Doom and Age of Empires creator Sandy Petersen blasts Amazon over their handling of Stargate:
"1) get handed a massively popular IP that spans 17 years of successful shows."
"2) realize it has millions of loyal fans, desperate for more. They are now in their 40s and 50s, flush with money. Eager to teach their kids & grandkids about Stargate."
"3) you could start with this. You are already three steps up the ladder to huge success. The fans will evangelize it, if you don't wreck the IP. Don't believe it? Look how the fans evangelized Battlestar Galactica after its 30 year hiatus. And the initial Dr Who reboot after 15 years."
"4) cancel the project because you want a "new take" that will eliminate all the loyal fans and turn them into bitter enemies."
"It's like an ancient Greek play about hubris."
Why are corporate execs like this?
Jeff Bezos capped his salary at $82,000. Not because he's modest or because he wanted what's best for society and his company but because salaries are taxed.
Instead, he borrows against his $230 BILLION stock to fund his lifestyle UNTAXED No paycheck = no income tax.
The he jumps on TV and said he pays his fair share of taxes. They think we're stupid.
1/3 ICE is buying up warehouses in Texas to imprison people they snatch off the streets. Speaking as someone who spent years working in those buildings, here's my Texas warehouse story.
I used to pull orders for stores in a Coca Cola warehouse.
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.
Do not stop talking about Palestine. Do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Do not stop talking about the innocent people who are still in ICE detention centers. They want us to forget and move on. Do not let them distract you from the horrors that are happening.
If people quietly accept Sony’s 30-day DRM policy without any pushback we’ll soon see it everywhere I know we don’t truly own the digital games and content we pay for but at least let us feel like we can keep what we’ve already bought
If we stay silent companies will only go further and one day we won’t be able to say no