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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • The downturn is striking when compared with the studio’s streak last year of “John Wick: Chapter 4” ($440 million worldwide), “Saw X” ($111 million) and “The Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” ($348 million). Those films, as well as most of 2024’s lineup, were greenlit by then-motion picture group chair Joe Drake, who was replaced by Adam Fogelson in January.

    It’s tempting to say this was bad luck but Borderlands had so many reshoots that’s it’s easy to guess the flops were then steered by an inexperienced and ambitious Adam Fogelson.







  • The color is from aluminum, a non magnetic metal. The adhesive is separate from the backing.

    Duct tape relies on what’s known as a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) for its inherent stickiness. PSAs are soft polymer blends that exploit van der Waals forces to join two objects together. The strength of the bond is due to the fact that the adhesive is hard enough and its viscoelastic properties are powerful enough to resist flow when stressed.

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  • The man is mad that people don’t like how he monetizes Ubisoft games and game mechanics. He is upset at the messages he gets when he upsets a game to inject a micro transaction. He is part of the wave of business professionals that don’t see game players as people - we are just cash waiting to be harvested from idle wallets. This is what quid-pro-quo looks like; he is seeing what we look like to him and he doesn’t like it. He wants to be a person with a name and friends and credibility that allows mistakes to be made in good faith. We want to have fun, sometimes with friends and other times alone, in a game world where we can be a person with a name, friends, and have the ability to explore. We both want the same thing.

    So why is he treating people like cattle instead of people who are trying to have fun with the system they have been given? Fuck this narcissistic piece of executive hypocrisy. He doesn’t deserve peace until he exits the industry or finds a way to be actually useful.









  • Genuinely shocked that Disney did so well by itself for 80 years before feeling the need to start buying others. But, then again, Disney was also run by animators and movie makers until Bob Eiger took the reins. Even Eisner loved movies and didn’t want to buy their way into a market - they actually tried out lots of new things on their own brand like new theme parks, cruises, hospitality, etc.

    It’s the difference between a maker and a business guy. Eisner started as a movie loving producer who became a suit while Bob Eiger was a suit who wanted to make money with movies.