#the company needs to change

[rojekte]

seeing people's takes about the whole watcher situation is just a bit.... mind-boggling.

i think the apology they posted was good in the sense that they admitted to fucking up and walked back on their decision, and i think the model they've settled on now is a lot more reasonable (having content be released earlier for those who choose to subscribe), but like.... that doesn't mean that no one should've ever been mad at them in the first place???

like seriously, why does it seem like people are looking at a "good" apology and thinking "huh! they sure did apologize well! i guess that means that it was ridiculous for people to be mad in the first place! no one should have ever complained!!". if no one complained, they wouldnt have walked back their decision! they would've kept going with their dumb completely paywalled option!

and thats not even getting into the fact that their financial woes seem to come from completely mismanaging their money - hiring people when they can not afford to and spending more money on "high quality productions" when they cant afford to.... these are core issues that im not sure will be completely fixed by this? but idk.

also, this situation i think has really helped my own self come to terms with the fact that i do not enjoy many aspects of their content. i sorta already knew that considering i can not remember the last ghost files video i watched because i find that shit incredibly boring and overproduced, and even things like too many spirits have become a chore to watch bc they decided to extend the Not That Funny drink making portion when i just wanna hear some funny spooky stories.

anyway i guess my ultimate point here is: im glad they acknowledged they fucked up, but i also am not sure how interested i am in their content anymore in the first place. oh well

#watcher #i still personally dont know if i would call them 'greedy' for their original choice #for the record: i dont think the three of them are struggling at all lmao #they clearly are living pretty well off #but i do think that watcher as a company really has been struggling bc of their awful business decisions #so i DO think they needed to change SOMETHING #its just.... yknow maybe next time just fucking ask ur audience about the routes ur considering taking #rather than just surprising everyone with a 'whoops! its all paywalled now!!' #im really not sure how to articulate my feelings bc i just constantly feel confused at the way i see others act online #like seeing people yell at others for being 'too parasocial' in the sense of people feeling betrayed and upset by their choices #when those same people are being incredibly parasocial themselves by defending these three like their lives depend on it #these are not starving artists. they are the owners of a business. a ceo. i think its fair for ppl to critique them in that sense #and to point out things like hiring more staff than they can afford #and spending more money on production than is arguably necessary #even if it is part of their 'artistic vision'

[shadow0-1]

Despite everything

#call of duty #modern warfare #call of duty modern warfare #MWII #CoD MWII #CoD MWIII #MWIII #blender renders #Phillip Graves #Philip Graves #Shadow Company #CoD OC #OC: Jax #Jackie Ramirez #Ship: High Places #UUUGUGHUHGHG #I need to put them in a blender and drink it #to be loved is to be changed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #cold loneliness can still give way to warm embraces

[thefirstpaleontologist]

ok I just had a really fun hazbin hotel au idea

what if Lillith had dumped Charlie with Alastor before she fucked off to heaven, resulting in Alastor ‘raising’ (I use that term loosely) her for the 7 years leading up to season 1?

Edit: did a redraw of that first scene!!

#hazbin hotel #alastor #Charlie #Alastor raises Charlie au #is this anything #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel au #aroace alastor #forced found family is what this is #I did this purely to force Alastor into an uncomfortable situation that he can’t escape #I really like their friendship in the show so I think it’d be interesting how their dynamic might change if #1 Charlie is younger and still needs an adult #2 they’re forced into eachothers company (rather than the mutual willingness to cohabitate and get along that they have in the show) #3 I give Charlie even more mummy and daddy issues than she already has #the angst and fluff potential is off the scales on this one folks

[shinobicyrus]

Hey, yanno how Climate Change is a real thing that is tangibly, at this moment, affecting our world?

Well it turns out, the wealthy and their investment firms have been seeing the mounting evidence that oil companies have had for decades and are slowly starting to think more long-term about their portfolios in the face of rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and the myriad of ways climate crises are affecting...well. Everything. Maybe this means they invest more into sustainability, green energy, building more resilient infrastructure, or carbon offsets. Some of it, of course, is simple corporate greenwashing, but there are those that are taking this trend and packaging it into something called ESG (Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance).

