An excess of corporate cancer

This diversity somehow managed to be too converged for Netflix. That’s like being rejected by lung cancer for being too cancerous:

The strategy lead for L.G.B.T.Q. content at Netflix has parted ways with the company just a week after he was the subject of an ‘eyebrow raising’ profile piece in The New York Times.

Fran Tirado, 29, took to Twitter on May 21 to announce he had left the streaming service after 10 months and was on the lookout for a new job.

On May 13, The Times published a profile on Tirado titled ‘The Pandemic Work Diary of Netflix’s Queer Champion’. In the article, the strategist claimed he took edibles and skipped a Q&A with the company’s chief executive, while also boasting that his job included ‘talking about gay porn’.

Diversity is their death sentence.


Luke Skytranny

The Devil Mouse is taking their raping of Generation X’s collective childhood memories to a whole new level.

Disney is also rewriting The Battle of Hoth.

The first scene sees a Rebel soldier then tell Leia, “General, there’s a fleet of Star Destroyers coming out of hyperspace in sector four.”

Leia responds, “It’s risky but, we can’t hold out much longer.”

From the very beginning the short is altering what actually happened in The Empire Strikes Back. What actually happened is that a Rebel soldier informs General Rieekan of the Imperial fleet emerging out of hyperspace.

As you can see in the clip below, the soldier tells Rieekan, “General, there is a fleet of Star Destroyers coming out of hyperspace in Sector 4.”

Rieekan responds, “Reroute all power to the energy shield. Gotta hold them until all transports are away. Prepare for ground assault.”

Not only does the short remove Rieekan completely, but it also refers to Leia as General. She did not use that title in The Empire Strikes Back. She was referred to as Princess. In fact, she didn’t take on the title of General until she formed the Resistance in Disney’s sequel trilogy.


A quiet end

L’affaire du Damore has come to a quiet close:

Google and the engineer it fired agreed to end their legal fight but didn’t detail terms of the case’s conclusion. Google and James Damore, an engineer it fired in 2017, have agreed to dismiss his lawsuit against the tech giant, a quiet end to a loud case that began with a controversial memo in which Damore criticized the company’s efforts to improve the diversity of its workforce.

“This matter is dismissed in its entirety,” Judge Brian Walsh wrote in a Thursday order with the Superior Court in Santa Clara, the Silicon Valley county where Google is headquartered, after Damore and Google “agreed to end the case … between them.” Details of the agreement weren’t disclosed.

Translation: Google paid Damore several million dollars in order to prevent the further public release of information.

Meanwhile, Pikachu confirmed that Google remains committed to complete convergence:

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai responded to a report that Google has dramatically scaled back diversity and inclusion programs to appease conservative critics, promising that the company remains committed. “Diversity is a foundational value for us. Given the scale at which we build products and the fact we do it locally for our users, we are deeply committed to having that representation in our workforce,” said Pichai in an interview on The Vergecast. “What we are doing in the company is constantly at our scale. We look at that first — see what works, what we can scale up better. All I can say is we probably have more resources invested in diversity now than at any point in our history as a company.”

Translation: Google will keep hiring people who can’t possibly do the necessary work until it goes bankrupt.


Then they came for Chuck Dixon

Reddit SJWs are attempting, with limited success, to brigade the latest episode of Chuck Dixon’s Avalon by leaving negative comments and driving the rating down. They have managed to drive it down to about 7.6 from the 9.6 it was before. There are only about 20 of them, but that’s been enough, apparently.  UPDATE: they’ve actually driven it below 7.0 now. As if that will accomplish anything. Gammas….

And in other Arkhaven news, Hypergamouse Episode 4, EVOLUTION IN ACTION, is now live.

For UATV subscribers, there is a new episode of Barcelona Life up on the new UATV site, featuring what I can testify is an excellent Kung Pao Chicken recipe.


Neil Gaiman is a massive prick

As, obviously enough, his ex-wife-to-be figured out before the rest of us:

Good Omens author Neil Gaiman has sparked outrage after he travelled 11,000 miles from New Zealand to the Isle of Skye so he and his wife could get ‘some space’ from each other.

The fantasy writer, 59, took to his blog on Thursday to describe his trip halfway  around the world from Auckland after he and singer Amanda Palmer hit a ‘rough place’ amid the coronavirus lockdown.

‘Hullo from Scotland, where I am in rural lockdown on my own,’ Gaiman wrote. ‘I’m half a world away from Amanda and [my son] Ash, and missing both of them a lot.’

He explained he had been living in New Zealand with Palmer and his son Ash, four, until two weeks ago, when the pair ‘agreed that we needed to give each other some space’ and he boarded a flight to London.

The pair, however, confirmed in a letter shared beneath the blog that they are ‘not getting divorced,’ and will ‘sort out our marriage in private.’

Gaiman said he borrowed a spare car from a friend after arriving in the UK and began the 600-mile drive north to his second home in Skye – despite Scottish officials urging Britons to stop travelling to the Islands.

