condition that QT would write his film idea into an actual script. So, QT wrote it, but didn’t want to Direct it, so he tapped his buddy Robert Rodriguez who loved the script & the effects guy who had the original idea, did all the special effects on it.
@TheAurgelmir5 ай бұрын
Disparu's comment about "Why can't you lower your standards?" First answer: Well we like attractive things in our games, it's escapism from reality. Second answer: If we are talking about lowering standards - why are we going after men? It's clear that in the current year it's women who's got too high standards anyways.
@go_rilla2625 ай бұрын
Mr. H: "...it's organized chaos." MauLer: "WHY'D YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?"
@lore_shards5 ай бұрын
😂 MaRTha!
@kevinoneil51205 ай бұрын
Imaging the level of narcissism at play here... people who make it their life's work to PICK at other people's creations and PICK out the things that make *them* feel icky, they really have the stones to call unsatisfied customers "picky babies"
@Anthony19byrne5 ай бұрын
Drinker. Yes Kotaku is not as powerful as it once was ten years ago but remember these people have connections to other people in other media outlets that still have power & they will use them, like they did back then to gain control over what is happening.
@Blu3-Fir35 ай бұрын
Correct, and the same goes for everyone who works at Sweet Baby.
@OsellaSquadraCorse5 ай бұрын
Penske Media - former racing team owner Jay Penske, son (billionaire baby) of Roger, who runs Penske Racing and owns the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the entire Indycar championship, Penske Trucking and Truck rental, international car dealerships, and is the US distributor for Shell motor oil and Aus/NZ importer for MAN (VW) trucks, Western Star trucks, Dennis buses/trucks, Allison transmissions and Rolls-Royce power generators - and this is not a full list! Technically they are all separate, but... The Penske's are colossal, with fingers in MANY pies....
@andyward84305 ай бұрын
Zach’s response to the no killing rule for Batman is so appropriate and sums up who he is so well. I’ve noticed throughout life that a lot people that grew up very privileged and “vanilla” for lack of a better term seem to think it’s so cool and edgy to act like a child as an adult.
@JeremySayers385 ай бұрын
Yes, it is like the "i can't cook or clean" flex many people say. It is a sign of being rich and pampered.
@andyward84305 ай бұрын
@@JeremySayers38 that’s a very good example.
@bart_fox_hero28635 ай бұрын
Gamers collectively allowed this for years. A lot of the inclusivity narrative stuff didn’t cause noticeable pushback against big studios. Fortunately it seems like the grifters have finally outstayed their welcome
@finaloblivion7995 ай бұрын
Gamers, didn't. Consumers did. They're always chasing that next hit of dopamine.
@Jaze20225 ай бұрын
I don't play AAA games so don't know what happened there. But the one that stood out to me was battletech. Loved the franchise but the story & characters made me uninstall.
@compostsmurf55195 ай бұрын
You actually think mass market gamers and the hard-core are the same thing?
@bart_fox_hero28635 ай бұрын
@@compostsmurf5519 Nope, didn’t say or imply that. What’s your point though?
@Mrguypersonmandudebro5 ай бұрын
Lets be real here. We all knew the Beta cucks would turn on the woke ideology as soon as they realized its not going to get them laid.
@angelmessenger82405 ай бұрын
Hey, I'm 65 year old woman and I like gaming and I'm not the only one.
@terryhill55095 ай бұрын
I'm 67 (woman) and I'm a gamer too. Love these panels.
@mark4asp5 ай бұрын
She's called the CEO - so yes - we can call her that. Chief Enforcement Officer.
@jogregg64425 ай бұрын
It's not just the money that makes Iger cling to his position, it's the power, the status and the acceptance by the genuine heavy hitters not only in Hollywood, but throughout the United States, including the government, i.e. the political heft. All of these things come with being the head of the largest and most powerful entertainment company in the world.
@AdamMisnik4 ай бұрын
"The Bad Batch" is fun TV adventure stuff. It not being great cinema should not be held against it.
