overgeeked
B/X Known World
A poll run on a site owned by the person at the other end of that poll is about as trustworthy as any group in power investigating themselves. No one’s ever going to investigate themselves and find they did wrong.
WotC WotC needs an Elon Musk
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Chaosmancer
Legend
And, by the way, about WotC needing an Elon Musk...
Musk is now claiming he'll quit as CEO, if a poll tells him to.
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Elon Musk launches poll asking if he should quit as Twitter CEO
Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched a poll on the social media platform on Sunday asking users whether he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would abide by the poll results.www.reuters.com
And, at the moment, the poll says he should leave.
...wut?
You know, this feels kind of like that Dave Chappel thing a little bit ago. Elon strode out on stage with swagger, expecting cheering crowds and adulation, only to be shocked by the amount of hate he got. This feels like him putting out a poll to say "see, the people love me!" only to once more be caught flat-footed as his fantasy crashes with reality.
It's.... it's really kind of sad.
EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Sure. By that same token, "Yes" is winning by over 1.5 million votes. If he's rigged it to ensure "Yes" wins, that...would seem to indicate things have gone pretty poorly, I think. If he's rigged it to ensure "No" wins, then either he's failed miserably at rigging it, or people hate him that much that even with attempts to rig it the "wrong" answer is winning by more than an eighth of all votes, or he's going to do something real hinky right at the end which will draw attention to the rigging (which one could argue is a form of failing miserably at rigging the vote.)
There's literally no world where this doesn't look absolutely awful for Mr. Musk if he's rigged it.
Personally, I think he's just that much of a narcissist and blowhard that he genuinely believed there was a legion of "silent majority" folks out there who would back him up if he just gave them the opportunity. It fits his overall public personality and his past behavior, and explains why he would do a thing that is so obviously untrustworthy to anyone that doesn't have a massive craniorectal inversion.
It could also be because there is starting to be pressure from Tesla shareholders to oust him as CEO of Tesla as a result of the Twitter circus.
'Elon abandoned Tesla': The EV maker's 3rd-largest individual shareholder calls for a new CEO as the Twitter circus tests investor patience
KoGuan Leo owns $3.57 billion of Tesla stock, building his stake during the pandemic when shares traded at a split-adjusted price of about $40.
FlyingChihuahua
Hero
Not really sad to me. I'm always a fan of jerks getting varying flavors of comeuppance.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Is that a typo for 2020?
Because if not, it's some of the worst hyperbole/memory failure I've ever seen. There were only three MCU movies out by 2010 - Iron Man, Hulk, and Iron Man 2. No-one even talking about the MCU, let alone about the "MCU dying" in 2010. The MCU wasn't even discussed until Avengers in 2012.
If we're going to be real, it's 2020 when the "the MCU is done/dying" stuff started. Endgame was done, the Avengers had disassembled and lost their lynchpin, and for a lot of people, there wasn't an obvious way for the MCU to go after that. Then we had a bunch of TV series of varying quality, and that was when people really started saying that. Ain't nobody was saying that in 2010. What people said in 2010 was very different - "Iron Man 2 sucks" - that's not pretending anything. It did suck. It was not a good movie.
Regardless of all that, the MCU isn't likely to collapse under the weight of canon unless they force it to by making a bunch of movies that rely on you knowing a ton of canon. That's a choice. They don't have to do that. I mean, I will say they might, but like Wakanda, whilst it was pretty, full of good performances, and just slightly boring, didn't rely on a ton of canon knowledge, just you having watched BP1. And I expect that to continue. Ant-Man 3 seems like it might be a bit of a "The microverse is brown" car-crash, but not for excessive canon required.
AnotherGuy
Hero
I'm not sure I understand how you see canon hurting the movies.
I would say it is a combination of 3 things that are affecting reception
1) Change in economic landscape
2) Superhero fatigue
3) Studios going in a direction opposite to the desires of a sizeable portion of the fan base as is explained by various prominent podcasters on pop-culture. This along with their poor writing and plotting is driving away seats at the cinema.
Remathilis
Legend
Doctor Strange would like to argue that
Why that number in Doctor Strange 2 got cheers in the cinema
We've not seen so many people confused about numbers since Lost
Doctor Strange, in Spider-Man: No Way Home, admits that in his universe they know precious little about the multiverse yet. If he starts stamping his foot and pouting over his numbers being the right one, it'd be kind of pathetic, honestly.
Why that number in Doctor Strange 2 got cheers in the cinema
We've not seen so many people confused about numbers since Lostwww.gamesradar.com
Do not mistake fan-service Easter eggs for meaningful canon.
Remathilis
Legend
It was an Easter egg when Mysterio pulled a random number out of his fishbowl. But when 838's Christine Palmer, who had studied the Multiverse, used the same designation. Well, things just got interesting, don't you think?
Most likely it's a goof caused by two different writers going for the same in-joke. But canonically, Mysterio guessed the same three digit code that Christine Palmer from a different reality gave the MCU, and that's a helluva coincidence.
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