I would also bring up Microsoft's monopoly-building as another point of similarity. It reeks of Disney-style media consolidation where you buy major companies to gain access to their IPs while denying them to anyone else (PlayStation not getting new Elder Scrolls or Fallout is bullshit), and then driving those companies into the ground for one reason or another.
Mega corporations upped the console wars, lobbies politicians. Gaming industry is all about profit and money for entitled fucks who form picket lines. There's a reason why I mostly emulate and piss off "artists" with RTX cards making art and scripts.
Oh this warms my cold, dead evil Clown Heart.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is the meme in the picture.
If Chris Farley were alive, I can easily envision him doing this sketch multiple times to these people on strike, while he makes them flop in fear.
The only reason I can see these people not getting jobs is because reading fanfics and acknowledging that period opens you up to legal trouble. Still, part of me thinks a real opportunity is missed because you have people who actually know about the IP (at the risk of these writers using the job to make their fanfics canon reality). Also, I’m sure there’s some art jobs that can be landed by showing off fanart. And then I’m sure that with things like comic dubs, you can find some VAs on YouTube.
All that’s missing is them trying to promote a podcast. I also doubt that this’ll lead to any doors opening, especially since these guys seem averse to trying to think outside the box and will only adhere to traditional Hollywood systems.
Really? From what I’ve seen, the real street cred and artistic plaudits are reserved for the directors. Exhibit A: Ben Affleck.
1. Isn’t Baldur’s Gate 3 the game that caused its reputation to tank for “being able to have sex with a bear”?
Honestly, we’ve already had foreign pop culture and tales from other lands hit our shores with the likes of BTS, Squid Game, and Slumdog Millionaire. The only thing keeping Hollywood going is that those things turned out to be flukes/flashes in the pan with no real staying power.
Counterpoint: 50 Shades of Grey started as a Twilight Fanfic, as well as an entire category of Wattpad movies. (About 57,400,000 results (0.52 seconds))
Man, that dude must have had a shit childhood. How could you not make fun of that name?
Japanese writers and VAs aren't on strike, they can just slap English subtitles on their new games and call it a day, then reap the rewards for being the only game(s) in town.
Good point. Switch will be fine and this may work in the favour for Switch 2.
At this rate, I wonder if the power of the first will become a meme if it wasn't already?
In fairness, Baffleck was already renowned for winning a screenplay Oscar, he was just trying to redeem his ability to be taken seriously by directing. The real attention is for those who direct and write their first feature (Paul Dano, Rebecca Hall, Greta Gerwig, etc.) but there are still actors who try to get more respect by writing when they can't direct, usually TV or plays. Like Jason Sudeikis letting his ex-fucktoy write a terrible Ted Lasso episode.
It certainly raised eyebrows among those unfamiliar with the game and became a meme, but I wouldn't say it tanked the reputation... if anything the wackiness attracted more people, it's the hottest game of the moment. Of course, the writers do seem to care about the material and fans, unlike the writers for The Witcher adaptation on Netflix who straight up say over and over again that they hate the fans AND the source material.