@Anise_Katratzi5 ай бұрын
Alway great to see Disparu on open bar
@Creativitys_Vanguard5 ай бұрын
Zack Snyder should give the employees at Sweet Baby Inc public fashion tips.
@Go_n_shogi5 ай бұрын
When I got my Harley Wuinn tattoo in 2006 I thought, “here’s a cool fringe character that I won’t get sick of.” Fast forward to 2024…😑
@dragonknightleader15 ай бұрын
Yeah, tatoos are like that.
@andrewmontague96825 ай бұрын
Regretting a tattoo? Who’d have thought such a thing could happen? 🙄
@cympimpin205 ай бұрын
Is that like the Chinese knockoff version of Harley Quinn?
@Go_n_shogi5 ай бұрын
@@andrewmontague9682 I’m sorry your life is so pathetic that you feel like you need to go through KZfaq comments to belittle strangers and try to stir up sh*t.
@Go_n_shogi5 ай бұрын
@@cympimpin20 I’d probably prefer that actually. At least it would be a funny story rather than an explanation.
@Nastuf5 ай бұрын
Saw it coming from a distance of 10 years. It was fun to watch everyone keep denying it was happening because we need them to lay their plans out in AND wait till it has spread like wildfire. Like it or not they know the average person pretty well.
@Utah.764 ай бұрын
I just wanna say I love this whole critic circle.Gore and nerd and all not present as well. Good shit. Getting my seven year old into it as well as I flood him with awesome 80s and 90s cinema. He asked me if i was watchin a Drinker video the other day and before I could answer he proclaimed that if so, he wanted to watch. I WAS SO DAMN PROUD!
@joshua51745 ай бұрын
I remember being a die hard fan of Funhaus at the beginning, back in the day when they first moved to Rooster Teeth, and tbh seeing what went down, I'm surprised RT lasted this long. They were prime content producers based on edgy gamer stuff but got infested by a new generation of "woke" failed movie/ tv producers that actually hated the content and audience they were producing for. Think Fox from G4. I remember seeing the shit scared look in their faces towards the end when making jokes, like I know we're not allowed to say this stuff sort of thing. Hence why the OG team broke off to do their own thing. Losing Meg Turner was huge too.
@TheAurgelmir5 ай бұрын
Yeah, exactly. Nobody is saying SBI is actually responsible for the games being bad, but it's a damn good indicator of poor judgement at a managerial level for the companies that hire them. Which in turn is an indicator of how their games will turn out.
@AnoneemusNoename5 ай бұрын
It's all part and parcel. Wokeness does make games worse and that's what they do is inject the farthest left nonsense they can in everywhere to the detriment of all which ruins stories, character, worldbuilding and just logic in general. You can still do positive progressivness right without it being propaganda (Arcane, Blue Eye Samurai, Top Gun Maverick etc.) but they aren't about that. They are like Taika "Ruin Your Mythos in a Minute Baby" Waititi
@Nairneh5 ай бұрын
Mr H is right. Please bring us back games that work are mostly bug free on launch. We are tired of playing beta for a year after a supposed release of what should be a finished product. Its like buying a car and being told: "We'll fix the unclosing windows soon, and please don't mind the holes the machines made in the ceiling, we'll patch them asap..."
@Sketchborne5 ай бұрын
Is basic "supply and demand" not a thing anymore?
@spartanhawk76375 ай бұрын
Modern companies for the most part appear to believe that they can manufacture demand somehow when...uh...no, short of using addictive substances, I can't name a single point in history where that's been accurate.
@docsavage86405 ай бұрын
If Socialists understood economics they wouldn't be Socialists.
@spudg85585 ай бұрын
The big assumptions underpinning that are a fair market and rational actors. In this case, companies are doing "irrational" things from a profit standpoint because of forces outside of the market. Add in extra incentives or interference from the goverment, media, etc to the corporate and activist pressures and supply and demand is no longer king. Whoever controls those institutions effectively controls the market.
