Fuck Disney. I have sucked the mouse's cock since they took over Marvel. No more. I am even canceling my comic books subs and I have collected Fantastic Four for over 50 years. No more.
Its not that impressive. Marvel comics have been dog shit for a while now. Its like saying Im not gonna watch Happy Days anymore, but youve on season 11, and it was season 5 that Fonzi jumped the shark.
It at least makes me very happy how plausible it is for a completely independent artist to make games on Steam or Itch that are universally enjoyed. Sadly there is a current trend of "NSFW" games getting banned on those platforms...
I wanted to plug one game that had been particularly victimized. It was an "unreliable narrator" game where you played as a stalker obsessively trying to find the real name of his favorite pornstar. It was uncomfortable, artistic, thought-provoking, and immediately tripped the ban filters. I thought I bookmarked it but if someone else knows it a reminder would be awesome.
This is a tangent, but I am so burnt out on Magic between the Universes Beyond and the new set every other week. I need to get back into just Cubing and not care about the plethora of cards from different IPs coming out, but I don’t know, just knowing about it all has kind of killed my passion for the game.
Yeah - this is what I need to focus on. My tabletop/board game group actually just played a cube and it was super fun. And the guy who made it just proxied the cards so they wouldn’t have to pay an exorbitant amount for pieces of cardboard.
I think the schedules going to cause burnout sooner rather than later.
In the group of people I play with, no one's really buying anymore- a lot of times even for the ips they like.
Even the guys who pride themselves in having non-proxy cedh decks have given up- by the time you've got the new cards in 2 weeks later, chances are theres another replacement. Mow theyre playing woth proxies for the cards in their flex slots, and only buying 3-4 times a year when they make a trip to go to a tourney.
I appreciate that. I'm just trying to be honest. And if anyone isn't willing to go nuclear, they can still make changes. In my case, I cut out 95% of what I was giving to them.
I mean good for you. I hope nobody ever comes for you because of something you said on Lemmy? The thing about fascism is you never know who it's gonna eat next. So, good luck
Reading comprehension isn't you're strong suit. I didn't call the comment fascist. And never once called for violence. You're making assumptions about my intent, which is based on your own biases.
NBC News is also reporting more alarming news for the conglomerate.
“A number of celebrities, including NSYNC band member Lance Bass and ‘Transparent’ star Amy Landecker, have shared screenshots to social media that show their cancellations of their Disney-affiliated subscriptions,” NBC is reporting before adding, “As the message gained traction over the last day across social media sites, Google Trends showed an uptick of searches for the terms ‘cancel Disney Plus’ and ‘boycott Disney,’ as posters declared they were leaving the streaming platforms behind.”
That led popular podcaster Bill Simmons, who was doubtful about Kimmel’s ABC future to have second thoughts.
I don’t know who those people are. Or care. (I “know” NSYNC, but it’s not like I can name them or any songs.) As for a “popular” podcaster - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay?
Just - for a huge story on billion dollar media conglomerates folding under fascism, ending with . . . that - what I quoted there . . . ehh. Not great. Obama? Harrison Ford? fuck, i dunno - someone with a little more footprint or relevance?
But divorced parents trying to buy their kids love care. And after comic book nerds collectors , they're probably the second biggest income for Disney. After all the collectors only buy for themselves usually, whereas a parent may have to buy for more than one.
Yup. Kimmel got just 220k viewers in the 18 to 49 demo last quarter. Colbert got 219k and Fallon got like 159k or something like that. The kids arent watching, and thats just a simple fact.
He should definitely do something else and shove it in their face. They still have to pay him regardless. I don't think Spotify is the right route though...
I personally think he should tour a live show as Conan did and really take it up a notch. That single tour launched an entirely new world of opportunities for Conan, and I'm sure it would do the same for Kimmel.
YouTube is the Spotify route? I'm not getting it.
Are you using "Spotify" to generically mean "audio content", like people might have said "radio" at some point? Or to mean smaller-scale streaming content or something...?
Sorry, I just woke back up and didn't get much sleep last night. So may be being dumb.
They just mean independent route rather than solely one of the above listed things. They just used Spotify as an example that some people have taken. I think independent would be a better word for it but I think that's what they meant.
Uhhh, Disney is more. Please, boycott both, but Spotify only recently started supporting fascists when they platformed Rogan, Disney has spent decades normalizing violence and portraying non-whites as evil violent terrorists. Disney has anyways been a little too racist for the time.
I don't want to see Kimmel come back as if nothing happened. I want to see him find a new platform and farm the stupidity of Disney, Sinclair, etc for gold for the next few months. What Disney and co. did was not some stupid PR misstep, they let the mask slip on how easily they would fall in line behind a political pay master to keep him happy and in the process effectively violate the 1st amendment by giving the government a method of silencing speech. Which should be the kind of thing that burns the whole corporation to the ground and gets those in charge ostracized from polite society.
