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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 22:21:39 JST Sick Sun
   I want an in-story explanation for how exactly everyone thinks the Ghostbusters are fake. In Ghostbusters 2 they suggested that it was some kind of gas leak causing hallucinations.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 22:24:57 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun i doubt they can even come up with one. they saved the world from an evil god and everyone saw it.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 22:25:23 JST Sick Sun

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain I heard a clip in the new movie where someone said "they claimed they save the world but there were no witnesses" lol
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 23:56:36 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun yeah, i was watching trailers for new movies two days ago in the theater, it's all so unappealing and boring. deadpool 99! king kong 3000! ghost buster re-reBOOted! Disney but with gays and blacks! a 60s book movie like DUNC is sadly the most original of the bunch.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 00:03:25 JST Sick Sun

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain I am not sure if it is preference of people or if we are finally seeing the people that know how to make stuff really well are retiring.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 00:37:28 JST Sick Sun

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     • Aven
     @aven @lain theres a lot of good stuff still but yeah checklists of stuff that normal people don't want is going to backfire.
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 00:37:29 JST Aven

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @sun @lain We're in a creative dark age. As long as we don't go off the cliff, merit will become valued again, and there will be a beautiful creative renaissance in the next decade. Talented people still exist and are still being born, they're just being smothered and stifled and held down by oppressive forces.
     
     Just look at any of the wonderful media from the 80's and 90's and ask "Could this be made today? Or would it be deemed problematic?". It could be being made today, there's a huge hole in the market, but filling that hole and making tons of money, would violate ESG and the woke-scolds.
     
     They're losing ungodly sums of money holding the market back, using pension-fund money to do it. That dam will break when they run out of OPM (other people's money), and a renaissance will occur. That is, if the total collapse, which is their goal, doesn't happen first. Their goal is to make everyone miserable and black-pilled to commit collective societal sudoku, so they can "rebuild" from the ashes (which they have no idea how to do, they only know how to co-opt and destroy).
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:10:58 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun i think it's dysfunction in the industry, they are making lots of movies know that should be good but just aren't (all the indiana jones and star wars stuff, for example). and it's not even just incompetence, the now-hated also kathleen kennedy produced ET, who framed roger rabbit and the original indy movies. All the creative talent is now in youtube, tiktok or videogames, so movies will probably half-die or at least shrink a lot. It'll be interesting to see what AI-assisted movie generation will do to the market.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:11:06 JST Sick Sun

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     @lain I thought that about Kathleen Kennedy too, there was a lot of crapping on her because she was a woman but if you know her career it didn't add up even if she makes stinkers now.
     
     I read recently that young people really do not like or go to movies.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:12:32 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun i can't blame them, i don't like it either. I can easily spend a day watching random youtube channels, but most of the time i go to the movies it's just kinda boring.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:17:42 JST Sick Sun

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain I really think it is a top down thing. The very top has become very homogeneous and risk averse, but even when they take risks they make wrong decisions. The movies are just not great. I think if we started getting good movies again everything would turn around in like five years even with tiktok.
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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:25:22 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     Ghostbusters TDS… you only see blue city reactions.

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     Aven (aven@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:29:59 JST Aven

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     @opal @lain @sun no I'm saying that ESG (and DEI, too) are being used to control the flow of capital, so that anyone who wants funding must bake ESG into their product and make shitty social justice propaganda instead of art. That effects bigger players like hollywood the most, but much of the rest of the market as well.
     
     I can't wait for Hollywood to wither away and leave room for competition. They did it to themselves by falling for ESG, and the ESG strategy is a self-defeating downward spiral for those who adopt it. This is because it makes investors and activists your audience instead of paying customers. A business whose main income strategy is attracting investment instead of selling products, is called a ponzi scheme.
     
     >but i don't understand why you care about the media market
     
     I care about it because, although Hollywood was always corrupt and commie-leaning, at least they still made a lot of good stuff. The past decade's managed decline means that most of the media on the market sucks, and I do think part of the reason for that is to demoralize people into depression and black-pilling, and get them to consent to economic/cultural/spiritual decline, and "sunset" themselves, going over the cliff.
     
     I agree that new-tech smaller players will inherit the market when Hollywood runs our of OPM (other people's money), but in the meantime they're filling the space with garbage, taking much of the oxygen. And they use their influence to demonize any indie success as "far-right" and "problematic". The salt over Palworld was insane.
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:29:59 JST Aven

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     @opal @lain @sun a lot of the smaller developers and filmmakers could be getting funding to implement their visions, if that funding wasn't diverted to ESG-friendly big companies. This is what I mean by "flow of capital", and this is how ESG effects even small studios that don't do the ESG thing.
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     opal hart (opal@ap.maladaptive.art)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:30:01 JST opal hart

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     @aven @lain @sun i wanted to say this because you're holding a double-edged sword by suggesting that hollywood and the likes should have the monopoly on culture again
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     opal hart (opal@ap.maladaptive.art)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:30:03 JST opal hart

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     @aven @lain @sun if you consider "dark age" to include how true creative works are being pushed underground, sure, but i don't understand why you care about the media market. even last century it was about having to have connections to big money, but it was a good way for culture to be pushed to the masses. nowadays with the internet, more niches developed, media and art production went smaller-scale because anyone can push their creations to youtube, bandcamp, or patreon (and many even make money off it)
     
     so, i'm seeing less of a dark age and more a different way to access creative works
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 02:10:30 JST Aven

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     @lain @opal @sun an underappreciated part of this is the OPM (other people's money) aspect. The vast majority of people funding ESG don't know they're doing it. They have pension/retirement funds, and the managers of those funds have decided that instead of maximizing safe return, they're going to "do good" by investing according to ESG scores, violating their fiduciary duty.
     
     IIRC, it was Vivek Ramaswamy who said that the source of this was the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) which manages over 254 billion dollars, that told Blackrock that if Blackrock did not invest in ESG, they would pull out of Blackrock, and that's what started the long chain of arm-twisting.
     
     Most pensioners, if they knew their pension was being wasted on woke Hollywood movies that lose money, and that their pensions would be smaller for it, would pull their money out.
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