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Hazo posted:I told my wife about my apprehension about keeping our AP extension and going back so soon after reopening and I've never seen her look so sad did you show her the videos of kids licking stuff?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/florida-spring-break-coronavirus.htmlquote:Further north, near Orlando, people streamed into the six Disney World theme parks before they closed on March 15. Courtney Sheard recalled that the weather was beautiful and that a new ride at Hollywood Studios, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, was especially crowded. quote:Nicholas Hickman started feeling ill three or four days after returning home to Ringgold, Ga., on March 11. He had spent five days at Disney with friends who were on spring break. They were also celebrating Mr. Hickman’s 20th birthday. Zero One fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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quote:“If we would have been told not to go to Disney and just avoid going, we would not have gone,” he said. “There’s no way we would have gone.” A rare bit of sanity, but the other 10s of thousands would have still been there. It should have been closed 5-7 days earlier given what we knew about the spread and lack of testing here.
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quote:“If we would have been told not to go to Disney and just avoid going, we would not have gone,” he said. “There’s no way we would have gone.” How did these people think Disney would somehow be immune to Covid?
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What kind of absolute rear end in a top hat eats at loving Bonefish when you live literally on the god drat ocean
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alg posted:How did these people think Disney would somehow be immune to Covid? magic.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:magic. Disney™ Magic©.
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Hazo posted:What kind of absolute rear end in a top hat eats at loving Bonefish when you live literally on the god drat ocean Same people who eat at Subway or Red Lobster in New Orleans. 
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Hazo posted:What kind of absolute rear end in a top hat eats at loving Bonefish when you live literally on the god drat ocean ugh, new money
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Bottom Liner posted:A rare bit of sanity, but the other 10s of thousands would have still been there. It should have been closed 5-7 days earlier given what we knew about the spread and lack of testing here. I'm not keen on this line of thinking because people are saying the same thing about New Orleans and Mardi Gras. Yeah, should have etc etc, but I feel like the parks shut down as soon as this became a real threat. A week earlier could have saved a lot of possible infections, but is there anyone saying that a week earlier it was as obvious of a threat in the US outside of a few instances?
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The full article is worth checking out too if only for the map of where visitors to FT. Lauderdale spring break went afterwards. I can only image a similar map for Disney World
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couldcareless posted:I'm not keen on this line of thinking because people are saying the same thing about New Orleans and Mardi Gras. Yeah, should have etc etc, but I feel like the parks shut down as soon as this became a real threat. A week earlier could have saved a lot of possible infections, but is there anyone saying that a week earlier it was as obvious of a threat in the US outside of a few instances? Yes. Given what we were seeing on cruise ships 2-3 weeks earlier, absolutely. The whole problem is that the people in charge weren't saying it then. Our slow response is why we make up roughly 1/3rd of known cases worldwide. The fact that they announced a closing 4 days after California's announcement and still waited days after that instead of closing immediately is a huge mistake. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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Bottom Liner posted:Yes. Given what we were seeing on cruise ships 2-3 weeks earlier, absolutely. The whole problem is that the people in charge weren't saying it then. Our slow response is why we make up roughly 1/3rd of known cases worldwide. The fact that they announced a closing 4 days after California's announcement and still waited days after that instead of closing immediately is a huge mistake. yeah this The whole article is tragic. Individuals and local governments cannot be expected to be up on how dangerous this new virus is. The people at those events and on those beaches are victims. The inaction of the state and federal governments and disney who are well resourced and connected to experts who can advise them is what’s upsetting. GA’s governor said like, last week, that they only just found out about asymptomatic transmission. Inexcusable. this quote really irked me quote:“Let’s have tailored approaches, surgical approaches, that are going to work best for those regions,” Mr. DeSantis said at a news conference on March 24. “These blunt measures — you wouldn’t want to do them on a community where the virus hasn’t spread.”
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DeSantis is a moron. He said just yesterday that he's looking at reopening schools because "Coronavirus 'doesn't seem to threaten' kids".
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I flew out on March 7, and while for our whole group, it was on our mind - we washed hands more and had our merry time. I suppose I probably lucked out in timing. The Westerdam cruise that was infected - my dad went and did that very cruise in early December - so he was puttering around China right as things were starting to perk up over there. Thankful no issues for him.
