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[pandawasbored]

PAUSE !!!

[redbeardace]

I miss physical media. You kids these days might not believe it, but back in my day, we used to be able to walk into a store and buy a movie or video game or piece of music that we liked on a permanent plastic disc. And then it was ours forever, we didn't have to worry about companies losing the rights to something or taking down an old storefront or disappearing things to the tax writeoff hole.

And you're definitely not going to believe this part, but if I wanted a friend to watch, say, Run Lola Run, or a family member to play Sly Cooper 2: Band Of Thieves, I could just hand this plastic thing to them and they could take it home and just use it.

If you think that's wild, just wait until I tell you about the stuff we used to have on silicon chips or magnetic film...

[puppet-purgatory]

this is going to be my only post on the matter, and it’s not an invitation to start debating me at all. anywhere.

I won’t lie that it’s a bit disheartening to hear, but it’s even more disheartening to hear Watcher fans act as though this is a personal attack on them. Creators need to make money. The fact so many of them give you their “content” (eugh) for free is a gift; the time, energy, and materials needed to create any video, music, or piece of art are all luxuries in the modern world. Watcher is a company that has been struggling financially since day one. They are not Netflix or HBO Max. They are not throwing away content as tax writeoffs. They are doing what they have to in order to remain the channel they wish to be and keep a roof over their heads. I would rather them do this than start churning out content farm bullshit and advertising shady companies for just a few pennies out of YouTube’s pockets. The ones you should be mad at are the media conglomerates that have forced millions into working for them for free essentially, not the ones trying to buck the trend.

[olderthannetfic]

What your average callout post looks like to me.

A person: I love puppies so much. It hurts my heart to hear about abusing and neglecting puppies. I'm going to donate to the Happy Puppy foundation for my next tax writeoff.

The same person, five years previously, on a different account: I just watched John Wick. What a great movie, I love action flicks!

The callout post: Person literally said "I love [...] abusing and neglecting puppies", they might be donating to the Happy Puppy Foundation, but don't be fooled, they did that as a tax writeoff and to trick everyone into thinking that they care about puppies. In reality, they openly admit to watching puppy murder videos for fun!

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[askagamedev]

What are your opinions on the Video Game History Foundation's recent report that 87 percent of classic games are being lost?

I've written about the [preservation of games] in the past. The 87% figure doesn't really surprise me. I've said it before, the main issue is a misalignment of incentives. The loss of these games is tragic, but there is currently little incentive for any of these publishers to do something about it.

Game publishers have a huge amount of money invested in their intellectual property. It holds value. They can potentially re-release these games, sell or license the rights, or any of a number of other options. Giving that away comes at the cost of all of those other options and gains them nothing except the fleeting good will of players who will happily rake them over the coals when the next set of patch notes get released. Corporations cannot give something of value away out of the goodness of their hearts, they are legally bound to operate in the shareholders' best (financial) interests.

In order to get the publishers on board, they need a good incentive to do so, something that they can present to their shareholders to say "this will be provably better for the company than sitting on the rights to these old games" and justify giving up the value. If, for example, game publishers could obtain a significant tax writeoff for issuing a license for their old games to accredited archives and museums, they would have a reason to help out with the preservation of those games. Such a thing would require a coordinated lobbying effort by the publishers and the voters, but it is within the realm of possibility. I believe that trying to force them to give up their intellectual property is a losing proposition, since they will absolutely fight it every step of the way.

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[longwindedbore]

Today in fantasies which inspire Donnie when he tends to the little orange mushroom late at night:

The phrase "Unified Reich" appears as a part of hypothetical news articles in the video that announce Trump's hypothetical victory in the 2024 election, with the narrator asking, "What happens after Donald Trump wins?"

Under a big headline that says, "WHAT'S NEXT FOR AMERICA?" there is a smaller headline that appears to read: "INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED DRIVEN BY THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED REICH."

