Dragon Age™: The Veilguard is a Return To Form

[Stack of Turtles]

Oh please, the reason is this: Blackrock (and Vanguard) are major shareholders in pretty much all media, including Disney and a number of game studios. Now, the reason why they push so hard for this DEI bs is simply because they don't want a return of Occupy Wall Street; they don't give a **** about diversity, their only goal is to make money, and they can't do it if their banks are being regulated to hell and back. But, by pushing this agenda they foster a conflict between woke and non-woke, and this conflict ensures no one can focus on what the banks and major shareholder corporations do; it's a textbook example of divide and conquer.

Now, one might think their losses should impose some concern among the Blackrock/Vanguard shareholders, but no - they only hold parts of the media companies, and if say a multi-billion dollar company like say Disney would go belly up, they would lose some of their investments, but not more - they wouldn't lose the company all by their own (note that Blackrock/Vanguard have - to my knowledge - no media companies), but the loss would be shared with all others, including unhappy small time investors like say you and me.

You might think this would be really bad, but it isn't - just as they invest in the hope to get some profit back, they also see it as an investment in safety from OWS - better lose a little from a failed venture like The Acolyte than a lot like from a regulated bank and trade system which OWS was all about.

UltraFan was closer to the truth, honestly. It's not about money, don't get me wrong, they ******* love money, but to them, money is a means to an end too, and the end is tikkun olam.

[Irenaeus]

Also, Disney is far from going belly up. The revenue from parks and merchandise sustains most if not all of the poz in the movie/streaming business. One money-loving billionaire who wanted to oust Bob Iger and his gang and try to cut down on the crazy excesses of the company has been recently defeated: https://entertainment.inquirer.net/5498 ... ources-say
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/busi ... hares.html

[UltraFan123]

Also, Disney is far from going belly up. The revenue from parks and merchandise sustains most if not all of the poz in the movie/streaming business. One money-loving billionaire who wanted to oust Bob Iger and his gang and try to cut down on the crazy excesses of the company has been recently defeated: https://entertainment.inquirer.net/5498 ... ources-say
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/busi ... hares.html

Now that kinda sucks ngl. Here is hoping that the normie audience one day starts boycotting everything Disney for good.

[wndrbr]

Also, Disney is far from going belly up. The revenue from parks and merchandise sustains most if not all of the poz in the movie/streaming business. One money-loving billionaire who wanted to oust Bob Iger and his gang and try to cut down on the crazy excesses of the company has been recently defeated: https://entertainment.inquirer.net/5498 ... ources-say
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/busi ... hares.html

Now that kinda sucks ngl. Here is hoping that the normie audience one day starts boycotting everything Disney for good.

Disney's latest cgi animation "Inside out 2" debuted with $295M on its opening weekend, which is the third best opening for an animated film ever (only behind "Super Mario Bros" and "Frozen 2").

yeah, Disney going belly up is not happening in the near future.

[rusty_shackleford]

isn't inside out 2 the first actually family friendly film they've made in ages?

[Irenaeus]

isn't inside out 2 the first actually family friendly film they've made in ages?

Yes.

[wndrbr]

isn't inside out 2 the first actually family friendly film they've made in ages?

Yes.

how do you know that? Did you pay DIsney and watched it?

[gerey]

The revenue from parks and merchandise sustains most if not all of the poz in the movie/streaming business.

Profit from parks and merchandise are directly correlated with the popularity of their IPs and the perception by parents that Disney is a family-friendly company/environment. They have done mortal damage to a large number of their IPs, shaken up their family-friendly image, and Disney World in Florida is in deep **** after DeSantis went for the nuclear option, and merchandise sales are failing across the board.

Of note is that they've yet to make back the 4 billion dollars they paid to purchase Star Wars, despite Star Wars earning the vast majority of its profits during Lucas' reign via merchandising.

Disney's latest cgi animation "Inside out 2" debuted with $295M on its opening weekend

Whether the movie turns a profit is wholly dependent on how much money Disney spent making it, and even if it does, it certainly won't offset the disaster the past 2 years have been for the company, especially when you take into account that both MCU and Star Wars are dead.

Disney might not go belly up this year or the next, it takes time for a pig as fat as that to bleed out, but unless something drastically changes (i.e. Bob Iger and his board being purged, along with a large swathe of managment) they'll get there eventually.

[Irenaeus]

Disney World in Florida is in deep **** after DeSantis went for the nuclear option

Sorry but I had to laugh at this fantasy.

