It’s not that people can’t figure it out.

It’s that they won’t accept it. Particularly when they’re used to getting a similar item at a lower price, or most places down the block have the item listed at a lower price.

There’s a powerful psychological element to this one says $5 and that one says $10.

A restaurant is not there to provide you with a hang out spot.

Their business is to sell you wine.

Of course the corkage fee is there to make sure they make money off of you.

In this case it is an incentive to buy their wine. Not bring your own. They aren’t charging you for service, or opening the wine.

They’re…

Nah. It’s mostly because if they just raise the price of that plate $2 dollars. People will have a fucking melt down about it and their business will evaporate over night.

It’s because raising prices has an insane impact on your sales, reviews and customer volume. It’s shifting a little bit due to COVID and the way prices on everything are going up, and better awareness of how shit this business is.

I feel like several people are missing the point of the story.

Around the time my father said this. Several children had died after eating at Jack in the Box. 

Yeah we had Taco bells around from when I was a kid in the mid 80's, I guess my mom liked it so we ended up going there.

I remember it being significantly worse back in the day. I started refusing to go there in the early to mid 90's and they had serious reputation for causing colonic emergencies.

I remember my dad…

Leather oils/conditioners are specific types of oil though. WD40 the main lube element is mineral oil. Mineral oil isn’t great for leather, it causes it to break down pretty fast.

WD40 is magic. No one knows exactly what it does, so put it on your breakfast cereal.

. And there are plenty of surfaces you don’t want to use this chemical

Rotoscoping is 100% an animation technique. Original it involved hand animating over live action film frames.

It's the way it flattens depth. It creates all sorts of perspective weirdness. 

They were apparently sitting around 18m copies sold by the end of 2021. And the articles I’m seeing on that are dated before the string of sales that started last fall. Those purportedly did very well.

So there haven’t been any numbers released since then, but they’re probably north of 20m by now. 

Weirdly it actually starts as an alternate version of Miss! Both being short for Mistress. As is Mrs.

Basically because Midway licensed/bought the original aspects of the work, and as part of that deal agreed to pay royalties to the creators. With no deadline or out. And Midway, and subsequently Namco, then Bandai never took the step of buying out the interest.

That’s not how Ms. works.

no longer wanting to pay those royalties, especially since this is the first time Ms. Pac-Man would have been due to feature in a new release in almost a decade.

yeah and that runs concurrently with the DCAOM, “Original Movies” formerly DC Direct.

Which currently stands at 47 entries. And starts way back in 2007, released something just this February.

Yeah it seems to have been crowded out, Google is absolutely useless for a lot these days. IIRC it was relationship with a much younger subordinate, with some additional reports of “boys club” atmosphere and significant rumors of sexual harassments under Hamada’s watch. There was very rubber stampy seeming…

It’s never a good sign when it happens during production, or close to production.

Which is not what happened here.

Otherwise it’s kind of normal for big studio tent poles, even if it tends not to get a press release every time.

If memory served Hamada was already at Warner Bros and in leadership when the current DC run started. It looks like I hashed up my dates though and he was still on the New Line side at the time.