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I'm so tired of these mergers and splits, man. Can companies just stop with this for five minutes? I'm just exhausted.

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Side note: It's equally difficult to convey the deep weirdness of the Wu-Tang Clan in a post-Kill Bill, post-MCU world. You simply did not hear lengthy samples of Shogun Assassin or people other than Ozzy Osbourne calling themselves Iron Man at that time.

During that entire time superheroes were talked about by adults regarding the Batman movies and the Batman movies only. George Costanza's Super Friends poster on his wall was a very mean joke at his expense that the audience laughed at, because adults grew out of superheroes. X-Men 2000 changed it.

I was born in 1978; Return of the Jedi came out in 1983; Clerks came out in 1994. During those eleven years I never once heard an adult talk about Star Wars other than family members talking directly to me, until I heard Randall and Dante do it. I feel like this is impossible to convey to people now

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Honestly, it's better for you to do this anyway because these studios don't want to develop stuff anymore. Too risky.

They have, for the most part, decided that their jobs are to be in the adaptation business.

So might as well lean into it and keep a bunch of your rights in the process!

If you ever have an idea for a TV show or movie, make a comic or book first so YOU own the original rights.

Then, if one of these companies wants to adapt it, sure! but they'll only own their version of it.

Don't let your work get caught up inside some billionaire version of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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I can easily unlearn calling Gridman "Servo" but I can't stop calling Akane Shinjo "Optimus Prime".

Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale The announcement comes after WBD previously said it would split in two.

play a little game with me

every time you see "reporting" on another looming major media merger, check and see if they can be bothered to mention (AT ALL) how this sort of consolidation is almost uniformly disastrous for labor or consumers

Comedic characters of often “out of sync” with the world around them. Sometimes you can simply show that.

New funniest of all possible worlds just dropped

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Imagining Cornette saying something fucked up while recapping a season of Power Rangers

That’s pretty much what Lewis has become now: A man who can’t laugh at himself.

The "Interrogation Center", if you can call it that- it's just a room with an "enemy detector" in it, made to seek out which GoBots in the Command Center are "enemies", at which point they are likely either brainwashed or vaporized

Level 2 on the Renegade headquarters, the Thruster. Notice the "Ion Vaper Cell" complete with laser bars to hold prisoners. Also notice how nobody has to die in the process.

The Gobot De-Materializer on the Guardian Command Center, we've been through this. It's also to be noted that there are no prison cells on the Command Center, unless you could the prison cell icon next to the name of the De-Materializer that implies that this is, in fact, where they place their prisoners

How the Renegades treat their prisoners vs. how the Guardians treat their prisoners

Path Finder, a "Friendly" GoBot UFO. Notice her primarily black with hints of red color scheme, a color scheme typically reserved for villains

A closer look at Path Finder, including her "face"- a red visor and a mouthplate. Notice the lack of any facial features to make her look even remotely approachable or friendly

Soundwave. Red visor, mouthplate.

Why does Path Finder dress in Darth Vader colors and have Soundwave's face

Cy-Kill. Notice his primarily red and blue coloration, one commonly associated with that of heroes such as Superman, Spider-Man, and- if we're going by transforming robot standards- Optimus Prime.

Leader-1. Notice his cold, emotionless, oppressive grey coloration, and usage of specifically an F15 Eagle military fighter jet as his alt-mode

Megatron. Notice his use of a similar grey color as Leader-1, and a resulting "mechanical oppressor" vibe

Starscream. He transforms into an F15 Eagle, the same model of jet that Leader-1 transforms into

Why does Cy-Kill, the main "villain", have a heroic primary color scheme, while "hero" Leader-1 has the same color scheme as Megatron and the same alt-mode as Starscream

Enemy Re-Programming Center. Friendly reminder, the GoBots aren't fully robots, they're cyborgs, partially organic beings with specifically organic brains. This isn't like reprogramming a computer or robot, this is literal brainwashing

GoBot De-Materializer, where Renegades go to die

Scooter channels his inner Elon Musk

The Guardians are actually the villains in GoBots because otherwise why do they have spots in their command centers where they brainwash and straight up kill other GoBots

Also why did one of them do a Hitler salute that one time

If not fascist, why fascist shaped

The other mergers were disasters, but the way Zaslav whipped up everybody into thinking he was *the guy* when he probably did more to destroy the assets than anybody looks outright sick in retrospective.

Sure would he cool if antitrust laws still were enforced in this country

By the way, this is part of the reason Zaslav seemed to be making purposely bad decisions. He likely was to lower the company worth enough to be sellable, in which case he gets a HUGE payout upon sale

7-year-old: You got a letter!
Me: It's a bill. I owe money.
7yo: Not if you throw it away.
She's my financial planner now.

Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale The announcement comes after WBD previously said it would split in two.

the AT&T-->Time Warner-->Discovery series of media mergers were some of the most pointless and disastrous business exercises ever conceived by man

so of course we're going to do it again

this time it's rumored they want $60 billion to sell this mess to Larry Ellison and whatever's left of CBS

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It's very funny how, in the last few years my childhood dream of having my own cartoon has decayed into "Why the fuck would I try to produce that? Everyone and their mom is working on an indie animated pilot these days."