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@hexbear.netThere was a lot of talk on that lawsuit but sadly it was taken by the anti-woke rw YT grifters. but here its his blog. Anas's personal life was quite sad actualy, but the blog is still online and the case story is absurd. The game was created years before Discovery and the theory is when Brian Fuller left the Kurtzman team was crunching for time so they just copied whatever.
What makes it a slam dunk is not each one taken individualy obviously, but how everything just happens to be a coincidence.
The trial ended up being about the Tardigrades and that was what the CBS wanted to focus on because it was the only technicality.
Its funny because if you make a science fiction show with a French Captain, an Android, a POC engineer on a ship that has a particular disc shape section where they all wear red blue and yellow uniforms, where they work for an "alliance" of planets and end up fighting a sort of cybernetic enemy you know Trek lawyers would be on your ass.
How do you go from "unconditional" to "a temporary incentive that barely covers anything"?
I think a lot of people are not particularly familiar with the pre-Yang grifter UBI platform, specialy on reddit.
The basic argument was that given an unconditional income people would rather use their time to do things that can lead to improving their material conditions. If you have income you can study or take a second job or learn a craft etc. This was supported by the Manitoba experiment and the fundamental point still holds.
The caveats and the left critique is only against the Yang grifter shit. On that I agree its just pipe dreams. But a serious UBI proposal existed before then and it definitely included key points like healthcare reform. From day 1 I think most people understood it would make no point to be given UBI just to spend on healthcare and rent. At that point its not income its a subsidy to those industries.
So considering a serious UBI proposal, as I see it COVID got nothing to do with this. It wasn't unconditional and it wasn't income, it was some temporary stimulus people got. Not only that, during the pandemic people were literaly doing the opposite of having freedom to take other activities. Education and some jobs were temporarily moved online but otherwise nothing changed.
Nobody took COVID checks and were like "guess I don't have to work for the next 5 years now".
I think worse still is pushing this narrative starts to validate mainstream neoiibs economics gaslighting narratives that the problem with inflation was that people had too much extra money and the years the Fed spent trying to control inflation through interest rates targeting "excess savings". Both of these are absolute garbage nonsense theories that only serves to punch on the working class.
At best you're validating neoliberals arguments here, we should be careful, this realy depends on whether you are talking about serious UBI or Yang shit. Its not so superficialy simple like that.
Early access has been abused so much that devs are mostly forced to use EA in order to make a soft release.
And not all indie devs are saints, why should you be able to charge any money for a literal alpha prototype? We are now paying to be not even beta but alpha testers?
Again EA abuse completely destroyed the software developement foundations behind most indie devs. Way too many of them work on their game for a year and then release a crappy alpha.
20 years ago the idea would be laughed at, today we pay money for any half decent prototype with slightly better than Unity Asset store models. That is the lowest barrier of entry and its understandable people have become cynical.
Of course there are EA success stories obviously, from single devs that get it right to big "indie" studios but those are the exception.
I think there are also quite a few devs that hide behind the "oh its still early access, there is still time" to hide behind their incompetence and/or unwillingless to fix bugs. Sometimes they'll keep making promises of new content, adding more and more stuff and never looking back at their engine bugs etcs as a result EA is not a guarantee of bug free release even if "done right". The devs may simply prioritize content over bugs.
I'd just like to remind everyone that Discovery S1 is completely plagiarized from some small indie game on Steam. Even though the poor guy lost the lawsuit, its pretty fucking obvious the writers had someone use literal google results for inspiration.
I loved her video and this is a great compilation but others have made the same criticisms for some time now. The RLM reviews go over most of these issues in a much shorter time.
I did not know about the Patrick Stewart biography thing but it only serves to show how much of a useless piece of shit he is. I do not care about the whatever good contributions he may have made or said, he can go die in a fire.
If you haven't already I recommend once again reading FADE IN: From Idea to Final Draft. PDF here. Its not like Michael Piller is a saint or anything but the Patrick Stewart letters should be put in any Trek museum IMO.
Again the quotes I love from PS
::: spoiler PS letter quotes
One deliberate change we made was to Picard. We toughened him up, chipped away at his smooth surface, roughened and intensified his feelings. Shifted him from Captain/ Diplomat/Philosopher to Captain/Rebel/Activist.
I feel that, in a sense, we had reinvented ourselves - or had begun to. The ‘story’ of the series was over and we were now telling a different story with our movies. That is what I want to see continue.
That is the background to the unease that I feel with this new story. It seems to reflect the series much more than where we were at the end of First Contact. This compounded by Michael referring back several times to aspects of the series you want to see in this film. That is what I see as retrograde and dangerous and, ultimately, dull.
The family building aspect of TNG is passed. Not dead, but the work is done. Most of our audience know who these people are and how they feel about each other and our new audience - the audience the studio are so eager for us to win and hold - don’t need to be told that. They will pick it up.
I don’t agree about our being explorers again. I think that is series material but not movie material. Heresy though this may be, I do not think our movie duty is “to seek out new life and new civilizations...” though it still is “to boldly go...”
I think there is real danger in the mindset that “there are certain things that our audience come to expect...”
