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Kimbos_Egg posted...

lol

because it worked out so fucking well for germany huh

It did? Being split into two countries and ceasing to be a major European power until about the 90s did a lot to squash any nazi revisionism there.

While I do not agree we should get rid of the south, I do believe we should have handled reconstruction very differently.

VampireCoyote posted...

if youre smart you tread lightly at dollar stores

I shop at them regularly and they have a unique clientele

Yeah. Like they're fine if you stick to yourself. But there's usually a minimum of one person talking to themselves.

I don't get why they underestimated it so much.

I know people who don't game but were HP heads who were excited for it. Then the game didn't suck and hit the right notes. Of course it made gangbusters money.

About the boycotts... one thing I really wish people would learn is the majority of people are ignorant about a lot of the political debate bullshit. I'm sure there's a large segment of HP fans who have no idea JK Rowling is a TERF.

I mean it depends?

But if we're talking about a rpg where all characters end up roughly the same stat wise, yeah I've done it

It depends?

I mean 20 years ago teenage gamers were making holocaust jokes and denials to just be edgelords and get reactions. That hasn't changed.

Now for the actual anti semites, it's to make them out to be horrible liars.

garan posted...

^Because recent MCU movies aren't making much money, and in some cases actually lost money. Box office numbers by themselves don't take into account the enormous budgets & even more spent on marketing.

Yes they aren't making as much money in the box office.

The point is if they didn't spend on the movies, they wouldn't have made metric crap tons. He seems to be selling the idea you can make the MCU on the cheap but still pull in large revenues

Perlmutter also told the Journal about disagreements over Disneys movie business strategy. While Disneys Marvel films have grossed more than $23 billion globally, he urged increased focus on profitability. All they talk about is box office, box office, Perlmutter told the newspaper. I care about the bottom line. I dont care how big the box office is. Only people in Hollywood talk about box office.

How does this even make sense?

ktownslayer16 posted...

it's crazy how much Barkley goes on about him though lol

Barkley is paid a lot of money to talk about the nba. He goes off about everyone. KD just bites a lot, which creates more content.

The government says allowing workers to spend accrued overtime hours on vacations will mean people who want to work less such as parents or caregivers will be able to do so.

Ahahaha. Yes. That is totally how this will work out. They'll totally be able to use those accrued hours to take vacations whenever they need to. Yes definitely.

My God their lies are getting so bold. There's a paragraph discussing that due to cultural influences they even LEAVE a certain way. But sure they'll just take time off.

DuranOfForcena posted...

this wasn't something that was "written", it was printed on the receipt. and i'm curious, what is your source for this supposed "flood" of messages that were "found to be fake"? cuz i don't remember hearing anything about that.

It's a fun conservative tactic to denounce the existence of hate crimes and racism. They find a handful of hoaxes and point to the same cases over and over and call it "a flood of hoaxes and false claims".

Really hurting for credits

Zeeak4444 posted...

Blows my mind the app doesnt notify you for updates nor does it show in the App Store.

I have to the apps main page in the store to actually update it.

I'm shocked I still ran 2/3 wolverine with the update out before realizing it was 2/3 and therefore I hadn't updated

This isn't going to work the way they think it will

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I always sweat over morph, he's such a gamble. When he snags infinaut, he's great. When he snags squirrel girl, I concede. Haven't run him in a deck for a long time lol

I mean I run morph as a fun card rather than a competitive one.

I got Kamar-Tai with my Odin deck.

That was a lot of fun.

Man I'm still early on. Playing with discard, kazoo, Odin and Spectre decks

I thought it was well known Trump was a big WWE fan

I heavily advise looking for the control mapping strategy for playing on switch. It makes it so much better

Questionmarktarius posted...

Damar Hamlin body-double seems like a dumb conspiracy to even bother with, much less making a conspiracy theory about it.

It's an offshoot of the "Vax kills" conspiracy. They already pronounced the Vax caused this, so his survival hurts their cause. But if he was really dead...

DuranOfForcena posted...

i don't think it sounds phenomenal either in reality or theory

I meant phenomenal to executives.

Damar Hamlin could go to these people's houses with his birth certificate and photo ID and any other form of identification and they'll still say it's a govt hoax coverup.

Stack ranking is one of those things that sounds phenomenal in theory, but in reality just makes team dynamics horrible and makes it very difficult to work as a team since people are incentivized to sabotage their fellow coworkers and be unhelpful (and even mislead actively).

