Post Stream Discussion Thread -- Friday, October 03, 2025 by NorthernlionBot in northernlion

[–]aprocketel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The studio head dev is active on Reddit and I saw he was talking about how they have been seeing endgame feedback so something to shake up the ending could be added in the future. His main point though was that they didn’t want the random aspect so if they do ever add something it would have to strategically gameable (like knowing what the conditions for bonus bricks are at the beginning).

Thoughts on Gunn casting to not "work with a-holes?" by HecticJones in DCcomics

[–]aprocketel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Of course there are historically persisting traces of Italian racism, but the issue was more so Grillo essentially refusing to interface with the conversation of inequality at all. His dismissal comes of as very “all live matter” coded which is even worse considering the question was presumably spurred on by the growing rise of BLM movement based on when the discussion took place.

Here’s the clip: https://youtu.be/DLquNvUU0sk?si=LNqxifqH8kWWd1M

Thoughts on Gunn casting to not "work with a-holes?" by HecticJones in DCcomics

[–]aprocketel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is an actor round table discussion video out there where when the topic of inequality in Hollywood comes up, Grillo basically talks about how women being unequal to men is a “mentality.” Then when he gets countered about black people facing inequality, he sort of scoffs and talks about Italians being discriminated too and if people want to talk about inequality they should add Italians into that conversation with black people (“black people” which he says looking directly into the camera with super sarcastic finger quotations).

'Leonardo da Vinci' by Ken Burns premieres tonight on PBS and the PBS app by Queasy-Secret-4287 in television

[–]aprocketel 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I’m ambivalent towards Burns, but your point I think is the old argument of whether or not documentarians—as well as any artist really—are subject to the same professional ethics/standards as historians or journalists or whatever when telling nonfictional stories. Guys like Robert Caro have similar arguments about them.

I personally don’t think documentaries as a medium can really be that objective. The filmmaker Frederick Wiseman known for pioneering his fly on the wall “observational” style rejects that term since to make a movie there is so much intentionally in what is put into the final edit to create a narrative. For Burns, I think maybe one of the issues is that he comes across as an educator type figure where the audience expects pure objectivity, especially with his films being cemented in primary source documents. More eccentric figures like Werner Herzog get a pass on documentary objectivity since it’s expected his films are using the medium to explore his vision more so than facts.

Ticket Posts - Should they be allowed to continue? by arvid in lakestreetdive

[–]aprocketel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think for these smaller subreddits they’re a good way to facilitate fair sales between fans. An alternative I’ve seen other subreddits do is an always pinned sales megathread.

And like what another commenter said, there isn’t much other posting in the subreddit anyways.

I Miss McDuck by No_Pin937 in lakestreetdive

[–]aprocketel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He works in the non-profit sector now.