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05JunJune 5, 2024

Tianna’s Open Sewer Experience

The most popular ride at any of the Disney parks was hands down Splash Mountain. A project that started life when Michael Eisner brought his son with him to Imgineering. The elder Eisner wanted Disney Parks to start having appeal for the for the Tweener to Young Adult market. Breck Eisner fell head over heels for a mock up of flume ride that Imagineering had created for something else but then shelved because of budget considerations. Disney was about to put...

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03JunJune 3, 2024

How Elon Made the Bot Problem Worse

Hats off to this guy. Gothic Therapy has done some truly world-class citizen journalism here. After Elon made his tender off for Twitter, he tried to back out of it, (not in any serious way, it was a negotiating tactic), stating that the value was false due to the number of bots.X.Com has always had a problem with bots since it costs nothing to set up an account. If you were a corporation and someone who was trying to...

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01JunJune 1, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Dead Boy Detectives

Watching this I began wondering something. How much of her career does J.K. Rowling owe Neil Gaiman? The most obvious is Tim Hunter. Back in 1989, Neil Gaiman was tasked by DC Comics to create a series that tied all of their magic characters together into a story. For a protagonist, he modified Wart from The Once and Future King and put him in a modern setting but his destiny instead of being Arthur was to be Merlin, the greatest wizard...

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30MayMay 30, 2024

The Fall of Valve

When the Sweet Baby Inc. story broke and the list of clients that have self immolated with their assistance was first published the only one that gave me a truly sinking feeling was Valve. When Larry Fink and his buddies first noticed that video games were a thing during the lockdown, they began their usual tactic of taking over an industry by buying fifteen percent of it, I really didn't care that much about most of them. 2K, Ubisoft...

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29MayMay 29, 2024

Why Did the Star Wars Hotel Fail? (Part 3)

Why did the star wars hotel fail part 3The live action role playing was at the heart of the now late Star Wars Hotel. Disney Marketing’s peculiar attempts at distracting people from this notwithstanding, this really was the point and purpose of the experience, everything else like the lightsaber training and Sabac tournaments was just window dressing. The LARP concept was interesting. It was a hybrid of live NPC actors providing key engagement moments and live action cutscenes as rewards for...

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28MayMay 28, 2024

Batman 1919

I scribbled this down right after my knee surgery, when I was stuck being awake at nights because of the pain anyway. I tend to write fragments when I'm trying to get the feel for a project. I had no intention of doing anything with this. I am mostly posting this oddity because I ran out time yesterday.Written as a popular history of Batman covering 1919-1939 ********************I’m telling you Bruce Wayne is a once in a century...

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24MayMay 24, 2024

Why Did the Star Wars Hotel Fail (Part 2)

In part 1 we took a look at the marketing failure of the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser. People had absolutely no idea what the Star Wars Hotel was going to be, which was a LARPing experience, Disney Marketing had no idea how to sell that. So they didn’t. Even the name was wrong. It was too long, too convoluted, and told you nothing about it. Remember when Disney would name stuff Frontierland or Space Mountain? Back then the attraction had a...

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23MayMay 23, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends Ford Vs Ferrari

Nothing pisses me off more than coming in Second.If I take third place, I’m still unhappy but I’m also calm and resigned. Show, was clearly going to happen long before I got to the end. The game didn’t develop right. I threw the dice on a play that didn’t work out. The opportunity to pull ahead was never there. Plain old bad luck is a genuine factor. Like I said, unhappy but calm and resigned. I knew what was coming.Second place leaves me seething. I...

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22MayMay 22, 2024

Marvel’s Endgame?

Maybe.Marvel Comics hasn't turned a profit for a long time. Even during the 1970s the primary means of profit for those companies was in merchandising and media sales. The comics themsleves became something of a loss leader. Still it was a good idea to keep the losses as low as possible and that meant telling good and engaging stories. It wasn't the worst business model in the world. DC got snatched up by Warner, more or less by accident as part of merger package....

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21MayMay 21, 2024

Why Did the Star Wars Hotel Fail? (Part One)

When the Walt Disney Company finally collapses and its various parts are cut off and auctioned away, people will be asking, “When did its fall begin?”That’s an easy question with an extremely complex answer. It’s like answering, “When did Rome fall?” With 476AD. It’s accurate so far as it goes but doesn’t begin to tell the whole story.The accurate so far as it goes answer to the question of “When did Disney’s fall begin?” Will probably be the opening of...

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