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  1. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Telling people how they feel or how they should feel is idiotic. 

    Normally I'd 100% agree, but this is kind of the thread for it.

    Astro fans being the "This is fine" dog with the flames everywhere on this thread in order to not have to admit to Rangers fans that this season has been disappointing, is an interesting play. We are all impressed with the machismo.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    I realize you are trolling (and doing it in the right thread for sure!) but you first said this season has to be "very disappointing". I don't know any Astros fan that would call this very disappointing. The injuries suck. Losing Aluve and Yordan for so long, losing Garcia and McCullers for the season - that sucks and is absolutely disappointing. I am sure you are disappointed that DeGrom is out for the season. Injuries always suck and can change a season. Sure I'd be happier if the Astros were up 10 more games but I think the result is pretty reasonable given the roster impact of the injuries. 

    It has absolutely fuck all to do with the Rangers, Angels, Mariners, etc., though. I don't give a shit about those teams.

    All very fair and reasonable except for the fact that Astro fans are disappointed to have this team (and especially this manager). As a victim of the success, expectations rightly or wrongly are set very high every year now and this season is a decidedly disappointing one, for a variety of reasons which we are naming.

    It’s glorious and hilarious and life-giving to watch the Astros tread water in the AL West and it’s especially funny to make fun of David D when he thought the Astros were making their move to take the #1 spot, but then fail.

    And it’s even funny that the Astros who have sort of beat up on the Rangers this year aren’t gaining ground because they can’t win a series against teams the Rangers have swept. Go Miami lol

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  3. 1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

    It’s time for animaltobacco to get crowdsourced for the umpteenth time and join the others in his crowded sock drawer. 

    AnimalTobacco2 is geared up for when you are ready to try and censor someone for talking about how hilariously big of babies the Astro fans are.

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  4. 1 hour ago, hornmpa96 said:

    It’s telling that you think this is a victory for your fan base. As an Astros fan, you’re dam right I’m disappointed about being only 17 games over 500 and in second place at this point. However, I’ve also seen this team come alive in October when it matters.

    Does Arlington throw parades for being in first place in August?

    I never once said this was a victory for the fan base, I only mentioned that having a season that most folks think is worse than projected and using gambling website projections to make yourself feel better about it is pathetic.

    And to my original point,  thanks for being honest about your disappointment. Some of that undoubtedly comes from the high expectations from previous successful seasons, so it’s natural. It’s just weird to lie or try and pretend like you aren’t disappointed in this season, especially compared to the TEXAS Rangers season thus far, when it’s obvious you are and should be. You ain’t gotta lie to kick it, Craig.

    Texas is playing with house money, we are a year ahead of the plan so if we get to the ALDS that’s a win. ALCS is an absolute success. 

    Houston getting a wild card and scraping for life at this point in the season is just a glorious bingo card. Actually fans like David D trying to gas light how sad they are is actually the best part.

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  5. 17 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Are you saying you aren't disappointed in the play on the field for 100+ games and 5 months thus far? And being behind first place in your division wire to wire thus far? 

    Bless your heart. I thought Astros fans expectations were a little higher than moral victories from gambling website projections, but...well...bless your poor little heart.

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  6. 1 minute ago, UTPhil2006 said:

    Now if you want to bash the HEB commercials I’m all for it. 
     

    Also the game on Saturday was at night, and on Fox. 
     

    If you were watching the Friday night replay on Saturday at lunch on ATTSW of course they’re gonna show Astros promotions. Kind of their job. 

    I see there’s a reason you have a -19 

    Blood vendettas 

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  7. On 8/12/2023 at 11:10 PM, David Dennison said:

    Is that all?

    Remember that time a few weeks ago the Astros were tied for first with the Texas Rangers for two hours and you were extremely excited about it as if it was the turning point, but it turned out to be the Astros high point of what is a very disappointing season, as the Astros mismanaged the trade deadline and continuously start a black hole in their lineup at a catcher, and anytime they go on a heater, the Texas Rangers (and Seattle Mariners) go on a heater of equal or better length and now the Seattle Mariners are trailing the Astros by as many games as the Astros are trailing the Rangers? 

    Bless your heart.

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  8. 2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    who is "you" in this scenario and how exactly would that work?

    I mean, as an example:

    Netflix pays NBC or whomever $500mm to air Seinfeld. Seinfeld creatives owed residuals takes their cut from the $500mm that was paid to NBC or whomever. Why do they still have a double dip claim to take a cut from Netflix as well? That seems duplicative.

    Netflix paid whomever owns the Suits IP $xxx. Why would they pay residuals when it turns out to be getting a ton of views for the few weeks it's hot?

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  9. 5 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    right now they get away with running and re-running (or acquiring old shows, see suits for ex and not compensating the actors/writers ”

    Why does the money come from Netflix in this situation and not from the money Netflix paid to the seller of the program rights?

    Ex if Netflix paid NBC/Comcast a million a month for a year to stream SUITS (for their customers to watch as much or as little as they like) wouldn’t some of that $12 million go to the writers and actors?

