FYI by permanent this means that even if the property is sold it can't be undone. Some previous homeowner can decide and then it's stuck like that for eternity (or until Google changes their policy I guess).
I mean it says 'nobody should be trusted with it' but then it gives it to someone most people would agree would be absolutely horrible to receive it and it goes about as well as everyone expects.
If they wanted to prove in it's absolute corrupting influence then give it to someone like Mr. Rogers and then show how it corrupts even the best of us. There are dozens of better media showing the downfall of a good person with good intentions being corrupted by power. Death Note is a show about giving an artifact that could be an incredible force for good but is instead mishandled horribly and stupidly by basically everyone involved.
Honestly I think a good 40-60% of the population would do a better job than Light did with the power. For one, most people would immediately use it to kill the vast majority of the world's most evil people before they actually started using it for dumb shit. The show overly focused on small time criminals rather than corrupt politicians and the rich in an effort to avoid shifting the tone into something more political (or simply because politics was less insane back then, I'm not sure). Either way it hasn't aged well given our current global environment.
Isn't Pokemon like... The biggest IP ever? Way bigger than Star wars or marvel or pretty much anything else? Not sure they're actually hurting. At all.
Apparently PE was already getting out of the market? A how money works video said that they represented ~25% of recent home sales despite having ~7% of homes.
Encountering this attitude in the haremlit space was strange. This is literally a genre about erotica and unconventional relationships... So why are you being so puritan?
My wife's workplace tried to have them do dream journaling and then had them come back and report back to the group on what they dreamed about. This is a fortune 500 company that you've absolutely heard of before.
Laundry machines and dishwashers are still some of the highest manual labor required as far as home appliances go. Load, unload, fold, put away,, clean the lint trap, etc.
Compared to a robot vac that just does it's thing on a schedule while you occasionally empty it's dock and clean the filters, it's not nearly as 'automated'.
This is also mostly how modern geopolitics seems to work. Lots of little 'skirmishes' that aren't actual war alongside more traditional diplomacy. The ideal seems to be mostly peace with a touch of violence here and there to keep people on their toes.
I think light revolutions work. Stuff like what France does where they riot and start burning cars when the government tries to raise the retirement age. The kind of stuff that reminds the politicians that they could be dragged out into the streets by an angry mob, but that hasn't happened yet.
Actual revolutions where you do need to go that far, mostly fail as you said. Additionally, foreign meddling is common, so even if you can deal with everything else, outside actors are going to try to screw with you. And they'll typically succeed.
Without any sort of violence at all, you become a non-threat and we get what we currently have in America today. No one cares about the protests because they aren't going to do anything at all to the people they most need to affect.
Basically you need a sweet spot of minor levels of violence without fully going full revolution or being neutered into irrelevancy since they know you'll never fight back.
huge percentage of profit that theaters get for the first few weeks of a film's release.
This is backwards. Theaters actually get very little percentage early on in the release and only get more later. Most early profits go to the film studio/publisher. Or at least this was how it worked ore-Covid. Maybe it's different now.
I love how I have to submit documentation as part of project deliverables only to then get asked for that same documentation again 2 years later because the project management department can't actually find anything that they require everyone to submit. So you just end up maintaining all of your documents in multiple places anyway, but then this leads to multiple versions being a thing and people operating off of older versions that they sometimes stumble on.
Also, I worked in a big box store for years, and the situation you described was not the norm at all. There was maybe one or two shelves where that product wasn't owned by the store itself. And those ones were loaded separately by that other company's staff.
Maybe it's more regional, but I work in this space. My company has these deals for our product and we work heavily with companies like Walmart, CVS, Target, etc. We're in almost 100,000 stores and that's how all of this works. We regularly interact with companies that facilitate these kind of set ups. Soda, candy, Pokemon cards, greeting cards, etc are all products that operate this way.
SBT (scan based trading) reduces the stores risk, by not having a large amount of capital tied up in product that hasn't sold yet. It's hugely popular in the spaces I'm familiar with at least.
Brother took me to a casino for my 21st birthday. I did a bit of research, so I only took in $40 and left my atm card at home.
I wanted to play the cool looking slot machines. Brother convinced me that roulette was going to be way more fun. It was a busy night, so it took almost an hour to get a spot at the table. And the minimum bet was $10. Roughly 3 min after finally getting to bet, I'd lost all $40, having not won a single time (even my bets on the colors failed).