There should be no coming back for them from this.
Don't re-sign up, remember this moment, they aren't you friends. Torrent the movies/shows you want to watch, don't go to their parks, don't let your children get an early childhood obsession with them, don't buy their toys and merchandise, and do this for all the evil companies.
McDonald's, BK, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, dominos, papa John's, pizza hut, those are easy ones. Stop eating fast food and stop feeding it to your children. I bet there are 20 good independent coffee shops near you, stop buying Nazi charcoal. Find a local pizza shop with a brick oven, I'm sure they deliver.
Google, Amazon, stop paying for their services. Buy some hard drives and learn to self host, it's never been a better time. Blocks ads when not using their services.
Boycott and divestment works, it's what ended apartheid in South Africa, it's effecting Israel's economy and may very well end the apartheid in Palestine once Americans wake up and stop the unlimited funding of genocide with their children's future. These companies will only stop being evil when customers let them know that evil is a red line, but as long as apathy continues it'll be more profitable to be as evil as they are today, and worse.
I didn't mean to leave them out, I wasn't making an exhaustive list, I just thought of what everyone probably still uses and pays for (Google, YouTube, Amazon prime, etc).
Microsoft is all cloud and enterprise now, they are much harder to directly boycott effectively by consumers. But yes, avoid them too.
I know this is Lemmy where we're all on Linux already, but a lot of people out there still use Windows, and that's a massive source of income and control for Microsoft that people could stop using. At the very least they could cancel OneDrive.
There's that, but also Larry Ellison is a fucking monster and massive Trump booster. The Paramount deal that got rid of Colbert was due to the Ellison family owning Skydance, which just acquired Paramount.
Also Oracle is an enemy of OpenSource, they acquired Sun and MySQL and OpenOffice, then attempted to destroy them. Oracle can rot in hell.
Kimmel and Colbert are rich they can afford it. They don’t have to start a new ABC studio. A small indie internet only studio is way more affordable than a full network that broadcasts on cable. If Sam Reich can afford to start a successful streaming service so can Kimmel and Colbert.
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ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 338d
Fuck Disney. I have sucked the mouse's cock since they took over Marvel. No more. I am even canceling my comic books subs and I have collected Fantastic Four for over 50 years. No more.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 35 pts · 337d
This impresses the hell out of me. I don’t collect but I’ve known many collectors, and I know what a decision like this represents.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
Its not that impressive. Marvel comics have been dog shit for a while now. Its like saying Im not gonna watch Happy Days anymore, but youve on season 11, and it was season 5 that Fonzi jumped the shark.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 338d
Fuck them for buying up Marvel and Star Wars. Their problem is they are afraid of original ideas.
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 338d
That's a good point I didn't even think of. They fucking OWN comics now. We need more independent comics that are as popular.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 337d
A lot of rich people are buying up media to control information.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
It at least makes me very happy how plausible it is for a completely independent artist to make games on Steam or Itch that are universally enjoyed. Sadly there is a current trend of "NSFW" games getting banned on those platforms...
I wanted to plug one game that had been particularly victimized. It was an "unreliable narrator" game where you played as a stalker obsessively trying to find the real name of his favorite pornstar. It was uncomfortable, artistic, thought-provoking, and immediately tripped the ban filters. I thought I bookmarked it but if someone else knows it a reminder would be awesome.
axexrx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d
This was always the problem with the idea of owning information.
ronigami@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
A lot of rich zionists *
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d
Before this I was thinking of getting back into Spider-Man comics like I had as a kid.
Not touching that with a 50 ft pole now.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
Hmm Is mtg a no- go for the ub content?
Cardigans@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 337d
This is a tangent, but I am so burnt out on Magic between the Universes Beyond and the new set every other week. I need to get back into just Cubing and not care about the plethora of cards from different IPs coming out, but I don’t know, just knowing about it all has kind of killed my passion for the game.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d
May I suggest: just do the fun parts. Print your own cards. Ignore sets that don't interest you. Stop giving Hasbro money for no reason.
Cardigans@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 333d
Yeah - this is what I need to focus on. My tabletop/board game group actually just played a cube and it was super fun. And the guy who made it just proxied the cards so they wouldn’t have to pay an exorbitant amount for pieces of cardboard.
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
I think the schedules going to cause burnout sooner rather than later.
In the group of people I play with, no one's really buying anymore- a lot of times even for the ips they like.
Even the guys who pride themselves in having non-proxy cedh decks have given up- by the time you've got the new cards in 2 weeks later, chances are theres another replacement. Mow theyre playing woth proxies for the cards in their flex slots, and only buying 3-4 times a year when they make a trip to go to a tourney.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 336d
I just made a new Disney + account
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 336d
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 336d
How do you not see that for the trolling attempt it is?
