Apparently morbius got a C+

https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1iptarn/captain_america_brave_new_world_gets_a_b_on/mcuykdc/?context=8

Not to go there but we will look back at the insane cultural bubble that was 2019-2022 and the havoc it's wrought on pop culture with disbelief; it will legit be studied.

The way Disney has CRATERED its most valuable IPs in the service of fake cultural clout from what was always a vanishingly tiny minority and audiences that simply don't (and have never) existed as a way to take story telling shortcuts and up their ESG score. It's like something out of a dystopian novel, it nearly beggars belief.

!g*mers @kaamrev

MY LAST TWITTER RAMPAGE WAS 90% JEW PROOF

— ye (@kanyewest) February 17, 2025

!r-slurs !Jews !goyim !chuds

Fоíd shоws hеr sеļf wíthоut fíļtеřs thеn sоmе guуs dоnt gеt whеřе аřе аļļ thе gооd ļооkíng fоíds

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More sad than anything, assuming it's not bait.

Your baby will be fine. Please touch grass, the world isn't ending no matter what the media says.

The victims included a five-year-old girl, a woman waiting for a bus, and a high school student on her way home from school… Four incidents in one year. https://t.co/vTvNLx0sYQ

— おはよ!まいぶらざー (@OhayoMybrother) January 12, 2025

🚨#BREAKING: The Truth

The past few days have been an unrelenting nightmare, marked by an overwhelming barrage of stress, frustration, and exhaustion that has taken a significant toll on my part. A severe and unjust breach of my personal life has occurred, and private… pic.twitter.com/bUa1OGxcnA

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 19, 2025

"Furthermore, let me state this as clearly as possible as I have no interest in minors. Period." https://t.co/p3frIhg4uw pic.twitter.com/ydimrHv8ce

— MavLostHisIQ (@MavLostHisIQ) February 19, 2025

Respectfully, if you’re a proud gay man, why did you pretend to have a wife? https://t.co/Cv4uokZGI2 pic.twitter.com/bEKdDMepbm

— TheDoog (@doogle990) February 19, 2025

Who had this on their 2025 bingo card? https://t.co/CoONU1LOEE pic.twitter.com/J84ptCNbGq

— Garbage Human (@GarbageHuman24) February 19, 2025

So... turns out this degenerate is into pup play...

... dude... you can get off this dimension!

🫤 https://t.co/fOLLZe6u2m pic.twitter.com/B8MwnrnGQI

— Joshua Ek (@JoshuaEkOnX) February 19, 2025

Rawsalerts is ALSO into nappies and shit like that!

In an advanced and respectful society, you'd be put down like the sick dog you identify as!

What a degenerate!

🫤 pic.twitter.com/ArrEtlydqu

— Joshua Ek (@JoshuaEkOnX) February 19, 2025

"Imporntant" bro gooning as he wrote this whole statement https://t.co/ng4L3A6GUt

— Cynic (@FreeRoamMode) February 19, 2025

Now THATS how you conservatism in 2025. Uwu

!g*mers

How do I, 23M, get a girlfriend and get laid in Austin, TX. Tired of all dating apps tbh. Need real advice

The embargo for reviews of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don't have a review on the site here at Polygon. This is not an editorial decision; we had hoped to review the game. On Jan. 2, Polygon requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the game, and received no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR firm working with Warhorse, who told us they were "not able to provide access. We'll let you know if this changes." We reached out to parent company Plaion on Jan. 9 as well — no response. On Jan. 10, we saw our peers publishing early previews for the game. We re-upped our request and were again told we would not be given access.

This was very unusual. But this was the situation that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It can be difficult to tell when a studio's decision to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and personal. That's due in part to the fact that the process for getting advance review codes is about as rote and administrative as it gets. Sometimes, PR firms working for studios send us codes unsolicited in hopes we'll cover the game in question. Other times, we request codes from the game's representatives ourselves, several weeks ahead of the release date, and we get those codes when and if they are available.

As part of our final request for code on Jan. 10, Polygon's editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse's PR firm to get a comment as to why we were denied advance access to the game. He stressed in his message that our hope is that this decision wasn't due to any personal bias against Polygon, nor motivated by any of our previous coverage of games made by Warhorse or any other. In short, we wanted to know: Was Polygon being blacklisted?

On Jan. 10, we did receive a response to this request stating that we could get one code for the game on launch day, Feb. 4. We did not receive any clarification as to how this decision was made. Nor did we receive the requested clarification on why the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to provide Polygon access to the game.

Because we will not receive access to this game until its public release, our review is nonetheless forthcoming but will not be published in time for its release date. We look forward to telling you more about this game in the weeks to come.