It was so utterly disappointing, especially when the next person in our party got to the table and managed to keep their bets going for over an hour and left with a few hundred extra $ that night. Most of the night was me just standing around bored out of my mind.
I'm very thankful for that early experience. Later experiences were better, but also far more tempting. I attribute my ability to resist the temptation largely to how shitty that first night was.
I mean it varies. That definitely exists, but that's not the only way (or even the majority way).
For one thing, most big box stores don't actually own the product on their shelves. They basically rent shelf space to the supplier and only when the product is purchased do both sides get the cut. Walmart can't arbitrarily lower prices on some (most) items because it's literally not theirs.
This set up greatly simplifies a lot of the retail flow, so it's more and more common (at least in the US). It's mostly smaller stores that are ordering in product and in that case your example is correct.
Steam effectively does the same thing. They offer to list your game and then only get paid when it sells (minus some overhead fees). They aren't pre-purchasing copies to do with what they want. And part of that contract is that they will list your game, but only if it's the lowest price or tied for the lowest price. Otherwise you're free to go elsewhere.
Which is again, because being available on Steam provides value itself and they aren't interested in helping you cut them out the profits by undercutting the price you listed it for there. Which, explicitly is just an attempt to get the benefit of Steam without paying Steam's fees. Otherwise all of these games would just never list on Steam at all. Nobody is preventing that. If they allowed this, more and more people would behave like people do today with bookstores, where they look for a book at the store, but walk out and buy it on Amazon instead.
This is a pretty common tactic in retail spaces. Walmart also won't let you sell the same product that you've contracted to put on their shelves elsewhere for cheaper.
The general idea is that you are benefitting from Walmart's market dominance for exposure and advertising. You can't get that benefit and then encourage consumers to buy it elsewhere by listing it for cheaper than Walmart sells it for.
You can agree or disagree with that approach, but it's not unique to Steam and it's so far generally been held up as reasonable.
FYI by permanent this means that even if the property is sold it can't be undone. Some previous homeowner can decide and then it's stuck like that for eternity (or until Google changes their policy I guess).
I mean it says 'nobody should be trusted with it' but then it gives it to someone most people would agree would be absolutely horrible to receive it and it goes about as well as everyone expects.
If they wanted to prove in it's absolute corrupting influence then give it to someone like Mr. Rogers and then show how it corrupts even the best of us. There are dozens of better media showing the downfall of a good person with good intentions being corrupted by power. Death Note is a show about giving an artifact that could be an incredible force for good but is instead mishandled horribly and stupidly by basically everyone involved.
Honestly I think a good 40-60% of the population would do a better job than Light did with the power. For one, most people would immediately use it to kill the vast majority of the world's most evil people before they actually started using it for dumb shit. The show overly focused on small time criminals rather than corrupt politicians and the rich in an effort to avoid shifting the tone into something more political (or simply because politics was less insane back then, I'm not sure). Either way it hasn't aged well given our current global environment.
I'd be more ok with this if the expensive specialists on board were actually making bank instead of really low wages.
Personally I don't actually want physical media anymore. I just want digital media to actually be something I own.
Fox used to be known for this. Launching a lot of new shows and then axing them if they weren't an immediate smash hit.
Isn't Pokemon like... The biggest IP ever? Way bigger than Star wars or marvel or pretty much anything else? Not sure they're actually hurting. At all.
Apparently PE was already getting out of the market? A how money works video said that they represented ~25% of recent home sales despite having ~7% of homes.
Encountering this attitude in the haremlit space was strange. This is literally a genre about erotica and unconventional relationships... So why are you being so puritan?
There are also competing digital market spaces. You can only buy through Sony on PlayStation.
Yep. Seems like the key is: find vaguely related thing that people dislike, then gaslight them that more surveillance will fix it (it doesn't fix it).
My wife's workplace tried to have them do dream journaling and then had them come back and report back to the group on what they dreamed about. This is a fortune 500 company that you've absolutely heard of before.
Laundry machines and dishwashers are still some of the highest manual labor required as far as home appliances go. Load, unload, fold, put away,, clean the lint trap, etc.
