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[Opinion] Cartoon Network’s Website Was Deleted. That Should Scare You All.

I know most people here will be fine with pirating and most of these shows and movies will not actually be lost. But as this thread proves, even modern shows can be lost. And there are 2 things here I find especially sad:

  1. As mentioned in the article the CN website had a lot of digital games. I think most of them will be lost. This is something we've seen a lot throughout the history of web based games.

  2. "I’m more frustrated at the continued removal of online spaces for kids. It leads to them going to media spaces for adults, and that never ends well." from This reddit comment.

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Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut

Oh man, please be good. I'm feeling the beginnings of some hype.

Edit: Okay so I actually read the article. Doesn't seem like Peter Jackson is actually going to be directing (at least not yet). And the first movie is about Gollum . Hype levels have plummeted. I have faith that they'll try to do their best but man I really hate how they've approached this franchise. More and more I think Christopher Tolkein was right when he talked about negative aspects about the mass commercialization of his father's work.

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How is it even possible for Trump to win? How is there so much hatred in the world?

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How do you think the electorate becomes this way? It's not because of some innate failure of humans. It's because of the massive alienation that has systematically occurred over the past 50+ years (and really since WW2) as a result of deliberate policies that have decimated communities, destroyed public education, massively widened the wage gap, ruined the housing market, and is wiping out the environment. Among many other things

Policies that are frequently pushed by Republicans, but sometimes supported and often not repudiated properly by Democrats.

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Any good sci-fi shows that aren't comedies?

Pantheon is awesome. It's based on Ken Liu's work who's a pretty great scifi/fantasy author.

Mars Express is a french movie from last year that's sort of like a film noir scifi. I've heard the english dub is quite good if you don't want to deal with subtitles for some reason.

Secret Level and Love, Death & Robots are anthologies of mostly scifi stories.

The Star Wars animated works are all solid if you're interested in more scifantasy.

Common Side Effects is very Scavenger's Reign-esque in art style and animation. Which makes sense considering many of the same artists worked on both. It's not really scifi in the same level though I still would recommend checking it out.

There's also a lot of really good high concept Scifi anime.

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[Discussion] What did you think of Matrix 4? (Spoilers)

I watched it with some friends at one of their houses. Halfway through one of them said out loud: "This is kind of shit isn't it?" I think that basically sums up my feelings on it. I won't deny that they tried to explore some important themes but it's such an unmemorable mess that I can't even remember a few years out if they were successful at all. What I do remember is how uninspired and boring so much of the film was. Especially the fight scenes which are such an important core of the Matrix franchise.

I think they made it very clear early in the movie in a meta way through Neo's job that nobody really wanted to make it but that they were more or less forced to by Warner Bros. And it seems like it was ultimately made by Lana Wachowski as a fuck you to the studio and went out of its way to piss off the audience.