I watched “Avatar: Fire and Ash” in 3D IMAX. People often say, “God is in the details,” but truly seeing that philosophy carried through in the act of creation is not an easy thing to do. This film shows absolutely no compromise, right down to the finest details, in the construction of the Avatar “universe.” It was magnificent.
For the past 40 years, I’ve been weaving entertainment and art alongside the evolution of cutting-edge digital technology. I’m a creator on the “digital side.” DEATH STRANDING was also shot and produced using technologies developed for Avatar.
Lately, films shot entirely in analog, without CG or VFX, have been increasingly praised. Even movies shot on film are celebrated, while digital works are sometimes dismissed with comments like, “Anyone can make it easily if it’s digital.” But that is a serious misunderstanding. CG works are also created by people. Countless actors, artists, and programmers pour their thoughts and passion into them, breathing life into the work.
Today, this film gave me renewed “pride” and “courage” as we look toward the future. It made me feel positive again about continuing to pursue “new things” using digital technology. Thank you, James Cameron. And I was also happy to see Kevin Dorman on the screen. He did so many performances for us on the set of DEATH STRANDING too. 🙏🙇🏻🫶😍
Cookbook for Ghost of Yotei so far:
So, your dev celebrated assassinations and political violence and you hired an Antifa member as your lead actor.
What to do? Disavow in a formal statement?
Naw. Instead do these time-test simple tricks:
1) Take existing successful innovative game.
2) Swap to female protagonist.
3) Make her uglier than than a PS2 port.
4) Make her gay.
5) Blow entire budget on graphics and mini-games.
6) Ignore core gameplay. Just rely on formula without improvement.
7 ) Asto-turf social media and stoke paid shills.
8) Make up sales figures without releasing anything official.
9) Accuse everyone of leading a hate campaign against you.
10) Profit?
We really tried to give Ghost of Yotei the benefit of the doubt.
We ignored the woke hirings and other rumors.
We ignored the protagonist change to a woman for no good reason.
We ignored that they made her ugly.
We did this because the first game was great and we wanted to believe.
But then it turns out, it was a woke infested, assassination loving, Antifa supporting, lesbian ending woke piece of slop after all.
WOW. Kid’s show Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous on Netflix is pushing woke garbage on CHILDREN.
Isn’t it just supposed to be about dinosaurs?
How many of these lgbtq propaganda shows are there on @netflix???
#wearecharliekirk
Now the rats want to come out of the woodwork. They couldn't beat him in life, so they try and slander him in death when he can no longer whip em senseless with a rebuttal. Intellectual cowards, the lot of you!
No matter...
We The People will take it from here. Charlie's legacy WILL live on despite your best (and rather pathetic) efforts!
Charlie Kirk had 1.7 million followers on IG before his death. As of now, he has over 11 million followers and counting.
They created an army of Charlie Kirk.
We are Charlie.
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.