WaxedWookie
@WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ring just doubled the price of its alarm monitoring service for legacy customers 1 month ago:
Because capitalism. The shareholders thirst - they will have their returns. Common sense, decency, legality and morality are all roughly shoved aside in service of “line go up”.
- Comment on Google now wants to limit the AI-powered search spam it helped create 8 months ago:
Because they know that using AI-generated nonsense to train their own AI-generated nonsense is a great way to turn their models into a gibbering mess. These models need quality content to emulate.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 8 months ago:
Saying they’re black or gay when it has no bearing on the story doesn’t tell anyone much. You didn’t choose to say they were loving, outdoorsy, not super-physical, middle-aged, wealthy, blonde, family-oriented… Noone is coming out to crucify me here - talking about race isn’t taboo - but the non-relevant aspects of the relationship you choose to highlight for reasons tells plenty about you.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 8 months ago:
I think this is a good take, but my criticism of Disney is more in line with my perception of their business model - art by focus group.
They know that if they combine these 3 IP’s with these 3 diversity checkboxes, the movie will return x, meaning they have a budget of y to deliver a given ROI. Much like their endless parade of remakes, it’s cynical commercislism that has no interest in storytelling artistic value, or representation - and it shows.
To your point, TLOU separated the relationship from the community, and while the community representation is important, this type of representation is critical to normalising homosexual relationships - “oh - they’re in a regular loving relationship just like me - it’s not all disco music and flapping about in sparkly clothes, making catty comments.” kinda deal.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 8 months ago:
If they were black, it would similarly be a black love story - but what do you think choosing to describe it as a black love story indicates?
There’s a million different lenses to look through when describing a story or a relationship - the aspects we choose to point to (particularly unprompted, as was the case for the trolls) tend to indicate more about us than the story - particularly when they have no meaningful bearing on the story.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 8 months ago:
I’m impressed by pretty much everything I see from Offerman, and his role in TLOU was fantastic. It had real impact, and didn’t feel at all like the lazy tokenistic drivel that’s become Disney’s standard fare.
- Comment on ‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court” 8 months ago:
The GOP refusing is only the next step in the chain - Biden backed down for fear of being uncivil and creating a constitutional crisis - he doesn’t have to do that.
- Comment on ‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court” 8 months ago:
If you’re going to be too afraid to act because the GOP are pulling some bad-faith bullshit, you’re not going to get anything done. They respect displays of strength - give 'em one.
- Comment on They forgot the LGBTQ... 11 months ago:
For a laugh, here’s what this definitely consistent person with a principled dislike of politics (which definitely isn’t just things they disagree with) posted immediately after their complaint:
US fed doesn’t recognize basic ethics laws, how unsurprising
A boring dystopia
- Comment on They forgot the LGBTQ... 11 months ago:
I’m sorry people aren’t posting content relevant to your personal preferences.
May I suggest you use filters, or perhaps go fuck yourself?
- Comment on There's story behind this sign 11 months ago:
- Comment on Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election 11 months ago:
The Labour Party.
This isn’t unique to the UK by any stretch of the imagination, which is why I used the broad terms.
- Comment on Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election 11 months ago:
The conservatives burn it all down, the liberals preserve the status quo - even if that’s ashen ruins.
Perish the thought of building anything - that’ll mean we can’t give tax breaks to those that need them the last.
- Comment on Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first... 11 months ago:
Ableist slurs aren’t coo- oh - you can spell above a second-grade level.