How are you that easily baited?
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 335d
Thats its, now I just deleted my Disney+ again. Flip floppers.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 338d
I didn't cancel my $1 per month Disney or Hulu subscriptions. But I did cancel my $40 ESPN + NFL+ subscription and made sure to put the reason why.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 84 pts · 338d
You should cancel your $1 per month Disney and Hulu subscriptions simply out of spite, and pirate their content instead. It is not hard to do.
Branquinho@lemmy.eco.br · 36 pts · 338d
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 338d
I appreciate that. I'm just trying to be honest. And if anyone isn't willing to go nuclear, they can still make changes. In my case, I cut out 95% of what I was giving to them.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 337d
I was getting full access to Hulu and Disney ad-free for $10 a month. Canceled them both. You should cancel the $1 subs just to send the message.
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
I'm sorry, what?? Did you get grandfathered in on some crazy deal?
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d
There's always a $1 per month (for one year) Black Friday promotion for new Hulu accounts. We just flip between two accounts every year.
This last year they had the same promotion for Disney+.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 336d
Wonder if the dollar makes up for your share of bandwidth cost. Maybe you should stream something starring Jimmy 24\7 in 4k just to be sure
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
caboose2006@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 337d
It makes me wish I had a Disney+ subscription to cancel
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
Yeah, I mean, I'm already stealing it off my brother in-law's login, so I guess I'm doing my part.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 337d
I've felt this about a lot of things over the past few years.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
open & close automated scripts lol..?
ameancow@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 337d
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 336d
Im happy about all this and recently made a Disney + account. Im not even lying
caboose2006@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 336d
I mean good for you. I hope nobody ever comes for you because of something you said on Lemmy? The thing about fascism is you never know who it's gonna eat next. So, good luck
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 335d
Lol. Fine. I just ended my + account... those damn flip floppers.
caboose2006@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
Oh I get it. You're trying to be edgy.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 335d
caboose2006@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
Reading comprehension isn't you're strong suit. I didn't call the comment fascist. And never once called for violence. You're making assumptions about my intent, which is based on your own biases.
Get a life loser.
Pulptastic@midwest.social · 27 pts · 336d
Now let them bring him back but keep your sub cancelled.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 338d
I don’t know who those people are. Or care. (I “know” NSYNC, but it’s not like I can name them or any songs.) As for a “popular” podcaster - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay?
Just - for a huge story on billion dollar media conglomerates folding under fascism, ending with . . . that - what I quoted there . . . ehh. Not great. Obama? Harrison Ford? fuck, i dunno - someone with a little more footprint or relevance?
kinkles@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 338d
You know shit is getting real when legendary and global music icon Lance Bass unsubs.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d
But divorced parents trying to buy their kids love care. And after
comic book nerdscollectors , they're probably the second biggest income for Disney. After all the collectors only buy for themselves usually, whereas a parent may have to buy for more than one.IronBird@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
some of these podcasters have higher viewership numbers than Kimmel, just fyi.
these boomer networks are a dying business and they know it, when people leave they don't come back
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
Yup. Kimmel got just 220k viewers in the 18 to 49 demo last quarter. Colbert got 219k and Fallon got like 159k or something like that. The kids arent watching, and thats just a simple fact.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
Yeah yeah I know. But metrics for podcasts are still better than network tv, which have always been guesstimates.
devolution@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 338d
Kimmel shouldn't return. He should tell Disney to get fucked and go the Spotify route.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 337d
Spotify is a shitty company nobody should be giving money to. They gave Joe Rogan a platform out of greed when others shunned him.
Tidal has better quality, pays artists four times as much, and doesn't do this sort of shit.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 337d
Does tidal have a podcast network?
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 338d
He should definitely do something else and shove it in their face. They still have to pay him regardless. I don't think Spotify is the right route though...
I personally think he should tour a live show as Conan did and really take it up a notch. That single tour launched an entirely new world of opportunities for Conan, and I'm sure it would do the same for Kimmel.
Intergalactic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 338d
Spotify is infinitely worse than Disney imo.
devolution@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d
I said the Spotify route, not actually go on Spotify. Lol
wavebeam@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 337d
ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d
What is the Spotify route
devolution@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d
Podcasting. Independent media. YouTube. Etc.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d
YouTube is the Spotify route? I'm not getting it. Are you using "Spotify" to generically mean "audio content", like people might have said "radio" at some point? Or to mean smaller-scale streaming content or something...?