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Two thoughts for context

1. Cheap and lazy. Have to go back 90 years to come up with ‘new’ideas like Unified Reich

Unfortunately the slogan-driven minds of the extreme right or left are without any curiosity about ‘how did that work? How was it implemented,”

I’n the case of the German Reich the USA and British industrialists underwrote the cost of Naziism’s rebuilding (by loans to buy US/Anglo machinery and railway systems) as a bulwark against the obvious appeal of the USSR’s Communism.

Of course required high corporate taxes within Germany to fund their portion as well as high US/Brit taxes spurrin a needthe business tax writeoffs of opportunities in foreign Investments.

Just as the USA post WW2 Marshall Plan did the same funding by high corporate taxes to rebuild postwar Europe including ex-belligerents also as a bulwark against the obvious appeal of the USSR’s communism.

The USSR by the same token were similarly underwritten with equipment and expertise by industrialists, such as the Armand Hammer oil company, to bring them into the 20th Century energy imarkets.

Did Trump argue for higher taxes on the Rich? Hahahahahaha!

2. Brain Dead or Memory Loss or just Dogwhistling while Gaslighting? - Why didn’t DoubleDoofuss Trumplestiltsin institute a comprehensive industrial policy when he was Dolt 45?

As the Commander-in-Cheap with his Party of Grifting Obnoxious Perverts in control of both Parties 2017 to 2020 the Mango Mussolini’ FAILED to act. Despite a powerful majority TrumptyDumpty

Proposed no new industrial policy thus ignoring his campaign promises. His council of Economic (Donors) Advisors - who would have been instrumental in developing a policy - all resigned in disgust within a couple months in early 2019.

Vonshittzhizpants could have funded re-induatrialization with the Trillion$$ a year savings that Medicare-for-all would have generated if he’d followed through on his campaign promise to repeal and replace - with better - the ACA. Never made move one or even revealed a smidgeon of his ‘plan’ By contrast Obama jump started the explosion in Renewable energy industry with just $330B. Clinton created Trillion$ in new medical industries with $50B for the genome project. Dump truck is more like G HW Bush’s admin which MURDERED USA scientific development’s fantastic headstart lead by cutting funding to the true industrial innovators - the 20 US research Universities led by MIT, Cal-Tech, Stanford, John Hopkins, etc. forcing Taiwan, China, India to invest in homegrown industries become the exporters rather than importers of the USA

Trumpanzee neither negotiated with Mexico nor asked Congress for Funding or diversion of duties on imports from Mexico to build ‘the impregnable border wall’. instead used the border security maintenance budget Obama had extracted from a ‘penny-pinchin no wins for Obama ever’ GOP Congress to issue his (Dolt 45) haphazard no-bid (illegal) contracts to campaign donors to build a cheap, easily circumvented, and structurally unsound couple hundred miles of Wall here and there on the 2K border. For the example check out the ‘no wall built’ at the (false) destination of the ‘Patriot TakeBack the Border Truck convoy 2023’. The Rube Goldberg-type cargo containers at the alleged high crossing point that Texas cobbled together provides dramatic visual illustration that the Orange Ourangtang did NOTHING to secure the border except create misery by separating children from parents.

By constrast one can look at the lists of what other president’s set fort to do in their first two years of progressive efforts and accomplishments which benefitted all Citizens (except for the taxes of the nepo-Rich)

Accomplishments by FDR, Truman, Eisenhower (GOP prez with Dem majorities in both Houses), Kennedy, LBJ (pre-Vietnam debacle) Nixon rolling out Affirmative Action OSHA and the EPA and almost UBI (did have Demmajorities), Ford, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden. All experience failures; but were willing to get bloodied in the fight for the General Good.

All without ever being laughed at in the General Assembly of the UN.

All the while maintaining a foreign policy of supporting Allies, providing humanirltarian foreign aid to nonaligned nations, and being open to pursuing reasonable compromise negotiations with potential global advirsaries to prevent needless wars.