Now some people would say this is predictable, even sensible. Just the good ol’ Free Market(tm) rationally responding to market forces and a changing world.

But those people would be fools! Insidious fools! For conservative sorcerers have come out with a new cursed phrase to explain this new market trend: Woke Investing.

What makes this investing “woke?” Well, much like how conservatives normally flounder when trying to define a word they stole from black people, “Woke Investing” essentially just means any kind of capital investment that they, the fossil fuel billionaire class and their sycophants, don’t personally profit from.

One of these aforementioned sycophants is Andy Puzder, conservative commentator, fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and former fast-food CEO. He calls this kind of so-called woke investing “socialism in sheep’s clothing,” further explaining in leaked audio of a closed-door meeting:

“My father's generation's challenge was the Nazis, who, by the way, were, of course, very proud socialists[citation fucking needed]. The challenge of my generation was the communists, who were, of course, very committed socialists. The challenge of your generation is ESG investing, and it's more insidious than communism or the Nazis.”(source)

You heard it here first, folks. Not investing as much in fossil fuels is more insidious than the Third Fucking Reich.

As usual, the Heritage Foundation is putting their petro-chemical donor’s money where their mouth is. Bills are being proposed to blacklist banks that don’t invest in key state industries, such as West Virginia coal or Texas oil. Fourteen states have already passed bills to restrict ESG-type investing, with Florida Governor Ron “Bullies Kids for Wearing Masks” Desantis leading the charge.

In other words, Climate Denial has reached such a point that so-called Free Market Conservatives who claim to hate big government are trying to make it illegal for banks, investment firms, and financial institutions to make any financial decisions that acknowledges Climate Change is real.

#of course ESG has also been used to describe any kind of internal corporate action #to increase diversity in the work place or implementing new anti-discrimination policies #(which are usually more performative than actually meaningful but that's a separate issue) #a Republican Presidential candidate #Vivek Ramaswamy #has even made ESG investing his personal bugbear #writing such books as 'Woke Inc' and warning of socially conscious investors ''forcing'' companies they invest in #to devote resources to environmental and social policies that are anathema to the right #which is just...a brand new invented crisis by a political movement #in constant need of a crisis to rally their base and justify for draconian legal controls #to favor certain industries and undercut their competition #all under the guise of red scare-type moral and economic panic #ESG #Woke Politics #Climate Change #Capitalism #Republicans #Investment

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

Catra being anxious and having panic attacks over the bad things she did is actually counter productive to any hypothetical scenario where she is self reflecting and/or receiving constructive criticism.

Her potentially having crippling anxiety over being an asshole in the past PREVENTS and/or DELAYS any changes she might potentially make.

Making this character spiral over moral dilemmas does not inherently mean she’s actively working to change her ways. Her being afraid of facing her badness does not make her good; it simply means she has anxieties toward constructive criticism/dialogue.

#in response to the dumb fuck fan comics I see about Catra having panic attacks over and over #yeah like. I get th sentiment. but really that’s not how that works #well. it DOES. but if the audience of the popular fanon POV of Catra’s character is supposed to be sympathetic #why make her a wet soggy cat (metaphorically) #why make her the sad pitiful one #if she’s making changes in her life and her behavior… wouldn’t that be… impowering ? #wouldn’t she feel happier? #she wouldn’t even need to be coddled by Adora (and company). #she’d accept the bad things she’s done and would apologize with no tears none of this wet cat bullshit attitude #actually… fuck it I’ll just write something where she does exactly that #mariposa rants #what I told you guys… that making a huge self pity party for yourself… after doing some shitty thing #is actually incredibly selfish … and silly…. #(ex. bojack horseman. like. literally the entire show.) #eww mariposa ranting about bojack horseman #<<< (new tag cause I’m not down with this point) #basically. feel bad for a minute. then spend the next hour working on yourself. journaling. self therapy. actual therapy. meditate. pray. #whatever the fuck dude

[wizardsoup]

loose sketches as i try to noodle out some designs. my best murderbot hc is that it kind of looks like a little cutie pie and for that reason i shall continue to draw it with cowlicks and big moe eyelashes. thank you for listening to my ted talk.

