Sorry, but that shit is actually owned by them. And yes, it sucks to invest your time into learning the lore of something only to see it thrown away by the next bozo coming in and saying "don't like that, let's do something completely different!" and does "all wrong".
The lesson to learn here is simple: Don't invest into something that isn't yours. Hard to do, I admit, but in the end, every moment spent learning about a universe you cannot make your own if you are fed up with the official one is a wasted one.
And yes, I'm fully aware that these hardcore fans that spent time and money to learn about the world, to amass amounts of merchandise, to recreate their favorite characters, create faithful costumes and so on, those are the ones that kept the franchise alive while their owners were pretty much abandoning them, milking them for all they're worth all the while and living off those fans that keep it alive and vibrant, drawing in new potential fans. I'm fully aware of that.
But studios will never learn if they don't learn the hard way. So yes, let them keep it, let them use it as they see fit and stop investing your time, money and energy into it. Wait until a studio learns that those things are not given freely but have to be earned.
Because in those areas kids are still what they used to be here before pension plans: A way to actually have a chance to survive when you're too old to work.
And it's cheaper and more comfortable for the passengers, too, while allowing the train service to still operate at a fat profit.
It takes longer? Yes. But realize that you can travel in a sleeping wagon for the price of a sardine can ticket on a plane. Yes, that still takes 8 hours instead of 2, but it's 8 hours you have to sleep anyway. Check in at 9pm, sleep in your own cabin with your own toilet and your own washing facility, wake up refreshed, take half an hour or hour at your own leisure to refresh, put on fresh and clean clothing, enjoy a decent breakfast and the morning paper if you're so inclined, then emerge at 7am from the train, refreshed, clean and with your clothing in perfect order, ready for your day.
Anyone who ever took the early plane to be somewhere at 7am knows in what condition you arrive there...
...in the shade. Not on a runway that is by the very definition of what a runway has to be like is right in the glaring sunlight, with airplanes pushing their hot exhausts right across it.
One might imagine that temperatures could probably be a bit higher in those circumstances.
The least arbitrary scale would probably be Kelvin, which at least defines a non-arbitrary zero. Find a second non-arbitrary point and divide the space in between them in a sensible way and you're set.
Dividing by a multiple of 10 makes the most sense. Why? Because most people use a decimal number system. It would be something most people would immediately intuitively understand.
Not true. I like all three ISPs I have contracts with. Granted, I live in a country where you actually have a choice of at least 3 and depending where you are up to 7 or more ISPs to choose from, so they better offer reasonable service at a reasonable price because anyone who doesn't has a short life.
Welcome to capitalism where competition drives quality up and prices down.
I'd simply charge them for putting their crap on my property. I don't know about your jurisdiction, but in mine, if you put stuff on my ground, you either pay me rent, you forfeit property or you pay my cost to have it removed and trashed.
No, not the "666", mark-of-the-beast guys. Yes, those too. But I'm talking about a more local conspiracy (frankly, I haven't met anyone outside of Europe that considers this real, shows that not all loonies that can come up with insane bullshit are located in the US), that those bars can act as some sort of "antenna" and absorb "frequencies" from various sources, which then affect the product, and of course in a negative way.
But luckily, there's hope! You can buy a Sharpie... ok, of course it's not a simple Sharpie, it's an energetically activated (insert more mumbo-jumbo woo here) for the low, low price of 30-50 bucks, and with this you can "connect" those bars and neutralize them that way.
By now some of makers of products aimed at... let's say energetically challenged people have started to print their barcodes "neutralized", pretty much saying "if they want it that way, it doesn't bother us, so... let them have it...".
We're now at the point where they seriously demand hazard pay for people working the supermarket checkout.
So no, idiocy is by no means a privilege of the US, we can do it just as well!
Edible doesn't equate tasty. Even if they are flavorless, they have a texture that may clash with the fruit they're stuck to.
Yes, I know, very much a First-World problem, but let's be honest here, so is buying tropical fruits in areas where you dig in a pile of snow to find your car in Winter.
A slacker interested enough in FOURTY K A YEAR to get an advanced degree, get a doctorate and publish paper after paper to even as much as get noticed in the scientific community, well, at least noticed enough to actually have a chance running for grant money...
Screw this. I bet I can land 100k a year at least pushing out a "everything's fine, sponsored by Exxon" report every couple months.
Right, we'll probably take the rest of life down with us. At least we have the ability to.
Feeding and sheltering 7 billion people is still something you can't do easily. Hell, we can't even do it now that we don't have to deal with a crisis, you think we'll be more capable of doing it when things get worse?
Old Soviet era jokes suddenly becomes topical, episode 122:
Why do we need two papers, Pravda (The Truth) and Izvestia (The News)? They share the burden of informing the masses. Because there is no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia.
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Yes, my Lord Mouse.
Hate is a powerful tool. Especially if felt by others.
Sorry, but that shit is actually owned by them. And yes, it sucks to invest your time into learning the lore of something only to see it thrown away by the next bozo coming in and saying "don't like that, let's do something completely different!" and does "all wrong".
The lesson to learn here is simple: Don't invest into something that isn't yours. Hard to do, I admit, but in the end, every moment spent learning about a universe you cannot make your own if you are fed up with the official one is a wasted one.
