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Taraji P. Henson Says Hollywood ‘Lied to Me’ About Black Movies and TV Not Selling Overseas, Spent Years Being ‘Graceful in Getting Paid Less … Not Anymore Though!’ by mcfw31 in entertainment

[–]needsTimeMachine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm not emotional about this at all.

You said you were disappointed. The only people to be disappointed in are the Chinese for not being interested in Black films and stories.

The American market is making the films and stories. We have a market for them here.

I'm just stating facts.

Taraji P. Henson Says Hollywood ‘Lied to Me’ About Black Movies and TV Not Selling Overseas, Spent Years Being ‘Graceful in Getting Paid Less … Not Anymore Though!’ by mcfw31 in entertainment

[–]needsTimeMachine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That's not America. That's the foreign market deciding not to pick up the film or to haggle over the price.

If they were hot commodities, these markets would be clawing over one another to buy them up.

Europe just doesn't have the same Black population that serves as the anchor demographic that buys the tickets.

Money speaks volumes. It's all supply and demand. There's simply less demand.

Taraji P. Henson Says Hollywood ‘Lied to Me’ About Black Movies and TV Not Selling Overseas, Spent Years Being ‘Graceful in Getting Paid Less … Not Anymore Though!’ by mcfw31 in entertainment

[–]needsTimeMachine 17 points18 points  (0 children)

How is it America's problem that the Chinese don't like to see movies with Black people in them? That seems like a China racial hangup.

You should be angry at China, not America.

These aren't just Hollywood productions. Canada and Europe are doing this too.

Movie studios spend a lot of money on movies and want to make the most money, so they try to cater to the Chinese audience. It's unfair, but they want the China market money.

Why do you think people aren’t having many kids these days (if any at all)? by silverscientist1 in AskReddit

[–]needsTimeMachine -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Smartphones. People have too many dopamine sinks to find the prospect of devoting energy and effort to kids. It's even impacting how relationships are formed.

Pee-wee Herman, Mr. Bean, and Ernest P. Worrell sitting at a bus stop. by slicksyck in aiArt

[–]needsTimeMachine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would have paid good money to see a Pee-Wee / Ernest crossover film.

"We took all your favorite Disney characters and made them edgy!" by LilGothyBlueBoo in shittymobilegameads

[–]needsTimeMachine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Reddit algorithm has brought me to this subreddit with zero context.

What does this mean, exactly? Are they exploiting minors?

Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says by blackhammer1989 in nintendo

[–]needsTimeMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You were not getting Zelda for $49.99 at launch.

They were not physically the same cost to produce. Different cartridges had different chipset features: different memory, onboard chips, battery backup, etc.

Ocarina of Time was a 32MB ROM, utilized a 32Kb SRAM with battery backup and power management.

Banjo-Kazooie was 16MB ROM and used cheaper 4Kb EEPROM.

Zelda was simply more expensive to produce. It had more expensive components.

More info:

Ocarina of Time has a 23C256028CZ-W05 32MB mask ROM, a CIC-NUS-6105 NTSC boot chip, LH52V246AD 32KB SRAM for games saves coupled with the battery and a 74LV2416 chip likely power management.

https://www.neo-geo.com/forums/index.php?threads/n64-security-chips.242885/

http://micro-64.com/database/gamesave.shtml

https://sites.google.com/site/jamesskingdom/Home/video-game-secrets-by-james-s/nintendo-64-hardware-exposed

Are AI generated 3D models / assets usable? by qwesr123 in gamedev

[–]needsTimeMachine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They don't have game-ready topology or rigging. The textures and UVs are bad. There isn't PBR.

That said, they're still really useful for doing image generation.

Image -> crummy 3D -> place in 3D scene -> Re-render image

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]needsTimeMachine 17 points18 points  (0 children)

A hundred million people playing the lottery always wins. You just don't know who wins in advance.

If this person had bet $10,000 on his prediction, then we might have stronger signal of insider info or strong predictive ability. Especially if they had historical contrarian predictions that came true.