#i need to work more on its post config change design but i think i’m happy w the direction so far #murderbot #murderbot diaries #also i think it’s really average height. like i get making it tall and scary but consider: tall construct expensive #and company cheap as hell #my art

[rabbiteclair]

do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent

#got off work two hours late today #because i was helping somebody with such daunting bugs as #'ah see the issue here is that you sent your content-type header to application/vnd.ms-excel for some reason.' #'you told the server that you are sending it an Excel file. like. an old Excel file. and you aren't. so why did you do that?' #'ah. I see. you copied some 12-year-old code and reused it without considering what it does? well. there's your problem.' #also 'one problem I see is that you spelled company wrong. yes. it has an M in it. right. put an M there. an M. like Monkey. M' #'yes put an M. no not at the end. see how you typed 'conpany'? yes it needs to be 'company'. so just fix that' #'right. c-o-m-p-a-n-y. yes. that's where the M should go. okay but now you've typed 'cmpany'. can we put an O there? yes after the C' #and 'well the problem here is that you're retrieving a list of numbers and telling Hibernate to interpret them as a random object' #'ah it's some code you copied from somewhere and didn't change apart from the query? yeah that tracks. well. change it.'

[emilnikos]

evil villain character with autism who finds out the company that makes their safe food "improved the recipe" aka fucking ruined it and sets out on a horrifying and elaborate murder quest to find the person who made this change and either threatens them so hard they change it back or just straight up kills them

#autism #i think we need more autism characters who are fucked up and angry that companies change the things they find safety in #actually autistic #evil #'this is bad rep bc showing autistic characters killing people give us bad rep' ok but have you considered. #they changed the recepie of their safe food??? wouldn't you want revenge? i would

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I saw a counterargument of the Wish movie that said something along the lines of, "The movie isn't Citizen Kane, so what?" Imagine typing and posting this absurd ass take and thinking it's a legitimate argument against those who criticize it. Considering that this is an animated movie released on their 100th anniversary, the fact that they delivered a "meh" at best movie should upset you when looking at Disney's movie catalog and their impact on the field of animation. If you don't hold Disney to a higher standard, they will keep putting out mediocre content, but unfortunately, too many Disney fans are sellouts to this company. Y'all wanna get mad at people for being too rough on and critical of modern Disney, but they earned this shit 100%. They became so arrogant and loved the smell of their own butthole a little too much that they did not foresee their inevitable eventual fall at all.

#disney #wish #txt #disney fans are so ridiculous #star wars fans have a reputation of being crazy and obsessed and have been endlessly mocked and criticized for it even by the very sw fando #but star wars will defend their shit regardless and do demand quality out of the movies #disney fans just accept mediocrity from the company that used to amaze us beyond belief and teach us great life lessons about selflessness #nowadays everything they teach is about the SELF and how you don't actually need to change a damn thing about you because you are perfect #the way you are. it's selfish #disney had their share of bad movies or movies with bad messages back then but nowadays this seems to be consistent #back then it was a “once in a while” thing now it's a consistent thing

[coolerspirithalloween]

⭐"Do you carry a dream, Manager Esquire? Verily, I do!"🐴

A stimboard requested by anon for Don Quixote, with fast and 'upbeat' stims, from the game Limbus Company.

Gif credits under the cut.

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#Limbus company #Limbus company don quixote #lcb don quixote #stimboard #limbus company stimboard #Vic.TXT🎙️ #checkout; stimboard #EVIL EMOJI. Thank you for yet another limbus request I have way too much fun with these. #That said- Sorry if this isn't what you were looking for! I struggled a bit finding faster gifs + figuring out what upbeat meant #in this context haha #lmk if you need anything changing!

[avornalino]

two coworkers for @kashisun's office!! they are besties who only hate each other sometimes...

[info dump under the cut im actually so in love with them]

nyara moulton: social media manager

27 / aries / born and raised in san my

rbf but is actually so sweet she would drop whatever she's doing to gossip or listen to you vent

makes her older coworkers learn and do tiktok dances (everyone only pretends to hate it)

brings her cat to work sometimes (she's a very polite cross-eyed siamese)

lucille 'lucy' neumann: accounting (finance gal)

38 / capricorn / born in brindleton bay, moved to san my at 18

pretends to hate everyone but knows every single person's coffee order in the office

broke up with her bf of 4 years bc of the barbie movie

obsessed with yoga and fitness. currently trying to convince her boss to get standing desks so she can walk on a treadmill

has her plastic surgeon on speed dial in case she spots a wrinkle

if you walk past the two of them and they're silent... they were talking shit about you hate to break it to you...........

