"no preorders from big studios" continues to be the best practice

It's funny because I'm 6'0", and guys who lie about their height have no idea what to do when I say "I'm six feet tall, exactly", and make a point of looking down at them.

You'll probably never have an idea that no one else has ever had, because that's not how human cognition works. And yet you have the power to execute even the blandest and most common idea in ways that no other human being, living or dead or yet unborn, would ever do.

Using genAI to explore "references" and do "rough outlines for composition"? Cool. Sounds like an entry level job that you should be hiring some new-to-the-industry concept artists for.

genAI is fucking corium, and anything that uses it in any capacity whatsoever should be treated as such.

"I know I'm a monster, but you treat me like a man." (said the self-hating trans woman to her abusive ex)

Also, so many of Spike's lines in S5-7 can be read through a trans lens without any editing, it's frankly astonishing.

And Spike being a trans woman? She gender fucks, her iconic outfit is a woman's leather jacket, her relationship with Dru is *very* lesbian coded, she does vampirism 'wrong' and is outcast by both humans and demons after the chip-cident; it feels (to me) like she tries to punch away her dysphoria.

needs him and leaves, despite that everyone obviously needs him (Buffy and Dawn especially). Spike and Buffy somehow end up in a 'relationship' which is physically and emotionally abusive.

Seems a lot like Willow's spell lingered and continued exerting influence after it had been 'broken'.

S4e9, Willow does her wonky magic. Giles goes blind, Xander attracts demons like a magnet, Buffy and Spike fall in love. The magic gets reversed.. or does it?

Consider: Xander inexplicably has a long-term relationship with ANYA. S6 Giles becomes increasingly disillusioned with the idea that anyone

An Amazon Fire Stick? Hell, I would've stormed out and crossed the floor too!