@TheAurgelmir5 ай бұрын
It is. Which is why all the progressives hate free enterprise markets.
@incurableromantic40065 ай бұрын
Thanks to ESG - no. Maintaining access to credit from the likes of Blackrock, is more important than sales.
@b.a.p.27315 ай бұрын
1:31:56 mauLer just casually doing a spot on David Lynch impression 😂😂 then morphing into Leo freaking out in his trailer 1:40:51 😂😂
@Magnificent7Seven4 ай бұрын
That would be a great pannel topic. They say it's all for ESG money but that begs the question how are they compensated. Is it the availability of credit. You would still have to make profit to pay these loans back!
@OsellaSquadraCorse5 ай бұрын
1:56:00 Yes, it's insider trading if you do that. Regardless of whether it's 'you' or you tell a friend, it's illegal to place a trade based on "Material Non-Public Information" (MNPI). MNPI includes selloffs, closures or layoffs amongst other things. On that basis then, it's better TO tell the staff first as they can't, legally, use the information. Often though that doesn't happen to prevent leaks.
@ChaoticYak15 ай бұрын
I really like this panel. I think everyone had good contributions and 5 is manageable. Plus, completely shallowly, I love hearing all the different accents.
@samwallaceart2885 ай бұрын
But they're all Anglophone white men, they're "identical"! Lol
@ChaoticYak15 ай бұрын
@@samwallaceart288 Of course, but they don't sound the same. :D
@rupertbath27485 ай бұрын
Lucasfilm should look at some of the people making fan films which are so much better than what they are producing. The fight scenes are so much better done than what Disney hhve put out and they tell stories by people who understand and love these projects. Reach out get them involved, let them pitch and idea. Given they have produced some amazing stuff on tiny budgets, imagine what they can do on a modest one.
@The_Truth_Logic5 ай бұрын
Destruction of the agenda leads to the prospering of quality. Hail!
@asherdales5 ай бұрын
1:41:28 You're talking about the villain of KFP 1 Tai Lung. He spent his entire life with the expectation that his destiny is to be the Dragon Warrior. Tigress is just the opposite side of the coin where she learns to accept the disappointment with dignity and grace while Tai Lung is driven to madness.
@AdurianJ5 ай бұрын
SBI would have gotten away with murdering Batman. The Straw was that it was Kevin Conroys last time as Batman
@tristencameron60285 ай бұрын
Correct. People wouldn't have been nearly as mad if it wasn't : 1. One of Kevin Conroy's last performances as Batman 2. The Arkham batman
@Enigma756145 ай бұрын
@@tristencameron6028I wouldn’t have minded if it wasn’t for those factors.
@descent30315 ай бұрын
How do you talk sweet baby inc and not give a hat tip to Az? He's been sounding the alarm on them for months before anyone cared!
@MrMongoly4 ай бұрын
Just FYI, when I use to have to deal with Insider Trading law, I can tell you that if you have insider information you are not allowed to trade until the information becomes public.
@vrika42805 ай бұрын
Super H (talking about his decor): It's organized chaos Bauler: WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!! Dx
@macmcleod11885 ай бұрын
The thing is, if Miles Morales Spider-Man doesn't suffer the same as Peter Parker spider-man, then he's really not spider-man. Suffering, and persevering is one of the character traits of the real spider-man.
@romankotas4485 ай бұрын
There does need to be a Batman Beyond parable, I would like that
@theupperechelon76345 ай бұрын
Strong panel again. These guys with Az and Little Platoon should be on every time, though, I understand why you mix it up.
@MikeHeldTheWorld5 ай бұрын
Can I get an audio version of this podcast anywhere? Doesn't appear to be on podcast services. Thanks.