KIA Gloats

And now, for the why. From Charlie Hall's review (12 February 2018)

https://archive.is/WqcZl

"The game is also not without its controversies. Warhorse is a team of more than 150 people, but the game's creative director has gone out of his way to rationalize his support of G*merGate, a loosely knit hate group that has devoted time to harassing women, people of color and journ*lists in the past. So outspoken is the studio's leadership on cultural issues that they have found it necessary to work with a German outlet to publish anti-fascist, anti-sexist and anti-racist statements prior to their game's launch."

Thank you for that completely unnecessary bank-shot that turned a poor review into a politically motivated hit piece. And you wonder why they weren't lining up for more of that?

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1igwh0w/polygon_whines_about_not_getting_prerelease_code/

!g*mers !chuds @kaamrev its G*MER GATE REVENGE TIME!

Holy shit it is bleak. There are three Harry Potter books in there and two Hunger Games books in there in the top 10 best books.

Then you compare it to the best books of the 20th century ( still one harry potter book in there in top 10 but they are still doing way better than the 21st century.

How did the quality of the "greatest" works fall down so quickly. It is like humanity has forgotten how to write anything with any depth anymore and it is all at the level of quality of teenage story writing.

Is it simply over for the writing genre as a whole or is it that the best quality writing is actually no longer being recognized as the best because it didn't sell enough copies nor got enough appreciation from writing critics, or is it that there is a complete disconnect between what the average person considers enjoyable writing and what is considered actually good high brow writing?

I think it is a shift in medium where all the people looking for depth and high quality in their literary works moved on to movies and video games instead and all who are still hanging around the writing genre are those who will pick a random niche and the general books based on lowest common denominator which is teenage angst or teenage wonderment slop.

What this means is that the writing genre is going to keep going further down in quality over time and we need to look at the possible extinction of reading one day if everything turns out to be possible to be done by video because people are clearly getting worse at appreciating literature while getting a whole lot better at their expectations and appreciation of better video entertainment content.

Conclusion:

In terms of ease of entry into the writing department this is the easiest time period. In terms of making money from it, likely one of the harder time periods. We can expect the quality of writing meant for general audiences to have reached the lowest floor and never rise above it again this generation. The Zoom zooms are too r-slurred when it comes to quality writing in just a book.

Also if you still read Harry Potter books, READ ANOTHER BOOK!

Favorite so far:

This is not a cost saving measure. This is a purge of federal employees who do not support their agenda. The first round is incentivized volunteer resignations. The second round will be forced resignations. The third round will be outright firings. This is a comprehensive takeover of the federal government by the MAGA organization. This is round one of a pervasive attack on the American Republic.

They are following the NAZI playbook from the 1930's.

The OLIGARCHY

They are looking for cuts to pass trumps tax plan. Which will greatly enrich the rich and cripple the poor, weaken or eliminate the middle class.

What is it you think he is doing? Where do you think the money stolen from us will go? It's tax money, all our money going to the rich, 2'trillion at least. The deficit…trump blew it up round 1. Round 2 he will kill the deficit. And YOU and EVERYONE you know will pay for it for the rest of our lives.

Some reasonable people too, maybe redditoids aren't beyond saving:

I appreciate you being open to the conversation. The challenge lies in your last sentence where you state "Convince me that cutting wasteful spending is a bad idea." You're already convinced that all of this spending is wasteful. We are not.

We see value in the DOE as a vehicle to assist in equalizing access to education for all. Without this funding, kids in poor areas will not have access to the resources they need to be successful in school. In the most impoverished places, property tax is not adequate - many are renting, in section 8, or perhaps homeless and the property tax collected does not scale with the student population in those environments. Do you believe that all kids, regardless of the socioeconomic class they are born into, deserve a shot at education? We do. But the states alone are not able to provide that, particularly red states who are the biggest beneficiaries of this funding.

For a chatgpt post that took me 5 minutes to write, I've so far generated at least 1000 words, I'm hoping before the post dies I can generate enough to write a short book

BREAKING: LOS ANGELES POLICE HAVE LOST CONTROL OF LARGE PARTS OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES pic.twitter.com/zFcSGDnk7j

— News Rated (@NewsRated) February 3, 2025

/r/The_Donald discusses sending in Marines to declare martial law

Excited to announce the birth of my and Alison's first child

We are struggling though and need help. The doctor keeps insisting our baby is a girl but everytime we ask they/them they gurgles or cries.

How do we inform the doctor they/them hasn't chosen thems gender yet?

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) February 23, 2025

It's over for rdrama

badmen and saiyans ONLY

!saiyans