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Oh lol. I thought it was clear but now that I reread it it's not. I'll edit in that it's not what I was looking for. I think it is exactly what it was billed as but I would not have seen it by myself. It felt more down to earth and that's not what I go to superhero media for. I want big moves like watching the unraveling of a superhero mind controlling an entire town or the decimation of the home of gods.

People will probably disagree, but I think this would've been great as a show and falcon and winter soldier would have been better as a movie. I am not a fan of Bucky in general though so I think I might just misunderstand what people want out of the character.

Loki the show was a real disservice to Loki the character. I'm always surprised when anyone has good things to say about it.

All of the shows except wandavision seemed to range from bad to utter contempt for the characters and/or the audience. After their string of bad shows and movies I was really hoping to see something epic and exciting. It wasn't that, but it also wasn't marketed as that. The shows managed to take an epic saga and make it feel small in my opinion. This feels like it tries to take something more personal and make it big.

I'm not complaining about the price, but you can definitely complain about the price regardless of how often you go. I don't go to Disney every year but I can still say it's overpriced.

I was just saying that if theaters are hurting for customers I understand why. If people are spending $60 just on tickets for a family of four they are probably not going to be going very often. We don't go very often and we make a whole event out of it and don't spend much more than the $60. People that buy popcorn and snacks for everyone at their local theater end up spending as much as we do and we get dinner and drinks out of it. Unless there's a discount running or the theater is a specialty theater like the one I go to they don't really offer a better experience than you can get at home for the price. The only draw imho is that the movie is new and nowadays things hit streaming pretty shortly after release. Generic theaters just don't offer enough for the price and the evidence is that they are failing. People loved having movie pass so it seems like there's still a desire to go, just not at current prices.

As someone who also didn't have movie snacks until I could pay for them myself, I think part of it is that snacks add to the experience. If I'm paying for my family to go to the movies it's supposed to be something nice. We have movie nights at home and buy popcorn in bulk so we can all cuddle up on the couch and snack to our hearts content or pause if someone spills or needs the restroom.

I go to the movies once every few years now and it's always for a big blowout movie where we can dress up and we go to a fancy theater that does food service and has dedicated layzboy style seats. We went and saw Barbie and all wore pink and got themed food/drinks at the theater (pink lemonade and Barbie-q-something). It was fun and imho that's the kind of theater experience worth having. I don't really remember seeing movies as a kid with my family but I'm sure we'll all remember this.

I think the idea of spending $60 for a family of four to sit in silence together and then leave is just not as appealing unless they get the "theater experience" of the addons. I'm also not one complaining though because I generally don't care about seeing things in the theater and I don't really know what it's worth to people who would enjoy it. I do understand that it doesn't feel worth $60 though.

Valid points. Thank you for your insight.

Would you mind elaborating why it's a bad fit? No shade to Lemmy, but if anything I feel like that would be a worse fit. People always talk about how the best part of Reddit was the niche subs, and a big issue here is that now instead of one small community you end up with 50 communities that all have one subscriber each. Also, there's a lot of reposting and cross posting to the same community on separate instances. Instances on what is functionally a more social network like mastodon make more sense, so you could for example have all players of a specific team on an instance just for that specific team, or government employees on a government instance. Make up and beauty influencers could for example be all on another instance, making their work easier to find.

I was never on any microblog sites though, so maybe I don't really understand them.

OP is a bot or basically exclusively using ChatGPT for posts/comments. I would suggest not engaging with them. They are not here in good faith.

This is a bot or someone using ChatGPT for all their comments. Do not engage with them. They are not here in good faith.

Very possible, but also they are trying to be a "facts" based site so allegations are not really a thing they can adjudicate without compromising that. Like in this scenario there's no exact evidence to point to other than circumstantial so they have to say that it has not been proven to be true. I appreciate that in news sources. Obviously I can read into things and draw my own conclusions but I need to be able to go to a place that lays out the "facts" as clearly as possible without editorializing. Media used to do that more when they had to appeal to more people because there were less sources. Now the media landscape is fragmented and you can find "news" sources saying just anything so they're less incentivized to even appear unbiased.

Trump is obviously a terrible person and just having the facts themselves laid out should sway any normal person. Unfortunately that's not what we have.

It is pretty clear to most people that they are not saying someone posed as a McDonalds employee. I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse, but in case you or anyone else is misunderstanding, they are suggesting the following: A cop/fed illegally obtained his whereabouts. They follow him into a McD. The cop/fed goes up to McD employee and says "you should call in a tip there's a big reward". They don't mention they are a cop/fed to the McD employee. Now that there is a record of "an anonymous tip" they have an on the books explanation of how they located him without having to disclose how they actually were able to track him.

I'm not saying that's what happened, but you seem to have repeatedly misunderstood so I'm just making it clear.

A YouTuber or mechanic can have all of those, but you said you wouldn't count them. At this point I'm not even sure what you're getting at. My original point is that not all businesses can be sold for tens of thousands. You can disagree or redefine the word business if you want but I know the reality of it. Neither of us are getting anywhere at this point so I'm happy to just end this here.

Yea. I totally understand that. And like I said I understand and appreciate that it at least has eugenics in the term, but it's very much still eugenics and the fact we have to delineate between hard and soft is just silly in my opinion. Eugenics is still eugenics regardless of if executed on site or just left to starve or die. It is technically not as "direct" I guess but it is still 100% eugenics. I wasn't explicitly criticizing the use of the term just that we live in a society where we now have that distinction and have to make it clear so a bunch of bad faith actors don't point to the fact there's no gun to peoples head and say therefore no eugenics.