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I don't think the Community episode should be removed personally. The joke isn't making fun of black people. It's making fun of morons who paint themselves black and don't see the problem with it. It's the same context as Tropic Thunder.

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Yazarogi posted...

is that brought up specifically in the episode?

Yes. That's the joke. Chang is an idiot who doesn't think it's inappropriate. Shirley (who is African-American) literally calls it a hate crime.

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Well to be fair is there anything more attractive than Agent 47 with a katana and John Wick

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Shablagoo posted...

She has a net worth of $8 million lmao her life is not fucking ruined

Won't somebody please think of the rich celebrities who get fired over saying something ignorant, offensive and stupid!

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Balrog0 posted...

Check this out https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mandalorian-gina-carano-fired-pedro-pascal-lucasfilm

Even if you take the cynical view that somehow Pedro is just as bad surely from a pure 'I'm a capitalist who only cares about money' perspective you'd realize that Pedro is significantly more important to the show. Firing the lead star is basically a last resort. Being confused about it is just the typical braindead "But what about?!" arguments we always see from conservatives. The same people who argue that fast food workers should shut up because they'd be replaced in a second.

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Why would I care that I'm doing the same thing as other people if I'm having fun?

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The great thing about this casting is he has experience with both smuggling children and *Game of Thrones and The Last of Us 2 spoilers* getting his head caved in.

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Sonic Cannon posted...

Interesting coincidence that both are Game of Thrones actors. Although their two characters didn't meet.

I wonder if it is a coincidence or if working for HBO gives you a better chance in other projects. I tend to notice that there are certain actors who often appear in Netflix shows.

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I4NRulez posted...

Were we watching the same show? She was a shitty actress and her character was meh. You could take out all of her parts in the show and you wouldnt lose anything.

Remember when she had a completely blank expression when she found out Baby Yoda was kidnapped

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OANn posted...

Gina Carano, as offensive as she may be, deserved to atleast be suspended (without pay?)

Normally i don't have time for people who sacrifice their jobs for celebrity status on Twitter, but in her case she DID know better. But still, atleast suspend her and make her think about her actions.

Qanon, what was her link with them? That part I'm not aware of can someone fill in that part?

She probably hasn't started filming for the next season yet. It's not like it's an office job.

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Wow Pedro's career has really been blooming the last couple of years. Good for him.

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Just a tip. When you use the baton you aim for above the ass for a one hit KO. When you have a stealth pistol use a laser and you'll aim will be perfect.

That makes things a lot easier.

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Meh. Show won't be missing much.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

Everybody assumes the guy in the video is the parent. Has this been confirmed?

No idea but I'd say it's more likely that a parent would record this and upload the video to social media.

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DrizztLink posted...

I'm guessing this isn't good.

A baby shakes his head no at a spoonful of food when offered to him by his Dad. The Dad then offers the spoon to a Mickey Mouse plushie and makes Mickey also shake his head no. The Dad then violently thrashes Mickey in response while the baby looks scared. Then the guy offers the spoon back to the baby and he eats it.

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I'd be pretty depressed if my kid was scared of me. Shame not all parents feel the same.

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BeantownHero posted...

also, this was pretty funny

https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/1359633936909959169?s=19

lmao

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https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/digital-humans

https://youtu.be/6mAF5dWZXcI

https://youtu.be/S3F1vZYpH8c

Takes an hour to make a character that holds up against the most visually impressive AAA games. Which should make this stuff for accessible for smaller scale games and also make NPC's look way more impressive. Some pretty cool technology here.

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Makeveli_lives posted...

It was supposed to be a fireflies show spin off

I think that's intended to be a different show.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Isn't HBO famous for it's gay sex scenes?

I guess we know what we're going to see in this

I don't remember the gay sex in Chernobyl.

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Alteres posted...

Mmmm.

Depends I guess, do we know the time frame of the series?

Pretty sure it's a direct adaptation of the first game.

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Caroniver posted...