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Iger is effectively CEO again, says NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/media/disney-ceo-coronavirus.htmlquote:
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ESPN is definitely dead (and I'm not talking the sports complex on property)
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Bottom Liner posted:ESPN is definitely dead (and I'm not talking the sports complex on property) That would be sad for a number of reasons.
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Bottom Liner posted:ESPN is definitely dead (and I'm not talking the sports complex on property) To be reborn as eESPN focusing on esports as a twitch competitor
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The only way I can imagine for ESPN to die is if professional sports cease to exist. And if that happens, there are vastly larger changes happening at the societal level than flagship channels for cable TV bundles. Granting that they are hemorrhaging money right now due to lack of new content, what path does the OP see for a multi-billion dollar company whose purpose is sports/sports coverage to go belly up?
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At least ESPN is probably about to drop one of the most hyped things ever created over the next 5 weeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Z9JtNcCWY
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Ultimate Mango posted:To be reborn as eESPN focusing on esports as a twitch competitor Based on how their esports poo poo during this has gone down I really can't see them going this way. The hypothetical was always "What if real sports went away, would esports have their moment?" The answer has been a resounding no so far. Edit: If you want to see how desperate ESPN is right now then watch 5 minutes of the HORSE tournament they tried to do today. The production quality isn't just "Oh it's a quarantine" bad it's staggering. J33uk fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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Grundulum posted:The only way I can imagine for ESPN to die is if professional sports cease to exist. And if that happens, there are vastly larger changes happening at the societal level than flagship channels for cable TV bundles. Granting that they are hemorrhaging money right now due to lack of new content, what path does the OP see for a multi-billion dollar company whose purpose is sports/sports coverage to go belly up? All of that is basically happening now, add to that their financial situation before Covid and Disney having to cut a lot of fat on the other side of this and they're the obvious big hit. People have been doom and gloom on ESPN for a while, but with the current situation I don't see how they survive. I don't see Disney selling them off either, probably just gutting it to a shell of a sports streaming platform or something for the brand value and cutting all costs possible. J33uk posted:Based on how their esports poo poo during this has gone down I really can't see them going this way. The hypothetical was always "What if real sports went away, would esports have their moment?" The answer has been a resounding no so far. Esports are absolutely booming now to the point of many major sports leagues doing their own digital events with millions of viewers, League of Legends being on espn2, games hitting record player and viewer numbers, etc. Esports is projected to hit 84 million viewers in the US by next year, second only to the NFL. The lack of traditional sports seasons has been a huge blessing to all of them and will accelerate that. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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iirc the big money loser for espn is the outsized contracts they pay for broadcast rights in an age where subscriptions to cable tv bundles are steadily declining.quote:Now every cable and satellite channel is losing subscribers — as dumb Twitter users who don’t read this article will immediately respond in my mentions — but the impact disproportionately impacts ESPN for two reasons: 1. the network makes far more in revenue off the cable bundle than any other channel so it stands to lose, by far, the most off the collapsing business model and 2. the network has guaranteed tens of billions in sports rights fee payments over the next decade and more to sports leagues. https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-two-million-more-subscribers-in-fiscal-2018/ Quarantine could possibly be long term good for the problems ESPN has. Given that there are no sports for the foreseeable future, it could give them a chance to renegotiate expensive broadcast rights contracts. Then they could stop hemorrhaging money which would be cool because that’s precious theme park money ESPN is constantly losing.
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Zero One posted:Iger is effectively CEO again, says NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/media/disney-ceo-coronavirus.html This makes sense and is probably a good call. Iger (presumably) knows the company and the job better than Chapek; now is not a great time for a new boss to roll in. And this lets Iger absorb whatever bottom line damage results from this into his tenure, which lets the new guy start with a cleaner slate. That being said, it was fairly obvious from anyone paying attention when Iger initially stepped down that this was going to get bad, but no one has ever accused American corporations of taking a particularly long view. Also, ESPN and esports will have a contentious relationship as long as ESPN insists on promoting their people and their coverage. Riot/Blizzard/FGC has an entire production and commentary infrastructure set up, which traditional sports don't typically have, and for various reasons, they're not going to want to cede that ground to ESPN. This is making everyone reconsider everything, though, so ESPN putting the League Midseason Invitational on EPSN1 is actually a possibility at this point. iRacing (which is already airing on FS1) is really strongly positioned, but suffers from a lot of the problems NASCAR had before the shutdown.