Donald is a Cult Leader fully enveloped in his Isolation Bubble Reality.

He and his cult dress up alike just as did ‘the return to the mother comet’ ‘Heavens Gate’ cult of the 1990s who had one selection of Nike shoes they all wore with their one color jumpsuits.

All his cult wears red - red MAGA hats and pre-ordered but not delivered Trump tennis shoes. Or red ties on white shirts with dark blue suits which bunch at the elbows which need to be let out around the waists…again.

No need for them to take poison like the Heaven’s Gate, Jim Jones, or local Nazi Party flacks in 1945. The individual personalities of Cult 45 diedwhen they deliberately chose their uniforms.

As indistinguishable as penguins. The birds are better dressed.

Real uniforms enhance the wearers identification and accomplishments: group insignia, rank, specialized skills, badges, name tags.

Parenthetically, the US Flag code opposes the blue suit Culver’s disgusting use of the flag pins they all wear for political purposes. But that Code exists doesn’t stop the ‘Hatriots’ from wearing the pins nor their ignorance as to how the pins are to be worn on a suit.

These red-tie TrumpliKKKlmen mostly haven’t served nor attempted to volunteer for any State or Nationa military service.

Nor evidently participated in Scouting which would have trained and rehearsed them in flag etiquette and reverence.

For your edification.

The opinions of real Veterans

I worked with a man who’d been an Army captain leading troops in combat in Vietnam. Who handwrote the letters to the families of those who had fallen under his command.

He wore his flag pin on Veterans Day and Flag Day in remembrance of those who fell.

It is inadequate to describe him as merely livid when he saw those who never even served wearing the pins.

He didn’t live to see Trump and Johnson and Jordan etc desecrate the symbol. Exposure to the Agent Orange that gave his son birth defects also killed Pete.

[jeffgerstmann]

Do you ever tally up the costs of games you bought on impulse but rarely played, then think about all the cool stuff you could've gotten with that money instead? Though I guess in your case it would be graphics cards.

It all kind of runs together and I look at it as a balance. Like... I probably paid for under 100 Xbox 360 games and the majority of those were probably Xbox Live Arcade games. But I have something like 600 Xbox 360 discs, because back when games were mostly physical, they showed up in the mail for review. Or, like, I have 100 or so Atari 2600 carts, but I think I only ever paid for two or three of them, because the rest were hand-me-downs or stuff that just kinda showed up in my life one way or the other.

The Neo Geo stuff is almost certainly my most expensive set of games, from an out-of-pocket perspective, because I deliberately set out to get a bunch of them. That led to buying Metal Slug carts for hundreds of dollars each or buying Mark of the Wolves for $1100 because I was standing there in the shop looking at it and it was mocking me.

So I end up viewing it as a situation where I have a lot of games that I didn't pay for, so it's OK if I occasionally go a little nuts and buy something pricey. This is kinda how I feel OK about, say, overspending on PC upgrades, though at that point you're also getting into tax writeoffs and, now that I'm running my own company, business expenses and so on. I don't know, it's not something I spend a ton of time thinking about, but subconsciously I think there's a part of me that wants to throw weird money at video games specifically because I've received so many for free over the years.

But I don't view collecting video games as an "investment" and I also don't care about all the junk that comes with collector's editions these days, so the things that might be considered "expensive" or "collectible" at the moment are pretty uninteresting to me. If I had more time and electrical know-how, I'd probably be one of those lunatics who just has some warehouse space somewhere with a ton of arcade machines in it.

[plainviewwelcomesyou]

Looks like we’re going on a heist. What is our safest route of entry?

RALPH DEVLIN: A heist mission. Great.

CEREBELLE RAGSDILL: Is that what this is?! OOH! OHMIGOSH!!! HEIST, HEIST, HEIST!!! IM SO EXCITED!!! I FINALLY GET TO STEAL THINGS!!!