Time and time again policies that force co workers to be in direct conflict with each other ends up causing significant issues due to the fact that you're supposed to be working together, but time and time again executives can't help but think this time it'll work and we'll keep it secret

https://youtu.be/sN7wH37Fe80

Wake me when there's tetris attack 99

Zikten posted...

Yea about the blacksmith....

Spoilers for diablo 2

In diablo 1 you meet a town of nice people and help then out. In diablo 2, you at one point go back to that town. And all but 1 citizen is dead. And no, the survivor isn't the blacksmith

I mean
the heroes of diablo 1 are twisted, insane villains in diablo 2

Jingle bells technically isn't a Christmas song either. Many winter songs got folded into Christmas.

Now the bigger headscratcher is Hallelujah being a Christmas song...

What am i looking at

The prequels told a far better story arc, but how it did it was oftentimes prodding and boring, added layers of nonsense, and had questionable acting at times.

The sequels were more entertaining, but told a far worse story (which also had layers of nonsense!)

Maybe next time they'll combine the two!

FurryPhilosifer posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/2/3/AAOa8rAAD257.jpg

Wow it's up to 55-45 now

TetsuoS2 posted...

https://fortune.com/2022/11/06/twitter-trying-to-rehire-workers-elon-musk-fired-days-ago-sources-say/

What an absolute shitshow

Yo_D_oY posted...

Most companies reducing or ending ad contracts are those who see twitter losing their target customers. It isn't even political at this point, purely financial. You need to make a certain amount of profit back to justify the ad spending on one platform over others.

It always is financial.

Alteres posted...

assuage

Doh. Fixed

Arcanine2009 posted...

Did they delete amateur stuff? Why delete in the first place?

Basically PH was under fire because of some VERY problematic videos and CC companies thinking they didn't do enough to respond to take down requests and removal and block re-upload (which, they kind of didn't).

So to assuage those fears, they used a tactical nuke. They set new requirements and took down ANY video not meeting them.

The other thing to keep in mind is porn companies do not want any real attention other than "it's a dirty business". If anyone was to actually look into porn companies and the industry at large, they would probably find some abhorrent stuff.

The PH story was starting to catch some momentum and legs. And with legs might come attention from politicians looking for an easy scalp.

Number090684 posted...

While this is true CN also wasn't what it used to be because of the internet streaming essentially killing cable television.

Pretty much this. It's not just CN. So many channels have cut their original content heavily and are practically reruns and cheaply produced stuff

ClockworkHare posted...

They don't call in someone like that to "clean house" unless there's already been a ton of damage to spark investor concerns. Zaslav isn't the cause of a studio apocalypse. He's a product of one that was apparently already happening.

Take off the rose tinted glasses.

Pretty much this. From what I read, the real villain was AT&T loading the properties with debt and mismanagement before selling them. Zaslavs just a hatchet guy / Lightning rod.

Furthermore, most stations nowadays are shells that show reruns of the same 3 shows the majority of the days

Compsognathus posted...

The movies quality and even the fact that it's a LGBT-focused movie is largely irrelevant in the face that it's an adult-oriented comedy released in 2022. That's effectively a theatrical market that was nearly dead before COVID and extremely dead after it.

Here is the crazy thing, despite the fact the movie uncategorically bombed, it's still one of the highest-grossing adult-oriented comedies of the year.

Like don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are people who didn't see it because they are homophobes, but even in a world where homophobia didn't exist, this movie would still have bombed.

The thing about adult oriented comedies dying as a niche is that there's no drought of them on TV and streaming. Movies used to be THE medium for them. Now... what's the point when there's 50 TV shows and 40 streaming shows that serve the niche?

So it's not so much the genre died as it is there's literally no reason to see one in theaters. Same with rom coms. Unless your movie is phenomenal or can justify a theater experience, there's no point not waiting.

NonDairyMiltank posted...

the marketing stunk because investors knew it was a bomb lol

But then why release it in theaters?

The strategy behind this movie is so perplexing. They marketed it terribly, but then they stuck it in theaters when it would've been at home on streaming? What was the goal here?

Furthermore like he said, rom coms with big leads aren't doing great at theaters either. Probably because there's an absolute glut of them on streaming services and there's really no need to see a rom com on the big screen. Like if there was ever a genre that could go straight to home and lose absolutely nothing, it's rom coms. Again, I'm not sure what the strategy was here other than to burn money. Just absolutely perplexing