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Spider-Man: Brand New Day made me so frustrated I went out and bought Supergirl.
I had some choice criticisms to level at that movie too but at least it has a coherent plot, a protagonist I can root for, and a clear idea of what to do about human traffickers.
Remember when the MCU had somewhat progressive politics? Remember Winter Soldier? When it said that corrupt goverment and military organizations are rotten from within by nazi/colonialist ideology that was there from the beginning? When it said that they were unsalvageable and it all needed to go? Good times.
Yeah, I was actually thinking a bit ago that Winter Soldier is like the good version of what Brand New Day's trying to do here.
Marvel seems to have realized that getting rid of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a mistake because now they don't have a morally ambiguous government institution for policing supers that they can write plots around, so Damage Control's been introduced to be the new S.H.I.E.L.D.
But in the process, every new appearance by Damage Control only further justifies Captain America's decision to condemn the totality of S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than let Nick Fury pin all the blame on Director Pierce while preserving the institution that creates men like him.
This is something that Wonder Man got right and that everyone else keeps getting wrong. Only Wonder Man has actually had the nerve to say that Damage Control as an institution is the problem.
I'm wondering if the fact that Damage Control keeps coming up (especially in more recent stuff) may mean that it'll be a bigger deal in Doomsday and Secret Wars. Because it feels like a reoccurring thread for long enough (it got introduced in Ms. Marvel, right?) and is now jumping into the movies in the last movie before Doomsday - that feels like it might mean something, in a sort of no, there have been enough bad eggs, maybe it's not just a bad egg scenario, maybe it's the whole thing.
Yeah, they've been around the block a few times. They've been in almost every MCU Spider-Man film.
-> In Homecoming, they were the ones who muscled in on Toomes's contract after the Battle of New York, setting him on the path to becoming Vulture. -> In No Way Home, they arrested Peter under suspicion of murdering Mysterio in Far From Home. -> And now they're here in Brand New Day.
They showed up in She-Hulk where they arrested Jen.
They were a major antagonist in Ms. Marvel where they shook down Jersey.
They appeared briefly in Secret Invasion when Skrulls infiltrated one of their super-weapon storages.
And they were the main villains of Wonder Man.
I also wonder if Marvel's building to something with them, or if Marvel just likes having a shady Fed organization it can lean on to do shady shit for the plot, so they're keeping them around in perpetuity.
I forgot about Homecoming. It has been...a while since I saw it - and I haven't seen either of the other two new Spidey movies. Or Secret Invasion. And forgot about She-Hulk.
...they really have been in a lot, haven't they?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day made me so frustrated I went out and bought Supergirl.
I had some choice criticisms to level at that movie too but at least it has a coherent plot, a protagonist I can root for, and a clear idea of what to do about human traffickers.
Remember when the MCU had somewhat progressive politics? Remember Winter Soldier? When it said that corrupt goverment and military organizations are rotten from within by nazi/colonialist ideology that was there from the beginning? When it said that they were unsalvageable and it all needed to go? Good times.
Yeah, I was actually thinking a bit ago that Winter Soldier is like the good version of what Brand New Day's trying to do here.
Marvel seems to have realized that getting rid of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a mistake because now they don't have a morally ambiguous government institution for policing supers that they can write plots around, so Damage Control's been introduced to be the new S.H.I.E.L.D.
But in the process, every new appearance by Damage Control only further justifies Captain America's decision to condemn the totality of S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than let Nick Fury pin all the blame on Director Pierce while preserving the institution that creates men like him.
This is something that Wonder Man got right and that everyone else keeps getting wrong. Only Wonder Man has actually had the nerve to say that Damage Control as an institution is the problem.
I'm wondering if the fact that Damage Control keeps coming up (especially in more recent stuff) may mean that it'll be a bigger deal in Doomsday and Secret Wars. Because it feels like a reoccurring thread for long enough (it got introduced in Ms. Marvel, right?) and is now jumping into the movies in the last movie before Doomsday - that feels like it might mean something, in a sort of no, there have been enough bad eggs, maybe it's not just a bad egg scenario, maybe it's the whole thing.