And lastly - though far from leastly - sex and comedy. Two elements of life that I have come to think as critical in the TNG movies. I tell you I think our stories have got to be sexy. I don’t mean ‘sex scenes,’ God forbid, but a certain eroticism, a certain sexiness about our characters and situations is really helpful and fun. Let’s be honest, there is an inclination to stuffiness about our crew. For the same reason humor is vital and again I don’t mean set-piece scenes - though as I have said, Picard with the mariners could be a great sequence. I think our crew are adorable when they are witty, ironic, self deprecating, teasing, cheeky. :::
Yes, witty, ironic, self deprecating, teasing, cheeky are definitely traits that describe the TNG crew. God what a moron.
When she talks about Nemesis and the movies in general its important to realize just how terribly similar all of this is to the TNG movie era. You can read the nonsensical Patrick Stewart letters and how he so desperately wants to abandon the TV series.
Yeah they got PS because of Logan but Picard also turned out like this exactly because PS is an idiot that hates the TV series. If PS wanted it we could have had a more TNG relatable Picard series, but this idiot only wanted to make a statement about Brexit. The whole segment of why "Space Fox News" exist is exactly because of that mandate I'm 100% convinced. Yeah in the biography he brags about Season 2 but that was not his only input lol.
He said he didn't want a TNG "reunion". That was major bullshit, not only to shit on his fellow actors, but it would force the show back to the TV era. He always wanted to be a Movie Star^Tm^ like it was popular in the 90's and I fully believe that the Picard series was doomed from the start, PS would never come back to do actual real good TNG era Star Trek again, period. The success of X-Men did not change his mind, in 2018 he still wants nothing to do with the TV series.
Kurtzman and all are still complete assholes but its not like they could have made TNG 2.0 with Patrick Stewart either. It all just sucks for 30 years now.
I think this is exactly the post someone would write in 2003 about millennials after the dotcom bubble, 9/11 and the wars. In that post they even somehow predicted the 2008 crisis. Look at where we are now.
In order to rebel there must be an alternative and there is no alternative because the AES aren't as big an influence as the USSR was in the 1950s. The US was actualy worried about communism back then.
The US is not worried about "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", apart from dipshits at the Fed and media being the mouthpieces of neoliberals nobody actualy cares about what China is doing.
Even if we assumed China is a perfect model to follow, there is already a generational fear since 2019. China will always be the social credit, communism is when cartoon bear owns you etc. Now after COVID every good government initiative is somehow draconian and evil because they resemble the evil SEESEEPEE.
If you want a optimistic prediction maybe when the first huge climate crisis occurs(e.g blue ocean event) there will be significant protests against some parts of the economy. Maybe eventualy the oil industry will take a hit because it will be politically unsustainable. Does that mean they're rebelling against capitalism? The media will push that. "Oh no the young generation are anti-capitalist because checks notes they don't want to die due to some shit industry destroying the planet" is a headline from an article around 15-30 years from now. Yeah because communism is when you have a green energy policy.
if nukes were flying toward Russia through Chinese territory the yanks could just pinky-promise to China they're for Russia and they'd keep theirs away?
Given China's extreme confidence in "peaceful" "collaboration" shit there is a non-zero chance they'd believe this. They would give exactly the same reason people give here today "oh why should we involve our 1.4 billion people in a nuclear war in Europe?"
In any case whether we agree on this or not, first and foremost you're aware that US nukes would fly over the north pole not Asia?
You're right about everything else, these people suck and they're idiots.
I'm guessing you could make such a MG type game but it would have to almost completely ignore China and East Asian politics.
Maybe a East vs West(PDX abandoned Cold War game) could be allowed if it was stritctly from USSR/China perspective with western enemies but then again the risk you mentioned, why work on a game where you're not even allowed to make somewhat equal or a challenging opponenent.
If you want a USSR sim city i.e a cakewalk "strategy" game, you wouldn't make a grand strategy/political game?
That makes sense but its not how I read it, the person emphasized good effects twice meaninging to disparage Chinese capabilities before "Hollywood" showed them the way i.e they never truly understood the power of After Effects and Maya until they were flabbergasted by Avengers Endgame.
I think what you heard is the western propaganda version of the real Chinese gaming content restrictions. Those restrictions are basically to do with national soverengty and history. It kind of makes sense the western propaganda took that to create a strawman that Chinese games must all be fictional. Perhaps there is some truth some devs choose this because its much easier than navigating the legal landmine of whatever the law decides is too close for comfort.
As you may be aware all games in China must be approved by the SAPP, there is a review process and only a limited number of games are approved every year. There are indeed some strict rules.
It is not easy to find these regulations in English. Here is the best translation of the infamous online game draft last year, it was retracted but it is supposed to be a consolidation of existing rules as well.
Here is the translation of that draft. See prohibited content.
Here is the current(?) 2016 edition in Chinese
::: spoiler Google TL Article 25 No publication shall contain the following content:
(1) Opposing the basic principles established by the Constitution;
(2) endangering national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity;
(3) leaking state secrets, endangering national security or damaging national honor and interests;
(4) inciting ethnic hatred or discrimination, undermining ethnic unity, or infringing on ethnic customs and habits;
(5) Propagating evil cults or superstitions;
(6) disrupting social order or undermining social stability;
(7) Promoting obscenity, gambling, violence, or instigating crime;
(8) Insulting or slandering others, or infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of others;
(9) endangering social morality or excellent national cultural traditions;
(10) Containing other content prohibited by laws, administrative regulations or national provisions. :::
#2 is a pretty tough one if you want any sort of "geopolitical" game from a western perspective. The Taiwan issue is right away a no-go. Also no Paradox games.