@frankybrown69575 ай бұрын
Perfect. I am sick and now I can skip work and be entertained for 3 hours. Love it. Thanks you guys
@zacharymcmillan27885 ай бұрын
"Sweet Baby Inc. doesn't do what most gamers think that they do." No,they do far worse. 🤨 "But we don't have to try it! AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BUY IT!" - Fugazi - 'Repeater' "Am I so out of touch? No,it's the children who are wrong." - Principal Skinner - 'The Simpsons'
@tommyherbertson80374 ай бұрын
COMMUNITY NOTE: Zack Snyder did not claim that Rebel Moon would be more succesful than Barbie if it was shown in cinemas, he pointed out, that by streaming it on a portal, he propably was able to reach more people in the end than a very succesful cinema released movie was able to do
@Langley_Ackerman195 ай бұрын
Love the all English Panel. We have a Scottman, A Kiwi, a Welsh and 2 Brits (2 think) 😁😁😁 SBI is probably frothing in the mouth now! 😂😂😂
@Soridan5 ай бұрын
But Scots and the Welsh are Brits too.
@ArwenUndomiel4065 ай бұрын
„He made the argument that viewers are not suffering from franchise fatigue.“ That made me laugh hysterically.
@OlBoldNBrash5 ай бұрын
The irony of sweet baby inc destroying Spiderman's character more than J Jonah Jameson is insane
@christiansmith93065 ай бұрын
You'd think after 10 years of this, they'd be tried of losing by now.
@NathanCassidy7215 ай бұрын
If you know anything about GamerGate, which is where a lot of these people came from, you’d understand that they don’t see it that way. For them the ride never ends.
@samwallaceart2885 ай бұрын
It's terrorism rulebook; actually winning means needing to deliver on your promises and be held accountable---losing is the victory you never need to back up, never need to work for, never need to answer to; as long as you're losing, you're the good guy
@jjHunsecker5 ай бұрын
7:33 There is something you guys should know about is the definition of racism. 🤓 According to the left, racism equals prejudice plus power, as viewed from a historical perspective. They say that whites, white men in particular, have always had all the power; so the left says only white people can be racist. Some person of color can be as bigoted as the day is long. But if they are not white, their bigoted comments are not considered racist, because--historically speaking--their culture had no power. ⚖️ This is why, for many years, a visible minority could tell a racist joke at work, and it would NOT cost that person his job. (Nowadays, that is starting to change...) 🤔
@Soridan5 ай бұрын
"because--historically speaking--their culture had no power." Which just belies their ignorance and condescending view of non-whites. There have been plenty of mighty kingdoms and empires beyond what white europeans have made, with signifcant influence on history and culture that can be felt even today. They are so hyperfixated on one specific slice of the modern West that it would be funny if it wasn't repulsive.
@iainmcdonalds40185 ай бұрын
I actually kind of like the first of the new Tomb Raiders, despite some of it's narrative flaws (going zero to 100 in the okay with murder was *not* a good idea). The problem was at the end of that game, you were supposed to see how a fairly normal girl in Lara, became a hardened badass which was symbolised with Lara wielding 2 pistols ala classic Tomb Raider. Then they proceeded to effectively ignore all that development in subsequent entries instead of being a more updated version of her old character. Like maybe she'd try just a bit harder to not completely extinct a few species, or at the very least, feel a bit bad afterwards :D
@tjjordan42075 ай бұрын
Just hearing about these activists (they’re not journalists) keep being delusional and coming up with excuses in order to avoid being responsible and accountable is tiring and pretty much reaching a level of apathy by this point. They’re just children who never experienced anything outside of their bubble and expect to be handed everything in life, and for everyone to listen to their delusions. Their failures are on them, not us.
@Nairneh5 ай бұрын
I swear before I properly listened to the intro (and actually looked at the subtitles) I heard "Oh, look its Mauler and Drinker... They're reviewing the latest stinker..." And then when I actually sang it in my mind, it turned into Az's voice - and went on loop.
@megalonoobiacinc48635 ай бұрын
I mean, I'm guy, and in Witcher 3 i can acknowledge that Geralt looks pretty damn good (especially considering his age!). This doesn't make me feel bad, so i don't see why women would be annoyed at playing a sexy femme fatale or something. You kinda get into the role you have in an 'RPG' after all!
