Cel Therapy

Enthusiastic cartoon watcher and lover of all things animation. Probably watching cartoons right now. Which ones are you watching?

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

Just found out that my favorite sumo champion has passed away. #Akebono is the reason why I watch #Sumo. Rest in peace, king. #RIPAkebono #AkebonoTaro #ChadRowan #Yokozuna

[🌸Eri ~ Carpe Diem @sentosumosaba]

Our world lost the first American-born sumo wrestler who became the first non-Japanese Grand Champion or "Yokozuna".

Winner of 11 championships, physically imposing at 203 cm (6'8") | 233 kil (514 lb).

He died of heart failure at the age of 54.
RIP #Akebono san

[Ledger @ledgerlyx]

Taraji P. Henson asked for $500,000 to play Brad Pitt's mother. She got $150,000 and says about $30,000 of it was left. The movie made $335 million.

In the video below, Gayle King asks if she's quitting acting. Taraji covers her face and cries before she can say a word. Then she does the math out loud.

In 2008 she was third on the call sheet for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, behind Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Her 2016 memoir says she'd been promised "somewhere in the mid six figures." At a 2023 SAG-AFTRA event she said she asked for $500,000 and was first offered $100,000.

It came up to $150,000 with a condition. She had to cover three months of New Orleans hotel bills herself. "Insult, meet injury," she wrote.

On The Real she did the sum. Half the $150,000 went to taxes. Her team took 30% of the full fee, $45,000. That left $30,000, and her son's school tuition that year was $30,000. "Literally, for five months, that's what I made."

The memoir puts her pay at less than 2% of what the studio paid the top name on that call sheet, Pitt.

She got an Oscar nomination for the role. Fifteen years later she said she almost walked away from The Color Purple over pay. That same month she told Gayle King: "Every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again."

The case for the studio: Pitt sold the tickets, and she doesn't dispute his money. "They deserve to earn what they get," she said of Pitt and Blanchett.

Her side: "I too worked my ass off, and at the time I couldn't say no. I didn't have any power."

$335 million at the box office. An Oscar nomination. One year of school fees.

Every day, one star's real paycheck.

Was that Hollywood paying for box office power, or paying a Black woman less because it could?

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

Animators and illustrators, please listen to this. You are not a failure.

[Culture 🎥 @CultureOnly_]

Everytime I get mad at my sports team for losing, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

If you’re not watching #BassXMachina , you should be. Steampunk Western with Powers.

[Studio Mir 스튜디오미르 @StudioMir2010]

바스 X 마키나, 11월 3일 오직 넷플릭스에서.

Bass X Machina premieres November 3rd, only on Netflix.

#BassXMachina #바스X마키나
#Netflix #StudioMir

[Studio Mir 스튜디오미르 @StudioMir2010]

바스 X 마키나, 11월 3일 오직 넷플릭스에서.

Bass X Machina premieres November 3rd, only on Netflix.

#BassXMachina #바스X마키나
#Netflix #StudioMir

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

And this is precisely why I won’t watch another Warriors game.

[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

Draymond Green was assessed a double technical on this play and was ejected.

[Affinity @Affinity]

When iPad? NOW iPad. Affinity for iPad is live 🔥

One app to craft it all, from anywhere at all: sketch, design, edit, lay out, then edit again, all on iPad. This isn’t a cut down companion, this is desktop power at your fingertips.

Download now: https://t.co/QuFLC9YeD9

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

Congrats to yall. I wish i could have seen it live. But it was a streaming service that I don’t have.

[NBA @NBA]

IN JUST THEIR SECOND SEASON AS A FRANCHISE...

THE GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES ARE WNBA CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

So. I can only watch the #WNBA finals on Peacock. A sub that I don’t have. The f’ing finals don’t have wide coverage? Congrats to whoever wins. F’ing shame I can’t even see it. I’m done with the W disrespect. #wnbafinals

[Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew]

Who gets to judge anime? Leaders from Studio Chizu, A-1 Pictures, and Toho discuss plans for a new international award and their shared hope to recognize a wider range of work and nurture the next generation of creators.
https://t.co/fAGU45W0db

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

Watching #AvatarSevenHeavens
She dropped him. Right into the pit. Look…. If you’re hiding the Avatar from the Queen…this is what happens.
I want to hate her, but she’s justified. #Avatar

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

If the rest of the team moves on after this, I probably won’t watch nba coverage anymore. No other team has this chemistry.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

The Inside The NBA crew reacts to Ernie Johnson announcing this will be his last season on the show ❤️

[Ernie Johnson @TurnerSportsEJ]

It’s time.
🤟🤟🏾🤟🏻🤟🏽

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

@kaymonk @JoshuaTookes This is hilarious

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

@kalaelizabeth I could imagine. Putting down conflicts on a ton of planets. And was that a gravity gun?

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

@Mr_Rebs_ Was that a gravity gun?

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

@kalaelizabeth Once the rights are sold to a different medium, it essentially becomes their product. Prime could possibly see this as a win because now, they’d be the only source for ME.

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

This is a good read

[Mapocolops @Mapocolops]

Reminder:
- EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017

- Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again.

- After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations.

- Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released.

- This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around.
We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up.

The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too.
Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game.

EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn.

People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

[Ms. Mersion @MiaMersion]

As someone who worked for EA and Bioware for 3 years before becoming a creative director of another studio. I am gutted to hear this news, but Bioware has been fighting for survival since 2016 and I can say that this random person has no idea what the fuck they're talking about.

[Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew]

Shutting down Blue Sky was one of the stupidest things Disney has done in this century.

[Cel Therapy @celtherapy]

@AnimatorBruce That’s nuts.