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[melkathi]

2 hours ago, bugarup said:

Guys, you know what would be REALLY horrendous? This new conglomerate getting purchased by Disney. 

I can imagine.

[MrBrown]

 

[Elerond]

5 hours ago, BruceVC said:

Now that would be a disaster but I dont think Disney can afford to buy Microsoft even if they wanted to sell which they dont 

Yeah that is true, Disney can't afford MS, but MS has cash on hand half of Disney's market value, so MS could actually buy Disney if it they want and Disney is on sale

[Hurlshort]

6 hours ago, Humanoid said:

That's a completely different issue in that I just avoid zombie games entirely really. There is one exception, ironically being party-based, in Death Road to Canada. But then I have no problem with multiple units outside of the context of RPGs, even if you can argue DRtC has strong RPG elements, after all I play a *lot* of XCOM (which has zombies too I guess, ha).

To be fair, Xcom zombies are way cooler than traditional zombies. 

[Chairchucker]

Ah yes, the highly sanitised Disney, the company that brought us such family friendly films as The Last Duel, in which two men fight to the death because one of them raped the wife of the other. Extremely sanitised.

[Gfted1]

They also killed a deer, and a lion, and totes advocate sexual assault against sleeping princesses! Oh my!

[Malcador]

Whatever makes gamers unhappy is good.

[ShadySands]

I wish MS would buy Disney. I mean, I wouldn't use a genie wish, or a monkey's paw, or the spell wish or anything like that but thoughts and prayers all day e'ery day.

Edited January 19, 2022 by ShadySands

[uuuhhii]

build your own legendary lord

come with replaceable body part

[BruceVC]

7 hours ago, Chairchucker said:

Ah yes, the highly sanitised Disney, the company that brought us such family friendly films as The Last Duel, in which two men fight to the death because one of them raped the wife of the other. Extremely sanitised.

Whats wrong, did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning...you sound ratty?

[Chairchucker]

3 hours ago, BruceVC said:

Whats wrong, did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning...you sound ratty?

Do I? Seems like very run of the mill sarcasm to me.

[BruceVC]

4 minutes ago, Chairchucker said:

Do I? Seems like very run of the mill sarcasm to me.

Good to know, I thought you were mad 

[bugarup]

11 hours ago, Chairchucker said:

Ah yes, the highly sanitised Disney, the company that brought us such family friendly films as The Last Duel, in which two men fight to the death because one of them raped the wife of the other. Extremely sanitised.

They are bloated and busy corporation, they don't have time to censor everything their subsidiaries do. They even let "Pulp Fiction" slip through once upon the time. 

[Humanoid]

12 hours ago, Chairchucker said:

Ah yes, the highly sanitised Disney, the company that brought us such family friendly films as The Last Duel, in which two men fight to the death because one of them raped the wife of the other. Extremely sanitised.

Ironically in the non-sanitised version there's no violence, just two men and the woman having peaceful relations.

[Chairchucker]

1 hour ago, bugarup said:

They are bloated and busy corporation, they don't have time to censor everything their subsidiaries do. They even let "Pulp Fiction" slip through once upon the time. 

Hmm I suppose that's possible or maybe - and hear me out - maybe there isn't really any evidence of Disney sanitising any franchise that wasn't already pretty child friendly. Before they acquired Star Wars, there were bumbling droids, fuzzy teddy bears, a pratfalling gungan and the closest thing there was to graphic violence was someone's arm getting cut off, conveniently by a weapon that prevents blood sprays. With Rogue One, Mandolorian and Boba Fett, Disney's version of Star Wars has been probs less 'sanitised' than it ever was. Before they acquired Marvel, the least sanitised aspect of the MCU was probably the fact that they hired Joss Whedon. Post Disney acquisition we got Helstrom which, while apparently not very good, seems to be, again, about the least 'sanitised' MCU thing we've seen.

 

The idea of Disney being some company that will slap mouse ears on every property and dial it down to a 'g' rating is a bogeyman invented by people who want to be mad at things.

[bugarup]

1 hour ago, Chairchucker said:

Hmm I suppose that's possible or maybe - and hear me out - maybe there isn't really any evidence of Disney sanitising any franchise that wasn't already pretty child friendly. Before they acquired Star Wars, there were bumbling droids, fuzzy teddy bears, a pratfalling gungan and the closest thing there was to graphic violence was someone's arm getting cut off, conveniently by a weapon that prevents blood sprays. With Rogue One, Mandolorian and Boba Fett, Disney's version of Star Wars has been probs less 'sanitised' than it ever was. Before they acquired Marvel, the least sanitised aspect of the MCU was probably the fact that they hired Joss Whedon. Post Disney acquisition we got Helstrom which, while apparently not very good, seems to be, again, about the least 'sanitised' MCU thing we've seen.

 

The idea of Disney being some company that will slap mouse ears on every property and dial it down to a 'g' rating is a bogeyman invented by people who want to be mad at things.

They did veto movies from distribution in the past, like "Dogma" and I have a sneaking suspicion they still practice that, can't be arsed to sniff for sources though. Cannot comment on superhero schlock as I don't care for it unless Taika Waititi or Deadpool is involved, but didn't they switch SW directors after "The Last Jedi" turned controversial for more "traditional" (but also stupider) next installation whatsitsname? Also, didn't they fire some director over 10 years old edgy messages and Mandalorian's actress over some dumb tweet? Their being allergic to any kind of IRL controversy is IMO as worse than product sanitizing. 

