Tim Sweeney says Epic Games has a huge pivot underway, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. His framing is that the aim is not to do the same work with fewer people, but to let everybody build more and better, and to bring that to every team … Read More
Let’s Discuss, because people are LOSING THEIR MINDS
The last video on the Malfoid thing went over some heads, so this one slows down and lays the position out plainly. I am not saying people are bad for engaging with the mainstream. That is probably what brought most of us together in the first place. I am also … Read More
The Malfoid thing is all over our corner of the internet right now, and I am not here to argue about whether fan fiction is good or bad. That is a false dichotomy. The actual problem sits underneath it. My issue is with how this one is being framed. The … Read More
Jac Schaeffer is developing a Stargate series at Amazon and Tom King is still getting work. If you have been waiting for the mainstream to run out of runway, this is what actually happens instead. Two things landed back to back that make the point I have been making for … Read More
A post went around saying commentators like me have turned comics, movies, TV and games into endless culture war battlegrounds. Here’s my actual answer, and why I think most of this argument is aimed at people who don’t exist. Start with the obvious thing. The folks in that graphic are … Read More
The American comic book industry’s real problem isn’t the stories and it isn’t the politics. It’s that the industry stopped prioritizing readers decades ago, and once you know the history, everything else starts to make sense. I’ll be the first to say the industry isn’t in a good spot. But … Read More
A viewer asked whether the West will ever get back to innovating in entertainment the way it did decades ago. Here’s my honest answer, and why it gets harder every year that goes by. The question came from King Khalil in the comments on my video about the loop we’re … Read More
Mainstream versus indies, and whether the lack of innovation in the West is permanent. Open debate. Come make your case in chat. This follows the video I put out on why the West stopped innovating in entertainment. My position in short: we are not in an era of discovery. On … Read More
A legacy company puts out something divisive, an entire economy forms around complaining about it, and nothing changes because mega corporations don’t digest feedback the way a consumer does. I decided my time was better spent building something instead. #Hollywood #Entertainment #Comics #IndieComics
