From: Dad

Subject: FW FW fw fw FW fw fw SO TRUE!!!.

Putin Dielman

Yup! Also the other host Christian appeals to the Sega kid in me. He’ll uncover gems that evoke the Dreamcast era.

People are more likely to go online and complain than to compliment. But why take internet comments so seriously. I have a handful of trusted sources that I use to get my opinions on games. DLC Podcast for example is a favorite of mine. I’ve gotten to know their tastes and where they overlap with mine so when they get excited about a specific thing I’ll know if I’m likely to enjoy it based on our shared interests.

When you get a handful of voices that have a strong overlap with your own taste then you can get outside of the tribalistic bitching of the hive. Comments don’t even concern me anymore.

Incase you missed it or didn’t finish the article they’re looking for support (I suspect they won’t be getting any from the government)

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MySpace mail when?

Not aware of a Payless comp to this. They did have a campaign where they put their cheap shoes in a luxury pop-up store and had influencers gush about the high quality products which was pretty funny.

You’d come in and slap down your penny and they would go “we can’t charge less than a penny so do you want one or two?”

There’s a famous case study where JC Penny launched a big campaign where they wouldn’t put people thought the rat race of sales and coupons and just offer the best price at all times. Almost bankrupted them. Turns out people want the rat race.

They have reels running on pixelfed.social (in the browser)

Empty screenings are not unusual. I’ve been to a lot of movies where I’m the only one in there.

In 2013 it was around $8. So for a $4044 take your looking at about 505 tickets sold. It’s likely they probably got about 80-90% of this on the Friday and Saturday which is about 18-20 seats per theater per night for the opening.

All that said, yea the numbers are low but it’s not entirely on the movie itself, this is the effect of marketing and availability. We contrast this with something like 50 Shades of Grey which is lower rotten tomatoes and lower IMDB but pulled in about a half billion because they marketed the hell out of it.

Most smaller movies don’t sell out a screening. With 11 screens probably only running for a week it wouldn’t have any marketing. $4044 according to box office mojo so that seems about right.

This is a bit misleading, it was only in 11 theaters before going to streaming so it can’t be compared with a standard wide release film. Like Bird Box was a massive hit for Netflix but you could say it only sold a few tickets (because it only appeared in a couple theatres)

Keanu Reeves!

Newfoundland?

I get the impression he was never cut out to run something like Facebook. He just travels the world with his endless pot of money as a travel photographer. Dude won life.

Worst thing about someone watching a reel out loud is you hear the same 15 second sound bite 30 times while they’re reading the comments.