RALPH DEVLIN: And pray tell, Trudy, how are we gonna find a route in?

TRUDY TULSE: NO CLUE.

A phone notification appears on the monitor and a ringtone starts playing.

TRUDY TULSE: AH, GOD RAM IT. THE INVESTOR VIDEO CALL WAS TODAY. NOW I’VE GOT TO BRAINSTORM WHAT I CAN JUSTIFY AS TAX WRITEOFFS…

TRUDY TULSE: WITH THAT, IT APPEARS OUR TIME TOGETHER HAS BEEN HALTED, SLEUTHS. NOT TO SAY THAT I WON’T BE IN TOUCH. AND SPEAKING OF TOUCH,

The phone slides itself out of the slot on the computer.

TRUDY TULSE: I BELIEVE THIS NEEDS TO BE RIGHTFULLY RETURNED TO YOU, CEREBELLE.

CEREBELLE RAGSDILL: O-oh. Thanks, Ms. Tulse! Thanks an oodle bunches for everything. You really backed us out of a dead end, so to speak.

RALPH DEVLIN: Heh. In more ways than one.

Seeing Cerebelle fiddle with her TulseTouch, you figure to yourself that you should probably ask if you can have another.

(Ask Trudy for a replacement TulseTouch?)

[popculturebuffet]

Pirate Month Patreon: Our Flag Means Death: "Pilot" Review (Patreon Review for Emma Fici)

Yo ho all you happy people! Pirate Month continues.. somehow. With some. The last few weeks have been rough seas, but pirate month sails on. And ironically, into the waters of HBO Max

Yeah after my shockingly popular rant last week, seriously any of you following or coming in from that or just in general

It's great to have you. But yes we're back to the dumpster fire that was once one of the proudest and best streaming services around but is now a self canablizing nightmare that won't go away. I've went from hoping any adaptation went here to hoping many flee in terror and praying some still actually get made. You used to hear me constantly singling disney out for their idiocy

But this somehow tops most of what they've ever done. These shows MIGHT return or someone else might be able to save the company, but for now we're just stuck praying anything we care about dosen't get cannonballed into oblivion and left where it's avaliablity is tenious at best. So why am I reviewing something from the network at the worst possible moment? Simple.. this was planned before. Emma has a busy schedule, so she tends to pick her patreons late unless I ask early, and being a forgetful sort, I can tend to. She's GOOD at it, with her picks having had me review incest civil war laser tag, badly animated sci fi nonsense and this glory

So it was only pure Parker Luck that HBO Max decided to canablize their animation for profit the same week I was set to cover this. But I realized something important: With access uncertain, with HBO max striking randomly and insanely, and with no safe harbor... I have to get off my ass and watch stuff that may be destroyed as soon as the next season is out, and as we've seen with Summer Camp Island it can happen BEFORE too, instead of waiting. Sure this project having a high profile creator attached, being a very high profile queer work , and having a huge fanbase MIGHT be a enough.. but given Logic and tact haven't really entered into this current dumbfuckery, it's best to see the series and review an episode NOW rather than wait and loose it in a tax writeoff next year after season 2.

So several paragraphs and f-you's later, we arrive at our real destination: Our Flag Means Death. And this really has been one i've been meaning to check out for some time: It's produced by Taika Watiti, whose lately become one of my faviorite creators: He's director of the all time cinematic classics What We Do In The Shadows and JoJo rabbit and the fun as hell Thor films Ragnarok and Love and Thunder, and created the excellent What We Do In The Shadows tv show, which is also on the pile. Feel free to boo I know I am, i'm missing peak Matt Berry by being behind on it, as well as producing another show i've heard nothing but good things about, Reservation Dogs. The guy is a genius so while he isn't writer or director here, and his character Blackbeard isn't in this pilot, he clearly picks projects he puts his name on very carefully and if he's remotely involved with something, it's usually a good sign it's awesome. Add in Rhys Dharby who I first fell in love with on flight of the conchords as Murray...