    Charging per stream would seem like it could cost a fortune on something like a kids movie that gets watched 100 times in a month, because kids…

    Exactly this question too. If you wanted a cut, shouldn’t it be a cut from the deal you made and the monies extracted from Netflix?

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  10. 5 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    i also said "it's how it should work" but you ignored that part.  netflix changed the model and the netflix platform (streaming with no ads) required new rules that were not covered by the 2009 agreement, an unfortunate timing situation.

    a good analog for netflix is something like hbo, which relies on subs not ads.  does hbo pay residuals?  why does netflix think they're special and don't have to pay?  can they not afford it?  aren't they going around bragging about how much growth they're experiencing?  hasn't the stock been climbing for a year after it got shot to pieces?

    right now they get away with running and re-running (or acquiring old shows, see suits for ex) and not compensating the actors/writers who have been living and surviving off this structure for decades.  either they need to pay more up front or come up with some sort of residual system.  i know they don't want to be transparent, i've covered this at length, but they can't have it both ways and expect everybody to just be cool with it.

    there are plenty of instances in the world where "that's the way it's always been done" is a terrible argument for whatever it is.  this is not one of those times.  they need to figure out what's fair, they've had 14 years to exploit the shit out of everyone.  the party's over.

    I wasn’t intentionally ignoring that part— I’m genuinely asking why you think it should work this way still in 2023 you answered, thank you. Admittedly I need to read that answer a few more times to understand it better, because I’m still not actually hearing the logical argument for why residuals are an entitlement in a streaming model considering that residuals were a response and answer to a misaligned value matrix (scarcity of hours on TV/opportunity cost) that no longer exists. At least it no longer exists in the same way.

    If the argument is boiled down to a simplified emotional one of “mean rich businessmen versus smart cool creatives (which it kinda sounded like with the bread line comment)”, then creatives asking for a cut of everything that’s already been paid for, in my mind, is really no different than turning the iPad around and asking for a tip because it’s been normalized (and your employer isn’t paying you a living wage).

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  11. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The public is relatively happy with the model and I’m sure netflix and others know that. If my streaming services jump up to 125, 150 or even 200, I’m dropping some of them.

    I can pretty much find free entertainment, with some commercials, either thru YouTube, TikTok, other internet channels or even OTA. Why pay much for entertainment when so much is free or low cost. And as for movies, I’m only up for 1-2 theater visits per year.

    if it’s a quiet day with nothing going on, I can lose a couple of hours on YouTube or TikTok. And I’m in my mid 50s. I assume that younger people forgo mainstream entertainment unless it’s some cultural event for them like Barbie. The pie is getting smaller not larger for Hollywood. I might sound like I don’t support the writers and actors but it’s the opposite. I support them but the trends are against the entire industry.

    From that same piece and to your social media point:

    Again, though, scarcity in terms of distribution is now gone; the only scarce resource on the Internet is consumer time and attention, and commanding that is far more difficult and risky. Look no further than the deteriorating financial condition of most of Hollywood: not only are the studios competing with Netflix and Amazon and Apple, but also with things like YouTube and social media. Indeed, you could very easily make the case that a far more legible labor action would be for the studios to lock out the talent in an attempt to remove residualscompletely, given how much more risk any content producer is taking on today.

    This angle is, obviously, a non-starter, but it does point at why these negotiations are likely to be so fraught: actors and writers are angling to get a larger share of revenue that they arguably no longer deserve.

  12. 17 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

     

    what you're describing is how it should work and has always worked in tv.  popular shows stay on the air longer and the actors/writers get paid more, because the ad revenue is higher.  netflix changed the model and here we are.

    Give me your best argument for why it should work besides "it's always been that way", especially considering it wasn't until the 1960's that residuals came to be.

    I say that because what I've read is:

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    The entire idea of residuals arose from the idea that talent shouldn’t have to compete with itself when it came to re-running a movie or show; the key thing to note, though, is that this concern made sense in a world where there was scarce distribution. To go back to the 1960s, there were only three networks: that meant there were only 504 hours in a week to air content on television; airing a two-hour movie reduced the available space for talent to 502 hours.

    Streaming, though, is purely additive. The Internet makes distribution effectively free, which means there are an infinite number of hours available for talent to monetize. This does, it’s worth noting, render talent’s original argument for residuals moot; if anything Netflix had it right when it temporarily shifted the model to simply paying up front as one of the ways Netflix broke into Hollywood was by forgoing residuals and just paying talent upfront: this removed the potential for huge upside if a show was a massive hit, but it guaranteed that talent got payed, even if a show wasn’t a success.

     

     

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  13. Saw this with the kids.

    It’s a cute movie, leaned way more into the comedy and the turtles feel more like kids and tweens (early teens at best). Lots of laughs and loved the He-man meme song and didn’t even distract that April O’Neil reimagined as a pear-shaped BIPOC (versus hot white chick), because this is probably more accurate of an average NYer.

