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NoReturn said:

Disney World struggling to fill 100-room, $5,000 'Star Wars' hotel​

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I wonder how many people are trying to leave semi-positive reviews, or downplay how clearly cheap and underwhelming the experience is for the price, just so they can tell themselves when they go to sleep at night that they didn't waste $5000+ dollars.
 
Jeff_the_Thriller said:
I like Star Wars but $5000 for a two day experience is outrageous no matter how immersive. Slight powerlevel but I'll use this as a reference. I flew cross country to Utah skied for three days, snowmobiled a day, and fucked around for a day. That was a little under $3k. You could even pretend you were on Hoth if you really wanted to.

I feel like these people are completely detached from reality. It's kind of sad that the only identity they have is a 45 year old scifi movie series and are unaware stuff exists beyond it. But then it's hard to feel bad for someone dropping $3k a day to swing a plastic lightsaber around.
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Meh. The worst part is it's with 200 randoms taking pictures everywhere and breaking immersion by not roleplaying. If it was 10 people and old school Star Wars, and I was rich, maybe.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
If this truly was a LARP then why can't I side with the First Order and sell out everyone else? So much for player choice I guess.
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That would take effort, something Disney hasn't liked to do in their parks for a while now.

Though I guess they're learning that even the biggest consoomers have some modicum of standard on this venture.
 
Yaks said:
That would take effort, something Disney hasn't liked to do in their parks for a while now.

Though I guess they're learning that even the biggest consoomers have some modicum of standard on this venture.
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I think that @Protistology hit the nail on the head honestly, if this was smaller groups and a dedicated role play service it would both make more sense and probably be good fun, still not six thousand dollars worth obviously, but probably fun to do a weekend Star Wars LARP where everyone actually role plays.
 
Gay Mouth said:
Cricut merchandising! A coonsoomer market angled towards bored wealthy housewives who have a little creativity and a lot of money. I worked at a shop that sold them and we sold one a year or so, because they’re like 1400 with all the Disney licensing that gets bundled in. It’s a really interesting tool but it’s most often used to literally just print Minnie Mouse on a grandkid’s sweater. Or make disgusting joke shirts weirdo wine aunts can wear I guess.
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Oh, what a blast from the past!

I used to order heavily from the wholesale catalog of Provo Craft in the 90s and remember the day they pivoted towards the then burgeoning scrapbook market. I was so annoyed with the first Cricuit machines that were cartridge dependent when I could see the potential of being able to make your own designs on the computer. But with some wisdom, I mean yeah, their real market was housewives who are creative but not original. I should write a murder mystery novel based on how many squabbles I've observed and been suckered into over a couple of church fraus going at it over who had rights to make and sell the same Plaid-published easter bunny pattern at the spring craft show.

Anyway, bins and bins in Michaels dedicated to Cricuit carts and I boggled at who the hell would spend that kind of money to get a cart that made one lousy part of a pattern with very little flexibility. I hated the damn scrapbooking fad that was taking over everything, but around the same time China started making pretty good repros of hand crafts, which you now see sold at the damn craft stores themselves, so it was a good time for my family to get out of the business anyway.

I have been tempted to get the Brother version of the Cricuit just because now it looks like all of them come with some ability to upload vector images and this would be really great for a certain aspect of my job.
 
Jeff_the_Thriller said:
I like Star Wars but $5000 for a two day experience is outrageous no matter how immersive. Slight powerlevel but I'll use this as a reference. I flew cross country to Utah skied for three days, snowmobiled a day, and fucked around for a day. That was a little under $3k. You could even pretend you were on Hoth if you really wanted to.
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If I were a kid and imagined what a $5,000 Star Wars experience would be like, I'd imagine shit like being on an actual movie set with people and aliens wearing actual costumes used in the movies bring you food, taking your towels, etc.

This looks like a generic dinner theater. Maybe a fun novelty experience if you're messed up in the head enough to like Disney Star Wars, but even charging $500 would be overpriced.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
The popularization of Pi Day is a a billion times worse than Mario day, it's nothing but Pop Science bullshit that nobody gave a shit about until twitter rolled around so you could make a hashtag out of it.

However there is a special retardation about May the Fourth because it is nothing but astroturf created by Disney.
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Nah man, the math teacher educational complex is responsible for the Pi Day psy op, this goes way back before Twitter even existed.

Look into it.
 
Vivec said:
Nah man, the math teacher educational complex is responsible for the Pi Day psy op, this goes way back before Twitter even existed.

Look into it.
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Pi day is barely celebrated by math teachers. I remember one teacher mentioning Pi day as a joke when I was in school. It's really only celebrated by psuedo-intellectuals who watch the Big Bang Theory. The really spirit of Pi day isn't about pie. It's about finding the circumference of circles and shit.
 
I remember it being a joke that either the math teacher or a classmate would bring up in math class back when I was in high school over a decade ago. Nobody gave a fuck, not even if it was a geometry class.
 
Vivec said:
Nah man, the math teacher educational complex is responsible for the Pi Day psy op, this goes way back before Twitter even existed.

Look into it.
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I am going to give the benefit of the doubt and say the Teachers that pushed Pi day. Were all Science teachers who actually cared and liked science.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
I am going to give the benefit of the doubt and say the Teachers that pushed Pi day. Were all Science teachers who actually cared and liked science.
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Making science fun for elementary schoolers makes sense, it's why they have them make little fake volcanoes.


Just leaving this here. Happy Pi Day.
 
Pi should just be changed to "3" and celebrated all March.

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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
The popularization of Pi Day is a a billion times worse than Mario day, it's nothing but Pop Science bullshit that nobody gave a shit about until twitter rolled around so you could make a hashtag out of it.
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Vivec said:
Nah man, the math teacher educational complex is responsible for the Pi Day psy op, this goes way back before Twitter even existed.

Look into it.
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Jeff_the_Thriller said:
Pi day is barely celebrated by math teachers. I remember one teacher mentioning Pi day as a joke when I was in school. It's really only celebrated by psuedo-intellectuals who watch the Big Bang Theory. The really spirit of Pi day isn't about pie. It's about finding the circumference of circles and shit.
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Got a pretty hilarious email today from NYT cooking, that unironically calls Pi day a near religiously solemn day for lovers of Soyence ™️ above Purim, Holi and St Patrick’s day.
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