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Sweetpeaches69, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

How the fuck does this guy keep finding ways to make the worst decisions possible?

Isoprenoid,

If you were surrounded by yes men and billions of dollars, you too could fail upwards.

Jaytreeman,

I know a lot of people that would be smart enough to get really smart people around them.

You have to be a special kind of narcissist to want yes men around you all the time

MotoAsh,

Well, you have to be a special kind of greedy fuck to become a billionaire, so that might explain the strange overlap on the venn diagram: They’re already pretty tilted people.

HardlightCereal,

Narcisstists are disabled people and hate against them is ableist. Also there is no psychiatric evidence Musk is a narcissist.

hardaysknight,

Well that’s a comment.

TrickDacy,

Now I’ve heard everything

IHaveTwoCows,

Are you suuure you want to be a nightclub comic?

pahlimur,

Not a hard question to answer when you remember how ridiculously stupid he is. I’ve been calling him stupid for a decade and I’m finally cashing in. Dude has accidentally succeeded a couple times and thinks he’s tony stark. Of course he’s going to say the dumbest shit imaginable because he thinks he’s smart so how could his thoughts be dumb?

JokeDeity,

His “accidentally succeeding” is really just him buying companies, he’s not remotely creative or good at designing or building or anything really beyond hyping himself up and spending money he initially got from his dad, which is more or less the case for a lot of them.

DigitalTraveler42,

She touched his PP

li10, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

Heard’s notes read, “Jason said he wanted me fired. Jason drunk — late on set. Dressing like Johnny. Has all the rings too.”

Something about that really made me laugh.

It’s peak nut job rambling, making absurd connections and taking offence to random shit.

Hank,

It would be funnier if she was was right tho.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Jason Momoa, a 193cm tall muscular motherfucker “dressed up as Johnny Depp”? Did she just hallucinate Twins 2?

Dkarma,

Nah prolly just wearing a trench coat cuz she’s an idiot.

nueonetwo,

Please don’t give Hollywood anymore ideas

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

I want Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage to remake Twins

gnate,

Sure, but who is taking which role?

IHaveTwoCows,

That movie is offensive to short people stereotypes. Dinklage should stay home while they cast normal sized people to avoid offense.

Hackerman_uwu,

Narcissists cannot process that anything could happen and not be directly related to them.

iheartneopets, (edited )

These were therapy notes, never meant to be made public. She never accused him of this, she was talking something through with her therapist. That does not a narcissist make.

AnonTwo, to piracy in Every Streamer That Raised Prices in 2023 (So Far)

Are they calling Streaming Sites Streamers? I'm confused.

Phoenix3875,

What? Have you never been a streamee?

Tristano,

Yes, it seems like a really recent term to me. I first heard it when the writers strike began and never before that.

When I think streamer I think of people on Twitch or YouTube who stream themselves. No idea where calling streaming services/sites “streamers” came from but it always confuses me.

doppelgangmember,

Yeah lets kill that stupid overlapping bullshit now

I for one will always call them streaming SERVICES. They aint people or real physical entities

Historical_General,
@Historical_General@lemmy.world avatar

We called them streaming services. Calling them stream-ers sounds like the media is trying to make them sound cuddly and non hostile.

thisbenzingring, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

The more I know about Musk, the more I long for the day he is no longer of this existence. What sucks the most is he will probably live longer than me and I’ll have to learn new and existing things about how his influence has changed the world… Usually not in a better direction.

HappyPornDaze,

Very glad to see the tide turning on Musk

IHaveTwoCows,

The US has been plagued with anitchrist ever since Reagan showed up. Musk is just another of them.

zoostation, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

Shoot Heard, Depp, and Musk all into the sun please.

PeleSpirit,

Did any of them go to high school? Because their real life seems like the worst high school ever.

bazus1,

could we make it the far side of the moon? It be a huge fuel savings and we’d never have to see them and their “landing” site again.

starman2112,

What did Depp do?

