Enrico_sw

This is completely different to say the Witcher, comics characters, SW,... Alien didn't exist before the 1st movie. It's not like there was an existing character (that people knew and loved) that was gender swapped or killed because he had the wrong gender/ethnicity (or any other criteria that the zeitgeist promotes) We didn't care back back then, because these characters were good. And it will never bother us if the characters are GOOD.

I bought it and I like it!

A new mouse during the sales, with a 55% price decrease. I'm pretty happy about it.

I look at comments on websites like Rotten tomatoes (or even youtube videos) and, if you exclude the inflammatory comments (that always exists everywhere on the internet), most people are just asking that Hollywood makes good stories without constantly vilifying them on the basis of their skin color or gender. They just want the likes of Brie Larson to stop scorning them because of their gender. They don't want people like Elizabeth Banks to emotionally blackmail them (and it doesn't work anyway). I think it's a fair request. ---- This homeless guy is not an oppressor: And this millionaire woman is not a victim:

Friend, the whole marketing campaign of "No time to die" was about re-educating James Bond about "me too" and "neo-feminism". Here are a couple of examples (among hundreds of them): I mean the evidence is overwhelming. That doesn't mean that it's contradictory with the fact the Craig was done with the role. Both statements can be true at the same time. You bring many great points (and I agree with most of them), but you seem to constantly want to avoid the fact that Hollywood is politicizing its movies. It's not punished by the law to say that (at least not yet ).

And so what? She's a beloved character. That proves that the narrative that says "male audience is mean, disgusting and we should re-educate them" is completely wrong and fallacious.

I feel it a bit dreadful to hear Brie Larson calling this guy (homeless man) an oppressor and herself a victim, just because he's a man and she's a woman. This guy doesn't deserve compassion, because Hollywood decided that his gender and skin color is a problem? Is it what they call justice?

BTW "No time to die" is a great example. It's not a "white male lead" movie as you pointed out. It's an execution of a beloved hero, because his crime was his gender and race. This is exactly what I denounce. Executing someone on the basis of his gender and race: that's Hollywood. Like Luke Skywalker. Like John Connor. Like many others.

That's exactly what I don't want to do. I don't want to make statistics on people's gender or race. My point is precisely the opposite: Hollywood should stop generalizing and judging people on the basis of their gender and race. Nothing more, nothing less.

If your point is that "it's all about the money", I agree that it mostly is. It's also about peer pressure and group-think. These people aren't virtuous, but they claim to be. Then, they shift the blame by generalising their own vices. They say "weinstein is a pig, so that means all men are pigs" (they call it "patriarchy", but it has no basis whatsoever. Patriarchy is a myth).

Nobody has ever thought that. I certainly haven't. But what I've frequently thought is "they are mocking me by hiding their shortcomings with gender swapping the hero of our beloved franchise"? I don't care about the color or gender of a person, as long as the story is good. The problem is that they made it about race, and gender. Not us. So, they shouldn't shift the blame. I found that Ellen Ripley in Alien was great. This was never about gender or race. Nowadays, Hollywood says it's about gender/race. That's what we reject (Remember Brie Larson saying that her movie was not for qtraight white males?). Woke is the smokescreen, but it still exists. So, they can't shift the blame. Once again, Hollywood are the ones obsessed with race and gender (not us). We merely pointed out the fact that storytelling should not be about this. And now Hollywood call us names for that. You see, we don't disagree that much.

This is true. And the other interesting thing is that "oppressed categories" (another fallacious concept) are becoming more numerous every day, which makes them eat themselves alive. Let's hope they realize how destructive the circle is before they drag entire societies within it

IMO, woke is the new name of pointing the fingers at scapegoats. "Straight white males" have become Hollywood scapegoats, which is a huge mistake. It's a mistake because finger-pointing and bullying a category based on arbitrary criteria (like race or gender) is an irrational response to all sorts of cognitive bias. You can believe that "some" men, "some" white ppl have made bad things (which is true), but it doesn't mean that "straight white males" is a consistent group and that it's systemically the guilty part in everything bad. Thinking like this can lead to many hardships. It's not because an ideology calls itself "good" that it actually is good

All of this is true. But don't you think there's a link with the politicization of the entertainment industry? As you say, Hollywood has become an oligopoly (which is something I strongly dislike). It's the reason why they all use the same strategy (making everything woke). Don't you think it's a problem? And even if you personally think it's not, surely you can see how a huge chunk of the audience thinks it is, which at least makes it a "general" problem (even if it's not the case for you).

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I was talking about the Polish show. I'm pretty sure I heard him saying that it was bad (here at the end of this video he says the Polish movie is "shitty"). As for Netflix show, Cult Icon posted some video where he said that the Netflix show has little to do with his books. CDPR gave him quite a lot of money back after the initial deal (because, even if the made a huge mistake with cyberpunk, CDPR is still one of the best and gaming company). See here: https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/20/21032021/the-witcher-author-cd-projekt-legal-battle-royalties-new-contract

This is true, but that's not what cult icon's post was about. IMHO, the decay of American entertainment today has everything to do with Wokeness (also with the fact that creatives are creatively bankrupt, but this is linked, since the only concept they use nowadays is taking an old beloved franchise and make it as woke as they can). What do you think of this particular point?

I can't wait for Elden Ring. This game looks awesome!

This scene is really good. I remember hearing that the Witcher writer (Sapkowski) didn't like this show. Do you know why?

I have a question, out of curiosity, and I really want to understand: did you voluntarily want to avoid the point of his post (who was denouncing the fact that woke ideologies are ruining the American entertainment industry)? Is it because you think it's OK to be woke? (honestly, I don't want to be confrontational and I respect people who "want to do the right thing". I just don't think that woke is the right thing).

^ As usual (like in Hollywood with Weinstein): they are guilty, but we get punished (with woke BS). But most people are fed up. We won't buy their woke shit anymore. Microsoft can buy the worst companies (Bethesda, Activision, etc.) and dunk on antitrust laws all they want, we (the gamers) still have other options: Japanese companies, European companies. Screw the woke American companies. If the want to get broke, so be it.

They don't care. Like all woke companies, they mostly don't care about people. Microsoft's constant "virtue signalling" is a smokescreen to hide their own shortcomings (that's what we call Tartuffes). Activision is very toxic, but they have a solution to expiate their toxicity: they'll punish the customer, by producing ultra-woke games (that we will all hate).