Addition because I had more thoughts: I especially wonder if this is true because I think the next Saga is supposed to be Mutants, and Damage Control seems to specifically be going after mutants in each of the given scenarios - and we've barely introduced mutants in the MCU, but in each situation - with the exception of The Marvels (which is blink and you miss it) and Deadpool 3 (which is technically MCU but is really more of its own thing) - the villain has been Damage Control.
...and their horrific deeds by the one person doing them seem to be getting more and more horrific, in the sense of slowly revealing that this institution is worse and worse.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day made me so frustrated I went out and bought Supergirl.
I had some choice criticisms to level at that movie too but at least it has a coherent plot, a protagonist I can root for, and a clear idea of what to do about human traffickers.
Remember when the MCU had somewhat progressive politics? Remember Winter Soldier? When it said that corrupt goverment and military organizations are rotten from within by nazi/colonialist ideology that was there from the beginning? When it said that they were unsalvageable and it all needed to go? Good times.
Yeah, I was actually thinking a bit ago that Winter Soldier is like the good version of what Brand New Day's trying to do here.
Marvel seems to have realized that getting rid of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a mistake because now they don't have a morally ambiguous government institution for policing supers that they can write plots around, so Damage Control's been introduced to be the new S.H.I.E.L.D.
But in the process, every new appearance by Damage Control only further justifies Captain America's decision to condemn the totality of S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than let Nick Fury pin all the blame on Director Pierce while preserving the institution that creates men like him.
This is something that Wonder Man got right and that everyone else keeps getting wrong. Only Wonder Man has actually had the nerve to say that Damage Control as an institution is the problem.
I'm wondering if the fact that Damage Control keeps coming up (especially in more recent stuff) may mean that it'll be a bigger deal in Doomsday and Secret Wars. Because it feels like a reoccurring thread for long enough (it got introduced in Ms. Marvel, right?) and is now jumping into the movies in the last movie before Doomsday - that feels like it might mean something, in a sort of no, there have been enough bad eggs, maybe it's not just a bad egg scenario, maybe it's the whole thing.
Yeah, they've been around the block a few times. They've been in almost every MCU Spider-Man film.
-> In Homecoming, they were the ones who muscled in on Toomes's contract after the Battle of New York, setting him on the path to becoming Vulture. -> In No Way Home, they arrested Peter under suspicion of murdering Mysterio in Far From Home. -> And now they're here in Brand New Day.
They showed up in She-Hulk where they arrested Jen.
They were a major antagonist in Ms. Marvel where they shook down Jersey.
They appeared briefly in Secret Invasion when Skrulls infiltrated one of their super-weapon storages.
And they were the main villains of Wonder Man.
I also wonder if Marvel's building to something with them, or if Marvel just likes having a shady Fed organization it can lean on to do shady shit for the plot, so they're keeping them around in perpetuity.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day made me so frustrated I went out and bought Supergirl.
I had some choice criticisms to level at that movie too but at least it has a coherent plot, a protagonist I can root for, and a clear idea of what to do about human traffickers.
Remember when the MCU had somewhat progressive politics? Remember Winter Soldier? When it said that corrupt goverment and military organizations are rotten from within by nazi/colonialist ideology that was there from the beginning? When it said that they were unsalvageable and it all needed to go? Good times.
Yeah, I was actually thinking a bit ago that Winter Soldier is like the good version of what Brand New Day's trying to do here.
Marvel seems to have realized that getting rid of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a mistake because now they don't have a morally ambiguous government institution for policing supers that they can write plots around, so Damage Control's been introduced to be the new S.H.I.E.L.D.
But in the process, every new appearance by Damage Control only further justifies Captain America's decision to condemn the totality of S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than let Nick Fury pin all the blame on Director Pierce while preserving the institution that creates men like him.
This is something that Wonder Man got right and that everyone else keeps getting wrong. Only Wonder Man has actually had the nerve to say that Damage Control as an institution is the problem.
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Something I find really striking about Supergirl's flashbacks in her movie is the very different picture of where she came from that it paints from Superman's.
Clark never really got to know his family. That's part of what makes the Gunnverse subversion on them work, as well as the one from MAWS. Clark never knew them. He has no idea what they're like. He has no idea who they were. And he never will, not really.