Compared to a robot vac that just does it's thing on a schedule while you occasionally empty it's dock and clean the filters, it's not nearly as 'automated'.
This is also mostly how modern geopolitics seems to work. Lots of little 'skirmishes' that aren't actual war alongside more traditional diplomacy. The ideal seems to be mostly peace with a touch of violence here and there to keep people on their toes.
I think light revolutions work. Stuff like what France does where they riot and start burning cars when the government tries to raise the retirement age. The kind of stuff that reminds the politicians that they could be dragged out into the streets by an angry mob, but that hasn't happened yet.
Actual revolutions where you do need to go that far, mostly fail as you said. Additionally, foreign meddling is common, so even if you can deal with everything else, outside actors are going to try to screw with you. And they'll typically succeed.
Without any sort of violence at all, you become a non-threat and we get what we currently have in America today. No one cares about the protests because they aren't going to do anything at all to the people they most need to affect.
Basically you need a sweet spot of minor levels of violence without fully going full revolution or being neutered into irrelevancy since they know you'll never fight back.
This is backwards. Theaters actually get very little percentage early on in the release and only get more later. Most early profits go to the film studio/publisher. Or at least this was how it worked ore-Covid. Maybe it's different now.
I love how I have to submit documentation as part of project deliverables only to then get asked for that same documentation again 2 years later because the project management department can't actually find anything that they require everyone to submit. So you just end up maintaining all of your documents in multiple places anyway, but then this leads to multiple versions being a thing and people operating off of older versions that they sometimes stumble on.
Maybe it's more regional, but I work in this space. My company has these deals for our product and we work heavily with companies like Walmart, CVS, Target, etc. We're in almost 100,000 stores and that's how all of this works. We regularly interact with companies that facilitate these kind of set ups. Soda, candy, Pokemon cards, greeting cards, etc are all products that operate this way.
SBT (scan based trading) reduces the stores risk, by not having a large amount of capital tied up in product that hasn't sold yet. It's hugely popular in the spaces I'm familiar with at least.
Brother took me to a casino for my 21st birthday. I did a bit of research, so I only took in $40 and left my atm card at home.
I wanted to play the cool looking slot machines. Brother convinced me that roulette was going to be way more fun. It was a busy night, so it took almost an hour to get a spot at the table. And the minimum bet was $10. Roughly 3 min after finally getting to bet, I'd lost all $40, having not won a single time (even my bets on the colors failed).
It was so utterly disappointing, especially when the next person in our party got to the table and managed to keep their bets going for over an hour and left with a few hundred extra $ that night. Most of the night was me just standing around bored out of my mind.
I'm very thankful for that early experience. Later experiences were better, but also far more tempting. I attribute my ability to resist the temptation largely to how shitty that first night was.
I mean it varies. That definitely exists, but that's not the only way (or even the majority way).
For one thing, most big box stores don't actually own the product on their shelves. They basically rent shelf space to the supplier and only when the product is purchased do both sides get the cut. Walmart can't arbitrarily lower prices on some (most) items because it's literally not theirs.
This set up greatly simplifies a lot of the retail flow, so it's more and more common (at least in the US). It's mostly smaller stores that are ordering in product and in that case your example is correct.
Steam effectively does the same thing. They offer to list your game and then only get paid when it sells (minus some overhead fees). They aren't pre-purchasing copies to do with what they want. And part of that contract is that they will list your game, but only if it's the lowest price or tied for the lowest price. Otherwise you're free to go elsewhere.
Which is again, because being available on Steam provides value itself and they aren't interested in helping you cut them out the profits by undercutting the price you listed it for there. Which, explicitly is just an attempt to get the benefit of Steam without paying Steam's fees. Otherwise all of these games would just never list on Steam at all. Nobody is preventing that. If they allowed this, more and more people would behave like people do today with bookstores, where they look for a book at the store, but walk out and buy it on Amazon instead.
This is a pretty common tactic in retail spaces. Walmart also won't let you sell the same product that you've contracted to put on their shelves elsewhere for cheaper.
The general idea is that you are benefitting from Walmart's market dominance for exposure and advertising. You can't get that benefit and then encourage consumers to buy it elsewhere by listing it for cheaper than Walmart sells it for.
You can agree or disagree with that approach, but it's not unique to Steam and it's so far generally been held up as reasonable.