The irony is that a guy that just lost a defamation lawsuit, and got slapped with another one for telling lies, is simultaneously suing another company for defamation for telling the truth.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/netflix-executive-compensation-2022-reed-hastings-ted-sarandos-1235591184/

What’s weirdly missing from all the reporting on this/these cases is the dementia angle. His deposition video is wild. He seriously thought Carroll was his wife in the photo he was shown?! I don’t care how many years ago it was— does someone with a fully functioning brain forget what their wife looked like, or the…

Have fun suing him. It's a great cash cow as he'll never stop. 

If we charged one slim dime for every stupid thing Failure 45 says, we could pay off the national debt in two weeks.

One of the Disney™ experiences for the 1% is closing? Oh no! s/

Yeah people are shitting on it without knowing about what it was. I never got a chance to go but the only complaint I heard from people who went were that it was way to expensive and that the itinerary your given was restrictive(ie you felt like you were constantly being pulled to the next thing and didn’t get to…

Of all the “hot takes from an interview somewhere else” articles, why does this one have to be a fucking video? I don’t want to watch a fucking video.

Based on that image I’d say their first mistake was putting Rita Repulsa in a Star Wars experience.  

On the Distraction podcast (from Defector) with Adam Conover as guest where he goes into it. Michael Schur was on a few weeks before, but the sentiment is the same. The people in charge now, the investor class, don’t give a shit about the product. They care about maximizing revenues and profits. These aren’t movie/TV…

Oh. I was vaguely looking forward to reading that but “Roseanne Barr on Megyn Kelly” is a promise of ear poison I can’t endure. I hardly blame you for it just being a video, I wouldn’t want to actually have to watch it long enough to summarize either!

This doesn’t make a lick of sense to me. Shows like Little Demon and Willow were heavily marketed by Hulu and Disney+. Pulling them from the service less than a year after they aired just seems like throwing money away.

I guess I should watch Willow.

At the prices they wanted, it was a “never gonna happen” for me.  And I should have been in their demographic wheelhouse.  Old, male, nerd, disposable income.  All the boxes you could possibly want to check.

Sounds stupid.

I have a new Onion headline that can be used similar to the Mass shooting headline they use over and over again

Also the aesthetic never screamed “Star Wars” to me.  Didn’t help it was rooted in the First Order/Resistance conflict of the Sequels, which nobody really loves and wants to blow a huge wad of cash on role playing.

Yeah if they had just made it a star wars themed hotel with easier access to galaxys edge at a more reasonable price like the other hotels in the parks it would have been a success. My guess is that the hotel will get adjusted so they have less actors and a reduced storyline as currently it apparently is a lot of…

If they made a slightly larger scale, slightly less immersive experience, it would have been better. You can get people paying $4k for a week at Disney but for 2 nights, it was WAY TOO MUCH. 

wow they must have taken a massive loss on this. i can only imagine how little interest there was to close this...was it open for a shorter period than it took to build?