@kevinoneil51205 ай бұрын
It's pure narcissism.
@hinugundamB5 ай бұрын
@@kevinoneil5120 no, they are straight up lying to increase their influence. A lot of these hot girl characters are designed by women to begin with.
@crimsonpotemkin5 ай бұрын
It's a story as old as time. Bitter feminists will always find something to be offended about and complain about it. Don't see anyone complaining about the never ending stream of super hot men in movies and video games. Apparently gay men and horny women get to have a "gaze".
@stephenenglish22115 ай бұрын
Honestly, I’d love to see if you guys have ever watched and/or have any thoughts on the HBO show “Tokyo Vice”. Seems like an underrated gem that has flown underneath everyone’s radar, but it’s a great show and deserves some attention.
@majorfomo78955 ай бұрын
Zack Snyder doing Scott Steiner math 🤣
@HpArtcraft4 ай бұрын
The utter hilarious irony of Drinker bringing up avatar and then the whole panel talks about Avatar and then they all say that no one talks about Avatar....
@ianscott93965 ай бұрын
The male characters should have Dad bods ... so I don't feel self conscious.
@MrMikellsof885 ай бұрын
What Disney gets wrong is that they made a series with the end goal of explaining the origins of Snoke and NuPalps. First, we know cloning is a thing. Secondly, any real fan of the franchise knew already that cloning Force Users was possible (Palpatine clone, Joruus C'baoth, etc in various novels). What fans hated wasn't the fact that there was a Palpatine clone. We hated that he was THE SAME PERSON with all the knowledge and memories of the original. It was just another example of them taking a popular story arc from the canon that people enjoyed and butchering the hell out of it to put a retarded spin on it so they could say they came up with the idea fresh. Edit: They could have thrown a younger actor in the role to play a fresh Palpatine clone. Keep the imperfect clone thing if you want to and maybe put in a throwaway scene of him downloading his memories into the next one to continue on (again not a very Palpatine thing to do to entrust your legacy to someone else). It would have been SLIGHTLY better than the route they took which has now been memed to oblivion.
@MrsMacLover5 ай бұрын
My Sunday evenig is saved. I was afraid I was going to have to watch Argylle. Thanks for the upload!
@Fardawg5 ай бұрын
Never forget that it was writer Michael Arndt (who I believe was a choice of Lucas originally) who pushed Luke out of Episode 7 because he said he couldn't figure out how to write Luke without him taking away from Rey... Arndt was supposed to write the first script and treatments for all three films (a plan!?) but couldn't even finish a full draft for Episode 7 in time. All he had was a series of notes. This forced Lucasfilm to ask Lawrence Kasdan to stop working on the Solo script and to very quickly write Episode 7 with Abrams (Kasdan also gets left out of the blame most of the time). Abrams was only hired to direct, not write, but was forced to work with Kasdan to hammer out something with the limited notes they had. Because Arndt had pushed Luke out of the story outline, they couldn't easily write him back in with the limited time they had, so they left him as a teaser at the end. And originally Abrams shot the film so Rey found Luke with rocks levitating around him. It was Rian Johnson who "asked" Abrams to take out the rocks because he decided Luke would be cut off from the Force. It has also been said that the idea of Luke being in self-exile was part of the story even when Lucas was still there, which doesn't fit with other things Lucas said about his trilogy ideas, but I think the idea likely evolved while he was working on it and he left after Arndt pushed Luke out of the script into just a cameo. Lucas reportedly described Luke as being similar to Col. Kurtz from Apocalypse Now in that he was a recluse and Rey (who was likely Han and Leia's daughter originally) having to go "down river" to find him and bring him back. But that story was supposed to take place in Episode 7, not Episode 8. Again, it was due to Arndt that that arc for Luke was pushed to Episode 8, which is where Luke was reportedly going to die. But we would have had Luke back to himself by the end of 7 and throughout 8 rather than killing him off right after he comes out of his depression, which was a stupid choice that should have been changed.