[Amentep]

1 hour ago, bugarup said:

They did veto movies from distribution in the past, like "Dogma" and I have a sneaking suspicion they still practice that, can't be arsed to sniff for sources though. Cannot comment on superhero schlock as I don't care for it unless Taika Waititi or Deadpool is involved, but didn't they switch SW directors after "The Last Jedi" turned controversial for more "traditional" (but also stupider) next installation whatsitsname? Also, didn't they fire some director over 10 years old edgy messages and Mandalorian's actress over some dumb tweet? Their being allergic to any kind of IRL controversy is IMO as worse than product sanitizing. 

Dogma, Kids and Ferenheit 9/11 were the films Disney declined to allow Miramax to distribute after the Weinstein's sold to Disney.

The problems with what became Rise of the Skywalker, from what I understand it, had to do with allowing The Last Jedi to veer wildly off the planned three act narrative so much so that it no longer matched up with the script that was being prepped for the third film.  So they brought Abrams back both as a response to the negative reaction to TLJ and because the other director left after the work they'd did amounted to nothing and he couldn't make the film he'd planned.

RE Chairchucker's reference to Helstrom, it started life under Marvel's TV unit (Agents of SHIELD, Runaways, The Inhumans, Cloak and Dagger) and not the movie banner (the, er, movies and the current Disney+ shows).  And it was sanitized from everything I've read (they don't even call Daimon's sister Satana, but "Ana" and he's no longer the son of the devil and she's no longer a succubus*).

They did fire the director for old tweets (but re-hired him) and the actress (who had a history of dumb tweets and they probably would have been better off just telling people they didn't hire actors based on their ability to tweet), but I think the latter was more because they've been trying to win SW fans over after the mixed reception of the SW films as they've kept another actress whose had some tweet controversies but who isn't in the SW stuff.  I imagine there's never going to be a one-size response to these things.

*yes Marvel has a sometimes superhero and sometimes supervillain who is the Son of Satan and one who is a Succubus.  They also had a heroic/villainous half-vampire, full vampire, 2 different werewolves, a science vampire, several witches, a mummy, a swamp monster, etc.  It was the 70s.

[BruceVC]

2 minutes ago, Amentep said:

Dogma, Kids and Ferenheit 9/11 were the films Disney declined to allow Miramax to distribute after the Weinstein's sold to Disney.

The problems with what became Rise of the Skywalker, from what I understand it, had to do with allowing The Last Jedi to veer wildly off the planned three act narrative so much so that it no longer matched up with the script that was being prepped for the third film.  So they brought Abrams back both as a response to the negative reaction to TLJ and because the other director left after the work they'd did amounted to nothing and he couldn't make the film he'd planned.

RE Chairchucker's reference to Helstrom, it started life under Marvel's TV unit (Agents of SHIELD, Runaways, The Inhumans, Cloak and Dagger) and not the movie banner (the, er, movies and the current Disney+ shows).  And it was sanitized from everything I've read (they don't even call Daimon's sister Satana, but "Ana" and he's no longer the son of the devil and she's no longer a succubus*).

They did fire the director for old tweets (but re-hired him) and the actress (who had a history of dumb tweets and they probably would have been better off just telling people they didn't hire actors based on their ability to tweet), but I think the latter was more because they've been trying to win SW fans over after the mixed reception of the SW films.  However they've kept another actress whose had some tweet controversies who isn't in the SW stuff.  I imagine there's never going to be a one-size response to these things.

*yes Marvel has a sometimes superhero and sometimes supervillain who is the Son of Satan and one who is a Succubus.  They also had a heroic/villainous half-vampire, full vampire, 2 different werewolves, a science vampire, several witches, a mummy, a swamp monster, etc.  It was the 70s.

I watched Helstrom and thought it was excellent, I was bitterly disappointed it didnt go past season 1 

I didnt read the comics\graphic novels of Helstrom so its interesting he is the son of the devil and his sister a  succubus, in the series they are " human " but the children of a demon\demonic entity 

But its very brutal and not sanitized in respects to  the general violence 

 

[Amentep]

8 minutes ago, BruceVC said:

I watched Helstrom and thought it was excellent, I was bitterly disappointed it didnt go past season 1 

I didnt read the comics\graphic novels of Helstrom so its interesting he is the son of the devil and his sister a  succubus, in the series they are " human " but the children of a demon\demonic entity 

But its very brutal and not sanitized in respects to  the general violence 

 

If Daimon isn't shirtless 80% of the time with a large sometimes flaming pentagram on his chest, its Hellstrom in name only!

[BruceVC]

6 minutes ago, Amentep said:

If Daimon isn't shirtless 80% of the time with a large sometimes flaming pentagram on his chest, its Hellstrom in name only!

Shes quite a hottie 

[Keyrock]

I imagine Satan got busy. He's probably got a lot of children.

[Mamoulian War]

1 hour ago, BruceVC said:

Shes quite a hottie 

THAT'S FORBIDDEN!!!

Edited January 20, 2022 by Mamoulian War

[Amentep]

6 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

I imagine Satan got busy. He's probably got a lot of children.

I think in Marvel, Lucifer/Satan only has the two known kids.  But then Mephisto has pretended to be Lucifer a number of times, and I think "Satan" is treated like a title, so there may be other demons who were Satan who had other kids that wouldn't be related to Lucifer/ the Hellstroms.

1 minute ago, Mamoulian War said:

THAT'S FORBIDDEN!!!

She probably won't suck the life force out of Bruce...probably. 

[Keyrock]

1 minute ago, Amentep said:

I think in Marvel, Lucifer/Satan only has the two known kids. 

That's because he doesn't want to pay child support on the hundreds of illegitimate children he's fathered. We gotta get Satan on the Maury Povich show.

[Amentep]

2 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

That's because he doesn't want to pay child support on the hundreds of illegitimate children he's fathered. We gotta get Satan on the Maury Povich show.

I'm not sure I'm ready to see Lucifer do the run of shame after the DNA test results are revealed...