And while he could've easily stopped with this cult classic I also need to watch (I mostly followe dit via music videos when it was airing and haven't watched it despite having easy access since max launched because i'm stupid and forget it's there), he has since made a sizeable name for him as a voice actor. Seriously while he mostly plays smaller parts he's popped up in TONS of shows since the late 2010's, from Milo Murphy's Law, RIP, to Rise of the TMNT , also RIP, to shows that aren't dead probably. He's played warthogs, snowflakes, gay hypo's, evil pistachios and more but really hasn't as far as I can tell been a leading man in anything. He was important to FOTC, but this seems like the first time the guy has REALLY been let loose and thus that was a huge draw for me.

And i'm happy to say that even before it hits it's peak and becomes a gay love story involving blackbeard, something I didn't know I needed and can't wait to hit as I watch more episodes, Our Flag Means death is an instant classic from the pirate and has finally given Rhys the meaty starring role he's always been capable of. The show is everything I hoped for.

While most of you reading this are likely fans of the show already, a quick refresher for those who aren't as familiar, i.e. Emma most likely: Our Flag Means Death follows Stede Bonnet, based on the real life pirate I know nothing about of the same name, a posh aristocrat who fled his old life to become a pirate, and is trying to clean up piracy a bit: He pays his men wether their succesful or not, and built his ship, the awesomely named The Revenge, with a sauna, rec area, and a personal library he'd be glad to lend out to the crew if any of them besides his assitant, the equally posh Lucius, played by Nathan Foad. Like a large chunk of the cast, i've never heard of him but like said chunk, he's excellent so it really dosen't matter. Steed does compensate by reading the pirates a story every night, as of the pilot Pinnochio. He's essentially trying to run this pirate ship like a modern work place, basically if Micheal Scott and Leslie Knope got combined in some horrible teleporter accident and became a pirate, having the bad need to be loved and have a family and be liked as the other, but like the latter having some compietence, optiism and good intentions, just being too naive to realize how hard ti's going to be to get these through.

Unlike other work coms though, the crew can actually kill their boss if he annoys them too much and the pilot centers around that, with the crew preparing a mutiny, with the only ones not being on board as much being Oluwande, played by Samson Kayo, a kind sort whose fond of the captain even if he's not the best and Jim, a seeming mute great with knives played by Vico Ortiz.. who turns out to be nonbinary. Which is good for me I got spoiled on that as it means I won't get any prounounds long. Though none of the crew is bad, it's just how change is: the rest simply can't accept that stede's way of doing things is PROBABLY better and he just needs to grow into the position, with Oluwande being the only one aware that not only is this much better.. but that it's so rare it' sbest to enjoy it while he lasts. Hey I said he appriacates the captain, I didn't say he was in denial about Stede's odds of survivial. Leading the mutiny is the lisping Black Pete (Matthew Maher) , a wannabe tough guy who claims to have been on blackbeards boat and won't shut up about it and the Jerry from Parks and Rec looking Kristian Nairin as Wee John, a giant who wants to burn things. Naturally I love him.

So to offset the mutiny after several small insignifigant raids, Stede targets the biggest/only ship they can see and with Buttons conformation the crew gets ready to have a bloody good time gettin good and bloody.. but Stede has a full on Panic Attack as we flash back to his past. And this is where the show really got me. See I throughly enjoyed it and was on board to this point, the jokes were that kind of goofy creative type of humor I enjoy from Stede telling everyone to "look scary' to the crew only not killing him at the moment because he's one of the only two people who can read, the only one who can do the voices and they want to know how Pinocchio ends, and Stede deciding the best way to help with disatsifaction at first is a flag design contest. It's truly my kind of show.

But what takes it from really good to great is making stede far more complex than he appears. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind a work just being a goofy comedy. That's fine by me and Producer Watiti did wonders with that with What We Do In The Shadows, which had moments of pathos but was mostly just the story of a bunch of goofy vampires in new zeland and their dark bidding on the interent.