Clark never had the chance to say goodbye to his family and his people. Kara did. That's an easy thing to covet, honestly. If I were Clark, I might be a little jealous that Kara actually got to live in the culture and people of Krypton, to live with their family.
But as Kara's flashbacks show, that honestly might be worse? it might actually be worse that she got to know her family. Clark was sent away before he was old enough to form real memories. That was a choice made for him. But Kara actually had to say goodbye to her world, her family, her people, everything she knew and loved.
Kara had to leave, knowing full well that she would never see them again. That they would all be dead soon. And she has to carry that with her every day while Clark only mourns his world and people in theory.
There's a very interesting "grass is greener" dichotomy there. Where, on the one hand, Kara got to say goodbye. But on the other hand, Kara had to say goodbye.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day made me so frustrated I went out and bought Supergirl.
I had some choice criticisms to level at that movie too but at least it has a coherent plot, a protagonist I can root for, and a clear idea of what to do about human traffickers.
Complaining further on Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
They did that thing again where they wrote a sympathetic villain to be so sympathetic that it makes you feel like the hero of the film is kinda the bad guy. And for much of it, he is. The twist reveal is that Spidey's an unwitting patsy of the engines of mutant/mutate oppression.
By trying to protect the institution from Jean, he is actively serving their interests. He takes her out and delivers her into the hands of the people who murdered her sister with a smile on his face. And only near the end of the film does he stop and go, "Wait, was the government lying to me when it told me I was doing brave hero work?"
This is actually a pretty good foundation for a conversation about the way institutions use lionizing imagery of heroic virtue to whitewash over their crimes. Damage Control kidnapped and tortured Sara Grey to death, and then told Spider-Man "You're a hero! Go be a big hero boy!" while using him to corral Jean Grey so they could torture her to death too.
There is an interesting lesson that could be learned here as Spider-Man realizes the institutions charged with public safety are themselves the greatest threat to it. In trying to be Good Police, Spider-Man let himself be the tool of a corrupt system and delivered fresh victims into a machine designed to enslave and consume them.
Victims plural because he also let them take the Hulk, which the film quietly forgets happened.
But the film doesn't really engage with it in any meaningful capacity. Spider-Man briefly realizes that by capturing Jean for Damage Control, he's put her in a bad spot. He goes off to try and rescue her. But then Jean breaks out so the film can flip right back to "Jean is a danger and a threat, and Spider-Man must protect Metzger from her!" Just from a more sympathetic angle.
The film recognizes that Damage Control are the real bad guys here, but it doesn't know what to do with that. How is Spider-Man supposed to fight Damage Control?
What does justice even look like when the institutions that supposedly uphold it are themselves the source of harm?
The film has no answers and so reverts to "Jean is the villain and we need to stop her from hurting these people" for its final set-piece. Spidey never has to figure out how to fight Damage Control because he gets to fight Jean instead. And as for what justice looks like, eh, the cops will handle it. They're after Metzger now and they'll get him soon, probably!
The film's solution to systemic oppression and institutionalized violence is to throw cops at it, which couldn't be more tone-deaf if it tried.
The problem with this movie is that it has no answers. It doesn't know how to deal with Damage Control. It doesn't know why Jean shouldn't kill Metzger. It doesn't know what form of justice an institution like Damage Control could possibly be brought to. It has no idea what it's talking about, and just wants to have a cool edgy sympathetic villain who gets defeated by empathy and love.
Honestly, coming out of this movie left me feeling like we should have just had a Jean Grey revenge flick and dropped Spider-Man from the film entirely.
So. Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Yep. That was a movie alright. Kinda mid, honestly. It's already almost made a billion dollars and probably going to hit two, mind. It has Spider-Man fighting guys and sometimes remembering to quip. It has several crossover characters for that MCU brand appeal. It's a very pretty movie to look at.
But it's pretty mid.
Major spoilers after the jump because I can't really talk about this movie without talkinga about the major spoilers. That was your spoiler-free review: Kinda mid, not much to write home about.
Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?
I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.
I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.
But. Like.
Consider Iron Man.
Iron Man is a fake person that Stan Lee made up one day, following the ancient human tradition of sitting around a campfire sharing fictions with one another. He does not exist, he has no tangible impact on the world, he is an entirely imaginatory figure living in an entirely imaginatory world.
