No marketing or advertising campaign will ever be more effective on me than a mutual who really likes a piece of media

disney: we’re taking all of our movies off of streaming services and we’re going to charge you $10 a month to watch them on our own streaming app

me: 

More like

Disney: “We’re going to take all our movies off of streaming sites INCLUDING THE ONE WE ALREADY OWN (Hulu) so we can put them on a separate one and milk even more money out of you.”

Me:

Disney owns everything, and even if they didn’t own it, they will eventually

Holy shit.

I think it would be easier to list what they DO NOT own….

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If you were to resort to piracy over being exhausted over the various streaming services recreating the nickling and diming of the cable television industry (and I’m not saying you should - just… if you happen to find yourself there), a full VPN is not required.

You can have your torrent activity go through a proxy (while the rest of your traffic isn’t shuttled through there) using services like BTGuard. All the torrent activity is run through the proxy:

If your ISP has bandwidth caps, you’ll still run into those. But they won’t know what you’re transferring.

Just… information out there that you might find useful, in the age of ten-thousand different streaming services that all want you to keep adding more paid subscriptions.

(via @sansael)

If you dont hate the mcu are you really an mcu fan

No wait actually a minute ago I just threw this into my queue with no tags or comments because yeah it be like that

but y’know what? it wasn’t like that. From IM1 to… oh… 2015-ish? if you were an mcu fan, you were there because the movies were actually (mostly) fun. there might have been characters you weren’t so into, and everyone had some parts of the movies they loved to complain about and things they would have changed, but compared to the comics themselves MCU was a fuckin wild dream of actually enjoyable content

and between then and now it has completely reversed to where it is a goddamn horrible, unfun mess overall with a few good moments like coins in a pile of crap—like, yeah, they’re nice moments, but you start wondering whether it’s worth getting covered in crap to go fishing for them. 

it’s just amazing to me that marvel took something that successfully built them an empire and turned it into something that most fans don’t even enjoy anymore, so much that a post like this can go around and we all just nod and go “yeah it be like that” without a moment’s hesitation. 

#it’s because they made it very clear that they weren’t going to pursue the emotional throughlines#all of them - romantic or platonic#we stopped getting actual character interactions and no one built on the relationships they’d started in previous movies#it’s because they stopped writing stories driven by the characters themselves#and just used the characters as chess pieces#move character A to point X where he says a witty one-liner we can use in the trailer#introduce character B out of nowhere for the shock value and also because he’s got a movie coming out in 2 years we need to tie this into#shoehorn a new love interest in but don’t bother giving it support since we already know it won’t matter in the sequel#some exec decided that the only thing needed to tie the franchise together was putting the characters in the same shot#but because the characters’ backstories and personalities are less important than using them as superpower-related chess pieces#they start to feel interchangeable#oh sure there are fun scenes where someone’s ability gives a cool looking visual#but ask yourself if it would actually matter to the story if they had replaced character A with character B#would that have changed how events went down or would it have had the same effect but with a different power - smashing vs lightning#chess pieces#they forgot - or rather decided it wasn’t important - to make us care about the characters anymore#probably because they thought the previous movies had already done that work#but when you don’t follow through on what came before#when the relationships that have been built are ignored in favor of bigger explosions or plot twists#then you lose all that work you put in before#and you lose your viewers#and all you’re left with is lifeless husks in spandex being smart asses to their allies#ugh. apparently i have feelings about this.

(via @ablazeandmeandering) 

Those tags tho. 

This sums up almost every reason idgaf about the mcu anymore.

it's the shadow anime girl!

If anyone skipping the Olympics wants to watch something with the same vibe, I suggest the Marble League by Jelles Marble Runs on YouTube.

All the athletes, refs, audience, and commentators are marbles. Each marble is named, theres intricately made stages and a back log of events to watch leading up to this year.

Theres even stop motion Opening and Closing ceremonies.

The creator is autistic and channels the special interest energy into this whole enterprise and you can FEEL the care he puts in. So, personally, i felt a lot of same hat in how the marbles are portrayed. I just really vibe with it.

I'll link the channel in a reblog so this shows up in the tags.

The Channel and this year's qualifying runs:

Watch the marbles and enjoy sports without exploitation, racism, sexism, and transphobia

Okay, so.

In the film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo gets stabbed by a troll’s spear, and there’s this big dramatic scene where he reveals that he’s been wearing Bilbo’s old mithril corslet under his shirt the whole time.

In the book, Frodo doesn’t tell anyone about the mithril corslet until much later, as the Fellowship is busy running for their lives at the time, and the orcs aren’t kind enough to pause their assault for long enough for the Fellowship to have a mid-battle bonding moment:

Meaning that in the book version, for most of the span between the battle at Balin’s tomb and reaching Lothlórien, apart from Gandalf – who obviously figures it out straight away – the Fellowship have no idea how Frodo survived a troll-spear to the guts with nothing but bruised ribs to show for it. What did they think was going on?

#[boromir voice] i guess hobbits are just Built Different - @everyones-beau

You think you’re joking, but after the stabbing incident and before the mithril corslet is revealed, this exchange happens:

So, I mean.

yuck i fucking hate having ~cinematic~ mental illness moments. was in the bathroom just now trying to put in my earrings and my hands were shaking so bad it took me like five minutes and i was getting irrationally upset so i started tearing up and it's like. ugh. this WOULD be the scene in a movie that shows that the character's emotional health has completely gone to shit. ugh.

oh you eating my ex’s ass? how do my toes taste?

i don’t like this post at all I gotta say

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

May 13, 2021 - Immigration cops tried to arrest two men in Glasgow, Scotland, on the day of Eid. A huge crowd of locals in the area of Pollokshields, chanting “these are our neighbours, let them go!”, turned up and boxed the police van in for seven hours, withstanding attempts by police to break through the crowd, until the cops were forced to let the two men go. [video]/[article]

WHAT A FUCKING RESULT!!!