So series creator and showrunner David Jenkins could've kept at that and i'd of been fine.. but he took it one step further without undercutting the wacky tone entirely, which can be tricky but he pulls off well. From here we start seeing pieces of Stede's old life.. and it was miserable. The first flashback here has a butcher working for the family slaughter an animal in front of the kid, tell him not to look away then mock him for being soft.

Which is thinly coded as people bullying him for coming off gay. Spoilers, Stede turns out to be VERY gay., but it's always a dickish thing to do to bully someone for being diffrent and to be a homophobic twitsandwitch.

But we see through later flashbacks in teh ep Stede never fit in: He was bullied at school, chased, called slurs and then had his hands tied to oars and forced to row and at home there was literal distance between him and his family... no seriously he sat at one end while his family sat at the other

Stede was an outsider in his own home, his own LIFE, never accepted by anyone it seemed (other episodes may prove this wrong) and even now trying to find a new family, he's not really accepted. While the metaphor there given Stede is also a gay man and a not tradtionally masculine man, is subtle a knife to the eye, it still works because it dosen't overshadow the story but plays into it. Stede is not conventional.. yet he's a good man and while he may not be a good pirate YET his ideas aren't bad and he has his heart in the right place. I mean until someone cuts it out and holds it up as a trophy but for now he's trying to do the right thing he's just out of his depth. BUt he had no real other options: He coudln't get a divorce, given the century, his family , both immedite and other clearly never got him.. leaving to be a pirate, to try ANYTHING else is better than dying on the inside. He also uses the money he came from well: He gives his men a good wage, a tidy ship, and plenty of supplies. Odds are it'll run out.. but he's trying to do something better and more rich people coudl take a note from this fictional gay pirate and try and be better instead of hoarding wealth or cutting people's lifes works from a platform for 2.50 and an expired free pizza cupon.

Turns out though the ship.. is a HEAVILY armed royal naval warship and our heroes only don't die horribly because the Captain, Nigel Badmitton, a gloriously pompus name, is one of Stede's old bullies and thus dosen't buy the rumors that Stede is a pirate and Stede is able to quickly hide the crew as fellow aristocrats and servants.

The meal though is .. uncomfortable. Not only are the pirates naturally not really happy in the roll of high society snobs, but Badmittons crew are a bunch of racist twits who are unplesant to be around, and Badmittion himself a snobby bully who fondly recalls that incident with the oars I mentioned while the rest of the crew slowly get that "Okay this guy is a dumbass but he's OUR dumbass. " Things naturally break down once Stede is forced to humor badmittion and after one joke too many and Badmittion LAUGHIGN at the idea he could be a pirate, Stede tries braining him with a move Oluwande taught him.. and accidently makes the guy fall on his saber and into his eye

While the rest of the crew has a nice bloody massacre of most of Badmittions men after one's a racist to Oluwande starting with jim throwing a knife through a hand. While we don't see it, by the time Stede gets back to them only two are left alive and he's panicking over the corpse, not ready to have really killed someone, and only accepting it because Oluwande helps him, knowing that admitting to killing the guy will help the crew respect Stede.. which it does. Stede cements he can be badass for more than just accidedental murders by giving the one person they send back the same punishment his now dead captain gave Stede, showing that while Stede is out of his element, has clear trauma and may not be happy killin, which is a fair choice.. he's still got what it takes and thus his crew decides he can live for now. Also Jim's not a man OOOOO ALREADY SPOILED IT, and we end on a really nice bit: it being clear no matter how bad it was stede misses his family and treis to convince himself he's got a new one.. and him reading the crew pinoccio. Never has Rhys Darby reading a bunch of grown men to sleep been so touching.