[Irenaeus]

The revenue from parks and merchandise sustains most if not all of the poz in the movie/streaming business.

Profit from parks and merchandise are directly correlated with the popularity of their IPs and the perception by parents that Disney is a family-friendly company/environment. They have done mortal damage to a large number of their IPs, shaken up their family-friendly image, and Disney World in Florida is in deep **** after DeSantis went for the nuclear option, and merchandise sales are failing across the board.

Of note is that they've yet to make back the 4 billion dollars they paid to purchase Star Wars, despite Star Wars earning the vast majority of its profits during Lucas' reign via merchandising.

Disney's latest cgi animation "Inside out 2" debuted with $295M on its opening weekend

Whether the movie turns a profit is wholly dependent on how much money Disney spent making it, and even if it does, it certainly won't offset the disaster the past 2 years have been for the company, especially when you take into account that both MCU and Star Wars are dead.

Disney might not go belly up this year or the next, it takes time for a pig as fat as that to bleed out, but unless something drastically changes (i.e. Bob Iger and his board being purged, along with a large swathe of managment) they'll get there eventually.

Yes, they could be making way more money if instead of pozzed movies/tv shows they would be doing good ones. That's why many people like Nelson Peltz tried to take out Bob Iger and his gay ******-loving gang.

[gerey]

Sorry but I had to laugh at this fantasy.

It's not a fantasy though - they have lost their special status, which was a major reason the park was as profitable as it was. Logistically, Disney also can't move the park anywhere else, so they're stuck.

[Irenaeus]

Sorry but I had to laugh at this fantasy.

It's not a fantasy though - they have lost their special status, which was a major reason the park was as profitable as it was. Logistically, Disney also can't move the park anywhere else, so they're stuck.

Why would they want to move the park?? It's receiving record visitors and they recently invested billions in new rides, see the new Bayou Adventure.

[Irenaeus]

Look, I hate what the ***** are doing with Disney like everybody else, but the company is still not going bankrupt anytime soon.

[gerey]

That's why many people like Nelson Peltz tried to take out Bob Iger and his gay ******-loving gang.

I doubt he'd change anything though. He's just as much a **** as Iger is.

[Nooneatall]

That's why many people like Nelson Peltz tried to take out Bob Iger and his gay ******-loving gang.

I doubt he'd change anything though. He's just as much a **** as Iger is.

What might happen, and happens with normies, is they'll ease back a little. So the movies will have a straight white male protagonist again but there will be more blacks and Mexicans than in the 80s and 90s. Then the Overton shifts even more in the future when every character is ***** it will just be youtubers shouting about how they just want gay brown male protagonists again instead of all the ********.

[Godjjjita]

Look, I hate what the ***** are doing with Disney like everybody else, but the company is still not going bankrupt anytime soon.

No empire lasts forever. People are less enamoured by Disney than before and the trend will continue, it will take time but give a couple of apathetic generations and even the parks won't make enough money to keep Disney running.

[Irenaeus]

So the movies will have a straight white male protagonist again but there will be more blacks and Mexicans than in the 80s and 90s

That's Inside Out 2. The protagonist is white but all her friends are either black, mexican or oriental.

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You can spot them at 1:08, 1:27 and more

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[Irenaeus]

Look, I hate what the ***** are doing with Disney like everybody else, but the company is still not going bankrupt anytime soon.

No empire lasts forever. People are less enamoured by Disney than before and the trend will continue, it will take time but give a couple of apathetic generations and even the parks won't make enough money to keep Disney running.

I agree that in a couple of generations Disney can go under or be reformed into something less gaynigger and kiked.

[gerey]

I agree that in a couple of generations Disney can go under or be reformed into something less gaynigger and kiked.

Last years alone they lost 1 billion dollars solely from movie flops, and that's if we believe they weren't cooking the books. They've lost even more via TV show flops, that then bleed into losses to their streaming division, and on and on it goes.

Not even Disney can sustain these kinds of losses for long. Problem with Disney is that there's no easy way out, the rot has eats its way through the company, from top to bottom, and there's very few people with real talent or leadership skills to fix things.

And even if someone were to attempt to unfuck the company, what was done to Chapek is still fresh in everyone's memory. Disney doesn't have a workforce, they have a subsidized antifa mob.

[Irenaeus]

Btw, all this offtopics stuff should be moved to the Jew thread, in my humble opinion.

