Hasbroβs CEO on J.K. Rowling.
We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowlingβs politics and what itβs done to the Harry Potter f...
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
09.03.2026 19:22 β
π 3045
π 827
π¬ 47
π 45
it's not out yet. i pray it ends up being good.
09.03.2026 19:29 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
If god exists and chooses not to confirm their existence, the more obvious explanation is the test is "Will you strive to be a good person to the best of your ability even without certainty that you're being watched/judged or that you'll be rewarded/punished?"
09.03.2026 19:29 β
π 3
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
Random religious thought: I feel like "god" wouldn't really care about faith. Like if god doesn't give concrete proof of their existence, it doesn't make sense for that to be a test where you're supposed to just believe they're real anyway. Especially when you take different religions into account.
09.03.2026 19:27 β
π 3
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
this sort of thing is extremely something somebody higher up who doesn't meaningfully engage with the medium thinks sounds cool and then the actual dev team has to fucking deal with it
09.03.2026 19:24 β
π 1
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
or it just undermines important setting details with shit that could never be part of the world of the game.
09.03.2026 19:23 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
As evil as I think the AI GF/BF stuff is, that at least has a real usecase! But AI NPCs is such a tremendously bad idea because NPCs are part of a larger system that can't/shouldn't just spitball whatever. Imagine wasting time looking for something an AI lied about being in the game
09.03.2026 19:21 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 2
π 0
Reminder that the Soviet government was the only government at the time trying to liberate women from domestic work by providing more domestic services on a socialized scale like worker canteens and kitchens etc
08.03.2026 13:58 β
π 1140
π 187
π¬ 18
π 3
09.03.2026 18:31 β
π 3
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
doekuramori has a huge brain
09.03.2026 12:59 β
π 4
π 1
π¬ 2
π 0
it's super scary to ask this kind of question cuz of the very real possibility it will invite people to make the worst assumptions when i am literally just like "are there angles to this sensitive issue im not taking into account"
09.03.2026 12:29 β
π 5
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
is this a reasonable assertion? am I missing anything important?
09.03.2026 11:53 β
π 4
π 0
π¬ 2
π 0
so tldr version is: the best justification for incest being illegal is to deter abuse and to make it easier to prosecute when said abuse happens.
09.03.2026 11:46 β
π 6
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
And also to establish social norms that don't lead to make potential incestuous abusers/rapists feeling like they have societal permission for their actions.
09.03.2026 11:44 β
π 7
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
So like, as far as I can figure, the best justifications for incest being illegal is that it makes it easier to prosecute cases of incestuous abuse/rape if we don't have to litigate whether there was consent just whether it happened.
09.03.2026 11:43 β
π 9
π 0
π¬ 2
π 0
posting a hot take early in the morning that I dunno how angy people might get
09.03.2026 11:39 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
it being canon that you'll sometimes just see a dark sphere floating around gensoukyou occassionally crashing into trees is amazing to me
09.03.2026 10:33 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
i generally like any instance when it feels like someone spawned fully formed for the sake of a joke www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dbi...
09.03.2026 10:22 β
π 2
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
YouTube video by Azad Hussain
The Simpsons: Guy Incognito
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4B...
09.03.2026 10:15 β
π 2
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
i think one of my favorite kind of jokes in stuff like simpsons is when like there's a character who obviously is just an existing character wearing a fake mustache or something and then it turns out no this is a completely different person
09.03.2026 10:15 β
π 4
π 0
π¬ 2
π 0
YouTube video by Chip
Weβre about to lose our American deities!
this scene in this terrible yet fascinating movie is what got me to watch every despicable me movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=-za2...
09.03.2026 01:22 β
π 0
π 1
π¬ 0
π 0
yeah that sort of thing is only a problem if either the flaws are ones that bother you on a personal level. like you just dont like characters with those flaws. or when the work clearly has some very different opinions about the characters flaws than you do
09.03.2026 01:20 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
YouTube video by Sunny Daze
The Beginning of Eternity - An Amphoreus Tribute [AMV/GMV] [Honkai: Star Rail]
A long overdue project after a very long break from video editing.
Even if I have some qualms about its conclusion, I still think Amphoreus was a wonderful, eternal story.
#AMV #HonkaiStarRail #HSR
09.03.2026 01:08 β
π 0
π 1
π¬ 0
π 0
sometimes the spirit of complete derangement overtakes you and the only way to exorcise it is to post real bad
09.03.2026 00:53 β
π 2
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
gonna invent class-s for oneeshota
step 1. petit frère
step 2. catholic school where noble ladies are accompanied by little boys who are butlers/maids in training
step 3. fuckin uhhhhhhh
step 4. i suggest forcefemme
09.03.2026 00:52 β
π 3
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
*points at a class-s couple* turning into a car would have saved them
09.03.2026 00:47 β
π 3
π 2
π¬ 1
π 0
utena adolescence apocalypse is an inversion of certain class-s concepts where going to the real world is what allows the relationship to truly begin as opposed to being what ends it
09.03.2026 00:46 β
π 4
π 1
π¬ 1
π 0
imo most effective weapon against insomnia
09.03.2026 00:17 β
π 0
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
can a first grader be a rabbit princess
08.03.2026 23:43 β
π 10
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0