#someone more creative than me neeeeds to come up with a company name or is there one already? #also what kind of company is this i need to know (nyaras job might change if its a boring company but i think that also could be funny) #also nyaras cat is inspired by one of the cats we got today i can post a pic if anyone reads this :) shes so cute i promise its worth it #ive been spinning these gals around in my head all day i just need to know everything about them #ts4 #oh also is there a tag for this?

[dick-nightwing-grayson]

Question- when Bruce 'died' and Tim became Red Robin, Tim had to be legally emancipated. This means it undid the adoption of Tim to bruce. This means that he is no longer a Wayne as he is no longer legally connected in any means to Bruce. If Bruce was in the hospital, he could be denied visitation as that is no longer his kid. The emancipation was not undone once Bruce came back meaning that unless Bruce has adopted Tim a second time, he is not in any legal sense, part of the Wayne family?

I like to think Jason, Damian, Stephanie, and Duke all like to bring this up to him in varying ways.

#bullying is ok as long as it’s tim drake #i need to change his twitter handle in my social media au as he technically isn't a wayne #this is also hilarious because Bruce left the company to the only kid who is technically no longer his #what a mess #dc fuckery #like Dick was adopted as an adult #tim drake

[astragatwo]

It's really hot outside

(Bonus)

#my art #project moon #limbus company #lcb dongbaek #IM DYING SQUIRTLE i need it to stop being summer immediately #i probably could have done better w the watermarks but i dont feel like going back to change it rn #anyways. hi :) dongbaek :) #i have requests and revenges to do but i needed to draw this or else i was gonna die #you ever think about how dongbaek keeps a giant pile of gunpowder directly on the edge of her desk #and how there is a cat in the exact same room as aforementioned pile of gunpowder just sitting around + other explosives (fireworks) #high intelligence low wisdom moment from dongbaek i love this woman #fanart

[allycat75]

Happy April Fool's Day, Boston Dumb Fuck! But then it is no longer just a day for you anymore, is it?

You really gave it the office over the past few years, haven't you? Made a joke of your life, your family, friends and fans and look at where it has gotten you.

In honor of this most sacred of days, let's take a quick look back down Untrustworthy Lane, shall we?

You saying you loved love in your SMA article, then taking this massive dump on it. That was awesome!

Also saying you hated yourself in the same SMA article. Too bad no one close to you believed you or intervened. Maybe this mess could have been avoided

Your then fake girlfriend, now fake wifey, crashing the Thanksgiving family celebration at Disney World, where you pretended to be creepy niece-creepy uncle. I am sure your family laughed and laughed at that one

Tried to convince us jump scares were cute beyond brothers and could be easily staged

Also thought it would be fun to hide a misogynistic snuff film behind a dumb chin puppet video

Tried to trick us into thinking being good at Mario Cart was a noteworthy feat, and being bad at it was worthy of derision

Proved Valentine's Day is a joke by releasing a few handfuls of unflattering photos, plus some obvious photshop fails and even 2 or 3 photos that had absolutely nothing to do with the day of forced love. The joke was on you, however, since all that accomplished was to murder so many lady-boners it doomed you to only finding pleasure in your own hands, or perhaps a realistic fleshlight, for the foreseeable future. But you are a big "alone guy" so that should suit you well!

Extending this shameful stunt to the "Ghosted" premiere. That was a double whammy- the little racist, clout chasing twit thinking she was going to walk the red carpet and Ana and Dexter thinking they could save that festering turd of a movie from further embarrassment. Are they still talking to you after that prank?

Orchestrating two ghost kinda ceremonies using only vague descriptions of locations and pictures from family and friends in the vicinity of possible kinda locations, including a very real and special birthday party for a young lady that was probably ruined, but all in the name of a fun manipulation, right? Pepper in some online quotes about getting mentored by RDJ (he's doing a bang up job, by the way), as well as a line in the online version of the disaster of all disaster interviews in GQ, (that if people truly cared, would have put a 5150 hold on you and your dissociated life) and voila! Sham marriage complete.