RampageDon,

I was going to ask this. Feel like people hate him because it was a he said she said of who originally was the abuser, unless I missed something. Don’t really follow celebs so it’s possible.

wildginger,

The trial showed they were just both pieces of shit. The argument of if one is “at fault” for the other of that specific divorce doesnt matter to the end that it showed neither are good people.

Comes with stardom, I guess.

ParsnipWitch,
@ParsnipWitch@feddit.de avatar

Neither are good people, but I have never seen so much hatred towards one person on the internet than what was directed towards Amber Heard. Literal child murderers don’t get so much hate. And I think, with so much hate towards the one side, people automatically assume the other must be a wonderful human being.

And / or it’s just sexism. Reminded me a bit of the hatred towards that one woman in the show Tiger King.

wildginger,

Yeah, you say that, but in my internet circles all I heard was a poor target and depp was a demonic, twisted abuser who gleefully dragged his ex by the hair through the public mud for having the audacity of trying to escape his abuse.

They were both demonized. People just picked a horse to back.

ParsnipWitch, (edited )
@ParsnipWitch@feddit.de avatar

I am not talking about anecdotal internet bubbles or your personal friend group but the overall tone online or in social media.

People like Kevin Spacey, Ezra Miller, etc. did worse and got much less hatred. Even though they were much more famous actors.

I didn’t even know who Amber Heard was and the vitriol online was so bad I thought she was a serial killer at first lol

wildginger,

Half of twitter, specific substantially sized subreddits, the majority of tumblr, and a healthy amount of facebook for some reason, actually. Im hardly friends with websites.

The “”“overall tone of the internet”“” was just the twitter accounts and subreddits you happened to frequent. Not that theres anything wrong with that, mind. But the vitriol was equally abundant for depp.

First time Ive ever heard someone say miller is more famous than jack sparrow tho. Pretty sure he became famous for his crime spree. A spree so cut and dry obviously wrongdoing there was literally nothing to get riled up about. Spacey does have the fame, but… again, rape of a minor is pretty cut and dry heinous. You write them off as evil and move on.

Heard and depp were an argument. It got vitriolic because people picked a wrongdoer and argued with people who “picked wrong” and whipped themselves into frenzies. Kinda cant do that without someone to disagree with.

ParsnipWitch, (edited )
@ParsnipWitch@feddit.de avatar

I don’t use Twitter, I only read the news and used Reddit in the past.

If the vitriol was equal, how come (just one example) that was the trending hashtag on TikTok but not the reverse?

Why can you find so many memes making fun of Amber Heard but almost no memes making fun of Johnny Depp?

Why do people still make jokes about Amber Heard in topics having nothing to do with celebrities, even here on Lemmy, but not about Johnny Depp?

Why did you have people dressed up as turds(!) during the hearing, screaming their support for Johnny Depp in front of the court building?

Shall I go on? To claim the hatred for these two people was equal is ridiculous.

wildginger,

Have you ever heard the term “confirmation bias?”

You should look into it. I think you would find it fascinating, and oddly compelling about your experience.

Son_of_dad,

You’re willfully blind if you’re seriously asking that

Sylver,

And you’re willfully dodging the question

Son_of_dad, (edited )

You could just admit that you don’t care that he’s a creep, borderline pedo and an abusive jackass. I don’t have to waste my time giving you the facts just so you can ignore them.

Oh and I forgot to mention he’s an alcoholic and a drug addict, but I’m sure you think those people are trustworthy.

Sylver,

What the fuck is your problem dude? I asked for some discussion on why a person is shitty, and you go on to be a shitty fucking person to me just for asking you a damn question! Fuck off with your attitude, I just wanted to know what was so wrong with some famous prick I don’t know about.

CaptFeather,

Wait how is he a borderline pedo? I’m legitimately asking cause I don’t know that much about Depp

Son_of_dad, (edited )

Always goes young. As he’s aged he’s sticking to early 20s but he’s about 60 so, yuck. He used to go younger. Old men who do this, usually do it cause they want someone easily manipulated and controlled.