  14. Not sure what to think of this. A guy in my neighborhood a couple of doors down started mowing his lawn at 6:20am. 

    I get the Texas summer is brutal. I get the impulse to mow your lawn at sunset and dawn, the lowest the temp will be while having light.

    But is that a violation of the neighborhood social contract to be respectful and honor a “quiet hours” period?

    Edit to add: He’s probably late 50’s/early 60’s in age, if that matters for heat/health danger.

  15. 45 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    For a more serious response, I majored in forestry and wildlife at about the worst time possible. I finished up school in the fall of 2009 when the economy was in the dumpster due to the housing crash. Of course, houses being primarily built out of wood, there was absolutely nothing out there in the field of forestry. Even folks who had made a good living with forestry for years were looking for a way to make ends meet. So there was no way I was going to find a job doing that. And wildlife, well that's one of those majors that lots of people do because it is a pretty cool thing to major in, but the job market doesn't support the number of folks who major in it. Especially when there is a major recession. 

    So I worked a few odd jobs here and there and eventually went into operations at a chemical plant (way more money than I would have made with my degree). After a couple of years they decided to bring an R&D unit back up that did reactive extrusion. The original plan was to train an operator on each shift to run it, but it was a pretty complicated machine and you really had to know what you were doing to get it to run right. I was vacation relief at the time and there wasn't much vacation to cover, so I ended up training (which was more figuring out the best way to run it on your own) more than anybody else, and I had a pretty good knack for it. They ended up making me the sole operator on it once they realized that the other operators would have to spend so much time learning to run it while only training on their long weekends which only happens once every four weeks.

    When I first went down and started running it, it was in a pretty sorry state. They had rebuilt it all wrong and there was no way it was going to do anything useful because it was incapable of maintaining any sort of steady state conditions. I was able to use my education to demonstrate to management what exactly was going on and figure out exactly what they needed to do to fix it. See, one of the fundamental aspects of both forestry and wildlife is figuring out what you have so that you can then make management decisions about what to do with it. Trees don't grow uniformly, animals don't stay exclusively on whatever property you are looking at. They die, new ones are born. You have to figure out a way to take all of that into account when you survey them before you can make any management decisions. Well it turns out that that kind of thinking is perfectly suited for R&D.

    In my first year there, I was basically able to not only make the thing run properly, but also able to design experiments and design new ways of collecting data from those experiments so that what we learned from them would actually be useful. I'm not sure that I learned any more that year than I have any year since doing what I do, but it was by far the most transformative. 

    Amen to that, brother!

  16. 3 minutes ago, Homercles said:

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    The first time I saw that meme was @bad_teammate, so I guess that was my miracle year.

    Honestly though, and one of the reasons I posted this in earnest, is because I feel like I haven’t had one and I’m missing out on an amazing, transformative and exponentially valuable year. And wanted to hear about yalls and get some ideas.

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  17. 5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    So did the OP forget to first post in one of the crypto threads?

    I’m not sure what that meant, but thanks for your contribution to this thread at least!

    Also didn’t realize this was such a long OP; maybe I should go back and edit it down some for folks who come to message boards to not read but to just repeat, ad nauseam, the same things for months and even years on end.

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  18. 56 minutes ago, Queen Bitch said:

    Negotiation over for today. Both sides adhering to the media blackout. Sounds like the studios finally (AFTER 102 FUCKING DAYS) offered a counter to our proposals. 

    No mudslinging is a good sign. Cautious optimism -- feels weird, man!

    Awesome and congrats on the good energy!

    Question for you and Hank: I read today that House of Dragons (the GoT/HBO big budget thing) had been filming and is currently filming, etc. via some loophole that it's in UK.

    How can that be? Isn't that a little chickenpoop of them to do this during the strike? I feel like I've heard about a lot of loopholes the last 100 days and it doesn't strike me (no pun intended) as all that honorable or just. Your thoughts?

  19. I was reading an interesting bio of Isaac Newtown, famous for having his annus mirabilis or "miracle year" in 1666 when he came up with integral calculus and what would become his theory of gravity and just generally laying the foundation for much of what would come by way of natural philosophy, mathematics and science for the next 300+ years, and it got me to thinking-- when was my miracle year? Or have I yet to have one.

    It is described he had the wild energy one has when passionately motivated and excited for their ventures-- whether it be striking gold or oil or working on a math problem-- and hardly slept that year with all the activity and work he was doing.

    What was your miracle year like that set your life on the upward and positive direction? What did your miracle year look like that you were inspired and motivated and given the energy to accomplish all on your plate (and more!) as if that time was bestowed by God himself to springboard your life?

    It maybe a PhD or night law school or even an invention.

    It may be that start-up you founded and sold for millions or raised money for and ran.

    It may be that year you published your first book or sold your first painting in a gallery.

    It may be that year you worked to get partner at the firm or juggling infants and children while trying to grow your career.

    Who knows I'm sure it's different for us all, it's just that year you can look back on and say, "Wow, that was a lot of work and effort but boy did it pay off and I don't think I can ever replicate that again, but I can point to my successes having their germ in the work and activity undertook in that year, that annus mirabilis"

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