Bet it'll be cancelled after one season, get a cult following, and then a divisive movie years later.

So then why adapt at all? Why not just make something new instead of halfassing a product to cash in on someone else's work?

Same reason Spider-Man still isn't set in the 60s. To appeal to modern audiences.

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https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1359661934681813000

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/last-of-us-game-of-thrones-breakout-bella-ramsey-to-star-as-ellie

Also this;

Also per @THR
Mahershala Ali is not going to be play Joel, although it was talked about.

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Collat posted...

Not the case with any other Rare game though aside from one's dealing with Nintendo properties for obvious reasons.

Because Microsoft got the complete rights to those games. Nintendo gave them up to Rare.

They wouldn't have been able to with Goldeneye because they'd also have to reach an agreement with MGM.

Collat posted...

There just seems to be this long standing urban legend where Nintendo is sitting on the rights to one specific Bond movie forever even though they haven't touched it in 25 years and other game companies have used it without issue.

It's not an urban legend. The developers literally said this is the case.

Nintendo don't own the rights to Bond or even Goldeneye. They hold some sort of ownership over the specific Goldeneye game they published. Nintendo also cannot do anything with it on their own. It requires approval from Nintendo, Microsoft and MGM due to all three of them having a stake of ownership of the N64 original.

We even have another example of this fairly recently. Disney was able to re-release the Virgin Interactive version of Aladdin no problem. But they haven't re-released the Capcom version. If what you were saying was correct it wouldn't matter because Capcom don't own the rights to Aladdin but clearly that isn't the case. Capcom have some sort of ownership over the SNES game so Disney need to reach and agreement with them if they ever want to re-release it. Likewise Capcom cannot do anything without Disney's approval. This is why movie rights games are often stuck in limbo.

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https://7news.com.au/news/animals/koala-causes-six-car-pile-up-on-south-eastern-freeway-in-adelaide-before-posing-for-a-photo-c-2121215

A daring koala has had a lucky escape after inadvertently causing a six-car pile-up on a major Adelaide highway.
The South Eastern Freeway was plunged into chaos on Monday morning when the koala wandered out into the middle of the road

Drivers slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting the koala and instead hit each other.

Six cars were involved in the chain reaction smash but, fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt.
It did, however, cause major delays for morning commuters.

One of those stuck in the traffic jam was Nadia Tugwell, who spotted the culprit.
She picked up the koala and put her in her car to avoid any further incidents.
But when she looked back into her car, it had grabbed the steering wheel and was posing for a photo.
Oh, it was ready to take off, saying come on Mummy where are we going? Im driving, she laughed.
She had the most innocent, cute face.

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To be fair I don't think Ubisoft have released a $70 game. Yet. Because they will.

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Probably some guy in the American company was named Wally and didn't want his name to be a punchline.

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When stuff like this happens I also wonder if there's a lot of people who know its fake and also do it for attention.

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HylianFox posted...

but it is weird how white people have become 'generic' in media, like a blank coloring book you just fill in with whatever and it doesn't change the overall theme

Because a lot of media is generic stuff that defaults to white Americans. Especially old stuff.

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HylianFox posted...

this may be true, but it's still considered offensive for black characters to be replaced with white actors.
yet, it's acceptable the other way around.

I'm not trying to defend racism (god forbid), but there's no denying the double-standard either

Because there's barely black main characters to adapt and usually their race is a big part of the story. It's a smaller bucket to choose from in general.

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What does this mean?

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AmericaTheBrave posted...

Is this to be woke or because Mahershala Ali is a bankable actor?

He's a great actor that's probably too good to be in a video game adaptation to be quite frank.

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

A character's race doesn't have to be pivotal to the plot for it to be a part of their identity.

A character's identity doesn't need to be exactly the same for an adaptation either.

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Venom
Shadow the Hedgehog

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Tbh I would love some serious shooter that suddenly ended with the protagonist visiting his victims in hospital.

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Total_Lost2 posted...

