Ben_Thoughts

Thoughts of Ben. pretty self explanatory

[Classical Liberal Caucus of Texas @LPCLC_TX]

"Getting raped is just part of the job"

[Blaire(Puppygirl era)🏳️‍⚧️ @transyapper7781]

I think it’s fucking nuts that the conservative answer to this is that narcan should also cost money instead of both being free

[sean @_sn_n]

“I wish LGBT people would stop making it their entire personality”

[jordan @notbubbawallace]

“gen z is killing bars” beers are $8 and cocktails are $15

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Oh you mean the thing every other developed country has done

[Hunter 🍁 @007_Hunter_]

Cheering for higher gas prices…

Literal cattle bro 😭

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

Your president pardoned people who did this to me and like you, he wants to make the lives whole or better than before January 6 while not giving a shit about officers.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

So close! That is the present

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

This is the MAGA movement in a nutshell.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I swear to God whoever Amazon casts as a Bond villain in the next Bond movie won’t fit the part as much as this guy does.

Just check out the laugh.

[Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧 @lilyally98]

We don’t shame loser males enough

[brandon* @brndxix]

ronald reagan in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down

[sean @_sn_n]

he just debated random college students

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Btw here’s Ben Shapiro talking about how he wanted to make a documentary about men playing in women’s sports but was unable to because it doesn’t happen

[MissAnthrope @LyssAnthrope]

Demanding that babies be born so they can suffocate to death shortly after birth in order to satisfy your uninformed abstract moral preferences is not actually moral high ground.