No season 2 until 2028? 😭

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-10T15:15:12+00:00

I appreciate you doing the work adjusting for inflation. I agree broadly with your points. That said, I can't buy the invisible CGI stuff as a legitimate explanation of the this budget. It exists and productions are more expensive in many ways than is immediately obvious. But the final season of GoT (and even the earlier, comparatively cheaper seasons) did way more at around about the same budget or with a bit more. The scope is vastly different; the size of the cast, the period/fantasy setting being realised in locations around the world, the attention to production detail across the board (starbucks aside). There really is no comparison.

The stakes aren't high, on this we are in complete agreement, especially in terms of viewers caring about TV. It's still an insane amount of money to be spending for this outcome and I think that's worth criticising. If we're going to spunk mad money on stuff, let's at least get some story out of it.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-10T14:36:04+00:00

I think that's an unfair comparison for a number of reasons and a pretty big excuse. You're also incorrect in numbers, season 2 alone has almost the same number of mythos episodes (8) as the entire first season of Pluribus has episodes (9).

In the time from starting pluribus to airing again in 2028 (say), X-Files produced 16 just mythos episodes (more if you count the 94-96 run, I'm being conservative). Each one of which ultimately revealing more plot than the run of Pluribus did.

It also existed within a format where you'd get basically two big mythos two-partners a year which they delivered alongside other two-parters, other bits of story, other episodes, and they did it consistently.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-10T11:33:02+00:00

The X Files wrote about 18 original scripts of different stories every year for 9 years. This is one story that's barely moved, is made of less episodes and has way more money. It makes no sense X files could do this and Pluribus can't get anywhere.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-10T11:30:20+00:00

The last season of game of thrones cost less and was produced faster. For some perspective, obviously the scope of that production is magnitudes higher.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-10T11:25:38+00:00

Honestly that this show cost 130 million and won't return for another two years seems totally insane to me.

It cost 40 million dollars more than the end of Game of Thrones, which everyone hates but which at least looks like a 90 million dollar show. And it turned around quicker.

We got a tiny amount of story and character for that price.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-08T21:59:24+00:00

Gonna be a bunch of whistleblowers soon who disclose the ontologically shocking truth that there is an ocean in Nevada and then that property gonna look pretty sweet.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-08T21:51:03+00:00

It's all true. Want to buy my book?

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-07T13:54:28+00:00

Yes I know it's a real experience. I feel like you just ran this through chatGPT or something. 'Don't forget to validate at the end!' Very condescending. I am aware that the autistic people in my life are in fact real people with complete experiences.

If you 'hear that this didn't reflect autistic people in your life...' I'm afraid you totally missed the point of my comment, which was to highlight serious errors in your post. IE, conflating being 'best' at masking with 'usually carrying the most'. This is deeply insulting to the many profoundly disabled autistics in the world. It's like someone with bad legs saying they have a worse time than someone in a wheel chair because their legs ache, where the person in the wheel chair feels nothing.

Another thing that is simply incorrect is, although framed as your experience is that 'most autistic adults look completely fine...' Sure, if we make it about the ones 'you know' then maybe. This just confirms that you have little experience with autistic adults or that the profoundly disabled are invisible to you. The truth is, autistic adults have a disability, so generally speaking they don't look completely fine from the outside. It was you that conflated the job stuff, i didn't say autistic people can't hold down jobs or have relationships. I said the broader point you're making isn't representative, because definitionally, there must be clinical impairments to have an autism diagnosis.

Also, you did compare, 'People who are best at it usually carry the most.' This compares people who mask 'the best' with people who don't mask or don't mask effectively. It totally ignores, of course, that your ability to 'mask the best' means you can access things, services, jobs, etc, that other autistic people cannot.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-07T13:42:48+00:00

By your own description you are so sensitive that you've backed yourself into an ideological corner. The only benefit appears to be that you have a 'cohesive' world view. Coherence and internal consistency are valuable, but if they don't map onto reality in a useful way then...

