Pretty much. App 2 app.

Yeah, I’d agree with that. However, they are also creative or adventurous with graphics and art direction.

Yeah, even look at Sony. Recent franchises include a genetically modified clone orphan living in a land of sentient machines with vivid colours.

A father daughter love story told in the time of a zombie apocalypse. (Recent is doing a lot of lifting, lol,)

A samurai warrior, believed dead in a beautiful version of Japan, who sues the wind for direction. Here it’s more the art direction.

Older hits, instead of using cars, used floating race pods. Some told stories using forward and back through time to allow a player and their inner soul/ghost explore areas differently. Others has you play as a set of androids staring to become sentient and making decisions for or against their programming, for their or others benefit.

The quirkiness has always been there. There is also lots of generic stuff and copied stuff. Wherever art and business collide, that’s always the case.

Poor guy. It’s a curse.

You made me laugh, which when it’s Trump news is always a good thing. usually I would want to cry.

Lol, the jokes older than that. Many jokes are recycled or recalibrated for changing audience tastes.

Yes, in principle. However, uber have a well known history of skirting labour laws, skirting taxi laws and doing so to undermine competition and then jack up prices. Risesharing is better than owning a car, but monopolies in how that works are not good for anyone except uber.

Your implication in the Hitler reference was that we should not appreciate art from horrible people.

I’m glad my points changed your mind so much that we now agree, for the most part. ;)

Neil Gaiman is an alleged rapist. Does that mean the sexual scenes in his books are not valid?

Horrible people is part of the human condition. Erasing them means we don’t learn from it.

We can now better recognise the problematic parts of her work to gently help kids to appreciate it. Kids won’t get the metaphors with slavery, racism, sexism that all exist with the potterverse. However, showing them these problems even in a fantastical world can help them better understand them in the real world.

Her work doesn’t become pointless just by virtue of her being horrible. For some artists, that can even be the point. Look at Joss Whedon, who was lauded for writing powerful female characters. It’s now clear he was abusive to the young women in his vicinity. Does that make Buffy less of a heroine or more?

Hitler, again, was an even more awful person. That doesn’t make the autobahns that his government started a bad idea. However, we as a world society decided that the data from the nazi experimentation on twins, on people with disabilities and others would be destroyed.

Hitler was an artist, but not a great one from my understanding. It’s trivia, rather than who he was. He was a monster that killed millions. It’s very different.

JK is an author. It’s what she’s known for. Her work has not changed based on her views which were not known then. In fact, I think some fans were upset when she retconned some characters to be more woke, prior to becoming transphobia personified.

When they are old enough to make their own decisions they can. I’m able to seperate the art from the artist, without introducing them to hateful commentary that they aren’t able to properly process yet.

Not showing them Harry Potter does not mean they won’t be exposed to the media or the merchandise through friends and shops.

More than fun. It’s whimsical.

She’s a terrible person. I read the books to my kids but they are puarated so she doesn’t get a penny. Same for the movies.

While the European broadcast agency censors the boos from the crowd and the shouts of free Palestine. I’m pretty sure it was a concerted effort to gain points. I’d be curious to know how many votes it takes in each country to get the points they did. I’d prefer them spending money on propaganda for their image and wasting it on Eurovision votes than buying bombs and bullets.

Isn’t that why the US isn’t a signatory of the ICC? They know they have responsibility for crimes, but don’t want to be held accountable.

Perhaps it’s done out of shame.

Politicians can do it. Companies can’t. It’s ridiculous. We have the laws in place. Just remove the exemption. Same with political advertising. Lots of exemptions that don’t pass the smell test.

Christian persecution!

It seems like a knock off brand though. He’s notoriously cheap.

The mattel CEO said they won’t be moving production to the USA, but they might move it outside China if the tariffs becomes a big issue.

What this would be, is punishment for protected speech, given corporations are people.

So, although I don’t really care about mattel, as a multi billion dollar corporation, it matters as it is further erosion of people’s rights with little pushback while the constitution becomes more meaningless.

By Jiminy, those peasoupers used to enough to turn your bowler black. What, what.