Continuing with the joke-in-and-of-itself ASP. I mean, having a discussion on antisemitism where your guest chides those who normalize this behavior, just as you shove that poison ring in the camera, symbolizing the unholy union between you and the Nazi wifey. Great job, man!

Almost as good as you wearing the colors of the Nazi flag for your red carpet debut with your charming anti-semetic "bride", fake kisses and all

The best jest, however, was you not even getting to catch up with your more successful friends at the Vanity Fair party because you and that prize woman of yours were shuffled off immediately to the pick up line to be taken home, alone to your fleshlight

But you should be used to not getting into parties. There was the pathetic loitering in front of the CAA and UTA pre-Oscar bashes, but the best prank on yourself had to be the SNL Christmas party, where the wifey recreated the bratty niece look from the first pap walk and you tried to drive a wedge between one of your best friend's marriages (at least Colin has gotten in some good jabs at you on the show), all while the two of you probably were hid away in a dimly lit basement room for 20 minutes, then let out a back door to go home, alone to your fleshlight. And Alec Baldwin and his wife were actually invited. That's gotta hurt!

And just recently being called a "car enthusiast". More subtle than some of your other hoaxes, but still hilarious!

Now I don't know if you signed onto this because of duress or the promise of something great (hopefully not the Gene Kelly movie, because that was never going to fly- that was another trick on you, and even if it was miraculously offered to you, after this, it would not be a good look playing a male chauvinist who preferred young women).

I am sure you have had your fun, but let's hope this time next year you will have long hung up the jester's hat and become a real life boy!

#Skinny Falstaff #Ai I'm human form #What the fuck are you doing? #You are the company you keep #Learn how to make better decisions #The unhappy idiot #is your mom still proud? #You know you burned it all down right? #Things need to change #was it worth it?

[br-uwu-cewayne]

Honestly what i want MOST right fucking now is an infinite earths/multiverse style event where there's some dimensional crossover type thing but not like huge just like

Just Brucie.

Just dear darling Brucie Wayne plopped right into the middle of Battinson's Gotham. Right in the manor. Right on the spray painted hardwood floors. Right in front of the poor little meow meow himself.

I need it like AIR.

#Brucie wayne #battinson #just thinking about the two of them having to interact #Battinson fucking MORTIFIED and the way his (older? i picture brucie kind of early thieties tbh. needed time to hone his persona) other #self is acting. Brucie honestly kind of DELIGHTING in teasing his younger shyer self. and (most of) Gotham fucking LOVING this new #Bruce Wayne and going WILD with Okay Okay So What Happened To Make Him So Different?!?! #meanwhile Alfred starts off just fucking happy that his Bruce might eventually get more confident and involved in the company if this other #Bruce is anything to go by. but VERY quickly changes his fucking mind this is a monster this is a Another Curl Of The Monkeys Paw situation #also the idea of both Bruce and Alfred assuming Well Obviously They Must Not Be A Batman In Bruciecs Universe Because There Is NO WAY only #for a second INCREDIBLY COMPENTENT AND SCARY Batman to show up out of nowhere one night for backup when a situation got extra complicated #and Battinson is just like NO NO NO WAY THAT CANT BE HIM HOW HOW THE FUCK NO THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE

[farfartothewestofeverywhere]

if Oscar and John ever actually come back to Star Wars it better canonize their feelings for each other AND have an on-screen kiss.

#romcom in the Star Wars universe when #their story basically started out as a romantic drama. #they need to stipulate it in their contacts #John: 'Disney if I don't get to make out with Oscar I will never work with your company ever again.' #Oscar: 'If this story isn't up to the standards that Poe and Finn deserve so help me. #Also if we could explore the concept of gender. i get it Star Wars is barely ready for bisexuality on screen BUT #if we explored the complexities of gender through DROIDS. just imagine. the good guys have always treated droids with respect. #and that doesn't need to change. if we could have an entire b plot surrounding the gender of bb8 how beautiful would that be?' #star wars #finnpoe #oscar isaac #finn #fn 2187 #poe dameron #john boyega #stormpilot