Sorry, I just woke back up and didn't get much sleep last night. So may be being dumb.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d
They just mean independent route rather than solely one of the above listed things. They just used Spotify as an example that some people have taken. I think independent would be a better word for it but I think that's what they meant.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
Thanks
devolution@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
Generic.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 337d
Not even close. Disney is way worse.
Intergalactic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
Spotify is funding genocide and selling weapons.
3abas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
Uhhh, Disney is more. Please, boycott both, but Spotify only recently started supporting fascists when they platformed Rogan, Disney has spent decades normalizing violence and portraying non-whites as evil violent terrorists. Disney has anyways been a little too racist for the time.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 336d
I don't want to see Kimmel come back as if nothing happened. I want to see him find a new platform and farm the stupidity of Disney, Sinclair, etc for gold for the next few months. What Disney and co. did was not some stupid PR misstep, they let the mask slip on how easily they would fall in line behind a political pay master to keep him happy and in the process effectively violate the 1st amendment by giving the government a method of silencing speech. Which should be the kind of thing that burns the whole corporation to the ground and gets those in charge ostracized from polite society.
There should be no coming back for them from this.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 337d
I look forward to the return of Mr Mouse and how he will be portrayed in South Park!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 336d
Kimmel was a symptom. Disney needs to be canceled.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social · 11 pts · 336d
I want to known what the next step is? OK we punched then in the face, but what do we do to nock them down and curb stomp them?
3abas@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 336d
Don't re-sign up, remember this moment, they aren't you friends. Torrent the movies/shows you want to watch, don't go to their parks, don't let your children get an early childhood obsession with them, don't buy their toys and merchandise, and do this for all the evil companies.
McDonald's, BK, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, dominos, papa John's, pizza hut, those are easy ones. Stop eating fast food and stop feeding it to your children. I bet there are 20 good independent coffee shops near you, stop buying Nazi charcoal. Find a local pizza shop with a brick oven, I'm sure they deliver.
Google, Amazon, stop paying for their services. Buy some hard drives and learn to self host, it's never been a better time. Blocks ads when not using their services.
Boycott and divestment works, it's what ended apartheid in South Africa, it's effecting Israel's economy and may very well end the apartheid in Palestine once Americans wake up and stop the unlimited funding of genocide with their children's future. These companies will only stop being evil when customers let them know that evil is a red line, but as long as apathy continues it'll be more profitable to be as evil as they are today, and worse.
absentbird@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 336d
Microsoft is worse than Google, Oracle is worse too. I mean yeah, boycott Google, but fuck Microsoft and Oracle extra hard.
3abas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d
I didn't mean to leave them out, I wasn't making an exhaustive list, I just thought of what everyone probably still uses and pays for (Google, YouTube, Amazon prime, etc).
Microsoft is all cloud and enterprise now, they are much harder to directly boycott effectively by consumers. But yes, avoid them too.
absentbird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
I know this is Lemmy where we're all on Linux already, but a lot of people out there still use Windows, and that's a massive source of income and control for Microsoft that people could stop using. At the very least they could cancel OneDrive.
plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 336d
Oracle takes from businesses as much as they can. I consider that fair play. What makes them worse than Google? The TikTok deal?
absentbird@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
There's that, but also Larry Ellison is a fucking monster and massive Trump booster. The Paramount deal that got rid of Colbert was due to the Ellison family owning Skydance, which just acquired Paramount.
Also Oracle is an enemy of OpenSource, they acquired Sun and MySQL and OpenOffice, then attempted to destroy them. Oracle can rot in hell.
ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 336d
Cool I won’t be resubbing. 🏴☠️
eddanja@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d
You can give in suck the pumpkin's penis all you want but in the end, all you're left with is a bad taste in your mouth. Not more money.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
Ooo and stained lips
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 337d
That's part of the process. So he knows everyone else knows what went down.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
https://nunflix.org/
Clathrate_Gun@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 336d
What is this? Just another streaming service? Or somehow more specialized as an anti-Disney alternative.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
take a look and you’ll find out real quick not trying to flag anything
Clathrate_Gun@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 336d
I did look before I commented. It seems geared toward getting discounts of some kind.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
use adblock if you’re mentioning the ads
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
huh? you sure..? you didn’t look hard enough lol. search for a show or a movie
Clathrate_Gun@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 336d
Oh snap! Every link is a dead-end that leads to an advertisement. The Jimmy Kimmel show is actually the only one that’s accurate.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
oh yea use an adblocker otherwise it gets annoying
Ancalagon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
Start their own media company
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
It has been suggested before, but it is obscenely expensive
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
Kimmel and Colbert are rich they can afford it. They don’t have to start a new ABC studio. A small indie internet only studio is way more affordable than a full network that broadcasts on cable. If Sam Reich can afford to start a successful streaming service so can Kimmel and Colbert.
ameancow@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 337d