And yet, if you were to try and sell a comic book featuring Iron Man, you would have to pay the Disney Corporation millions of dollars for the right to tell a story about an imaginary billionaire in a metal suit. Otherwise, you would be committing a crime.
It is actually a crime to sit around the campfire and tell stories about this imaginary billionaire if you don't pay large sums of money to the company that controls the made-up idea of him. He does not exist and is valuated in the millions, possibly even billions of dollars.
A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."
And yet one storyteller is afforded much more dignity than the other, is legitimized more than the other. Why? Because a billionaire who controls an invisible financial stake in an imaginatory man put a rubber stamp on the first writer's forehead that says "Financially-approved!"
Isn't this all just a little ridiculous? That an imaginary billionaire can have a real-world net worth more than most people's entire families combined, and people can be charged with actual crimes for telling stories around the campfire without a piece of paper that says they are "Legally Authorized to Imagine a Billionaire"?
I understand this take, I vibe with this take, but I must disagree with some specifics. First of all, Disney isn't going to send lawyers after you for telling stories around a campfire. Copyright law allows for fair use, and non-commercial purposes fall under that. You only need to look as far as AO3 to see hundreds (thousands?) of Unofficial Iron Man tales. Parody is also fair use, which is why, for example, Robot Chicken can have a sketch where Iron Man confronts a version of The Mandarin that's even more of a racist caricature than the one in the comics.
What IP laws do cover are the specific renditions. You can't produce and sell copies of old Iron Man comics, or DVD copies of the 2008 movie, without getting in legal trouble. And that's a much muddier argument. There's also Trademark law, which is why you can't make an original movie starring a character named Iron Man. Trademark law also stops someone from filing bottles with colored water and calling it Coca-Cola. It's meant to protect both businesses from copycats and customers from frauds.
Now, all that being said, copyright law lasts entirely too long. It should last, like 10 years tops.
I have more to say specifically on the first sentence. Looking at NFTs as an extension of IP law is, I think, misleading at best. If anything they were an attempt to ape IP law, and update it for the digital age in a way that our governments are disinclined to do. Technology has been outpacing IP protections for decades now, and Congress's attempts at remedying the problem have been ham-fisted and ineffective. One could examine NFTs in that light, but I think it's at best a distraction. NFTs are above all else, a financial instrument.
Stocks, bonds, futures, crypto, and NFTs are all bits of data that society claims have value because someone is willing to buy it. They, of course, have no inherent worth, but because you can convince someone that it's meaningful it becomes so. Stocks, in particular, are a made up thing that lets capitalists think that because they traded money for a piece of paper, they now have a right to control the people who work for the corporation they bought stock in. A corporation, of course, is another made up thing that organizes capital for the benefit of the shareholders. NFTs aren't IP law reductio ad absurdum, they're stocks. You're just holding stock in Bored Ape #236 instead of Comcast.
I agree with most of this, but again disagree with the comment re: copyright law should only last ten years.
Because, again, copyright is part of the livelihood issue - and again why fanfic writers shouldn't be charging money for fanfic (and can get sued for it) and why authors shouldn't read fanfic of their stuff.
There are writers - published authors - who have been writing the same series for over a decade (Seanan McGuire has multiple series like this, and Brandon Sanderson has his whole Cosmere thing going on, not to mention others). If their copyright on the first book only lasts for that first decade, then suddenly any character they introduced in that book (as well as the setting, etc. - anything introduced in that first book) would suddenly be public domain. Anybody could publish stories with the characters etc. introduced in that first book, and if their stories are more popular or make more money, then they could kick the original author out of the income they get by writing that series.
This is something you see happening with other media, too. When the Hannibal TV series was airing, the people creating it had the rights for every character except the ones introduced in Silence of the Lambs, because MGM had those media rights. (And the people with SOTL eventually made a Clarice-focused procedural show, but they couldn't use Hannibal because he was introduced in an earlier book, and they only held the SOTL media rights.) The author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit has recently had the film rights returned to him because Disney didn't make anything re: Roger Rabbit after a certain period of time (I think film rights revert after ten years if something is made, but it can be less time if they end up not making anything - they can't hold the film rights in perpetuity - that's why Sony keeps rebooting Spider-Man every so often, because if they don't, they lose the film rights and those revert back to Marvel) - and he's expressed wanting to make another Roger Rabbit movie. But it wouldn't be anything like the Disney film because Disney still holds the copyright to what they changed/added/etc. and the books are WILDLY different from the Disney film.