[wndrbr]

A dedicated Disney thread would be a more appropriate solution.

[Nooneatall]

A dedicated Disney thread would be a more appropriate solution.

What's the difference? Disney is extremely Jewish now

[Irenaeus]

A dedicated Disney thread would be a more appropriate solution.

What's the difference? Disney is extremely Jewish now

Yeah, that's why I said Jew thread. But Disney is a specific instrument of jewish commercial/propaganda behaviour.

[Oldtimer]

Also, Disney is far from going belly up. The revenue from parks and merchandise sustains most if not all of the poz in the movie/streaming business. One money-loving billionaire who wanted to oust Bob Iger and his gang and try to cut down on the crazy excesses of the company has been recently defeated: https://entertainment.inquirer.net/5498 ... ources-say
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/busi ... hares.html

Oh, Disney was just an exaggerated example of companies they have substantial shares in. Also, speaking of, Disney has done massive damage to a lot of their IPs, and any revenue form their parks and merch is directly tied to how popular their IPs are - or have you an urge to buy a plush doll of The Acolyte?

Also, ousting Bob Iger is probably not in the cards; considering that Blackrock and Vanguard has Disney as a major investment for the protection of their banks, they will have a lot to say about losing what I strongly suspect is their puppet: as long as Bob can push out woke **** that makes people scream and argue with each other, that long a pretty strong gaming piece is in place to stop OWS from happening again.

[Irenaeus]

Disney has done massive damage to a lot of their IPs, and any revenue form their parks and merch is directly tied to how popular their IPs are - or have you an urge to buy a plush doll of The Acolyte?

The merchandise they make money from is not Acolyte trash, but Mickey, Minnie Mouse and the gang: dolls, backpacks, shirts. There's also a lot of oldschool Marvel stuff that keeps selling: Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, etc. Moms (and ****** dads) buy that for kids by the boatload. And there is, of course, Baby Yoda Funko Pops.



61 billion dollars per year can offset a lot of huge losses in disastrous movies and streaming.

Also, ousting Bob Iger is probably not in the cards;

It was very much in the cards until Nelson Peltz was defeated last month.

[Schizoid1488]

The issue is that the average dev/employee of these companies is a pussy whiped beta male ****** that got bullied in school and never had a social life, and now he is willing to pretend to be a ****** ally, a BLM supporter, a feminist, whatever other ******* virtue signalling buzzword just in hope of getting some crumbs of pussy from the unfuckable shrek females (previously male) that work in the same company as he does. And women are easily influenced by social media and social pressure so they desperately want to fit in and support whatever DEI ******* push despite most likely not actually believing it themselves. It's a negative loop that just loops in more of these dysgenic subhumans to pretend in front of each other and then starting to even believe that others actually think that. No matter how much money is lost these (((people))) will just print out more and more cultists will be created from the unorganic shilling. If you were to look at modern media and socials you'd think that 80% of Europe/America/Oceania are just lesbians/*******/******** and that the largest ethnic groups are *******. The only whitepill is that massive countries like China and India are full of chuds and will inevitably start growing so large in terms of population/gdp trajection that no amount of **** cope will change reality that we are failing as a society compared to them because of the mass induced lies and hypnosis. Just look at gachashit games, they are pure **** and made for gambling addicts yet more zoomers and gen alpha are playing them than any western AAA pozzed **** because they subconsciously just like looking at normal conventionally attractive white passing characters. Same with even this new DA game, you had white girls on reddit and xitter complaining on day one that they aren't interested in any romance options because they subconsciously just want to romance a conventionally attractive white guy, but instead got some dios mio creaturas. Obviously ***** and ********* immediatly started gaslighting them that it's racist to not want to romance a ****** elf so they stopped posting it in later threads, but they will become aware sooner or later as DEI nigers go harder and harder at propaganda. Kikebros got too cocky, it's not looking too good....

