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Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, and Jason Momoa are all in their early 40s, not really ancient. Chalamet certainly has legions of fans. You yourself listed like three more. I don't think celebrity culture is going anywhere, it's wired into our species and how we relate to the tribe.
It’s different when I discuss Ethan Ralph’s micro-penis size and how Chantel will perhaps hookup one day with our feeder overlord. That’s real shit, compared to gossiping about Jason Fagmoa’s love life or how Ryan Gosling allegedly buttfucked a dog at a pool party.
 
Relevant example, when I worked in injection molding we had a machine pumping out zip ties.
I had an owner where I once worked simply flabbergasted that this 1/4 million dollar machine was useless because the engineering team was incapable of designing a tool to hold the assemblies in place while the robot did it's work.

The tooling was great for a human to use. Amazing, actually. But each part needed to be assembled within .010-.020 of it's location in space every time in order for it to work properly. And the best the final sub assemblies and the tooling that held them together could hold was .060. 1/4 of a million and we had to have a team of people clean up after this thing all day, every day in order to ship product rather than just doing it with that team of people from start to finish.

And as soon as the bugs were worked out well enough to reduce the team of rework guys, that production run would end and we would start all over with a new part. It was beyond retarded.
 
It’s different when I discuss Ethan Ralph’s micro-penis size and how Chantel will perhaps hookup one day with our feeder overlord. That’s real shit, compared to gossiping about Jason Fagmoa’s love life or how Ryan Gosling allegedly buttfucked a dog at a pool party.
Lol, exactly. We're literally on a gossip site.
 
Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, and Jason Momoa are all in their early 40s, not really ancient. Chalamet certainly has legions of fans. You yourself listed like three more. I don't think celebrity culture is going anywhere, it's wired into our species and how we relate to the tribe.
Yeah, except for Hollywood-40 IS ancient. For Hollywood as it existed when I grew up, you were "old" by 30. 40 is the tail end of your career when you start playing older characters. The idea of Michael Keaton being a 60 year old Batman is a completely modern thing.
 
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I don't think so. I think Hollywood in its original form is effectively dead. A bunch of major studios are moving elsewhere out of California. You have Netflix becoming a direct and big competitor. You have big budgets looking at filming in Texas. The movie stars power has waned so much from public view. We basically have no new celebrities. We have Jenna Ortega, Tom Holland, and Zendaya. Can you name any others though that aren't one and done new movie names? Those are the biggest new names I've known. It's all old movie stars being advertised. John Boyega has a dead career. Daisy Ridley has a dead career. The newest and most successful young actor in the past 10 years I can think of is Adam Driver and that's....a thing I guess.

On top of that, the movie theater is basically dead. Everyone watches movies on streaming or pirating. The New Hollywood will be like everything else, a decentralized industry with no hub. It's not really optimistic to say either. It's already happened and is currently happening. The old big budget IPs aren't landing. Minecraft and Mario are doing exceptionally well. 2025 isn't saving it either. NOTHING is coming out in 2025 that will change Hollywood's trajectory. It's a pretty sparse year for nothing but sequels to things like Fnaf, reboots, and no big movie events. People are hopeful for Fantastic Four and Avengers....but I just don't see it happening.
In search of modern audience, Hollywood has made itself obsolete.
 
I remember the event, I don't remember known CCP agents being involved. Nor do I remember 180 agents being hurt. Nor do I remember them destroying a guard tower.
There were pictures in the old thread of Chinese "students" in full body armor throwing smoke grenades at the WH. I couldn't find any of those pictures anymore on the general web.. As to the casualties, it wasn't 180 agents. My bad on that. There were about 60 agents injured and 11 hospitalized, but there were also other law enforcement injuries, not from the USSS, totaling over 180, which is more officers than were injured on J6.
 
Anyone who insists that robots and automation will replace blue collar work have clearly never either been around robots and automation OR blue collar production work.
Have seen a lot of people who apparently think factory automation means a cartoon-like big robot machine that eats raw material and spits out finished product with no further human input, instead of the more common form where production is broken down into a step by step process of forming components from raw material and separately assembling those components into finished product, where each step could technically be performed by hand but has a dedicated machine set up to repeatably do just that one step.
Even the ones that do complex processes all in one go like stamping out beverage cans or folding milk cartons, it's just combining steps - a worker still has to operate the thing and feed it material, it's not set and forget.
 
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I know it cost similar, it’s success was used to justify the budget of a billion flops because a lot of producers are quality blind.

Terminator 2 pushed CGI to new heights while mixing in top tier practical effects. Snow White was just a giant fucking mistake

So what I’m saying is the budget isn’t necessarily bad, it’s the people spending it
also T2 picked its battles extremely well
like all those amazing shots where it's the same person looking at themselves?
you notice how outside of Linda Hamilton the actors area basically all Literally Who? that's because they're all identical twin actors (as is Linda Hamilton and her twin who worked as a stuntwoman)
CG can do big simple shapes with shiny nonspecific "metal", and awkwardly slow morphing effects?
Guess what we just decided the T-1000's powers are?
 
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