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By the way, Bruce does give money to charities, gives people jobs–including ex-cons to keep them out of “having” to return to being criminals and henchmen, and raising funds for the rare honest politician or police in Gotham City. VERY rare. Money doesn’t solve everything.
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A little bit of fun trivia for this filler from the buffer.
YouTube has become a big player in the streaming game, currently combining big name stuff with user created works, though at times it feels like YouTube’s owner, Google, is less interested in supporting the latter and pursuing Hollywood. Corporatism at work, thinking the big names bring in the most moolah? Possibly, but smaller creators are feeling more and more frustrated at changes to the platform’s Partner Program rules that tighten the numbers needed to join, questionable AI bots flagging things, false flags to get money or attack people they don’t like, and some serious hits to animation channels along those lines as well as potential newcomers. This makes little sense given how YouTube creators are being chased for livestreaming channels, Tubi has an outlet for those same creators, and then there’s three theatrical movies by YouTubers (and in one case adapting his own work) that did well in theaters this year.
I thought that’s what this video from Fact Quickie was going to go over, but seeing as they’re a kind of documentary channel I’m not surprised it isn’t. Usually this channel has videos that fit the Daily Video length, but this is more like a not so quickie, though still too short for Saturday Night Showcase as a trivia video. Host Simon Whistler goes over the history of YouTube, starting as a video dating channel and almost immediately pivoting to the site where you post pictures of your dog. Now it’s a home for original content as video making software has made major technological leaps. He doesn’t go over that part so much, focusing on the history of the channel itself, what video is actually the first ever YouTube video, and how PayPal played a part in the site’s formation.
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Word out on the internet is that, despite the flop of the first Star Wars movie in years, they haven’t given up.
The Mandalorian & Grogu may not be the best example of a Star Wars movie, given that it was a planned season for a series that destroyed it’s own success for the marketing gods and politics both real world and behind the scenes office ego crap. Now we’re hearing that DisneyFilm wants to do another “Skywalker trilogy”, with the director for the Spider-Man films, John Watts, taking the lead. Simon Kinberg is signed up as the screenwriter. While Watts understood Peter Parker as a character (not so much his world, but Sony has to take a lot of blame for that in the deal they made with Marvel Studios), Kinberg did the opposite with the X-Men according to people who care about the X-Men. (Not me, or I’d have more to say on the Wolverine game–and rather negative given the playthroughs and discussions I’ve watched–plus I hate Wolverine.) So the question is who will be the cancelling force. You might just end up with a mid movie. Again.
While Bleeding Fool‘s Katrina Smith pointed out why a new Skywalker Trilogy won’t work in the current climate, where fans have pretty much been ready to give up on any new Star Wars in favor of the first two trilogies as well as the comics, games, and novels that came out during the “wilderness years” between and after trilogies, I think she missed one important detail. Based on the real and reel worlds’ events you can’t make another Skywalker Trilogy. The way things are setup now, you can make Star Wars, but how do you do a Skywalker trilogy or anything in the greater Skywalker Saga…when there aren’t any Skywalkers anymore?
Praising Physical Media Doesn’t Mean Trashing Digital Media
Between here and my other website, The Clutter Reports, I’m a staunch defender of physical media. It can’t be altered once you get it, unless you alter it. The physical disk doesn’t disappear because the company that released it wants you to buy the new version, which is why they hate it because they want to keep getting money rather than get it once. There’s also that tactile sensation of holding a book or a comic, of putting in the disk, cassette, or cartridge and knowing it will start up relatively fast compared to a download, and there’s no ads except what’s snuck into the background, which at least makes it feel more like real life. (Admittedly difficult to promote Starbucks that way in a fantasy setting or an alien planet. Though you can have an alien NAMED Starbuck.) If I have a choice, I’d rather own it than stream it.
However, there are advantages to digital media as well, and it seems that gets forgotten in the worries over kids always being on their smart devices or computers all day. Don’t get me wrong, they should get out and enjoy the world we live in if possible. If you live in a bad neighborhood or the weather’s bad, it isn’t possible. The 2020 lockdowns did teach us to keep our distance, and that allowed the control freaks using activism to keep us separated as a people to get us out of social connections in person rather than social media or an MMO, either using a screen or a VR headset. We totally need to get people out of the house and into the real world…but a book nook isn’t getting out into the real world, either. And I do love me some books.
When I first started writing this article, it was the idea that books were better than the internet, as if somehow ebooks, news sites, and the aforementioned social media isn’t reading. I couldn’t go far with that alone, but if we go over all the dumb arguments against digital media when it’s not the enemy, I have something to do commentary stuff on. So let’s do that.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 1, 2026 in Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Internet Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Music Spotlight, radio/audio drama, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, digital media, physical media.
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