I'm not a huge fan of corporations holding copyright in perpetuity.
But I do think that the original creators should hold the copyright on their creations until their death or they decide to release it.
I also kind of think that copyright should be held by the kids for a few years after, just in case that's how they've been provided for, so they have time to figure out their financial situation, but. That's another thing.
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Digimon Tamers 34 - Where is Terriermon? Shaochung Goes to the Digital World / Rabbit Transit
Previously on Digimon Tamers: Takato and Jianliang went to school but the teacher was tripping balls and it was hard to tell what he was talking about. But at the end of class, he offered to get them even higher than he is so it wasn't a complete loss.
Actually 3 Devas serving each serving one of the 4 Sovereigns was the official lore at the time of this episodes airing and was actually supposed to be the case in Tamers itself, as all 4 of the Digimon Sovereigns were originally intended to be the final boss of the series that the main characters would have to defeat.
Unfortunately the plans for the series ended up changing, due to executive meddling making them send the cast to the Digital World 3 episodes earlier than originally planned without all of the Devas defeated, meaning they still had to deal with them plus exploring the Tamers version of the Digital World, combined with the fact that they spent a lot of time just building up to one Sovereign (Zhuqiaomon), meant they did have as many episodes left to properly explore the other three Sovereigns. So in the end they simplified things by just having all 12 Devas work for Zhuqiaomon, and whilst they did introduce the other Sovereigns they ended up not having as much screen time as and consequently weren't the final boss, with a new threat introduced that even they were afraid of (although another factor in this decision is that Chiaki J. Konaka wanted something different for the final enemy and not just another Digimon that the characters could beat up).
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Okay does this dub line sound a bit Captain Obvious/Redundant to anyone or is it just me this.
This child has the belief a child... as opposed to all the other children who have beliefs of octogenarians, I guess.
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I also wasn't surprised when this happened. As I'd figured the Rabbit Deva was gonna be Suzie's Digimon partner long before it actually happened, back during the Deva Arc. Specifically it was, due to having watched Jackie Chan Adventures before this series, and thus figured out the Chinese Zodiac theming amongst the Devas several episodes before the character's in-universe did, and since I knew that one of the Devas was gonna be a rabbit, and I think the dub theme (at least in the UK) showed Suzie with a Digivice, and that Suzie's brother was partnered with a rabbit Digimon - a rabbit Digimon who in Digimon: The Movie had a sibling, it didn't exactly take a rocket scientist to figure out where this was all going.
Also minor tangent but for some reason the English Digimon wiki is convinced that Suzie's Lopmon and Henry's Terriermon are twin siblings in both versions of the show despite nothing indicating that to be the case.
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I don't know about in-universe, but out-of-universe I'm fairly certain the parallels are probably a coincidence as Suzie becoming a Tamers was actually a throw-it-in moment.
You've noticed that the OP for Tamer's seem to show off multiple shadowed Tamers and Digimon that don't appear, that because the guy who designed it did it without the showrunners' direct involvement but had some of Chiaki J. Konaka's notes for the series and thus had to hazard a guess at how the series was supposed to go and so included a lot more Tamers than Konaka had planned, although the OP's designer did handwave it by saying that this could be scene set after the end of the series (even though as you'll see the OP will not remotely match up with how the series ends). And whilst Konaka was surprised at the amount of children included in the OP, he took particular notice of the fact that Suzie had been included in the opening and thus decided to actually make her a Tamer in the actual series.
Likewise Antylamon was also not originally intended to be a partner Digimon, because according to an interview with Konaka had the Tamers travelled to the Digital World in episode 27 as initially planned rather 24, then Antylamon would have been introduced in one of the episodes before 27 as a one shot Monster of the Week that's destroyed in one episode like most of the Devas.