Also super abusive and is an alcoholic/drug addict

CaptFeather,

Oh right I forgot the age gap with Heard and Depp, though I know Heard isn’t quite that young it’s still weird lol. Same with DiCaprio though. What is it with big older actors going for barely legal women?

lightnsfw,

Maybe they only care about physical attraction? They’re insanely wealthy so it’s not like they really need anything else from the relationship.

Sabre363,

What did Depp do?

CADmonkey,

Ok, so enlighten everyone.

Son_of_dad,

What am I your Google? Besides, it’s likely you know what he does but don’t care. The texts exchanged between him and Paul Bettany were psychotic and inexcusable. But beyond heard, he’s a 60 year old man who dates 20 year olds and has a penchant for manipulation and abuse. He had great PR during the trial though. Two abusive sacks of shit start fighting, and suddenly everyone thinks Depp is excused for his abuse because he plays a pirate good

CADmonkey,

Hmm, still no sources. You’re the one making the claim, you have to provide the evidence.

Son_of_dad,

Lol dude there’s court transcripts detailing their mutual abuse, and verified texts where he’s asking Paul Bettany to help him rape and kill Amber.

If you don’t care that he’s an abuser fine, but don’t act like it didn’t happen

AFKBRBChocolate,

It’s a legitimate question. If you followed the trial, it was pretty clear that Heard lied through her teeth about a large number of things and was working hard to make him look horrible. I don’t follow celebrity stuff much, but other than being gleeful about her downfall, which honestly seems reasonable, I’m not sure what he did.

Microw,

There are tapes of him drunkenly screaming and destroying furniture. There are some other things he admitted to, which I don’t completely recall right now. There are the SMS he sent with fantasies of “burning and drowning” Heard. All in all, the impression I got from that trial wasnt a very favourable character for Depp.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Okay, thanks. I didn’t get the impression that he was anything close to a perfect human getting, and I’m not in the vicinity of being a fanboy, but that trial seemed pretty one sided: she being a horrible, abusive, lying sack of shit, and him hating her but not lying or being abusive.

ZzyzxRoad,

If breaking furniture and threatening to burn and drown your girlfriend isn’t abuse, then I must have missed something.

Or maybe it’s just that abusers always stand up for other abusers and that says it all about the people who defend the guy online. Especially when he’s a complete stranger to them and they’re paying money to get court records so they can talk shit about Amber Heard on his behalf. Not pathetic at all.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Wow, so anyone who doesn’t see Depp in the same light as Heard must be an abuser? That’s quite an overreach.

The only evidence I saw of Depp threatening to kill Heard was Hesrd’s testimony. The same testimony that was so full of proven falsehoods.

Son_of_dad,

If you did watch the whole trial, not just the Depp PR clips that were disseminated, you could also see how Depp was also an abuser and a creep. But even if heard, who was also abusive had never met Depp, you’d see a whole life of questionable creepiness out of Depp. It’s funny how everyone rips on DiCaprio but Depp is even creepier. His new gf is like 25, he’s a gross old man.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I think the old guys constantly dating the younger women is gross, but as long as they’re all adults it’s a legal kind of gross. I didn’t watch any social media coverage of the trial; my wife watched pretty much all of it and summarized it for me in the evenings, sometimes showing me interesting parts. I saw Depp saying some shitty things, but didn’t see him committing purgery or being overly abusive as Heard clearly did/was. I just don’t see them as equivalent.

Son_of_dad, (edited )

The texts he sent, detailing how he wanted to rape, murder and dispose of her body were too far for me, and how he asked his friend if he wanted in on it. That’s not a sane man, no matter what she did to him. And if you look through the whole thing, even though she was worse and lost the case, he was also abusive and drunk/high. Both fed off each other’s toxicity till it blew up. He had great PR though, and the backing of the men’s right types, so he got away fairly clean. Just because someone won a court case doesn’t mean he’s a saint or good person.

1bluepixel,
@1bluepixel@lemmy.world avatar

Johnny Depp was a toxic boyfriend and a chronic substance abuser. So was Heard, but the fact she’s a dumpster fire of a human being doesn’t make Depp a saint despite what the internet tried to tell you.

