these trailers are so good that they did irreparable damage to the Star Wars fandom bc of how high they set the bar, with no real intention from mainline Lucasfilm to replicate them
they’re kinda like the Andor of the 2000s-2010s in that regard
Every continent before civilization, before every race even met each other, collectively took away women's rights. Chose their arranged marriages for them, restricted their sexuality to virginity until marriage.
There were no Zoom calls. No internet. How did 6 different races on 6 different continents all come to the SAME conclusion about women?
White, Black, Asian, Latino, Indian, Arab - ALL practiced the same thing and you are fucking telling me there isn't a solid reason behind it?
Since women were allowed to choose their own partners, look at the rate of single motherhood? From 5% to 40%+ in one generation.
Since women were allowed to not be virgins, look at the rate of prostitution, OnlyFans, abortion? Millions of abortions a year.
The best generation of kids, the best schools, the safest streets, the strongest society and civilization was when your rights were restricted.
You think your great-great-grandfather was dumb? The man who built a house with no tools, fought lions, survived wars - you think HE was dumb and you are smart because you have TikTok?
They restricted you because they LEARNED. Every man learned that if you give a woman unlimited sexual freedom, society collapses. Family collapses. Kids suffer.
You call it oppression. They called it order. And their order worked for 5000 years.
Your freedom hasn't worked for 50.
Blizzard was a game developer that was so popular that they used to have their own annual ComicCon style convention where fans from all over the world would come to meet the developers of their favorite games and learn what new stuff was coming.
Then, an unhappy faction who didn’t like the “frat house” atmosphere made a bunch of largely false allegations at the height of #MeToo. Lawyers were brought in to investigate, and they found email chains discussing the “Cosby Suite,” which was the hospitality suite at the convention hotel that Blizzard developers named for its carpets that looked like a Bill Cosby sweater.
These emails were from years before Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, but they were considered damning at the time and it was insinuated in the media that the men on the email chain were committing rape in the “Cosby Suite,” entirely because of the name.
Everyone on the email chain — men who had worked at Blizzard for decades and built the Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft franchises — were fired in disgrace over this.
Alex Afrasiabi had his name stripped out of World of Warcraft. An Overwatch character named after veteran Blizzard developer Jesse McCree was renamed in the game. These guys did absolutely nothing wrong except joke with their friends in emails they never expected to be exposed as part of a witch hunt.
In the wake of the mass firings of veterans game designers, the entire culture of Blizzard changed as an institution, and the games changed too — for the worse. “World of Warcraft” became a cozy fantasy coffee shop game. “Overwatch” became a gay pride game. Nobody would go to a convention these days to celebrate these games or the people who now work on them.
The false sexual assault allegations were a pretense for a crowd of disgruntled nonbinary weirdos to seize the greatest game studio in the United States, but without the people they purged and replaced, they could not uphold Blizzard’s once legendary standard of quality and the studio collapsed into irrelevance.
When you see gamers celebrating mass layoffs at game studios, it is because things like this happened across the gaming industry. The hobby was conquered and transformed by people who believed gaming needed to change. But they changed it into something nobody wants to pay for, and now they’re all losing their jobs.
Remember the Halo producer who hated guns and games that glorified gunplay?
He just got laid off.
Stop hiring people that hate the games you make. It ruins franchises.
I cannot stress this enough:
If you have designated yourself as an organ donor on your drivers license, remove it now.
Your family has ZERO ability to override that designation. If the organ donation team designates you as a candidate for donation, your medical team is removed from dictating your care and the organ donation team takes over.
There have been numerous cases like the one mentioned here.
I have personally witnessed people BEGGING for their loved one to not be made an organ donor, but if you checked that box on your drivers license, that’s all it takes. You have consented and give up any right to retract.
The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into gardening baking, reading, and long walks. Not because life got boring. Because peace became valuable.