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Can you only get hard by trolling? Or are you just really seriously lonely and depressed?

Mint or Fedora. KISS.

Popularity is financial success.

These aren't indie arthouse flicks, they're enormous investment vehicles for the studios, and they're failing.

It doesn't matter if a film grossed a billion dollars, if it cost 2 billion to make. That's a flop, a failure.

They're failing because they aren't popular anymore, not enough people care about them to sustain the studios in the medium or long term.

When I said no one was watching them, you conveniently found that to be a very literal argument. When clearly in this context "no one's watching them anymore", refers to their box office receipts relative to their cost to produce.

So, to answer my own question in the appropriate context, no, no one's watching them anymore. But to answer in terms you'll understand, the audience has shrunk so much that they're no longer consistent profitable investments. Which is why they've scrapped so many projects, including multiple shows and movies that had already began production.

You know they have canceled the majority of the Disney Plus shows they had in the pipeline, and in production, right..? The wheels came off, a year ago.

This article takes a rosier view by not listing all the shows they canceled or permanently delayed, like Iron Heart, but you can find a complete list if you're so inclined to search for a few minutes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/marvel-studios-cut-back-films-tv-shows-1235892364/

Two of the three movies you named, lost hundreds of millions of dollars.....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2024/10/03/disney-lost-nearly-a-third-of-a-billion-dollars-on-two-marvel-movies/

And you really think that Deadpool's performance has reversed the fortunes of the MCU….?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think audiences have forgotten that the Deadpool franchise that was made successful outside of MCU, much less X-Men.

Point is, call me skeptical that that the enthusiasm for that one off event, will be carried over into the next MCU turd they plop into theaters.

Does anyone actually watch MCU movies anymore...?

Honest question, I saw every film from mid phase 1 to Endgame, in theaters.

Then came Disney Plus, Loki was great, Wanda vision was different, and the rest range from forgettable, to complete garbage.

I would rewatch Agents or SHIELD, and any Netflix Marvel show (sans Iron Fist), a dozen times each, before I ever paid for another MCU movie.

Before you dismiss me of some hater, I used really enjoy the MCU. I even tried to watch Agatha, and gave it like 2 1/2 episodes before I couldn't take it anymore, it's bad.

These aren't director movies, their producer and studio movies. There's only so much turd a talented director can polish up, and all of these movies are gigantic stinking studio turds.

Just so we're clear, your position is that Biden is at fault, but if he wasn't supporting this genocide, it would actually be worse?

It's late, and I'm watching the fights, so I don't have my full attention to spare, but I had enough available to read your comment and see that that you're being earnest in your argument, and your analysis is not disingenuous.

That's important to me, because while it's really bad, it also means that you're probably not a bad person.

For starters, it's all counterfactuals, and while that alone means it's a just barrel of formal and informal fallacies, it's also based on deeply flawed, or just grossly uneducated, misunderstandings of a wide range of fields, ranging from international relations, to military procurement and sustainment.

I'm not trying to be mean, and to be fair, I have an academic background in multiple fields related to these subjects, so I'm not pulling my criticism out of my ass.

But another fight is about to start, so my text to speech comment must end.

No... what are you talking about?

You said the escalatory actions were the Abraham accords, and moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

I just pointed those were both actions taken by the Trump administration.

So what requires a historical account? Do you mean you just want to site random historical events with no context, and if anyone points out when they happened, that's somehow a bad faith argument, or an unfair standard to apply...?

Oh my God... Did you really just read those "trigger events" in some article, have no idea what they actually were, or when they happened, but still decided to cite them in support of your argument...?

Do you not understand that you cited only two events, and both of them occurred during the Trump administration....?

I'm actually at a loss for words, because if you don't grasp how your comment is explicitly stating Trump is to blame, I don't know what else to tell you.

No, you just did whataboutism.

Which is why I separated my other commentary, and addressed it in general, and not directly at you.

Because while it's related to your comment, you hadn't crossed that bridge yet, but there's no shortage of that in these comments, read up and down.

Israel knows their client state, including the IDF and political leadership. Do you even read Israeli newspapers regularly?

I'm well aware of AIPAC, and the extent of their lobbying and influence operations.

None of that has anything to do with what I've been talking about.

Maybe you are under informed. The Abraham Accords and the moving of the US embassy were escalations in this conflict.

It's like three or four comments up, did you even look?

Or does your extensive knowledge of Middle Eastern history not extend back that far?

In case you're still confused, both of those actions were taken by the Trump administration, and it was the sole content of that comment.

....what? You just said Abraham accords are the reason for this conflict... That's the same as saying Trump is to blame....

And just because I'm rightfully assigning blame to Biden, the current sitting US president and self-proclaimed biggest support of Israel, doesn't mean I support Trump.

Feel free to creep on all of my comment history, my political leanings should be pretty self-evident.

Don't you feel gross telling people that if they say Biden's policies have allowed the situation to get out of control, it means they support Trump?

I mean, you do understand that ultimately Israel is our client state and entirely dependent upon our aid for their survival, right?

They literally could not be prosecuting this war if we stopped shipping them weapons, and they would never have attacked Iran if we didn't have our CSG and accompanying missile destroyers sitting in between them.

Wait, so you're saying that US culpability in this conflict starts, and ends, with the Trump administration...?

Again, I don't think it's me who's under informed on this issue.....

I'm not informed...?

No US president in history, from either party, has been this hands-off with Israel. Period.

And I didn't say war, I said situation, as in the nonstop spiraling of events, without as much as a waiver in US support: diplomatically, militarily, or financially.

The fact that you don't know that, shows it's not me who is misinformed.

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I use PipePipe and Tubular regularly, and both devs are pretty good about pushing out updates quickly when YT breaks.