Jump to content

HamsterHookah

crowd sourced
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1495

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by HamsterHookah

  1. HamsterHookah
    Anyone still dignifying any conspiracy or outrage over any of this with a response **checks notes** 3 days later.
  2. HamsterHookah
    It's modern day Hunter S. Thompson party. I said that originally as a joke, but man, is there any doubt that Hunter S. Thompson would of course had been brain broke on modern drugs and modern technology?
  3. HamsterHookah
    He trolled Disney and took away their honeypot of low taxes or whatever (though not for any virtuous reason, like just trolling Disney for the sake of it or for taking away their sweetheart deal, but it was to play politics because he was mad at them over Don't Say Gay). If you don't count the reasoning or the means, the result is positive and funny.
  4. HamsterHookah
    Dude. We are in complete and total agreement here. First time ever. Balloons drop. Music goes off. We have common ground!!
  5. HamsterHookah
    Google reported its first drop in advertising revenue since the beginning of the pandemic, as a slowdown in online marketing continues to weigh on the search giant’s business. Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, reported $59 billion in advertising revenue for the fourth quarter, a decrease of 3.6% from the same period in 2021. Those results marked the second time ad sales fell since Google became a publicly traded company in 2004. Google is attempting to weather one of the most challenging environments for its core advertising business in recent memory. While the company’s fortunes soared during an uptick in digital advertising in 2021, it has recently faced pressures from a worsening economy and new competitive forces in fields like artificial intelligence.
  6. HamsterHookah
    Are there any also-ran's from the 60's who nobody cares about anymore left to pull their music from spotify as a protest? What can we do to thwart this mad man!?
  7. HamsterHookah
    Man, lots of trauma there all around.
  8. HamsterHookah
    Truly. This is the dumbest story, and the fact that people can't let it go and move on, on both sides, is telling us all something if we care to listen.
  9. HamsterHookah
    You are making the point for me: people already don't go because of the economic realities of what it takes to go to a movie (versus the substitutes we have available to us). When we do go, whether that be 1, 2 or 3x a year, we know it's a bad economic decision. But we are doing it anyways. With that in mind, if you can get 20% more revenue of out of us, because what's the difference in paying $100 or $120 when already acknowledging you are making a bad economic decision but doing it anyways, while not alienating the regulars (who are probably the AMC moviegoer members and get free select seats), you get more squeeze. That's what I'm guessing the thinking is.
  10. HamsterHookah
    Cool username
  11. HamsterHookah
  12. HamsterHookah
    1) I said a unique brand of "American Secularism" which-- don't miss this-- includes a "huge chunk of the meanest cruelest...vocal and aggressive Christians". We are in agreement here. 2) I think the reason we have the cruelty is because we as a nation are land locked and thus locked into a fight in a zero-sum game where at stake is the prioritization and elevation of core values and beliefs. Because there is no option to separate and co-exist, you see the cruel conflict. My opinion, at least. Make no mistake about it, we are in a cultural war. Maybe always been. Oceania at war with Eastasia, as it were.
  13. HamsterHookah
    I've seen one movie in a theatre since 2020 (Covid) and that was about 6 months ago. What I noticed was that when buying tickets you have to pick your seat; the white dots denote open seats and the red dots are those who have already purchased. Not unlike buying an airline ticket in that experience. The middle seats we wanted were all chosen. I would have paid more in that instance to get the preferred, just as I would for the aisle seat up front in a plane if I didn't have status. Not seeing what the big deal here is: are people concerned AMC will alienate the handful of people who still consistently go to movies? This is a revenue increase for people who don't go anyways and who don't care about the price point because they go to the movies 1 or 2x a year.
  14. HamsterHookah
    Yes, my man @bad_teammatewas wrong on this one and he knows it.
  15. HamsterHookah
    Let's see. They'd be doing themselves a great favor if you are right. The guy kinda rules, I hate to admit.
  16. HamsterHookah
    @Captainant you will be pleased: During the SOTU Biden is expected to call for a quadrupling of the tax paid on share buybacks, and push for new levies on high-income earners and businesses, all in an effort to reduce the deficit.
  17. HamsterHookah

    Grammys

    HamsterHookah replied to tbone_'s topic in Music

    The Grammys drew in 12.4 million viewers. That’s 30% more than last year and the biggest audience the award show has gotten since 2020.
  18. HamsterHookah
    It can be traced back to a) social media and b) rise of a unique brand of American Secularism where each individual is his/her own idol/god. The biggest problem is earth is built out. Look at human history, being able to pack up your things with likeminded community— from Abraham to Goodie Smith the American pilgrim— and get away from people you think are horrible allowed people to coalesce around others with shared beliefs and worldviews which informed behaviors and culture. Now we have nowhere to escape one another, and the question of core beliefs and worldviews is so personal to people that they cause disgust and contempt, and we are forced to co-exist with one another and live among each other with that disgust and contempt. Thus the rise of the upper middle class suburb 😂
  19. HamsterHookah
    I get not loving kyrie because of his past and his probable time here, but you HAD to do something to signal to Luka you are serious about his time here if you don’t want him leaving in 2 years. Worse case scenario was doing nothing and Luka leaving. Kyrie is one of the most fluid and beautiful offensive players since Kobe. You can’t deny his ball handling and abilities. It will be fun to watch when/if he is playing.
  20. HamsterHookah
    Still highly paid to me! (Seriously I'm poor and they were making $100-160k; at least double what hospitality workers are making)
  21. HamsterHookah
    Won't be around in 3 years is a pretty strong prediction (or being a foreign language heavy concept). From what I have read, the whole international thing doesn’t really work very well and even Netflix has said Squid Games was an aberration and actually, people want to watch content in their own region. I think the new CEO (as of two weeks ago or so) is a wild card on what Netflix does, but they are in a healthy position financially again (EBITDA) after a year or so of not looking great, that I think 3 years is wrong.
  22. HamsterHookah
    Also, not sure how accurate this is, but I've heard that with respect to the January jobs report that was celebrated, all the big tech layoffs that came with severances (which range from basic 60 days to very generous 200+ days) actually still reflect payroll data. Maybe you or someone else who knows it better can verify, but I hear to get the real number you have to subtract the tens of thousands of jobs from that report number for a more realistic estimate and that Q2/Q3 will reflect market conditions more accurately, with respect to Tech.
  23. HamsterHookah
  24. HamsterHookah
    This article was really interesting, an interview, and touched on some implications for content creators with streamers and potential union/strike demands: https://slate.com/culture/2023/02/hbo-max-showtime-warner-bros-canceled-shows.html
  25. HamsterHookah

    Grammys

    HamsterHookah replied to tbone_'s topic in Music

    People being ugly and heckling the artist who won but is not their favorite is a new story these days? What a world.

Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...