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Pressure from all sides could jeopardize the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal Paramount/Warner Bros. merger faces risks from lawsuits, investor w

Pressure from all sides could jeopardize the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal

Pretty good summary about the fine mess the Ellisons have gotten themselves into.

[espanolbot2]

Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate arrested in US after more UK charges laid

The Crown Prosecution Service says it has requested their extradition from the US, while their lawyer says they are innocent.

I mean, Andrew left a voice mail on one of his victims' phones (which apparently it was publicly available as it was played on the Behind the Bastards episode on the guy) which amounted to "yeah, I did it, what are you going to do about it?" before he then fled to Romania to avoid prosecution, so...

I think that they're hoping their friend Barron Trump gets them out of this somehow, or they were assuming that their connections to Nigel Farage would bare fruit (which is looking increasingly unlikely).

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Jack Quaid Breaks Down That 'Devastating' Fifth Episode of 'My Adventures With Superman': 'He's Out of His Depth'

Jack Quad broke down the devastating Season 3 Episode 5 of 'My Adventures With Superman' in an exclusive interview with TheWrap.

[mortalityplays]

british is not synonymous with white

european is not synonymous with white

the world is not divided into USA (melting pot), white countries and brown countries

"um you know the type of person I mean when I say british" hey do you think this line of thought may have Implications

[comicaurora]

unwinding

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Absolute Green Arrow Just Got A Huge Boost From DC Comics

There is more of Absolute Green Arrow to look forward to!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

AHHHHHH THATS AWESOME :D

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR <3

[littlemissonewhoisall]

Eh, after what they did to Connor I don't actually care about this shit

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

:(

HUGS

That is valid

It sucks that they killed him off in the Absolute Universe

I will say that the new issue revealed that one of the things Hammond is involved with involves trying to resurrect the dead...so its POSSIBLE that Connor's death isn't gonna be permanent

[espanolbot2]

Plus, y'know, just because one version of the character in an alternate universe doesn't mean the version in the main comics has stopped existing?

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Oracle’s credit rating drops to one level above junk | Ed Zitron

Tech journalist Ed Zitron explains why Oracle's stock is suddenly in freefall, and how it relates to the WBD/Paramount deal.

[titans-thoughts]

@thefingerfuckingfemalefury I love that trying to buy WB has pretty much bankrupted the Ellisons.

[espanolbot2]

The idiotic thing is that Ellison could have settled with just having Paramount, but it seems that buying Paramount was just the first step in a plan to buy WBD, with the debt he got from buying the first studio, with his seemingly planning to sell WBD's assets to fill the void in his finances caused by the first purchase?

Evidently he didn't think that Paramount has any interesting IPs (y'know, except Star Trek, the Mission: Impossible franchise, Avatar: the Last Airbender etc.) and he was relying on getting access to that sweet sweet bigot money from the Potter franchise (in addition to DC etc) to save his fortune.

...The fortune he wasted buying multiple studios he can't afford to run, even if the purchase goes through, due to the amount of debt he's gained by buying two huge studios.

[espanolbot2]

In the old Dungeons and Dragons show, considering as it later became canon in other media that the kids never returned home, how many carriages full of people did the theme park accidentally send into another dimension before someone realised that something was up?

Admittedly it's most likely that it just happened to be these six, I just think that it's funny that isekai'ing people is just what the ride does by accident, only it randomises which setting of module it sends the people too... mainly because it's funnier that way.

Like the show has people sent to a version of the Forgotten Realms, but others get sent to the City of Doors, others to the Spelljammer setting and so on. And the really unlikely ones get sent to Ravenloft.

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#the 80's were different#it wasn't bus-kun but the poorly regulated roller-coaster#does that make this the first isekai

Kind of like that show Ride the Cyclone, 'cept they're in a fantasy land and not having to perform a cabaret show so a fortune-telling machine can pick who survives a fairground ride going all Final Destination on a youth choir.