@blatherama5 ай бұрын
Batman also let Liam Neeson die in Batman Begins. "I won't kill you...but I don't have to save you." Snyder's contributing nothing new, except indiscriminate murder and A New Cope.
@dubiousn00b245 ай бұрын
Anita Sarkisians birthday is the saddest thing I've heard in a while
@OsellaSquadraCorse5 ай бұрын
@35:45 - replace Ryan Gosling as 'Ken' with James Corden, same clothing... see who complains.
@AdamMisnik4 ай бұрын
Basing a stock sale/purchase on information that you received ahead of the public release is insider trading. Basing it on their impression of how business is going for your employer or from an assessment of info in the public record is not insider training.
@tylerskiss4 ай бұрын
Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway are the two most direct films Lynch made. Mulholland Drive has multiple videos “decoding” it, but the shorthand is it’s about a starry eyed young woman who is broken by Hollywood corruption. Lost Highway is about guilt and the moment of a man trying to escape his inevitable execution.
@strambino15 ай бұрын
When sweet baby inc killed Batman, they jumped the shark.
@Boomstick4life5 ай бұрын
I'd say its was when they talk $#@! About the dragon ball z creator right after his death
@wickedlester53204 ай бұрын
I remember John Frankenheimer saying all action happens in with real speed in real time. Slow motion “action” is most of the time ridiculous.
@NoMoreBsPlease5 ай бұрын
58:27 Literally WTF are you talking about?!?! Batman has killed in EVERY movie adaptation and MAYBE one was a justifiable kill Bruce actually would have done.
@oldjoe27765 ай бұрын
The people who don't want attractive characters in video games are themselves generally unattractive. It's jealousy. They know people don't want to look at them. They can't force attractive people in real life to be unattractive, so they pick the low-hanging fruit of attacking fictional attractive characters.
@crumblyburgers5 ай бұрын
DEI and social justice and social credit do not work in the video game field. We've seen so many developers and studios lose fans and lose players because they dont listen to their player base...and they think that making games full of stuff that they don't care about or want is a good thing? Indie development is honestly the only bright spot in gaming right now.
@superbusstarodub5 ай бұрын
Those things don't work in humanity either not just "video game field".
@irishbob265 ай бұрын
Finally. Been waiting for this bar to open. Cold cider in a colder glass please.
@nicholascowling70525 ай бұрын
Iger saying he's seen these productions three or four times doesn't mean that he's seen them as a whole three of four times. I took it as, he's seen so many parts that have been shown to him (Probably for approval or different shots/cuts) that it's the equivalent of watching the production three or four times for him.
@Nairneh5 ай бұрын
Bob Iger: "We will make less stuff so we can focus on quality. So we will put the money the other projects would have, to fund executives to direct directors we cast for the movies we haven't cancelled".
@Ryan417074 ай бұрын
The Helldivers CEO literally told people to NOT buy the game until the servers were fixed. So I'd say they earned their reputation.
@TheJrade5 ай бұрын
I am a bit sad that my favorite internet critics so badly misunderstand the appeal of Helldivers. HD2 is popular because it IS so revolutionary. The fact that all they can see is bugs getting shot speaks poorly of their critical abilities.
@jonbaxter22545 ай бұрын
Always good to see Echo
@Penttipistooli5 ай бұрын
2:08:20 Hear! Hear! Happiness is great. The show is filled with all kinds of quirky characters that you can root for and the main couple is super adorable.
@wardenunknown5 ай бұрын
2:22 Bob gave this poor man PTSD
@myNameWasNobody755 ай бұрын
There's a reason why some entertainment is called "brainless". Movies, tv shoes, sports, games, we're supposed to turn off our brain and enjoy ourselves. The moment you try to put people to "think" in these products, you're missing the point.
@jdlizzard625 ай бұрын
Godzilla Minus One won an Oscar!!🥂
@o00nemesis00o5 ай бұрын
yay
@jdlizzard625 ай бұрын
@@o00nemesis00o and the Hollywood Godzilla never got that kind of praise and recognition lol