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It sucks that they killed him off in the Absolute Universe

Oracle’s credit rating drops to one level above junk | Ed Zitron

Evidently he didn't think that Paramount has any interesting IPs (y'know, except Star Trek, the Mission: Impossible franchise, Avatar: the Last Airbender etc.) and he was relying on getting access to that sweet sweet bigot money from the Potter franchise (in addition to DC etc) to save his fortune.

In the old Dungeons and Dragons show, considering as it later became canon in other media that the kids never returned home, how many carriages full of people did the theme park accidentally send into another dimension before someone realised that something was up?

Admittedly it's most likely that it just happened to be these six, I just think that it's funny that isekai'ing people is just what the ride does by accident, only it randomises which setting of module it sends the people too... mainly because it's funnier that way.

Of course they made the neo-nazi bigot who hates a fictional minority a Black man

Because the MCU and Disney are such spineless fucking pussies that they aren't even willing to commit to saying "White supremacists are bad" because they're afraid that unfuckable fifty year old virgin incels on dogshit social media sites will cry and shit their pants about it and start screaming that Disney Hates White People

"We want to get brownie points from performatively progressive morons on social media by having a generic "Bigotry is BAD actually" message....but also we don't want to actually say any form of REAL WORLD bigotry is bad because a lot of people are racist and homophobic and transphobic and we want those people to buy cheaply made plastic shit from us

So it won't be bigotry against any actual real world minority

And we don't want to make white supremacists unhappy by having the racist be white because then they might not buy funko pops and popcorn buckets from us....

So we'll have a Black man be bigoted against super-people for having laser eyes or some fucking thing"

It truly is the apotheosis of fauxgressive superhero cinema dogshit

The natural evolution of a genre that was only willing to say that a nationwide surveillance state was only a bad thing because it was being controlled by the LITERAL nazis, decided that the correct villain for Black Panther to fight wasn't his actual arch enemy in the comics who is a white South African racist involved in the colonial exploitation of his peoples culture and heritage but rather a Black man who has Gone Too Far in his desire to fight back against racism and was willing to say that Arms Dealers are bad....but only because they sell arms to people who are foreign and not white if only they were just selling guns and bombs to the governments that only blow up women and children in foreign countries that would be okay

And even in regards to the movies they made about their Fictional Minority, they still made half a dozen movies about a minority being threatened with literal genocide and in every single one of them the villain was never the oppressors trying to genocide said minority but instead it was the Jewish Holocaust survivor because he Uses Violence Against Fascists and so that means actually HE'S the REAL fascist honest!

Marvel would much rather tell stories about "Anti-Mutant bigotry" than about homophobia or transphobia or racism

Because you know...to do that they'd have to tell stories centered on non-white and LGBTQ people. And also that might make racists and homophobes and transphobes not want to buy their crappy product if they say those things are bad so we can't have that

But also even when it comes to make believe bigotry against their fictional minority they're still not willing to have the anti-mutant bigot be a WHITE guy because that's still a little too close to real world racism.

Same as wasn't it her who lectures Kamala Khan about how she, a Muslim woman who grew up in post-9/11 New Jersey, would NEVER understand the idea of being persecuted like the Mutants have been.

To be honest... these days I don't really like the idea of the X-Men as a concept, as they seem to have drifted from the idea of a persecuted community trying to survive, save and change a world that hates and fears them (sometimes justifiably, considering how many mutants are Nazis, cannibals, and billionaires)... to just being another bunch of assholees with power who use it to oppress others.

In the old Dungeons and Dragons show, considering as it later became canon in other media that the kids never returned home, how many carriages full of people did the theme park accidentally send into another dimension before someone realised that something was up?

Admittedly it's most likely that it just happened to be these six, I just think that it's funny that isekai'ing people is just what the ride does by accident, only it randomises which setting of module it sends the people too... mainly because it's funnier that way.

Well the judge seems to buy the state's argument more than Paramount's, so that's a positive thus far.

Also not helped that apparently they asked for assistance paying/avoiding paying the multi-million dollar "ticking fee" if the deal isn't concluded by the end of September, which apparently didn't go down well.

So the reason why Paramount were able to finally get the WBD shareholders to accept their demands was to offer them an additional $7m a day in fees if the sale isn't concluded by September 30th, now it looks like the deal won't be concluded (either due to a temporary restraining order preventing them from doing so, or the impact of this and the other court cases), they are now trying to get the state to help get them out of this financial obligation that Paramount themselves made in the first place.

#when the roast is five years old and aging like a fine wine

Which episode of Bluey would you show to XL-ZL?

The Patreon-exclusive fireside chat for Ep. 9 of Solari is out NOW!

Oracle’s credit rating drops to one level above junk | Ed Zitron

How this all relates to WBD is here, but the preceding part explains the context.

Basically Larry Ellison has 40% of Oracle's shares and has been borrowing a TON of money by using his stocks as credit, but if/when OpenAI being unable to pay their bills causes Oracle's share price to drop to $75, Larry will have to get MORE loans to cover the money he's already borrowed for other things, such as the Paramount/WBD deal.

So it's incredibly likely that within the next year, OpenAI's unprofitablity will cause Larry's cash to freefall, meaning that they either they won't have the cash for the WBD deal OR it will be very hard to complete it... And then there's the $7m a day they have to pay the WBD shareholders if the deal isn't finalised by 1st October.

This basically means that OpenAI being a pyramid scheme means that Oracle will be in trouble even if the Paramount/WBD deal wasn't in play, and it Zitron says that even though Larry Ellison will likely still come out of this a billionaire, he won't be one of the richest men in the world anymore and likely the WBD deal won't happen...