Author: plotdesigner

urbanlegendarium:

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computerheroboy:

Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.

The idea that film piracy “costs” anyone anything is fallacious, because it assumes that for every film you download, you would definitely have paid for it otherwise. Which just isn’t true. In most cases, you just wouldn’t have seen it.

Like if I download some film from 1974 that sounds cool, they’re assuming that I would have bought the DVD. But I wouldn’t have bought the DVD, I just wouldn’t have seen it.

And what about when you download foreign films that haven’t even been officially released in your country, how much does that “cost” the economy?

As a film student (and soon-to-be film graduate), I can confirm this.

as a film student

(and soon-to-be film graduate)

i can confirm this

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The thing is that the lengths media companies go through to combat piracy likely costs them more than if they just let piracy happen. Look at Nintendo, they’ve been trying to combat emulators for years because it allows people to play their old games for free. But they don’t fill the demand for retro games to its fullest potential. Their efforts as yet to fill that demand have been to add virtual console games on their systems at exorbitant prices and releasing glorified plug and play systems with engineered scarcity. They don’t realize that if they made these games affordable and accessible they could make much more money and save themselves the time they’d be spending shutting down emulator sites.

The solution to piracy that most companies don’t want recognize is to play by the pirate’s rules. Spotify and to a lesser extent Crunchyroll have already figured this out. Instead of fighting piracy, companies need to change the way media is distributed. Spotify has literally changed the music industry in such a fundamental way that people don’t even think about music piracy anymore. Why pirate songs when you can download Spotify and listen to all the songs for free with a few ads?

The film industry needs to understand this. Old films become scarce and people can’t afford to go to the movies all the time so the best solution is streaming. But sites like Netflix and Hulu don’t have as many movies as they should and the ones they do have are subject to removal, that needs to change. How am I supposed to watch all of the Mad Max series if it’s not on any streaming sites? Well I’ll just pirate it of course. Can’t find that Studio Ghibli film you like, pirate it. The film industry can’t fight it, piracy sites will always come back, but what they can do is engineer a entertainment industry that’s more accessible so that people don’t resort to piracy.

People don’t do piracy for piracy’s sake. I don’t watch shitty copies of movies at the risk of my computer getting a virus for kicks. Piracy exists because there are people who want to watch movies and the only people willing to help are bootleggers.

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Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:

The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.

The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.

Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.

Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business. 

This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.

Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday

ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday

LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY

This goes double for Thanksgiving. More and more places are opening late on Thanksgiving; Gamestop is opening at 3 PM on Thanksgiving. My employer is and always has been open 24 hours on Thanksgiving.

Sometimes going out is unavoidable, please be as kind and understanding to the people forced to work as possible.

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Sometimes I see fiction with “This magical power is totally inexplicable to science.  Look at this werewolf, science will not work on this werewolf, it is totally outside of your puny science!“

If I can put the werewolf on a scale and measure it’s weight, I can do science to it.  Don’t say shit like that.

If it interacts with the physical world and the laws that govern the action and interaction of objects and energies in the physical world, its interaction with those objects and energies can be measured and tested. There is always something that can be observed, examined, or tested when the supernatural interacts with the mundane.

We can observe the existence and composition and nature of celestial objects by the disturbances their passage creates in the light of stars; we can damn well learn to understand the existence and composition and nature of supernatural entities by study of the disturbances they create in the everyday world.

but, uh, I kinda grew up with a deep and abiding love for the Ghostbusters, so yeah.

look, even if werewolves appear to operate by a wholly different set of rules than the ones that apply to literally everything else we know, if anything about them is consistent and reacts the same way every time to the same conditions THEN WE CAN SCIENCE IT.

One of the fun things about science is you don’t have to understand the underlying principles to ask questions, try stuff, write it down.