Just two shitty human beings who made each other miserable.

Zorque,

And a great deal of the internet as well, when they dragged their lovers spat into the public eye.

TrickDacy,

Depp probably has been shitty a lot, but the evidence suggests she’s far worse, they are not equal as you seem to suggest

BeMoreCareful,

I have to admit I didn’t really follow any of the news, but the little I did see I summed up as a couple of assholes.

iheartneopets,
Sanctus, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Lmfao, he would do that.

Blackout,
@Blackout@kbin.social avatar

World's Richest Simp

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I really hope all this shit shows is rich people are no different than those that live in trailer parks.

richieadler,

I think you mean ex boyfriend, but the effect is the same.

doom_and_gloom, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

Super hero movies and the efforts of everyone involved with them are a detriment to this planet as much as they are to art.

funkless_eck,

no need to hate on union riggers, drivers, gophers, sparkies, chippies, LX, steadycam ops etc

they’re just doing their job. and a good one

doom_and_gloom,

No hate because it’s the working class plight, but technically… their efforts are still acting as a detriment guided by rich investors. I chose that word somewhat carefully, you see.

Some of my own work has been detrimental to a sustainable planet - there’s nothing wrong with recognizing the rat race we are stuck in, the bullshit jobs we occupy, or the harm it causes.

keefshape,

Stop counting your debt, start counting that of others who profit from your efforts.

doom_and_gloom,

Are you saying I should focus my efforts where I can’t make any change? That’s what got us all into this pickle in the first place.

keefshape,

I… uhm… sure. Maybe? Idk. Do what you feel is best!

wombatula,

So brave.

Fades,

What a braindead take. Very edgy, you must be proud

arc,

no need to hate on union riggers, drivers, gophers, sparkies, chippies, LX, steadycam ops etc

they’re just doing their job. and a good one

Super hero movies are just a fad that overstayed its welcome and studios are going to have to think of something else now. No need to read anything more into them than that.

Honytawk,

Superhero movies date back to 1937 with The Shadow Strikes, featuring The Shadow

It is neither a fad, nor will it go anywhere. They are here to stay.

They might just become less prevalent, like the Cowboy movies of the 1980’s.

Cethin,

They were not what they are now until the Iron Man movie, or the Batman trilogy.

Honytawk,
Cethin,

I don’t agree they have to be, but I do agree they almost universally are, especially modern ones. None of them do anything new or interesting, and none of them try to address complex topics.

pH3ra, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’
@pH3ra@lemmy.ml avatar

What a simp

Sharpiemarker,

Neckbeard ass Elon

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

Imagine how much better Aquaman would have been if Emilia Clarke had been cast opposite Jason again. Those two have so much chemistry.

lyam23,

Not much, Aquaman was pretty terrible, Heard aside.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

It was so bad that even that little bit of chemistry would have been a lot

lyam23,

Fair point!

redcalcium, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

Drunk Jason Momoa dressing up as Johnny Depp?! Lmao

thisbenzingring,

He used to go to the same saloon in Seattle that I frequented. I met him right before he started filming Conan. He was a funny guy. I bet he was hilarious mocking Depp to irk Heard. Wish I could have seen that!

Metal_Zealot, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’
@Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

She’s not gonna fuck you, Melon

richieadler,
Metal_Zealot,
@Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeesh, scumbags really do attract other scumbags

Cossty, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

Yeah, When I saw her in the trailer I was done with the movie. I will just watch Pitch Meeting instead.

whoisearth,

Okay. Okay okay okay okay.

skyspydude1,

Wowowowow… Wow

IHaveTwoCows,

That sounds super easy, barely an inconvenience

RadioRat, to lgbtq_plus in Let’s Take a Journey Through the Secret Queer History of Studio Ghibli Films
@RadioRat@beehaw.org avatar

One notable flaw in the analysis is that it blindly examines Cob from Tales of Earthsea in the context of Ghibli instead of in context of Ursula K. Le Guin (the author).

Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness features a nonbinary race and was published in 1969. A good chunk of her work includes critique of gender and queer themes.

So it’s inane as hell to complain that “It’s unfortunate then that one of Ghibli’s very few unquestionably evil roles is also one of their only transfeminine characters” when Cob is transfeminine in virtue of Le Guin’s original material and decidedly not the only trans* character in her body of work.

However, a valid critique is that Ghibli never goes beyond allusion to queerness with the exception of an adaptation of another’s work. Yeah, Japanese culture/media yadda yadda but someone needs to have some nerve and practice prefigurative politics already.

BrooklynMan, to piracy in Every Streamer That Raised Prices in 2023 (So Far)
@BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml avatar

lol, paying for media 🤣

join us over at !plex

myersguy,

Lol using closed source apps with paid tiers hiding important features for media 🤣

Lukewarm_Tea,

No need to to make fun of another’s boat matey. We all sail the same high seas. Some venture farther from shores then others and that’s ok.

myersguy,

Mostly just poking fun. It came off as an odd flex (laughing at people who choose to pay for media) while also repping software that has features locked behind a paid tier (a subscription, at that)

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

For what it's worth Plex has been around since 2009. Emby on '08 and Kodi in '02. So anyone pirating before Jellyfins start around 2018 pretty much would be using either Plex, Emby, or Kodi. Frankly, Emby sucked until just a few years ago, and at least for my purposes for my purposes Jellyfin and Emby don't cut it. Back when I was trying to decide which to use I didn't like Kodi, but I haven't kept up with it so I can't speak on it today.

Plex also hasn't always been subscription only, or at least semi-frequently offer lifetime deals so it's just as reasonable as paying for something like access to real Debrid or whatever.

I-i mean yeah, what losers! Anyone who isn't self hosting bubble upnp streams to connect to their video player are living in the past man!

neo,
@neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

You could say it was an odd plex.

myersguy,

👈😎👈

Auli,

e stremio+torrentio

Plex had/has a lifetime sub.

bezoar,

What's your go to open source alternative? Jellyfin?

myersguy, (edited )

I was mostly just poking fun. Right now my media is only consumed at one location, so I primarily use Kodi on an Asus mini PC. I will likely keep Kodi as a client, and move to Jellyfin as a server in the future to allow for more clients.

EDIT: I understand downvoting my original tongue in cheek comment. Downvoting my response to someone’s follow up question is pretty odd though. Especially the guy signing in with multiple accounts to do so 🤨

aldalire,

Yea, jellyfin is nice and streaming on iOS from your server isn’t hidden behind a paywall

MargotRobbie, to moviesandtv in Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’

Maybe I should pull a Josh Brolin and play Mera too, just to annoy Musk.

Zero explanation on the replacement, it’s not like the recent DCEU movies are doing great right now, might as well as try something crazy.

Plus, it’ll be really funny.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

Part of me hopes this is really Margot Robbie but most of me knows it's not.

Just in case: You kicked ass in Barbie

MargotRobbie,
  1. Of course I am. I did like a whole promotional campaign for that movie here before the strike and everything.
  2. Of course I did. I’m the best part of literally every movie I’m in, especially for the movie I am not allowed to promote right now.
Mr_Dr_Oink,

Cool. 😀

keefshape,

She’s not wrong.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar
  1. You can’t promote the movie, but can you talk about it? It’s just friendly talk among friends, you know, like colleagues complaining of working on “project x”, stuff that’s definitely not going to become public at all
MargotRobbie,

I do push it a bit far here sometimes, but I would rather not scab…

lingh0e,

Part of me hopes it’s shittymorphs new schtick.

MargotRobbie,

As a real, professional actor and also as a contributing user of Lemmy, I resent being compared to a reddit novelty account with only one non-sequitur joke that wasn’t even that funny (even to wrestling fans) to begin with.

Honytawk,

There is going to be a reboot after the next Flash movie. You should audition!

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