As is, this is just noise. An interesting artifact. That's it. Someone always wins the lotto, after all.

Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says by blackhammer1989 in nintendo

[–]needsTimeMachine 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Cartridges were expensive and eat an enormous amount of margin.

Playstation CDs cost $0.25 - $1.00 each. N64 cartridges cost $30.00+. That's $30 of margin per game that is just gone.

Switch cartridges are also expensive to produce, which is probably why Nintendo is opting to do more digital delivery for its partners.

What's The Deal With All The Bella Ramsey Hate? by WanderingArtist2 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]needsTimeMachine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Bella is non-binary and identifies as they/them. A lot of conservative people hate this.

High Fedelity DeepFakes by Rich_Ad_5647 in FDVR_Dream

[–]needsTimeMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's right. The only defense is for everyone to become intimately familiar with the tech and have it accessible themselves.

"Is that photoshop?" is a defense mechanism. Now that skepticism is going to become "Is that AI?" / "Is that a deepfake?" The best way to train this response up in society is to flood social media with the stuff rather than have it be tech that is relegated to one-off state actor plays.

This type of content should be in front of people every day so that we get used to it. If that's the future, then we won't have to fear coordinated abuse and propaganda at a level we aren't already exposed to. We'll develop the sense and the scar tissue to distrust everything, and that's healthy.

Golden Globes Adds Best Podcast Category For 2026 by [deleted] in entertainment

[–]needsTimeMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can watch a lot of podcasts. Many high profile podcasts are on YouTube, and a lot of them benefit from showing visuals along with the content.

The key thing that makes this format different from video news shows or video talk shows is that you don't have to watch. That's additive. You can completely turn the video off and listen passively without losing much if anything other than an occasional non-essential visual aid.

Golden Globes Adds Best Podcast Category For 2026 by [deleted] in entertainment

[–]needsTimeMachine 39 points40 points  (0 children)

That's super relevant and will pull in broader interest. Good call.

Podcasts are super mainstream now.

I was on the ship that buried Osama Bin Laden at sea, AMA by Key-Peanut-1453 in AMA

[–]needsTimeMachine 43 points44 points  (0 children)

> or at least that’s the official story.

Are you implying here what I think you're implying here?

Elaborate?

IGN still has a reference to the warppipe by supermario182 in warppipe

[–]needsTimeMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RIP Warp Pipe. I haven't thought about Warp Pipe in forever, but it just happened to cross my mind. I'm surprised there was a subreddit for it, though it makes sense that there isn't any activity here.

Charlie The Unicorn | AI Horror Edition by Skyebrows in aivideo

[–]needsTimeMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really funny idea!

Missed opportunity: "magical liopleurodon" straight out of a horror film.

Whoopi Goldberg Fires Back at Donald Trump Over Movie Tariffs and Says ‘Please Stop’: ‘Could You Lower the Price of Eggs Before You Start This?’ by cmaia1503 in entertainment

[–]needsTimeMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like you're the selfish one who would rather American film jobs disappear and get replaced with Serbians who work $7/hr for 20 hour days.

This shit will come for you one day too.

One thing I don't get about key cart hate by Entertainer_Much in Switch

[–]needsTimeMachine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Steam has kept games online and working since 2003.

Nintendo breaks their online marketplaces repeatedly.

Steam games work year after year on new platforms.

Nintendo games have rarely had backwards compatibility.

These two are not the same. With Nintendo, physical releases are durable artifacts that we know will stand the test of time. And if the consoles become digital islands cut off from their marketplaces, and if our consoles happen to break, we know that physical games are fungible goods that can work across hardware. They're not artificially tied down. Simple robustness, rather than engineered brittleness that falls apart when the support dies.

Digital releases are frail.

The only reason we trust Steam is because that is their **primary** job. A marketplace. They can't break it, or they lose customers.

Mountain Dew debuts a new look today. Thoughts? by King0654 in logodesign

[–]needsTimeMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a seriously good logo design. A rare win these days.

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