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AdmiralRenae said:
Seems like Buzzfeed is in a festive mood, hopping on the bandwagon of consoom
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Current landing page of "Gift ideas" unedited.
Even Bored Panda, which used to be stolen content from reddit with ads, now has in-feed ad listacles:
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Yaks said:
I hear this is pretty common, though I can't give specific examples. I believe in some cases all of the parts and pieces can be made elsewhere, but if its assembled in America they can put the "Built in the US" stamp on it, which isn't the same as Made in the US that has harder FTC regulations. I'm sure many who just put Made in America are playing loose with the definition but no ones made a fuss about it.
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Well of course they play fast and loose with the definitions. It drives sales. Especially if you buy tools. My craftsman tape measure, a 35 footer, has "global and domestic parts" in it, but since it wasn't chink built, I couldn't resist. And to be absolutely fair... nicest tape measure I've ever owned. But it still proves that the USA stamp sells products even if all of it isn't USA
 
Tootsie Bear said:
Imagine what was going through the tattoo artists mind when this customer requested travesty of a tattoo.
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Maybe this depends on where you live but judging from the tats on people where I live, this probably didn't even register as anything but routine to them.
 
I keep hearing and reading stories about how in 2023, Marvel stock is dwindling at an alarming rate, while upcoming movies will either be dead on arrival or shelved until further notice.

Then I see posts like this, and it all just doesn’t matter:

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Jonah Hill poster said:
I keep hearing and reading stories about how in 2023, Marvel stock is dwindling at an alarming rate, while upcoming movies will either be dead on arrival or shelved until further notice.

Then I see posts like this, and it all just doesn’t matter:
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They can cope all they want. The entirety of Phase 4/5, with the exception of Spiderman, has oscillated between modest box office successes and outright bombs. The Marvels is barely outperforming fucking Morbius, and that's before accounting for the production budget alone being twice as big. The only thing keeping the MCU afloat, as far as I can tell, is the Disney+ content. Even that's hard to gauge given how opaque the metrics are for streaming services. Given the consistent downwards trajectory of Disney's stock I'm inclined to believe even that is underperforming.
 
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DrearyDoomguy said:
Even that's hard to gauge given how opaque the metrics are for streaming services.
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Its the biggest contention point right now for a reason. Transparency from streaming would absolutely wipe all these big media giants hardcore.

They wouldn't be able to mitigate the downfall with media articles telling people "its a success , the backlash is just some nazi chuds " if everyone knew for a fact with all the hard data just how bad something like Rings of Power tanked.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
They wouldn't be able to mitigate the downfall with media articles telling people "its a success , the backlash is just some nazi chuds " if everyone knew for a fact with all the hard data just how bad something like Rings of Power tanked.
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On one hand, the promptness with which they renewed it for a second season makes it seem like it was successful. On the other hand, would it really be that far fetched for a megacorp powered by a money printing machine and hopped up on sheer hubris to continuously press forward on a sunk cost in the hopes that it eventually gets traction? Epic games certainly did that with their ill-fated Steam "competitor" and Amazon is much bigger than them. Even consoomers I've talked to about RoP thought the CGI landscapes were the only memorable thing about it.
 
DrearyDoomguy said:
On one hand, the promptness with which they renewed it for a second season makes it seem like it was successful. On the other hand, would it really be that far fetched for a megacorp powered by a money printing machine and hopped up on sheer hubris to continuously press forward on a sunk cost in the hopes that it eventually gets traction? Epic games certainly did that with their ill-fated Steam "competitor" and Amazon is much bigger than them. Even consoomers I've talked to about RoP thought the CGI landscapes were the only memorable thing about it.
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for the money they spent on it it can't possibly have been a success, i do think they are just burning money to not lose face now. But since its streaming thats also hard to measure . I don't think most people pay Prime subscriptions to watch their shitty show or the streaming at all but Amazon can always twist the narrative in their favor given how much of a black box it is, i don't think most people cancelled their Prime subscriptions over how much they hated RoP either because they still buy crap on Amazon with it.
 
DrearyDoomguy said:
On one hand, the promptness with which they renewed it for a second season makes it seem like it was successful. On the other hand, would it really be that far fetched for a megacorp powered by a money printing machine and hopped up on sheer hubris to continuously press forward on a sunk cost in the hopes that it eventually gets traction? Epic games certainly did that with their ill-fated Steam "competitor" and Amazon is much bigger than them. Even consoomers I've talked to about RoP thought the CGI landscapes were the only memorable thing about it.
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IIRC, they didn't really "renew" it, it was supposed to have like 5 or 7 seasons from the very beginning. All they did was not cancel it, which they probably should have - but I'm glad they didn't, I'm still waiting for the scene where the fat negress of a dorf kween pulls out a boombox and starts twerking, I hear it didn't make it into S01.
 
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