[Irenaeus]

The issue is that the average dev/employee of these companies is a pussy whiped beta male ****** that got bullied in school and never had a social life, and now he is willing to pretend to be a ****** ally, a BLM supporter, a feminist, whatever other ******* virtue signalling buzzword just in hope of getting some crumbs of pussy from the unfuckable shrek females (previously male) that work in the same company as he does. And women are easily influenced by social media and social pressure so they desperately want to fit in and support whatever DEI ******* push despite most likely not actually believing it themselves. It's a negative loop that just loops in more of these dysgenic subhumans to pretend in front of each other and then starting to even believe that others actually think that. No matter how much money is lost these (((people))) will just print out more and more cultists will be created from the unorganic shilling. If you were to look at modern media and socials you'd think that 80% of Europe/America/Oceania are just lesbians/*******/******** and that the largest ethnic groups are *******. The only whitepill is that massive countries like China and India are full of chuds and will inevitably start growing so large in terms of population/gdp trajection that no amount of **** cope will change reality that we are failing as a society compared to them because of the mass induced lies and hypnosis. Just look at gachashit games, they are pure **** and made for gambling addicts yet more zoomers and gen alpha are playing them than any western AAA pozzed **** because they subconsciously just like looking at normal conventionally attractive white passing characters. Same with even this new DA game, you had white girls on reddit and xitter complaining on day one that they aren't interested in any romance options because they subconsciously just want to romance a conventionally attractive white guy, but instead got some dios mio creaturas. Obviously ***** and ********* immediatly started gaslighting them that it's racist to not want to romance a ****** elf so they stopped posting it in later threads, but they will become aware sooner or later as DEI nigers go harder and harder at propaganda. Kikebros got too cocky, it's not looking too good....

Ever heard of paragraphs?

[Shillitron]

The issue is that the average dev/employee of these companies is a pussy whiped beta male ****** that got bullied in school and never had a social life, and now he is willing to pretend to be a ****** ally, a BLM supporter, a feminist, whatever other ******* virtue signalling buzzword just in hope of getting some crumbs of pussy from the unfuckable shrek females (previously male) that work in the same company as he does. And women are easily influenced by social media and social pressure so they desperately want to fit in and support whatever DEI ******* push despite most likely not actually believing it themselves. It's a negative loop that just loops in more of these dysgenic subhumans to pretend in front of each other and then starting to even believe that others actually think that. No matter how much money is lost these (((people))) will just print out more and more cultists will be created from the unorganic shilling. If you were to look at modern media and socials you'd think that 80% of Europe/America/Oceania are just lesbians/*******/******** and that the largest ethnic groups are *******. The only whitepill is that massive countries like China and India are full of chuds and will inevitably start growing so large in terms of population/gdp trajection that no amount of **** cope will change reality that we are failing as a society compared to them because of the mass induced lies and hypnosis. Just look at gachashit games, they are pure **** and made for gambling addicts yet more zoomers and gen alpha are playing them than any western AAA pozzed **** because they subconsciously just like looking at normal conventionally attractive white passing characters. Same with even this new DA game, you had white girls on reddit and xitter complaining on day one that they aren't interested in any romance options because they subconsciously just want to romance a conventionally attractive white guy, but instead got some dios mio creaturas. Obviously ***** and ********* immediatly started gaslighting them that it's racist to not want to romance a ****** elf so they stopped posting it in later threads, but they will become aware sooner or later as DEI nigers go harder and harder at propaganda. Kikebros got too cocky, it's not looking too good....

Ever heard of paragraphs?

I have a very short attention span - You need to break your text up into paragraphs to trick me into thinking there isn't as much text to read so that I can get to the end of the post.

I gave up around "bioware employees are all sucking blm **** in the broom closet"

[Atlantico]

I like its structure. The symmetry of each squad member having a side mission that unlocks an ability is also nice. Dossier :Tali is one of the best missions in the series with its environmental shield interaction.

Everything to do with tone, theme, plot, retcons, and bringing the reapers back is awful.

You didn't mention combat and bossfights

They were fine except for the last one's justification.

So we don't belong to the same world, because from my perspective ME2 is the biggest dumpsterfire garbage game in the series, I wouldn't **** on if it was on fire. ME2 is pure degeneracy while MEA was an attempt to reign in the stupid — and instead of appreciating Bioware course correcting, people went apeshit over how ostensibly terrible it was.

The original Mass Effect was something special. ME2 and ME3 were tonedeaf dumpsterfires made by people who neither understood nor cared what made the original special. MEA was specifically made as a reboot to the original Mass Effect, both in world building and gameplay.

ME2/ME3 are for consumerist *******. Simple as. MEA was made for people who liked ME and wanted more of *that*. It did deliver on that and as such it is actually **** good. MEA is by no means a masterpiece, but it is the only worthwhile sequel to the original ME.

[gastovski]

ME:A is a ******* joke give me a break