And yes, I'm fully aware that these hardcore fans that spent time and money to learn about the world, to amass amounts of merchandise, to recreate their favorite characters, create faithful costumes and so on, those are the ones that kept the franchise alive while their owners were pretty much abandoning them, milking them for all they're worth all the while and living off those fans that keep it alive and vibrant, drawing in new potential fans. I'm fully aware of that.
But studios will never learn if they don't learn the hard way. So yes, let them keep it, let them use it as they see fit and stop investing your time, money and energy into it. Wait until a studio learns that those things are not given freely but have to be earned.
Because in those areas kids are still what they used to be here before pension plans: A way to actually have a chance to survive when you're too old to work.
Quite the opposite, when after getting your degree you had even remotely the amount of time to goof off?
Hell, I'd tack on another degree right now if someone paid for it!
And it's cheaper and more comfortable for the passengers, too, while allowing the train service to still operate at a fat profit.
It takes longer? Yes. But realize that you can travel in a sleeping wagon for the price of a sardine can ticket on a plane. Yes, that still takes 8 hours instead of 2, but it's 8 hours you have to sleep anyway. Check in at 9pm, sleep in your own cabin with your own toilet and your own washing facility, wake up refreshed, take half an hour or hour at your own leisure to refresh, put on fresh and clean clothing, enjoy a decent breakfast and the morning paper if you're so inclined, then emerge at 7am from the train, refreshed, clean and with your clothing in perfect order, ready for your day.
Anyone who ever took the early plane to be somewhere at 7am knows in what condition you arrive there...
You owe me a keyboard and an explanation to my boss.
Could you at least put a NSFW next to it?
...in the shade. Not on a runway that is by the very definition of what a runway has to be like is right in the glaring sunlight, with airplanes pushing their hot exhausts right across it.
One might imagine that temperatures could probably be a bit higher in those circumstances.
The least arbitrary scale would probably be Kelvin, which at least defines a non-arbitrary zero. Find a second non-arbitrary point and divide the space in between them in a sensible way and you're set.
Dividing by a multiple of 10 makes the most sense. Why? Because most people use a decimal number system. It would be something most people would immediately intuitively understand.
Get out of that polar expedition sleeping bag and say that again.
Not true. I like all three ISPs I have contracts with. Granted, I live in a country where you actually have a choice of at least 3 and depending where you are up to 7 or more ISPs to choose from, so they better offer reasonable service at a reasonable price because anyone who doesn't has a short life.
Welcome to capitalism where competition drives quality up and prices down.
I'd simply charge them for putting their crap on my property. I don't know about your jurisdiction, but in mine, if you put stuff on my ground, you either pay me rent, you forfeit property or you pay my cost to have it removed and trashed.
And I get to choose which one it is.
Wait, you actually have a choice?
No, not the "666", mark-of-the-beast guys. Yes, those too. But I'm talking about a more local conspiracy (frankly, I haven't met anyone outside of Europe that considers this real, shows that not all loonies that can come up with insane bullshit are located in the US), that those bars can act as some sort of "antenna" and absorb "frequencies" from various sources, which then affect the product, and of course in a negative way.
But luckily, there's hope! You can buy a Sharpie... ok, of course it's not a simple Sharpie, it's an energetically activated (insert more mumbo-jumbo woo here) for the low, low price of 30-50 bucks, and with this you can "connect" those bars and neutralize them that way.
By now some of makers of products aimed at ... let's say energetically challenged people have started to print their barcodes "neutralized", pretty much saying "if they want it that way, it doesn't bother us, so ... let them have it...".
We're now at the point where they seriously demand hazard pay for people working the supermarket checkout.
So no, idiocy is by no means a privilege of the US, we can do it just as well!
Edible doesn't equate tasty. Even if they are flavorless, they have a texture that may clash with the fruit they're stuck to.
Yes, I know, very much a First-World problem, but let's be honest here, so is buying tropical fruits in areas where you dig in a pile of snow to find your car in Winter.
A slacker interested enough in FOURTY K A YEAR to get an advanced degree, get a doctorate and publish paper after paper to even as much as get noticed in the scientific community, well, at least noticed enough to actually have a chance running for grant money...
Screw this. I bet I can land 100k a year at least pushing out a "everything's fine, sponsored by Exxon" report every couple months.
Me? Nothing. I live more than 500m above sea level and I have a gun to fend off those that try to escape the (of course never coming) flood.
Now, please get out of my way, my SUV needs gas.
Let's put it that way, whether we frogs get boiled fast or slow isn't the question, the question is whether we manage to get out of the pot in time.
Why do you think I want to help whatever cause? Some people just want to watch the world burn, and I want to dance in front of the fire.
True. Question is, who'll blink first. Welcome to the international economy version of the game "chicken".
Right, we'll probably take the rest of life down with us. At least we have the ability to.
Feeding and sheltering 7 billion people is still something you can't do easily. Hell, we can't even do it now that we don't have to deal with a crisis, you think we'll be more capable of doing it when things get worse?
The items are marked up at +20% and if you buy more than 5, the penalty is removed.
Any "discount" you ever get is only the removal of a markup.
Old Soviet era jokes suddenly becomes topical, episode 122:
Why do we need two papers, Pravda (The Truth) and Izvestia (The News)?
They share the burden of informing the masses. Because there is no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia.
"Vertical format" is usually short for "I'm too dumb to rotate my cellphone 90 degrees".
Quite the opposite. With YouTube tightening the screws, we need MORE not LESS diversity in the market. We need MORE options, not FEWER.