In a lot of markets, and the US in particular. Sony’s output is locked into Starz for the initial TV/streaming window. Followed by Netflix for a bit.

I’m not neccisarily just talking about the media and Hollywood itself. Although for damn sure. A lot of the Whedon fandom, and just the conversation around him in general was fully on board with this read.

Though in my experience a good bit of the Buffy Fandom was more aware, and more apt to point later in the series…

I understand that full well.

But Whedon’s typical thing. Well the women in question are all a particular type of conventionally attractive. They’re typically the subject of, or centered in the romantic attention of men. Depicted in relationships with men with fairly problematic attitudes and behaviors, modeled as if…

Then why this:

So much of it was just obvious male wish fulfillment I just never quite got how his shows became this ur example for “strong female character”.

To the extent that actual real live women connected strongly with Buffy. That would seem to be rooted in lack of options in 90's genre TV and the much better female writers he…

Yes. Vertical integration is total warm and fuzzy when Sony swallows their suppliers.

The regulatory take these days is more that they aren’t monopolies cause we said so.

Like Disney buying everyone isn’t a problems because like streaming will fix it or something.

So Microsoft consolidatin can’t be a problem because playing cards and day planners are a thing.

We’re good!

Well they bought Obsidian, inExile, Double Fine. And a bunch of other small studios. And Bethesda wasn’t so much a 3rd party publishing house. They almost exclusively published their own stuff, and stuff from the smaller Devs they owned. Many of which seemed to lack for support.

All of it is pretty new as well.…

It’s not “kept somewhat quiet” coverage has been heavy for years. You know about it, it’s well documented enough to be a marketing angle for these these companies.

But part and parcel of how opinions seem to be shifting on these. Is less buy in on the idea that plant agriculture is automagically better for the…

That’s the thing. This is BBCE’s second go round with a high value, fake Pokémon box. Paul was apparently connected to that one as well, though tangentially. He avoiding buying that fake.

But it generated a huge amount of attention and views for anyone even just commenting on it. Hell even I ended up catching it, and…

apparently, the box was a really good fake.

Here it seems even easier. As the item was a case of purportedly sealed booster boxes. All that was sealing it was pretty easy to come by security tape. 

From what I understand the thing with this sort of thing is less that unopened shit is automagically worth more than opened stuff. Which is certainly the thing with like action figures and shit.

It’s unopened stuff is uncirculated, whatever the hell is in there is should be in perfect condition. The odds that they…

It could be a sandwich. 

Hey let me quote myself.

I think you found the explanation in “it’s tik tok”.

Like I said. There was a gold rush on selling 14 year olds raw wet douche at the time.

You don’t have to pay royalties for the use of products like this in films. There’s some liability in regards to whether your depiction is disparaging or potentially making a claim about a product. Or creating an association or impression of endorsement where that might undesirable.

From what I gather from some similar shit I got stuck on this Baseball Card Exchange place has no background in anything but Sports Memorabilia. Hasn’t really authenticated much Pokemon stuff, isn’t terribly well known, and this isn’t how that’s handled. They seem to be generally considered OK by baseball card guys. 

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In other countries like India. Where 30% of people are vegetarian, 80%+ don’t eat beef.