‘What is it about people, when they know we are in the middle of the lockdown, that they think they can come here from the other side of the planet, in turn endangering local people from exposure to this infection that they could have picked up at any step of the way?’ local MP Ian Blackford added, according to the Sunday Times. ‘To descend on this island at this time, when we have a serious outbreak, which has resulted in such tragic circumstances — it pays scant respect to the families of the bereaved and the people who live here.’

What a solipsistic retard. Keep in mind, these are exactly the sort of people that SJWs revere. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to learn that Gaiman and his wife were previously lecturing people on the vital importance of staying home and staying safe.


Why SJWs will always fail

It’s rather comical to see that Kickstarter’s Comic Outreach Lead was recently let go:

It was revealed last month that crowdfunding service popular amongst comic book creators, Kickstarter, had let 40{105b5945f2a7891a3dd860d3a09046b26c32f8a07d097b566642738deee8841e} of staffers go. They are not alone in this, Patreon also made redundancies, and IndieGoGo had similar last year. However, one of Kickstarter’s 40{105b5945f2a7891a3dd860d3a09046b26c32f8a07d097b566642738deee8841e} was Kickstarter’s Comic Outreach Lead, Camilla Zhang.

Why is this amusing?

Well, precisely how inept, how completely incompetent, does someone responsible for reaching out to comics crowdfunders have to be in order to not reach out to the most successful new comics crowdfunders in the history of comics crowdfunding?

Of course, we all understand why the SJWs at Kickstarter didn’t reach out to Arkhaven. And that is one of the reasons why 40 percent of their staff is now unemployed.


She’s not done

Episode 6 of Chuck Dixon’s Avalon is now live on Webtoons.

The good news: Now that Toaster Dude has been promoted to Original, Alt★Hero has moved up to #6 in the Superhero category, with more than 30,000 views and a subscriber/episode ratio over 540. This latter ratio appears to be the most important metric on the platform, as the top Canvas comics average between 1,500 and 3,500 subscribers per episode. The top Originals, which obviously have the benefit of significant algorithm-push behind them, average over 20,000 subscribers per episode.

The bad news: SJWs there have discovered Alt★Hero and driven its rating down from 9.53 to 9.30 in a matter of hours. The ride never ends.

If you want an easy way to take part in the war, download the app, subscribe, and rate. It literally costs you nothing.

UPDATE: Alt★Hero is now #4 and CDA is #9 in the Superhero category.


An unamenable authority

An SJW discovers that Castalia House is the wrong place to play the Informant Game.

Your author [REDACTED] is on social media making a complete ass of himself on a page that I would say is full of people who are not his usual customers, but he is in this page making comments on a recent hate crime we had here in American saying that the person in question deserved it, I have screen shots on all the comments and will send them once I get a response.

Dear SJW,

We don’t care if our authors burn SJWs at the stake. [AUTHOR] is free to think and say whatever he wants.

See: The 1st Amendment.

Regards,

Castalia House


Marvel MIA

Bleeding Cool notes that there may be trouble in the house of the Devil Mouse:

Marvel Comics Missing In Action Until At Least Mid-July

Marvel Comics issued a revised shipping schedule last night covering the end of May through into July. But which books are being scheduled and which are not? Firstly, nothing that was solicited for May or June is getting a look in yet, Instead, we seem to be getting a selection of the first few weeks of planned titles for April, spread out across the new period, with monthly comcis every two weeks and collections in the weeks between. Which titles we get, which we don’t, which are missing in action, and when if at all we will get them is something I am sure we will be looking at.

We’ll see how it all shakes out. In the meantime, we’ll continue breaking new ground.


Keep your gates

And defend your interests. Inclusivity is just another word for invasion, and diversity is just a synonym for destruction:

This is where the inclusivity experiment must end. Everything cannot be made for everyone, no matter how much some people try. Popular media with decades of history should not be trashed just so individuals who didn’t even like it in the first place can feel at home. And since most companies don’t have the balls to stand up to internet outrage, it’s up to long-term fans to shut down those who want to forcefully enact change. So, for as much backlash as the woke crowd is already receiving, they need to get even more of it. These people don’t deserve to feel welcome in our hobbies. There is no place for them here.

On the same hand, I don’t belong in theirs. If they create a new property built around stopping orc racism and snagging the land back from colonizers using the power of rainbows and hugs, who am I to barge in and demand they include more death and murder? That would be a game that caters to them, and they deserve to have that, just as we deserve to have our D&D with orcs as they have always been.

Gatekeeping. It’s for the best.

Don’t be afraid to kick people out of your games, groups, and organizations. No one has a right to be involved, and they certainly don’t have a right to demand changes that will suit their preferences or psychological issues.

And different people suit different roles. A perfectly suitable player might make for a terrible DM or guild master just as a first-rate sales manager can turn out to be a horrifically bad director of sales and marketing. The Peter Principle applies to entertainment as well as business.