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Atomic Knight said:
Don Henley not so much.
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Because of the rigorous copyright enforcement?
Or the whole underaged-sex workers on drugs thing?

The guy has been a public champion for the environment and such, which I do appreciate.

But yeah: some skeletons in the closet, for sure. It’s especially disappointing when a guy outwardly appears to be a “good guy”.
 
Xavion2025 said:
The disco that Middle America rebelled against was the watered down version that Corporate America was shoving down their throats which was a far cry from the social and cultural movement that it had originated as.
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Just to drive that last point home, consider that the biggest selling disco artist of all time was the Bee Gees, three straight, white males from Australia.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Because of the rigorous copyright enforcement?
Or the whole underaged-sex workers on drugs thing?

The guy has been a public champion for the environment and such, which I do appreciate.

But yeah: some skeletons in the closet, for sure. It’s especially disappointing when a guy outwardly appears to be a “good guy”.
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I just thought he was a douche.
 
Atomic Knight said:
In interviews I’ve seen, he never did himself any favors. Smartest guy in the room. Just ask him.
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This is why I avoid engaging with celebrity content.
I might like your art, but I don’t give a shit about you as a human unless you are really going hard to help people and fight for justice, and even then I *still* don’t really care on a personal level.
 
AceofKnaves said:
This is why I avoid engaging with celebrity content.
I might like your art, but I don’t give a shit about you as a human unless you are really going hard to help people and fight for justice, and even then I *still* don’t really care on a personal level.
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Think George Clooney without the looks or charm.
 
Atomic Knight said:
Think George Clooney without the looks or charm.
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I like Clooney, though. Good actor, GREAT producer, too upper-crusty for my taste personally but he cares about a lot of the right stuff, so at least he’s using his voice for something good.

As far as I am concerned, the *only* decent use for celebrity status is to lift up the oppressed, and punch at shitty right-wing pricks from more equal footing, sociologically speaking.
 
I like Clooney as an actor. He’s pretty funny. O Brother Where art Thou is next level hysterical. But regardless of his advocacy, he’s generally talking down to people. I guess with that level of success, arrogance is second nature.

That was my issue with Henley.
 
Atomic Knight said:
I guess with that level of success, arrogance is second nature.
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Disagree.
Arrogance is odious and unacceptable under any circumstances.

I don’t really see the “talking down”, but maybe you are watching more stuff than I am. Not to get too far into the weeds, but I know some media sources have created a *narrative* that folks like Clooney are “talking down”, but often that’s because the message is not palatable to certain people. I don’t go in for the “artists should just shut up and make art”. It’s the responsibility of each and every one of us to stand up to tyranny and injustice, regardless of what job we have.

I will say that Clooney *is* way too establishment and way too entrenched with center-right Democrats for my tastes and it does dilute any actual progressive message he might have.
 
Musically the 70s get a pass from me for the post-punk scene alone. Siouxsie, Joy Division, Wire, PiL, Bauhaus, The Raincoats, The Passions, The Beat, The Blockheads, and more besides. But it's not just that, there were amazing and important acts in various other genres too, it strikes me as utterly absurd to write off the entire decade.

It's not my fav era (a 3 way tie between the early 80s, late 80s house, and an obscenely incredible 2 year period between 1993 and 1995) but there's absolutely tons of gold in there.
 
Things I’m wondering about part 2:

It’s pretty much a done deal that Todd’s not getting any sort of carve out for a parallel DCD adult collector line as I’d hoped.

So I wonder if Mattel might also do themed waves like the old days of DCD? Not in the basic line. Perhaps alternating with world building. Stuff like Hush, Hard Traveling Heroes, Kingdom Come, Reign of the Supermen, etc. Maybe some event waves too. Crisis, Zero Hour, Legends and so forth.
 
Themed waves seem kinda disastrous for retail unless the theme is something at the level of Batman. If you pick a theme that people aren't really into, you have 4-6 figures sitting around forever instead of maybe just 1 less popular choice in a wave. And the benefit of them is...nothing. Literally nothing. I doubt you'd get one more sale than you would just releasing a regular wave with a mix of things.

The only themes Mattel WWE employs are extremely broad: WWE Legends is a sub-line, which covers decades of history. Then there are quarterly waves built on WWE's big 4 events (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam, and Survivor Series) with looks from those events. Which covers both classic and modern eras of wrestling.
 
Atomic Knight said:
Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Tomb of Dracula, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Black Panther, X-Men, Conan, Rom, Micronauts…

(I feel old).
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To this day Iron Fist is the most succesful Second Person narration I've experienced. I once tried it in a writing workshop I was in and its SO hard, because the reader's brain fights against it - "no, I wouldn't do that" ...

Honestly even the team up books in that era were awesome, just throwing all kinds of stuff at the wall... Doc Savage was in an issue of Two-in-One... Captain Britain debuting in Team-Up.
 
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