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Kari Kamiya said:
Sounds neat, which is why a crossover with HGS wouldn't make a lick of sense in the slightest. Raye really and truly acts like the animation industry is Tumblr where fanwank thrives and dies, she has no understanding of how it works and why it is crossover episodes in canon are so feared.
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Just watched the first two episodes, and so far it’s okay. It definitely has a low budget late 90s to early 2000s anime vibe, and if it weren’t for all the gore and nudity its art direction would’ve fit right at home on 4Kids. But the designs of the gods and monsters look pretty cool. And I gotta give them props for not shying away on the violence and human sacrifices in a show about Aztecs. Really the worst thing about the show is the sound mixing - the music is way too loud and the same tune is played on a loop in the second episode.

But now re-reading those tweets I can’t help but wonder if OE’s showrunner Sofia was being facetious when she thanked Raye for her input. That "worked along side you(ish)" sounds especially insincere looking at OE‘s episode and HGS’s comics/half-baked storyboards side by side.
 
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Yamma Damma said:
Women in Animation, said to help women EsPeCiAlLy MiNoRiTy WoMiNz get jobs in the industry when in reality, it's a front to lure "gurl powah" rubes in, make themselves seem important (and taking advantage of the minority guilt tripping), and hog the good jobs for themselves while giving their lower members jackshit.
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Considering most of the language surrounding representation/diversity in media, especially in recent years, always had the undercurrents of a grift given how the majority of the discussions had some flavor of "This company should hire more women/minorities LIKE MYSELF" or and "This ‘ere piece of fiction was hand crafted by a GEN-U-WINE woman/POC/LGBT/etc." that was usually used to cover up the brazen incompetence behind the scenes (The Arkh Project, Validate, Border Town, anything by Zoe Quinn, etc.) and typically revolved around this weird sort of "Trickle Down Reganomics" style creative hiring business model, it was only a matter of time that something like Women in Animation would come along and take that grift to the logical conclusion of "if you guys help give me a boost into the animation industry I’ll totally come back for the rest of you!"

And I suppose it’s ironic that over-fishing on this particular grift seems to have done more harm than good for regular women/minorities/etc. trying to enter the industry since it inevitably led to in-group cannibalism and companies writing future projects with elements similar to these grifts off with "oh it’s one of THOSE projects."
 
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Brundlefly said:
So this is dead, right? Even the /co/ threads about how dead it is have stopped.
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Pretty much. The devs keep trying to make it happen, but it's a vanity project at best and no one with actual money is actually interested in it.

The main person behind it is a gigantic lolcow who gets triggered by Everyone Loves Raymond and has a penchant for self-promotion that is hilariously easy to mock. Odds are very high it's just going to die in limbo and never see the light of day.
 
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Jaimas said:
Pretty much. The devs keep trying to make it happen, but it's a vanity project at best and no one with actual money is actually interested in it.

The main person behind it is a gigantic lolcow who gets triggered by Everyone Loves Raymond and has a penchant for self-promotion that is hilariously easy to mock. Odds are very high it's just going to die in limbo and never see the light of day.
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Raymond is a strange show once you think about it, all its fans seem to be old people and literal retards.
 
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Atatata said:
That was a bit of a flop wasn't it? At least coming down from the original.
Dorohedoro and Beastars would be better examples, no?
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Haven't seen the former and haven't even heard of the former, but yes Beastars seems to be well received. Of course we can get into the whole nitpicking thing of "what qualifies as well received" since there are plenty of shows I know a lot of people here dislike that have always gotten good reviews in the press. IMO Little Witch was great, but I've not seen the pilot(?) so there's that.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Haven't seen the former and haven't even heard of the former, but yes Beastars seems to be well received. Of course we can get into the whole nitpicking thing of "what qualifies as well received" since there are plenty of shows I know a lot of people here dislike that have always gotten good reviews in the press. IMO Little Witch was great, but I've not seen the pilot(?) so there's that.
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Journos are irrelevant, especially journos that review media. Something is “well received” when a lot of people have watched it, and the reception is generally positive across the board.

If it’s a niche show with a dedicated fan base, it’s not “well received” because nobody actually watched it.

If there’s any real debate about its quality in the fandom (e.g. not just Twitter tards bitching about something not being PC enough), then it’s not “well received”, it’s divisive.

What degree of qualification you want to apply here (how big a fan base is “big enough”? How divisive is “divisive enough”?) is up to individual discretion, but I’d say these are the two basic factors for judging whether or not something was well received.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Journos are irrelevant, especially journos that review media. Something is “well received” when a lot of people have watched it, and the reception is generally positive across the board.
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Not sure if I agree with that since reviews can be a useful tool and provide insight that one might not have considered before, but on the other hand I don't really care enough to go to bat for them so whatever works.
 
starborn427614 said:
Not sure if I agree with that since reviews can be a useful tool and provide insight that one might not have considered before, but on the other hand I don't really care enough to go to bat for them so whatever works.
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Reviews by normal people who you know share similar tastes to your own are useful. Reviews by scumfuck industry journos who are in the studio’s pockets go right in the trash.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Reviews by normal people who you know share similar tastes to your own are useful. Reviews by scumfuck industry journos who are in the studio’s pockets go right in the trash.
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It's not even being in the industry's pocket that matters. It's SJW bullshit that does. Even an industry shill will actually say shit that will tell you whether it's the kind of game/anime/media/whatever you might be interested in. If they're obviously a shill you can then go look at user reviews. SJWs will just babble about completely irrelevant shit you couldn't care less about like how many trannies are in it.
 
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AnOminous said:
It's not even being in the industry's pocket that matters. It's SJW bullshit that does. Even an industry shill will actually say shit that will tell you whether it's the kind of game/anime/media/whatever you might be interested in. If they're obviously a shill you can then go look at user reviews. SJWs will just babble about completely irrelevant shit you couldn't care less about like how many trannies are in it.
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This is something I’d have to think harder about. On one hand, SJW’s are a cancer ruining all of western media. On the other hand, at least SJW’s will occasionally call out corporate hypocrisy when Disney and co. let the mask slip a bit too much. Shills on the other hand will ALWAYS suck corporate cock, they have no ideology other than consoom product.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Shills on the other hand will ALWAYS suck corporate cock, they have no ideology other than consoom product.
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But you know their actual job is to get you to consoom product. So they'll at least say things that are of potential interest. You can ignore them if they're obviously sucking the dick of some inferior product. SJW reviews give you absolutely nothing of interest, not even a sales pitch.
 
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AnOminous said:
But you know their actual job is to get you to consoom product. So they'll at least say things that are of potential interest. You can ignore them if they're obviously sucking the dick of some inferior product. SJW reviews give you absolutely nothing of interest, not even a sales pitch.
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Yeah I guess you’re right, because SJW reviewers (be they Youtubers or journos) are an automatic ignore for me, but I’ll at least give corporate shills a chance if there’s nothing else available.
 
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