This isn’t even the whole story - it gets so much better.

This was not a pre-planned event. The home office just showed up in the morning to take them. A neighbour tweeted asking for help and people mobilised and united entirely on their own. None of these people woke up today knowing this is what they were going to do.

That man who was under the van? He layed there for EIGHT HOURS so it couldn’t move.

The local mosque opened up and started handing out refreshments to the people protesting:

And when the men were finally released (after 9 hours of being the the back of the van) the whole crowd walked them to the mosque so they would be safe:

This was the ultimate “fuck you” to the British government. It was an absolutely incredible show of solidarity and what happens when people mobilise.

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

Okay but there are several reasons that are kinda interesting

1) fast food restaurants cannot advertise to children anymore, so that means no more bright colors and child friendly mascots

2) McDonalds and the like have been loosing ground to “fresh fast food” chains like Chipotle for the better part of two decades, and this style is meant to emulate that more clean, “mature” style.

3) Resale on property. See, fast food isn’t doing as well as it did in the 90s-early 2000s, and where it used to be fairly rare to have a fast food place close, now a days you might have a location close, and good luck selling the old, branded building to a completely different business. You know those closed Pizza Huts that just sorta sit there forever, very clearly having been a Pizza Hut? Well as it turns out, most businesses don’t want to buy a building that is recognizably from a different brand. You’d basically have to tear down the building and start over, a costly decision when there are plenty of plain looking spaces that you can buy/rent and put a lot less cost into renovations. So for a fast food chain now, it’s far better to have a plain “this could be any sort of counter service place, just change the signs!” In case you have to close that location and sell the building.

Basically fast food places look like this now because fast food is an industry that is well past it’s peak profits, and businesses must plan for their eventual closure and for their building to simply be absorbed into the next trend or monopoly.

6 hour long fight at this year’s Tolkien Historical Society Conference about whether Middle Earth has bees, before I reminded everyone that the Rohirrim had mead halls, which means they had honey, which means there’s bees. Everyone sighed and the conference continued. This is the life of a Tolkien scholar. 

It’s what he would have wanted

op why did you wait six hours 

Because it’s what Tolkien would have wanted

(british lady from hitman voice) Elon Musk eliminated. Good job, 47. Your next target, Jeff Bezos.

Some achievement/feat ideas

“Yep, Still Does Nothing To Me” Kill Elon Musk with a poison laced marijuana joint

Amazon Grace Snipe Jeff Bezos from the church tower

Actually, Tesla Was The Doctor Steer Elon Musk’s self-driving Tesla to run him over

Prime Delivery Kill Jeff Bezos by dropping a grenade through the chimney into his room

I Like This Color Way Better Cause Elon Musk’s gory death by removing the forklift safety guidelines

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Throw Jeff Bezos into his 10,000 Year Clock

Alexa, Kill This Clown Electrocute Jeff Bezos with his own Amazon Alexa

Just Like His Kars Launch Elon Musk into space

Spac-Ex Actually, let Grimes launch Elon Musk into space

Wage Against The Machine Let Jeff Bezos be trampled to death by the angered mob

Appease the Masses Guillotine both targets

#twitter sucks cause you wouldnt be able to post this there

*stares off into space for a second*

I really wish this was from the posts from a darker timeline blog.

Update, he just decided to stop accepting crypto altogether, and bitcoin crashed.

I cannot, in any terms, express strongly enough that any money that you have in ANY cryptocurrency is NOT an “investment” it is gambling.

Crypto is unregulated and unstable, because it is unregulated and unstable it is highly subject to pump and dump schemes and just general market fluctuation. Bitcoin can plummet if someone with a lot of bitcoin chooses to spend some. Doge is literally a joke and is going to inflate and burst and inflate and burst just like bitcoin has in the last few years.

If you have any crypto that you are thinking of as an “investment” my recommendation is to divest now and put that money into a CD or a savings account or just under your fucking mattress because there is absolutely no way to guarantee that it is going to hold its value and it’s actually much more likely to lose value during the lifetime of your “investment.”

I mentioned recently that my coworker is part of a dogecoin reddit group; this is a dedicated group of people who invested low and who are trying to get normies spun up about the coin so that the price will inflate and they can bail before the crash. There are literally people who have made a job out of suckering people into “investing” in cryptocurrency so they can leave those people holding the bag.

This isn’t illegal because it’s not a regulated market.

Do not put or hold any money in cryptocurrency that you can’t afford to lose. Don’t take out credit to buy crypto, don’t cash out savings to buy crypto.

If you don’t know how investment bubbles, inflation, or pump-and-dump schemes work I’d *strongly* recommend listening to the @desperate-acts-of-capitalism episode about the Dutch Tulip Panic.

DaoC lays out some complicated economics in an amusing discussion. People sometimes ask me “How does cryptocurrency” work and my answer is “it doesn’t” but a more serious answer is “A few hundred years ago the Netherlands got obsessed with buying flowers and paying high prices for flowers even though they were just flowers and didn’t have any material value other than being flowers and it led to a market collapse because one day people woke up and went “Wait why am I paying tens of thousands of money for a flower” and suddenly a bunch of people were holding worthless flowers that they’d paid ridiculous amounts of money for. Cryptocurrencies are tulips.”

But if you want that explained in more detail you should listen to the episode because it is good and it is fun.

And you should not, under any circumstances, spend money that you can’t afford to lose on cryptocurrencies or flowers.

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