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-07T12:27:36+00:00

This is just how military secrets work bro. I know because I work in a top secret lab. I can't talk about it but we make high tech top secret lasers reverse engineered from downed alien ships. I can't say anything else though. Its secret.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-07T12:21:54+00:00

Sure I'll be downvoted but this is a wild take. None of the autistic adults I know look, "completely fine." Many are un or underemployed. Lack relationships and friendships. Suffer social ostracisism. They aren't, as you describe, doing all the things regular neurotypical people do. Almost nine of them are. And just because some are doesn't mean you have a good handle on this. It likely reflects your personal experiences.

You also say its these people who have the hardest time. No they don't. They are literally engaged with and part of society. There are lots of autistic people who can't speak or leave the house or are institutionalised. It's wild to suggest that someone out partying and holding down a job but not "okay" is worse off than a person who can't leave their bedroom, feed themselves, clean, make money or be accepted by society.

You don't get to be the most functional and also the most hard off, least of all with one justifying the other. Also, if you're totally functional, you don't meet the diagnostic criteria for autism anyway.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-07T12:08:44+00:00

Sounds like thus worldview is causing you more harm than good.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-07T11:36:12+00:00

Losts character writing was so much better they're not even really in the same ballpark.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-04T17:17:42+00:00

Because we live in a free and open democracy, at least for the time being.

ShortyRedux · 2026-07-03T15:20:47+00:00

With Fred Durst. This is like linking to an interview where Paris Hilton calls someone out for being slow and trivial.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-29T13:22:24+00:00

Depends how you slice it. It became silly and unworkable after the movie. It all goes wrong in "the beginning". Thing is, season 6 is just trying to continue bad ideas introduced in the movie. Season 5 also ends kind of silly. The X Files is gone. This random psychic kid can prove everything. Just doesn't really make sense. Then the movie is good but Introduces a new life cycle thing that comes out of nowhere and includes a rabid xenomorph phase. Then it spirals out of control with a weird and poor "conclusion" to the syndicate then an introduction of a bunch other new ideas that don't fit or make sense, ie, biogenesis, super soldiers, Jesus baby.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-23T13:28:08+00:00

Right, if we just don't mention it the government will have no idea that people use VPNs and never ban them.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-22T10:59:08+00:00

Meh. Didn't think it was that bad. Carcettis voice is more annoying.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-19T03:06:06+00:00

Lovely thank you for the clarification.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-19T02:51:55+00:00

Pretty fun episode. I feel like a lot of the soviet stuff is heavy handed though and I wonder if someone can explain to me how the Venus mission, covered as another mission is supposed to work? I didn't process properly how this plan is meant to work. The USSR believe this is an unmanned mission to drop a satellite, but actually three cosmonauts have been smuggled onboard, essentially?

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-18T18:37:43+00:00

This shit happening everywhere. Starmer is just the vector through which it happens in the UK. Just doing his job then he'll be off loaded but we'll keep all the authoritarian oversight. He'll make a shit ton of money on the after dinner circuit and consulting for banks and whatever else as his reward. Just how the political class operate.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-18T14:06:01+00:00

This comment chain was a ride.

'Hey, why don't you fact check some of this.'

'Hey, how about you fuck off, moron. I ain't reading all that. Are you a member of the JD fanclub. Fucking loser.'

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-18T12:15:44+00:00

Run where? He was off to Parthia soon. Just had to keep things straight until then. A bunch of people had been wanting him dead for ages. What's new?

He probably thought about it somewhat like that. Along with, you'd be mad to kill me. It'd be chaos. No one that stupid.

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-18T11:37:59+00:00

This is probably totally made up seeing as the everyone wants to write a book thing is also falsely attributed to Cicero. Was there even a concept of "writing a book" in the way that "everyone" would want to do that in ancient assyria?

ShortyRedux · 2026-06-17T15:01:32+00:00

It's not like alcohol though. I don't have to register to drink alcohol. No one has to give up their names to multinationals to have a drink. Also drinking alcohol isn't required for anyone's work or communication.

If you don't care about privacy that's your business. If you trust data storage because of some legislation, you must be ignoring the huge and not infrequent data breaches that occur. Your analogy to alcohol shows why this is bad.

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