But what’s enough in this day and age? Enough to cover costs? Enough so that the studio execs can buy 5 new yachts per year instead of just 3? I have no idea how much they were actually making off WoT

It’s this whole culture where being “mid” is somehow horrifying. Either everything you do has to be a world record and the best most amazing thing ever, or you might as well not bother. Everything’s been “optimised” to death.

Weeellll, “not well received” is more than a bit subjective, so it was kind of hard to tell from your initial comment that you personally don’t think it’d be worth more seasons and not just that it’d be expensive to make but worth it if someone could cough up the money.

Tons of studios could easily afford it, and there’s plenty of people who did like it – enough to get us 3 seasons anyhow

That’s a different question than whether anyone could afford to finance it

I mostly don’t even bother watching new series anymore, I’ve gotten so used to the good ones getting canceled way too soon

It’s not like studios and streaming services are poor

You called someone an “instagram drama queen bot” for absolutely no reason, and you think everybody else is being cruel to you?

But isn’t that still your pride talking?

I guess what I’m trying to get at here is that I doubt the people giving the gift see your son (or you) as a charity case. To your son’s best friend it’s just about giving his bestie a gift he knows he’ll like

If they’re actually wealthy and they said this was just chump change for them, and it was a gift, I just don’t quite see where the “unhealthy dynamic” is. You sure this isn’t just about pride?

If they’re fine with it, what’s the problem exactly?

People don’t dislike you because of your neurodivergence, but because you consistently act like an insufferable asshole towards more or less everyone and then use being neurodivergent as an excuse

Depends on the amount of hyperbole, and getting banned for “believing in the concept of copyright” definitely smells like hyperbole.

Anybody falling for a 4chan post about anything deserves it, simply for using 4chan

Without knowing the context of those bans, it’s kinda hard to say whether your take of them being “simply for believing in the concept of copyright” is actually anywhere close to reality or not.

Based on past experience of people posting hyperbolic claims about “instance X banning people for Y”, it’s never actually about Y.

Shh, calling genocidal right wing extremists “nazis” makes the genocidal right wing extremists (ie. nazis) angry

Jewish community voices concern: ‘Canada is becoming more hostile toward us by the day’

What kind of a shitty excuse for a human thinks war crime investigations are “hostility”?

Well there’s obviously psychotic, and then there’s obviously psychotic

Certainly fair enough, but this really hasn’t been a problem with just Blue Labour – see eg. “Restoring control over the immigration system”

edit: oh and how could I forget Starmer’s position on trans women: Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says

Yeah my main worry is that people are so unbelievably obsequious towards billionaires and reich-wing “leaders” that even an obviously psychotic one might not get them to pause and think about what the hell they’re doing

Labour trying not to emulate fascists in the hopes of votes challenge: impossible