Funnily enough Suzie also parallels Kari in a meta way, as Kari's prominence in Digimon Adventure was also a throw-it-in moment.
According to interviews with the staff that worked on Adventure, although an 8th DigiDestined was always in the cards and had been foreshadowed as early as the Devimon arc, it being Kari was something that had not been planned. In fact having not seen the first Digimon Adventure movie with a few exceptions (including showrunner Hiroyuki Kakudou and producer Hiromi Seki) a lot of the staff didn't know that Tai was supposed to have a sibling until Kari's first in series appearance in episode 21. And even after episode 21 it still hadn't been decided to make Kari the 8th DigiDestined, with the Digivice being left in her and Tai's apartment being meant to reassure fans the show wouldn't forget about her existence and she will be appearing again. It wasn't until work began on the Myotismon arc that Kakudou suddenly announced that Kari was going to be the 8th Child that the characters were looking for and that he'd personally been considering it for quite a while, much to the rest of the staff's surprise.
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And for some other trivia.
This is the 7th dub script written by Adele Lim, who will also be writing the next episode.
Lopmon/Antylamon in the dub is voiced by Michelle Ruff, who voiced Luna in the redub of Sailor Moon and from 2010 has been Cream the Rabbit in the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
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I refuse to believe that Goku kept that secret for THREE years!!! There is no way that man kept his mouth shut. I headcanon that he likes to do a little gossiping with his wife, so as soon as he went home, he told Chichi, and Chichi was like, "Him? A father?” And Goku just nods and says, "Right?!"
I also like to think that if Chichi has some juicy gossip, she'll tell Goku, and he'll listen; same with Bulma and Vegeta, tbh. 😂😂
I have heard similar hcs and enjoy them!
I personally hc that he forgot pretty shortly after because he was more excited for another round with impending doom — plus he was off training with Gohan and Piccolo for most of (if not all of) that time, and Piccolo already knew and probably smacked him if he tried to make it any of Gohan’s business fjdjsj Work Wife says Watch your mouth.
I love the idea that Chichi will share hot goss in the Country Way, like it’s Neighborly News, but I also love me some Toriyamaverse Goku and comedy so I personally imagine it’s frustrating because his responses are earnest. She’s trying to subtlety dish and he’s like, ‘Neat!’ or ‘Huh I wonder why!’ vs Vegeta and Bulma who are both metropolitan girls, so gossip is their first language.
Could be how Chichi and Bulma ended up getting close later in the series, haha. Videl’s too nice and 18 doesn’t care, but Bulma’s the perfect amount of bored and nosey for a housewife to talk shit with fjdjjs Honestly Chichi might enjoy dishing with Vegeta too, seeing as he throws shade the way Gambit throws playing cards.
Edit: Actually I’ma meet you halfway where is the forbidden filler episode of Goku talking about Bulma getting pregnant and Gohan asks how and it’s just Piccolo and Gohan and Goku in the desert and they’re all just out there Speculating on how birth works.
Digimon Tamers 34 - Where is Terriermon? Shaochung Goes to the Digital World / Rabbit Transit
Previously on Digimon Tamers: Takato and Jianliang went to school but the teacher was tripping balls and it was hard to tell what he was talking about. But at the end of class, he offered to get them even higher than he is so it wasn't a complete loss.
Shaochung's pink is the same shade of pink as Lopmon, blatant color coding since the very beggining (as we have known our 6 Tamers and Kenta since episode 1 after all). Big difference with Hikari in that Hikari was sickly and had an eerie mysticism going on, while Shaochung is, well, Shaochung.
Deva Andiramon also wears a neckerchief like the other Devas; the redesign makes it look more in line with the rest of the group, AND makes the original, Virus Andiramon look like a rogue element, a corrupt version of what it should be. And, after all, that Andiramon turned into the fallen version of Cherubimon, while this one is meant to go into the regular version of Cherubimon. Still, doesn't portray the corruption as well as Wendigomon does, brr. Both Andiramon carry themselves in a stoic and still way, Anyway, get used to the black tiles with red light area, we are here for a three parter now, as we begin the trauma stretch of the series that will last until the end.
Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?
I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.
I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.
But. Like.
Consider Iron Man.
