In any case, it looks like Iger put questions about whether Disney would go through with the Hulu acquisition to rest (it’s a lot more debt that Disney will have to take on, in addition to the giant mound of debt they have from the 20th Century Fox acquisition).

1. Those Disney World figures are for all the parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon). For just Magic Kingdom (for example) it’s closer to 21m. Even still, no one is saying that Busch Gardens, in terms of visitors, is on par with Disney. It is impressive, however,…

People might vacation to Florida for Universal but they sure don’t just for SeaWorld/Busch.

I’m all in favor of working remotely (and I’ve done so prior to Covid-19), however, there is one logistical issue that I think gets overlooked: internet speeds and tech support.

While I know there’s an expectation that people who are working as developers and coders should be able to do at least the perfunctory level…

Disney’s most recent CEO before Bob Iger returned got bounced out less than a year from when he started. Simply being CEO of a major company doesn’t come with the power you think it does, especially for a company that, unlike Disney, family shareholders play a major role in not just ownership, but also the day-to-day…

That was my thought.

Matsson wants to ride off into the sunset with his billions of dollars and his Twitter account, and doesn’t like dealing with the minutiae of running a huge, international business (which Waystar-Gojo would be, to a larger extent than either of them are at the moment). So, he sandbags the value of…

I think Gerri has massively overplayed her hand here. The firm is always more powerful than she is. The only leverage she truly has is to go whistleblower which blows everything up. She acts like the dick pics are some actual leverage... she was General Council, there’s virtually no power imbalance there. Actually at…

Also (and correct me if I’m wrong), but it is wild that stock options once handed over to the worker, aren’t considered income. Like if I make 200k and buy 50k of stock, I don’t get to treat that 50k as if I didn’t get it as income. But if I got 50k in stock options, I don’t need to pay any tax on it until I sell it.…

He was a rich guy who was willing to splash around money, and was good at networking with rich people (it’s how he got rich in the first place).

That said, it seems clear that Epstein’s biggest talent lay in networking and connecting people he knew, and using those connections as calling cards to make new connections. He was also really really good at making money and probably advised a lot of people on investments, etc.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Microsoft is selling Xbox consoles to make money on consoles. They’re selling consoles as a conduit for software sales, GamePass, and Cross-Play.

Sony needs the gaming arena to be successful since it comprises nearly a third of their annual revenues. Nintendo is a gaming…

While it can often be sarcastic, I’ve always taken it to mean “devoid of passion, intensity, or spur-of-the-moment creativity”.

Someone can have a great deal of technical proficiency in a variety of fields, but specifying technical proficiency is usually used to denote lacking in spontaneity or adventurousness, or raw…

Very apt.

However, as I said, we don’t really see the business side of things. It’s all deals, backroom and boardroom stuff. The hook for the show isn’t the business, it’s the personal, which makes sense given it’s created by people who aren’t on/in the business side of things (contrast that with Billions, created by…

I’ve watched since season 1, and I don’t recall Living+ ever being mentioned.

However, it doesn’t strike me as an ass-pull. In fact, I think it’s a not-too-subtle shoutout to things like Disney+, Google Plus, and CNN+, where a media/content company pivots into a new line of business without any sort of art or deft when…

Your implication presumes a non-existent and faulty premise: that Wall Street operates on logical fundamentals all the time.

Sometimes? Yes. All the time? Absolutely not. You know where it breaks down fully? When it comes to the valuations of companies, particularly when they’re the targets of mergers and acquisitions.

W…

I agree.

If the fundamental argument is that, by nature of the acquisition, Microsoft would increase both their market share and access to relevent patents and IP in the gaming space and therefore it should be stopped, then that argument would have to be applied to literally every merger and acquisition, as they’re all…

But if the issue is IP consolidation, then why not force the divestiture of much more lucrative 1st party IPs from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo?

The fact is that the argument being made by British regulators makes absolutely fuck all sense when you consider that CoD has never been on any streaming platform. It’s not…

I love Dave, but I can’t see him delivering the specific lines of dialog from Holden in the manner that Cormac wrote them. Also, I think that Dave is too...obviously muscular and athletic.

Much of the fear and aura around Judge Holden wasn’t just the fact that he was physically big, but that he carried the weight in a…

He already revealed this over 3 months ago during his VladTV interview. This isn’t news.

Pretty sure the NFL would heavily frown upon (read: not allow) a currently active player openly investing in a dispensary, considering that weed is both A. Still illegal on the federal level and B. Still a banned substance per league policy.

Regardless of what I think about the law or league policy (I say legalize it…