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3 hours ago, Not a cat said:

This.

It's like watching the Stanford prison experiment in real time.  Some of these idiots need to learn basic calculation of expected future value.  The guy that held out for 100k at the very beginning got it.

And speaking of money, I just do not understand the economics of streaming.  Between insane prize money being thrown around like candy, complex sets and games, thousands of cameras and dozens of support staff, how much money is this costing? How in the hell does Amazon turn a profit?

I actually looked this up, and to my astonishment, the production cost is in the ~100MM range, but it seems to be Mr Beast's investment.  I don't know how that's possible, but it is a fascinatingly stupid experiment.

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24 minutes ago, Chips O'Toole said:

I actually looked this up, and to my astonishment, the production cost is in the ~100MM range, but it seems to be Mr Beast's investment.  I don't know how that's possible, but it is a fascinatingly stupid experiment.

Uhhh, if true...

How much does MrBeast earn a year?

$700M a year

MrBeast earns a huge amount of money every year from his various business ventures — up to $700M a year, according to CNBC

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On 1/13/2025 at 9:23 PM, Gil Bang said:

just stumbled across "On Call".  Gritty police procedural set in LGB.  so far I'm digging it. 

 

On 1/14/2025 at 10:01 PM, Mez2 said:

Saw first two episodes, so far so good. Not on the level of Bosch but still strong, to, quite strong.

Same. Reminds me of an updated Adam-12.

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2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Almost none of them treat it like the competition that it is. The odds of winning the $5M is tiny, so any time they can maximize what they can take off the table guaranteed, they should. The people who turned down $1M are morons.

Yeah it's a bizarre, stupid, sometimes fascinating social experiment putting these morons in situations where they have to decide between different sums of money now and screwing over their peers and a possibility of more money later. 

 

The ones that honor an unofficial contract to be fair and get everyone through to the end always end up looking dumb when one player does a little risk-reward analysis and takes the money. 

 

We keep remarking on how obvious it is that they had no idea how to make a reality show. We barely know the contestants and don't care at all who wins, it's just interesting enough seeing them screw each other over or sometimes illogically make some altruistic choice and end up with nothing. 

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2 hours ago, Chips O'Toole said:

Yeah it's a bizarre, stupid, sometimes fascinating social experiment putting these morons in situations where they have to decide between different sums of money now and screwing over their peers and a possibility of more money later. 

 

The ones that honor an unofficial contract to be fair and get everyone through to the end always end up looking dumb when one player does a little risk-reward analysis and takes the money. 

 

We keep remarking on how obvious it is that they had no idea how to make a reality show. We barely know the contestants and don't care at all who wins, it's just interesting enough seeing them screw each other over or sometimes illogically make some altruistic choice and end up with nothing. 

It’s a fascinating show.  Folks are just 3 digit numbers, they do something dramatic, and then gone and forgotten.  Most interesting is how folks confuse a game focused on greed and make it a virtue exhibition.  As the game has progressed it’s been entertaining to watch as certain players have built cults of personality.  How some are vilified for taking big prizes and some are congratulated.  How previous altruism like the dude who turned down almost a million to not whack his group was later lynched.  The group is getting ugly as they are down to that final crew.  They wanted to kill the dude that took $650k and ignored the one previous that took $223k.  
 

if there’s a second season it would be interesting who signs up and how they play.

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