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"Anti-woke" was never going to be mainstream or successful outside of online grifters. Especially when it became obvious that it simply means blatant bigotry, censorship, and pushing right-wing propaganda nobody wants on everyone.

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There's a big difference between giving people the facts, no matter how grim they may be, and constantly feeding people doomerist narratives that basically tells them that they might as well give up in advance. One is helpful, the other is not.

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AI was never going to be profitable, there is no realistic path to profit for these tech companies, and the whole thing was a scam. They can only delay the inevitable crash for so long before it comes back to bite them.

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Fortune's Weave is a big game, and I mean that in a positive way. Currently at 25+ hours in and I'm now at Chapter 9 of Part 1 with Leda, and this is my current roster so far.

My current Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave roster. I'm playing as Leda, who is a level 23 rogue.

The other characters in the roster are: Buccar, Sirocco, Mu, Olympia, Kiroc, Lorette, Io, Catania, Jasmine, Guzran, Inyoni, Esmeralda.

And I'm working on recruiting Noctula, Ninae, Lillian, Fianna, Sha Lan, Halvin, and Zarconne.

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Whenever a conservative starts smearing LGBTQ+ people as "groomers" or worse, I just assume that they are either a groomer themself or they're protecting their predator friends. Every right-wing accusation is a confession.

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Being able to cringe at your younger self is a sign of growth, and I think more people should experience that.

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Why do people on social media act so weird and parasocial about getting blocked or when a stranger limits replies? You're not entitled to that person's time and attention. Especially if you spam them with bad faith responses.

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Yet film nerds will still scream up and down that "superhero fatigue" is a totally real thing and absolutely not a grift that they love to rehash every year. Doomsday is going to do big numbers.

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Some people on social media truly will find any excuse to be assholes to strangers online. Especially if they get to combine that with getting to act like they're superior while they bully people they don't like.

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Another reason why AI movies, TV, and games will never take off? Aside from the theft and ethical issues, they all look like total ass and people will know that there was no effort or passion put into them. There's no market for it outside of a few chuds.

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I think that the Epstein files, rampant misogyny, the manosphere, deepfakes, data centers, and pervert tech are much more important issues to get mad about than a half dozen trans athletes. Leave the trans community the fuck alone.

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No, conservatives, you do not control the culture and there's no cultural shift towards you because a crappy country song broke containment and the radio stations won't stop playing it. Besides, the right are far more interested in destroying culture than creating it.

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I could have filled this with Studio Ghibli movies, but that wouldn't be fair, so I went with Kiki's Delivery Service because I adore that movie. Pan's Labyrinth is another favorite, and I rounded it out with two more recent movies.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Granted, I saw the English dub first, but I adore this movie too much to not include it here.

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Possible hot take, but I feel like there are people on social media who want to do the same kind of shit that the chuds do, but do it wokeishly to targets they deem acceptable.

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I'm old enough to remember when the internet rolled out to the public and the difference between that and AI is that I don't remember it being aggressively forced on everyone. It was okay to be skeptical of it, and it was actually useful. There was no theft or damaging the planet.

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Social media is addicted to performative outrage, and it helps nobody. Especially when it is directed at people who don't even deserve it, such as creators of indie shows that people decided to get mad about for no reason.

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The "no iced coffee at job interviews" discourse feels so incredibly forced, corporate, and pushed by utterly joyless people. Let people enjoy things, especially if they're harmless things.

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This needed better marketing and release date, but I note how the animation community spends more time whining about "the lack of originals" and bullying people than actually going to see the originals they claim to want.

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I always laugh whenever conservatives whine about how "oppressed" they are. Especially in America where they control the entire federal government. Most news networks are owned by right-wing billionaires. So are the newspapers and most social media.

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AI isn't "going rogue". "Tilly Norwood" isn't real. Nobody will pay to see "AI movies". These AI companies are lying to drum up marketing hype so they can sucker in more investors and governments to give the more money to delay the inevitable crash.

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There's either some really damning or embarrassing stuff in that Musk documentary, or Elon really is so incredibly thin skinned that he'll try to stop it from releasing. Or both. "Free speech absolutists/warriors" are the biggest hypocrites and frauds.

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I don't know how anyone with a straight face can say nonsense like "there are no good movies or games anymore". Especially when the past few years in particular have put out some truly amazing ones. Insisting that all entertainment and art sucks now has to be a grift.

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I'm not anti-tech. I'm anti-tech bro.

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Literally every character in (the vastly overrated) Eli Roth's The Green Inferno. They were all so insufferable and unlikable that it made me give up on the movie barely 10 minutes in. The movie was that bad.

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Why does it feel like we're not just in a media literacy crisis, but in a full on literacy crisis? And so much of that can be blamed on AI, which is another reason why that bubble needs to burst yesterday.

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It really feels like people on social media would much rather complain about movies they don't like, harass creators of indie shows that became popular, or bully people for liking something they don't than actually support the arts.

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I look forward to all the film bros crashing out when Avengers Doomsday easily breaks the $1B mark.

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I don't buy that "everything is a distraction", but some discourse does feel incredibly forced rather than organic. And you are not obligated to participate in it.

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Fandoms have always been entitled and toxic, even before social media was a thing. Social media simply gave them a megaphone. Hell, The Simpsons did an episode about toxic fans back in 1997 with the Poochie episode.

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Although the right always tries to find a minority group to target, it should also be said that they will inevitably turn on each other. Fascists hate other fascists, and the MAGA civil war when it happens or when he doesn't run again is going to be wonderful to see.

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Whenever billionaires, tech bros, and their mouthpieces insist that something is "the future", "inevitable", or "you must embrace it", that's when you can tell that thing is a fad and a scam with a limited shelf life no matter how hard they push it.

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Leda - Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave

I'm about 15 hours into Fortune's Weave and I'm not even finished chapter one with Leda, though I'm also taking my time to explore and grind. Curious if that's anyone else's experience so far.

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Alt: Leda from Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave.

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I don't think it is helpful to say things like "I never liked that person" or "I could always tell" whenever someone is revealed to be a horrible person. The best thing you can do is believe the victim(s) and stop platforming the horrible person.

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Nobody wants this and it is going to be fun to watch this slop fail, but is quite revealing to know who the sellout hacks are.

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I'm tired of the "literally everything is a distraction" conspiracy theories. People are plenty capable of paying attention to more than one thing at once.

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Wild that grown ass adults will still participate in toxic fandoms and console war shit like they're stuck in the 90s. Please stop being toxic weirdos about liking and disliking things.

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This list honestly comes across as very predictable and safe. But the lack of anything that isn't in English is telling, and the stigma against animation is quite glaring. Only one animated show? Seriously?

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Remember when Animation Twitter thought that Mario and Toy Story 5 were going to bomb? When chuds were 100% convinced they were going to make The Odyssey fail? When film nerds believed that Spider-Man would fail? It's almost as if terminally online losers have no influence in the real world.

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The right will always find a minority group to target. And you are naive if you think that it won't happen to you. They hate anyone who is even slightly different than them and always need an "other" to fearmonger about.

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It's getting harder to trust games made after 2024 because you don't know if they'll have AI slop in them. Some studios like Level 5, Sega, and Epic Games are easy to boycott because they've admitted it or got caught. It's the sneaky ones you have to watch out for.

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