you know it never really occurred to me before now that Scrooge McDuck is a (possibly hurtful?) ethnic stereotype
Well he is fairly positively portrayed for a character named Scrooge.
And apparently in the comics his nemesis Glomgold is basically a Broederbunder, except a duck.
What's a Broederbunder?
The Broederbund was an Afrikaner institution similar to the Freemasons with strong white supremacist leanings, members of whom were the original architects of apartheid. They now function as a relatively innocuous charity organisation, but for a time they were one of the most powerful and secretive organisations in Africa.
Basically, Glomgold was written as the epitome of the miserly, unspeakably bigoted Afrikaners who believed that their heritage of collective struggle entitled them to treat other human beings as chattel.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Fun fact: The founders of that company spelled it differently to avoid being associated with racist scumbags.
See, that just raises the question "why use a variation on that name at all, then?"
It literally means "an organisation of brothers," which described their company quite well; if I am not mistaken, it was also chosen because it appeared as the name of a group in a game they were working on.
If I made a Where's Waldo movie, it would be a series of disconnected vignettes, some fantasy, some realistic, some comedy, some dramatic, and Waldo would appear in various crowd scenes and bit parts.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Anyway, Odie, if MGM lets the movie rights to Where's Waldo revert to ABC Inc, then I'll consider your take on it
(you know, I find it amusing how fucking Where's Waldo has more cultural relevance than almost any other Amberco Characters DreamWorks Classics property)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
If we're going to adapt Where's Waldo into anything, it ought to be an iPad game
Tablets have decent enough resolution now to display a detailed crowd scene, and you could tap when you think you've found Waldo!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It could have all sorts of other interactive stuff too, like the old Living Books games where you can just click on random stuff and it will animate
If we're going to adapt Where's Waldo into anything, it ought to be an iPad game
Tablets have decent enough resolution now to display a detailed crowd scene, and you could tap when you think you've found Waldo!
Truth be told, I'm not sure if the rights to license that are with DreamWorks Classics (who owns the IP) or Walker Books (who owns the publishing rights)
If we're going to adapt Where's Waldo into anything, it ought to be an iPad game
Tablets have decent enough resolution now to display a detailed crowd scene, and you could tap when you think you've found Waldo!
You suggested that before, I remember.
As Mo pointed out at the time, it would make more sense to circle Waldo than tap him, otherwise people could cheat by just rubbing their fingers all over the screen
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...I do remember that now, actually.
Alright then, that works better anyway: tap if you just want to see amusing animations, then circle if you think you've found Waldo
(Entertainment Rights is Classic Media's one-time owner, which went under, got bought out by Classic's co-founder, and had its name changed to Classic's own. Classic Media took its current name, DreamWorks Classics, when DreamWorks Animation assumed ownership of it)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
there'd have to be a certain threshold of accuracy required, though, or else you could just circle huge swaths of the screen until you found the one than contains waldo
Script doctor Scott Derrickson tells the story of how he got the job working on this film. He got a phone call from Harvey Weinstein, saying, "I just bought this script, called 'Dracula 2000'." Derrickson replied, "Oh, yeah? Is it good?" "It stinks!" "So why did you buy it?" "Because it's called 'Dracula 2000'!."
Script doctor Scott Derrickson tells the story of how he got the job working on this film. He got a phone call from Harvey Weinstein, saying, "I just bought this script, called 'Dracula 2000'." Derrickson replied, "Oh, yeah? Is it good?" "It stinks!" "So why did you buy it?" "Because it's called 'Dracula 2000'!."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Under the guise of the Sinkiang 'Agricultural Implements Factory', this assembly plant was surrounded by heavy fortifications and manned by more than 1,500 Soviet troops equipped with a force of about twenty tanks.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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or occasionally of the gyro-bowl thanks to bronies
I see. Thanks for that.
I really need to see a performance of this one day.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i'm picturing an entire cinema audience sat searching a still projection of a crowd scene for Wally
someone yells 'THERE, IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER BEHIND THE VAN!' and everyone in the room hates them
As Mo pointed out at the time, it would make more sense to circle Waldo than tap him, otherwise people could cheat by just rubbing their fingers all over the screen
i'm gonna go rehearse