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Joe Casey calls out use of character in Spider-Man Brand New Day

Joe Casey has raised issues of how Marvel compensates creators yet again, citing Spider-Man: Brand New Day

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

And, if they are, one of the more curious aspects of this entire thing is that the character — as originally depicted in X-Men: COTA — was white, intentionally modeled (and obviously named) after real life white supremacist racist scumbag, Tom Metzger (in basic concept, if not appearance… I’m not sure if Steve Rude really knew from Tom Metzger). The move to cast a black actor in the role was an… interesting choice on Marvel Studios’ part.

Of course they made the neo-nazi bigot who hates a fictional minority a Black man

Because the MCU and Disney are such spineless fucking pussies that they aren't even willing to commit to saying "White supremacists are bad" because they're afraid that unfuckable fifty year old virgin incels on dogshit social media sites will cry and shit their pants about it and start screaming that Disney Hates White People

"We want to get brownie points from performatively progressive morons on social media by having a generic "Bigotry is BAD actually" message....but also we don't want to actually say any form of REAL WORLD bigotry is bad because a lot of people are racist and homophobic and transphobic and we want those people to buy cheaply made plastic shit from us

So it won't be bigotry against any actual real world minority

And we don't want to make white supremacists unhappy by having the racist be white because then they might not buy funko pops and popcorn buckets from us....

So we'll have a Black man be bigoted against super-people for having laser eyes or some fucking thing"

It truly is the apotheosis of fauxgressive superhero cinema dogshit

The natural evolution of a genre that was only willing to say that a nationwide surveillance state was only a bad thing because it was being controlled by the LITERAL nazis, decided that the correct villain for Black Panther to fight wasn't his actual arch enemy in the comics who is a white South African racist involved in the colonial exploitation of his peoples culture and heritage but rather a Black man who has Gone Too Far in his desire to fight back against racism and was willing to say that Arms Dealers are bad....but only because they sell arms to people who are foreign and not white if only they were just selling guns and bombs to the governments that only blow up women and children in foreign countries that would be okay

And even in regards to the movies they made about their Fictional Minority, they still made half a dozen movies about a minority being threatened with literal genocide and in every single one of them the villain was never the oppressors trying to genocide said minority but instead it was the Jewish Holocaust survivor because he Uses Violence Against Fascists and so that means actually HE'S the REAL fascist honest!

Saying superhero movies are made for idiots is an insult to idiots XD

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Ok but mutants are also a fictional minority anyways.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Oh yeah, that's what I was saying

Marvel would much rather tell stories about "Anti-Mutant bigotry" than about homophobia or transphobia or racism

Because you know...to do that they'd have to tell stories centered on non-white and LGBTQ people. And also that might make racists and homophobes and transphobes not want to buy their crappy product if they say those things are bad so we can't have that

But also even when it comes to make believe bigotry against their fictional minority they're still not willing to have the anti-mutant bigot be a WHITE guy because that's still a little too close to real world racism.

So it's much better in their view to have the people with laser eyes and wings be experincing anti-mutant bigotry at the hands of a Scary Black Man who the cishet white hero can kick the shit out of

[dappercat123]

Yeah that’s arguably one of the flaws with X-men as a concept, but at least marvel used to also tackle real racism even if it was sometimes surface level or poorly understood.

[espanolbot2]

I mean, to demonstrate that the fictional slur for mutants is offence Kitty calls a black guy the n word at least once if I remember correctly, despite her slur being incredibly new and not having the centuries of social and cultural baggage the n word does.

Same as wasn't it her who lectures Kamala Khan about how she, a Muslim woman who grew up in post-9/11 New Jersey, would NEVER understand the idea of being persecuted like the Mutants have been.

To be honest... these days I don't really like the idea of the X-Men as a concept, as they seem to have drifted from the idea of a persecuted community trying to survive, save and change a world that hates and fears them (sometimes justifiably, considering how many mutants are Nazis, cannibals, and billionaires)... to just being another bunch of assholees with power who use it to oppress others.

Been a drift from "metaphor for racism/homophobia etc." to "supremacist fantasy" if you get my drift?

[espanolbot2]

In the old Dungeons and Dragons show, considering as it later became canon in other media that the kids never returned home, how many carriages full of people did the theme park accidentally send into another dimension before someone realised that something was up?

