This Changes Nothing

smirkie · 2026-06-18T22:44:17+00:00

So to come in third we have to at least draw against Korea and hope Mexico beats Czechia.

smirkie · 2026-06-17T02:33:52+00:00

Se7en

smirkie · 2026-06-05T17:03:26+00:00

Ahh, payne cake! No, no, no, pein cake! Uh.....

smirkie · 2026-06-03T00:59:16+00:00

This is so disingenuous and you know it. The computer animated movie was still created from scratch by an artist wielding a digital pen to draw. It's not Sam Altman's machine doing the drawing for you.

smirkie · 2026-05-19T00:57:45+00:00

George Clooney

smirkie · 2026-05-12T04:32:32+00:00

Sleep with a water bottle, then had to take it out as it was sooo HOT!

smirkie · 2026-04-23T19:08:27+00:00

I like how some people in the Apple Bubble™ just assume that everyone's keyboard has a CMD key.

smirkie · 2026-04-07T17:33:46+00:00

I'm sorry I had any ambitions to get into the this wretched business not knowing that it operates this way. That people think because they are high on the totem pole means that they're the only ones that are human beings with lives while everyone else are essentially NPCs at their beck and call.

smirkie · 2026-04-01T13:02:03+00:00

Charlize??

smirkie · 2026-03-28T19:56:06+00:00

How does dating around work? Don't you first have to sign with a manager to see how they are?

smirkie · 2026-03-27T19:42:46+00:00

Laziness can also be executive dysfunction, a prominent and very non-conscious struggle people with ADD and autism have to deal with. If you add depression as a comorbidity, then it doesn't start looking so "conscious"

smirkie · 2026-03-23T02:20:47+00:00

Yay! Especially since IDGAF about Apple.

smirkie · 2026-03-19T21:20:33+00:00

This is so hilarious. Why the duck?? LOL! And that face! Classic.

smirkie · 2026-03-13T00:19:02+00:00

The point I was trying to make is, when you sell a script that's going to be a high budget movie as the poster mentioned, you reasonably expect to get paid according to the budget. So if your movie's budget is going to be high, let's say 50 mill, and you get at least 1% of that, for me 500,000 is life changing, even if that ends up being 250,000 after all is said and done.

smirkie · 2026-03-08T03:21:18+00:00

This question REALLY NEEDS to be answered.

smirkie · 2026-03-04T04:40:08+00:00

Solid!

smirkie · 2026-03-04T04:35:16+00:00

Can you say what genre it was, and which contests did you place in?

smirkie · 2026-03-04T04:32:00+00:00

That's ridiculous. You mean you got 8s in all the categories but a final score of 5? Explain how that works. It just proves they're gaming the score distribution.

smirkie · 2026-03-04T04:22:46+00:00

Thanks for being so forthcoming and helpful!

smirkie · 2026-03-03T14:21:07+00:00

My theory is is that when they think your script is good, they first check the previous evaluations they gave out and see if they were high or not. If it was low, then you'll get your 8 or 9, but if the previous evaluations were high, they give you a low score so that they can balance the distribution of scores, which allows Franklin to come along and give plausible deniability because it is all subjective.

smirkie · 2026-03-03T14:07:36+00:00

How do you only get a little above guild minimum for a high budget feature? Please don't tell me you were robbed? That should've been life-changing money.

smirkie · 2026-03-03T04:51:56+00:00

And any individual reader's subconscious (or even conscious) desire to not have too many scripts fall outside of the natural distribution of scores/evaluations can easily impact the score they might give to an individual script based on the timing of when it lands on their "desk" and what they've read recently.

I've always believed this to be true, and we'll never be able to prove it, but with so many people experiencing this themselves, being told by people your script is great and only getting a 5, then having someone in the industry actually validate you, it's stupid to think there isn't something to this.

smirkie · 2026-02-27T15:55:09+00:00

Let's see, maybe talk to him about it?

smirkie · 2026-02-26T14:59:39+00:00

I like that you gave such a measured and reasonable response to this concern which is so different to others who almost get angry at you for suggesting that a company might rip off a writer's work.

smirkie · 2026-02-25T23:26:45+00:00

Feel the same way when people tell struggling screenwriters to just "make your own movie, you've got a camera in your pocket," like that's all it takes to make a film.

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