Or just their fight against FEDRA for a return to regular government agencies instead of basic military rule

Maybe both!

Would be an interesting concept if Joel slaughters almost the entire cast of a TV show to save Ellie. Although it would feel a bit random if for some reason you didn't watch main show lol. Then it would just be a random guy.

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It's sad that an average kids movie has been one of the more exciting things to happen to the franchise.

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TendoDRM posted...

Why would anyone want to watch a show about incompetent terrorists?

My guess is *series spoilers* they're gonna use it to set up Abby.

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TheDurinator posted...

Are they just going to make a TV version of the first game's story? That would be terrible and unnecessary, the game already does a great job with it. It would be much more interesting to follow the story from the beginning of the outbreak to the game's timeline from the perspectives of people besides Joel and Ellie, e.g., doctors, the army, and eventually the fireflies.

How will they change Abby? Twitter will complain if a straight white girl brutally kills a black man with a golf club.

I think they're also developing a Fireflies show too.

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refmon posted...

Hes a good actor but imagine if it was the other way around

Damn there's not even a Shaft for video games to name drop.

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Wouldn't wanna be Neil Druckmann's Twitter inbox right now.

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Dude sounds like a total asshole. Fuck him. These power trip assholes don't deserve to be protected.

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That interview didn't really say anything about MGM just that the rights were complicated. Which we knew. It's possible it's in that full interview but the link to that no longer seems to work.

But two of the eight people who worked on the game have just explicitly said someone high up at Nintendo shut it down. So why wouldn't Nintendo get the blame? Yes we know the rights are complicated and several people can potentially shut it down which is why it will never happen but for specifically the XBLA port 10 years ago it was Nintendo. It was always assumed but we've basically just got confirmation that this is the case. That doesn't mean they're the hurdle that stopped the game in other cases but it does for this specific one.

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Cookie Bag posted...

Again, this isn't what happened, the interview with the employee talking about the Xbox goldeneye mentions that it wasn't an issue with nintendo, it was the movie and character license holders, and they practically demanded so much stuff that it would take too much time and money to change the game, like bond has to look like the current bond, the good characters can't fight each other in multiplayer, shit like that.

What interview?

The one Ars Technica has says this.

[Update, February 9: A follow-up interview by Video Games Chronicle's Andy Robinson includes an additional morsel from ex-Rare dev Chris Tilston, who was co-lead on the remaster. He claims that the project began life when Nintendo representatives made a phone call offer to Microsoft and Rare. The handshake was contingent on Nintendo releasing a version of the original Goldeneye 007 on Wii, and Rare releasing their own on Xbox 360. Exactly what happened with that Nintendo version remains unclear, nor whether any negotiating followed up between Nintendo and Activision to pave the way to a wholly different Goldeneye game on Wii in 2010.]

As the project went on, Edmonds and Bury point to a momentexactly when, they can't recallwhen their bosses gave the GE360 team a green light. "We were told everyone had approved it," Edmonds says. The rights were all cleared, with no condition that anybody had to work on a version for a Nintendo console or any other requirements. That was all the team needed to hear to continue work on the Xbox 360 version.
Later, the eight devs on the project learned the truth about negotiations... when GE360 was unceremoniously canceled.
"When it was put to Nintendo, everyone there approved it," Bury says. "Except they didn't check with the one guy who mattered." Bury then clarifies who that person was: former Nintendo Chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi, who had vacated the post by 2007 but was still Nintendo's largest Japanese shareholder.
[Update, 11:15 a.m.: Since this article's publication, Bury and Edmonds have chimed in to correct a huge point: The Nintendo executive who spiked the project was not Yamauchi, due to his no longer officially working at Nintendo, but rather some other Nintendo executive, whose name was left a mystery to the Rare development team. "Mark corrected me on that as it wasnt actually him since he had left, but someone else high up," Bury writes via email.]