Admittedly it's most likely that it just happened to be these six, I just think that it's funny that isekai'ing people is just what the ride does by accident, only it randomises which setting of module it sends the people too... mainly because it's funnier that way.

Like the show has people sent to a version of the Forgotten Realms, but others get sent to the City of Doors, others to the Spelljammer setting and so on. And the really unlikely ones get sent to Ravenloft.

[crinosg]

There was at least one other person who got Isekaied to the realms: In the episode "The girl who dreamed tomorrow" the kids find another cart from the same dungeons and dragons ride, and a little girl and her dog were on it (And instead of a weapon like the main kids, the little girl got the ability of prophetic dreams).

I did a where I watch of the series recently on RPG.net (I haven't finished it, I still need to watch the final episode and Requiem, but I did cover the bulk of it).

[espanolbot2]

Ahh, within the context of the TTRPG I know that apparently people crossing over there are also apparently how the Forgotten Realms got foxes and shotguns (not at the same time though, I think?).

[pocketss]

houseplant type friend

[espanolbot2]

In the old Dungeons and Dragons show, considering as it later became canon in other media that the kids never returned home, how many carriages full of people did the theme park accidentally send into another dimension before someone realised that something was up?

Admittedly it's most likely that it just happened to be these six, I just think that it's funny that isekai'ing people is just what the ride does by accident, only it randomises which setting of module it sends the people too... mainly because it's funnier that way.

Like the show has people sent to a version of the Forgotten Realms, but others get sent to the City of Doors, others to the Spelljammer setting and so on. And the really unlikely ones get sent to Ravenloft.

[espanolbot2]

SpaceX's Shares Tank After Starship Fails to Launch

SpaceX shares nosedived to a new record low of $124 after the company aborted its latest Starship test launch.

[aaaarsonist]

Wait, so Lois is pregnant with Jon right now?

I feel kinda bad for her ngl klakda

[espanolbot2]

Nah, Jon said that the treaty with the dinosaur people was twenty years or so in the past his time, and as he seems to be a teenager, presumably he's not going to be born for several more years in-universe.

[amethyst-geek]

If Kon-El/Conner Kent shows up as in MAWS as a separate character from Jon, who should voice him?

Blake Roman

Yuri Lowenthal

Johnny Yong Bosch

Josh Keaton

Zeno Robinson

Will Friedle

Jason Spisak

Other (specify in comments)

Remaining time: 18 hours 19 minutes

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Matt Berry.

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Paramount and Warner Bros. expect a delay in closing the deal | CNN Business

Executives involved in the pending Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery deal expect that a judge will hit pause on the takeover plan in the comi

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Court Hears Argument on States’ Move to Pause Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

A judge on Friday heard arguments on the states' bid to pause the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, but did not issue a ruling.

Well the judge seems to buy the state's argument more than Paramount's, so that's a positive thus far.

Also not helped that apparently they asked for assistance paying/avoiding paying the multi-million dollar "ticking fee" if the deal isn't concluded by the end of September, which apparently didn't go down well.

So the reason why Paramount were able to finally get the WBD shareholders to accept their demands was to offer them an additional $7m a day in fees if the sale isn't concluded by September 30th, now it looks like the deal won't be concluded (either due to a temporary restraining order preventing them from doing so, or the impact of this and the other court cases), they are now trying to get the state to help get them out of this financial obligation that Paramount themselves made in the first place.

Considering the information we now have about Oracle's cratering finances, it kind of seems that Paramount were relying on getting the entire deal concluded by 22nd July, but that's looking increasingly unlikely. The fact that Paramount's legal team had to specifically promise that they wouldn't conclude the sale by that date anyway if no TRO was placed on them is... telling. Just saying, considering how they got out of a legal case in Oregon by just refusing to share their financial information, I think the court in this case might think they'd just speed up the end of the deal just to block the lawsuits preventing the merger. As the judge says, this egg can't be unscrambled, the deal when started is going to be incredibly hard to undo, which I think is what Paramount is counting on here.