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I wonder if they’d let ESPN wither on the vine and roll sports back into ABC TV Network like it was back before the acquisition.
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I almost took a job with ESPN several months ago. The allure of working for the mouse was strong, plus you get free APs and tickets to give to friends. But I didn't want to live in Bristol Now I'm extra happy I turned it down
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Fellow tiki nerds, just bought this print that just went for sale if anybody is interested in grabbing one. It's a timed release for 3 days, meaning they're not selling out, but rather taking orders for 3 days and the final number is the edition size. This way everybody gets one. This artist previously did one of just Southern California and it sold out in like 10 seconds. It has Grog Grotto on it, and also where I'm getting married this year, The Kowloon, so I definitely had to grab it.  https://nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/timed-print-releases/products/iangtiki?variant=33308746285115
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Oh poo poo latitude 29 is on there. Purchasing.
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Tim Whatley posted:Fellow tiki nerds, just bought this print that just went for sale if anybody is interested in grabbing one. It's a timed release for 3 days, meaning they're not selling out, but rather taking orders for 3 days and the final number is the edition size. This way everybody gets one. This artist previously did one of just Southern California and it sold out in like 10 seconds. It has Grog Grotto on it, and also where I'm getting married this year, The Kowloon, so I definitely had to grab it. Getting married at the Kowloon? Hell yeah.
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Jim Hill says there’s an easy solution to the DVC problem. Not many people will be going when the park reopens so they’ll just make regular hotel capacity available to DVC folks. Yes, the rooms won’t have the same amenities but in exchange they’ll probably be at the better hotels.
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Dren posted:Jim Hill says there’s an easy solution to the DVC problem. Not many people will be going when the park reopens so they’ll just make regular hotel capacity available to DVC folks. Yes, the rooms won’t have the same amenities but in exchange they’ll probably be at the better hotels. Maybe. Not sure how that would work though since they’re separate entities. Disney hotels would have to be ok getting no revenue on those rooms. The point conversion would be another sticking point. The point chart when you use your points via Disney collection for regular hotel rooms is terrible. My last trip was 172 points and that was 9 nights in a blt studio. The least expensive room at the contemporary is 59 points a night. I’d be trading 9 nights at blt for maybe 3 at the contemporary.
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Tim Whatley posted:Fellow tiki nerds, just bought this print that just went for sale if anybody is interested in grabbing one. It's a timed release for 3 days, meaning they're not selling out, but rather taking orders for 3 days and the final number is the edition size. This way everybody gets one. This artist previously did one of just Southern California and it sold out in like 10 seconds. It has Grog Grotto on it, and also where I'm getting married this year, The Kowloon, so I definitely had to grab it. It's crazy seeing photos of Mai-Kai when it was just shrubs, dirt and sand all around it.
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Disappointed in it not having the Suffering Bastard in Sanford, which is clearly one of the best tiki bars in the southeast. Go to it when it reopens!
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skipdogg posted:Maybe. Not sure how that would work though since they’re separate entities. Disney hotels would have to be ok getting no revenue on those rooms. Yeah I don’t see a DVC problem. We already “own” our rooms, and if we book at the proper window there’s no issue. And you’re 100% right the point conversion to a non DVC room is atrocious, no way I’d ever do it.
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chitoryu12 posted:Disappointed in it not having the Suffering Bastard in Sanford, which is clearly one of the best tiki bars in the southeast. Go to it when it reopens! We’ve been there a few times. Such a weird location lol. Some god drat great drinks though!
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mattfl posted:We’ve been there a few times. Such a weird location lol. Some god drat great drinks though! Tuffy's is so loving great. That little block of downtown Sanford was virtually abandoned until the Central 28 Brewing guy bought a closed garage and turned it into what it is now. One of the things I hate so much about this pandemic is that the restaurant and bar closures pose a serious risk to damaging Sanford's economic development over the last few years.
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