"I believe I was told his response went along the lines of, 'There is no way a Nintendo game is coming out on a Microsoft console,'" Bury adds. (If you're wondering how some of Rare's N64 games eventually wound up on Xbox consoles, remember: Rare took many of its older games' rights with it to Microsoft, but not all of them. 2005's Conker: Live and Reloaded was the first example.)

In fact it specifically says the stuff you're talking about isn't confirmed.

Neither Edmonds nor Bury has particular insights on the evolution of Nintendo, Rare, and Microsoft's combined rights relationship, having both left Rare years ago. When pressed about a leaked mini-documentary from 2014, which hinted to Goldeneye 007 almost landing on Xbox One via the Rare Replay anthology, Bury shrugs his shoulders. "I am assuming that all the information and quotes around rights negotiations on the 'Net are from this time period, as previous to that, [the Nintendo boss]'s orders trumped everything," he says. (This includes loud rumors that MGM and OEM's handling of Bond video games evolved over the years to place serious restrictions on the license in games, many of which have never been confirmed.)

So what source are you referring to?


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Collat posted...

Getting real nitpicky aren't you?

The fact of the matter is, they were able to put out a Goldeneye game on all consoles and Nintendo couldn't do shit about it. Just like they couldn't when EA used the name.

Now that IO Interactive has the license, they would be free to use it as well, though I'm expecting their game to downplay the shooter style gameplay compared to other Bond games.

I think this one would be a bit different since it was the exact same game Nintendo published in the 90s with prettier visuals. So while Nintendo don't have any rights over the Goldeneye name or any new adaptations of the movie I could see them having some sort of ownership over the game they published so that would stop publishers and developers from simply releasing the same game again.

These sort of IP games pretty much always have issues over the rights which is why we rarely see them get remastered or re-released again unless it's with the same company who published the original. I doubt IO Interactive can suddenly just release remasters of the old Bond games from Activision and EA just because they have the licence for example. Even WB Games haven't re-released any old Batman games for easy money and they'd only need to deal with one other company.

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I was worried the most of the show would be like the first two episodes so I was relieved when that wasn't the case personally. I'm fine with it now but tbh I'd probably be fine if that was just for the first episode and it moved on.

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Ceresmie posted...

This entire thing seems super suspicious. I have a feeling they did this to deflect attention from the game needing fixes, because I have a hard time believing that hacker note is legitimate. Them posting it strikes me as odd too, and the weird generic stuff about having 48 hours to contact them. Has any other video game company that's been hacked had a hacker like this?

Capcom was a victim of this recently although they never posted their ransom letter publically.

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Proto_Spark posted...

I'm only like 4 hours into TLOU2, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Haven't gotten to super dark places yet, but I hope most of the complaints I've heard about are actually just butthurt people using TLOU2 as an excuse to be like, misogynistic.

I think most people who don't enjoy it have already realised that by now. Although the second half of the game turns some people off too. I thought the game got even better then personally.

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Hmm King Kong?

Hayame Zero posted...

Deep Impact?

Really almost any disaster movie.

I suppose most disaster movies have some sort of selfish villain who either doesn't believe the threat or screws over others to save themselves.

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3-5 years.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

The cannibals and bandits are not morally inferior to Marlene or Tommy? Get the fuck outta here

Not having one morally superior group does not mean that certain people and groups aren't more evil than others.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Joel did not believe he was doing the right thing for a second. He was doing the selfish thing for Joel.

Do you remember how *TLOU2 Spoilers* Abby's Dad answered when asked if he would do the same thing if it was Abby? He didn't say anything. Because he wouldn't do it either. Nobody would.

UnfairRepresent posted...

The Fireflies and Tommy are morally superior to Joel and not selfish. That's literally the point. Joel is not a good person.

Tommy would also murder all of the fireflies if they killed Joel. The Fireflies car bombed people to destabilize towns and demand to murder teenagers to take out their brain to try and find a cure. None of them are good people.

It's easy to say you have the moral superiority when you aren't the one making any sacrifice.

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