So yeah Our Flag Means Death, at least the pilot is fucking fantastic. I don't know why the creators previous show failed: this one has style, humor and suprising tragedy, and excells at what it's producer does well: taking a mildly goofy but cool genre and poking fun at it while taking it JUST seriously enough to ground it. Our Flag Means Death is everything I hoped for and more and I highlyr ecommend watching it before it possibly burns. These are uncertain times.. but with Rhys Darby as a gay pirate... they might have some good times hidden in them too.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

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#5

“why does darius look so sad in this one” and darius being immediately worried when he hears hunter is also in trouble... is doing things to my brain

1,702 notes - Posted April 23, 2022

#4

i totally missed it until my second watch but the cut on Phillip's nose starts to widen after he broke open that palisman, and you can see it further extending over his face (diagonally) in the shot where he's talking about the collector - not only did lilith break his nose, she's also responsible for that huge rotten gash across his face. go girl go

1,735 notes - Posted March 26, 2022

#3

you literally don't understand how long i am going to be thinking about this

TWO

if this birds name is waffle or something i am going to scream

2,568 notes - Posted March 25, 2022

#2

Owen Dennis, creator of Infinity Train, posted a newsletter explaining what he currently knows about Infinity Train's removal from HBOMax. Key notes:

He was assured Infinity Train is NOT part of the tax writeoffs, and as it stands, will not be removed from the pay-per-view/per-season websites like iTunes and YouTube

These shows were supposed to be removed next week so the companies could have time to talk to the show crews, this did not happen.

The cuts were a direct order from Discovery

Discovery was warned not to do this because it was unprofessional and would hurt relationships with their talents, and did it anyway because “they clearly do not care what any of this looks like publicly, much less about how we [the crews] feel about it. “

What little residuals they make on these shows go to the unions to pay for their healthcare.

Nobody has been able to contact any of the “higher ups” at any of the merging companies for days due to, well, the merger. Everybody’s contacts are gone or scrambled around.

Owen thinks this is, ironically, the best bit of advertising the show has gotten, because it’s drawn up so much attention towards the show and how much people love it. It’s been trending on twitter for three straight days and is topping the charts on Amazon and iTunes with how many people are buying dvds and virtual copies of the seasons.

And most most importantly...

“Is the Show Gone Forever?“

I don’t believe so. As I said, it’s apparently still available on those sources listed above, though I do not know for how long. The problem is that I can’t be entirely sure if the information I’m getting is truthful or if it’s just to placate us so we’ll stop pestering them with so many questions. They certainly haven’t earned anyone’s trust with the way they’ve handled all this, so obviously take all of this with a grain or two or a million of salt (though I’m sure you’re feeling plenty salty already). In the meantime, I’ll be working with my management team on figuring out some other kind of fate for the show

There is more, but these are the most important points concerning the most distressing parts of all of this. It’s a must-read for everybody concerned about this situation.

3,416 notes - Posted August 20, 2022

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Discovered that my mandatory educational video used to come packaged with a FREE GIFT if you gave them feedback on the presentation.

Extremely disappointed to discover that I can’t send them 3000 words on how juvenile and obnoxious the presentation is and how irritating he is to me, personally, and how I think this whole thing stinks of a tax writeoff or something and get a FREE GIFT out of it. 

Which sounds fake but I’ve maxed out the word limit on some of my “feedback” areas on work surveys before, depending on the job.

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[bisluthq]

so because the 200M viewing money would save more lives than the money she donates herself - yeah and the money she donates herself (thru song like that) gets her a writeoff on taxes which as far as i know wouldn't have happened if all the profits from the song went to charity. cmon man

It doesn’t make her evil, but it was poor allyship 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Profits should’ve been donated in perpetuity and a queer person should’ve been involved in writing the song and tbh directing the video.

That’s all I’m saying.

Like even IF she’s some shade of queer - heck even if she’s a gold star lmfao - it’s a messed up song and MV - it compares homophobia to people being mean to her online like come on that’s wild.

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