Iron Man is a fake person that Stan Lee made up one day, following the ancient human tradition of sitting around a campfire sharing fictions with one another. He does not exist, he has no tangible impact on the world, he is an entirely imaginatory figure living in an entirely imaginatory world.
And yet, if you were to try and sell a comic book featuring Iron Man, you would have to pay the Disney Corporation millions of dollars for the right to tell a story about an imaginary billionaire in a metal suit. Otherwise, you would be committing a crime.
It is actually a crime to sit around the campfire and tell stories about this imaginary billionaire if you don't pay large sums of money to the company that controls the made-up idea of him. He does not exist and is valuated in the millions, possibly even billions of dollars.
A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."
And yet one storyteller is afforded much more dignity than the other, is legitimized more than the other. Why? Because a billionaire who controls an invisible financial stake in an imaginatory man put a rubber stamp on the first writer's forehead that says "Financially-approved!"
Isn't this all just a little ridiculous? That an imaginary billionaire can have a real-world net worth more than most people's entire families combined, and people can be charged with actual crimes for telling stories around the campfire without a piece of paper that says they are "Legally Authorized to Imagine a Billionaire"?
I understand this take, I vibe with this take, but I must disagree with some specifics. First of all, Disney isn't going to send lawyers after you for telling stories around a campfire. Copyright law allows for fair use, and non-commercial purposes fall under that. You only need to look as far as AO3 to see hundreds (thousands?) of Unofficial Iron Man tales. Parody is also fair use, which is why, for example, Robot Chicken can have a sketch where Iron Man confronts a version of The Mandarin that's even more of a racist caricature than the one in the comics.
What IP laws do cover are the specific renditions. You can't produce and sell copies of old Iron Man comics, or DVD copies of the 2008 movie, without getting in legal trouble. And that's a much muddier argument. There's also Trademark law, which is why you can't make an original movie starring a character named Iron Man. Trademark law also stops someone from filing bottles with colored water and calling it Coca-Cola. It's meant to protect both businesses from copycats and customers from frauds.
Now, all that being said, copyright law lasts entirely too long. It should last, like 10 years tops.
I have more to say specifically on the first sentence. Looking at NFTs as an extension of IP law is, I think, misleading at best. If anything they were an attempt to ape IP law, and update it for the digital age in a way that our governments are disinclined to do. Technology has been outpacing IP protections for decades now, and Congress's attempts at remedying the problem have been ham-fisted and ineffective. One could examine NFTs in that light, but I think it's at best a distraction. NFTs are above all else, a financial instrument.
Stocks, bonds, futures, crypto, and NFTs are all bits of data that society claims have value because someone is willing to buy it. They, of course, have no inherent worth, but because you can convince someone that it's meaningful it becomes so. Stocks, in particular, are a made up thing that lets capitalists think that because they traded money for a piece of paper, they now have a right to control the people who work for the corporation they bought stock in. A corporation, of course, is another made up thing that organizes capital for the benefit of the shareholders. NFTs aren't IP law reductio ad absurdum, they're stocks. You're just holding stock in Bored Ape #236 instead of Comcast.
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Digimon Tamers 34 - Where is Terriermon? Shaochung Goes to the Digital World / Rabbit Transit
Previously on Digimon Tamers: Takato and Jianliang went to school but the teacher was tripping balls and it was hard to tell what he was talking about. But at the end of class, he offered to get them even higher than he is so it wasn't a complete loss.
It's so weird that teeth can't regenerate. Have you ever thought about how weird that is? You grow a set of teeth as a baby and then those fall out and you grow a new set and then that's it. That's your last set. You are cut off from teeth.
Hey, biology? What the fuck? How come we can't grow a third set if anything happens to the second set? Why so stingy with our teeth?
If my hair and my fingernails can continue growing forever then I think I should be allowed to grow new teeth. Grow them on my fingers! I don't care! Just give me the option, nature!
Hey so it turns out that humans have a third set of teeth ready to grow in their mouths but it never grows because after the second set grows in, a protein forms that tells the body "Teeth are done! No more teeth now," and stops all tooth growth forever.
Scientists in Japan are working on a way to get around this protein and allow humans to grow the third set of teeth as needed.
