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Futanari Damacy posted:Nah I don't think he loves or cares deeply about Garfield. This all seems like a bizarre act. Remember how he basically said gently caress Garfield, it's Scooby-Doo time with zero reasoning or forewarning? I'm also not sure what exactly constitutes love and concern from someone who writes a poem professing their love to loving Viacom of all things. I'm sure for him it all comes down to "here's a thing that makes a zillion dollars, I want some, I will do whatever it takes no matter how ridiculous to do that" so he's leaning into this sex-deprived Willy Wonka-esque madman character except he doesn't understand anything about how to actually run a business. If he believes any of the corporate jargon he's spitting then he's truly a fool. It's exhausting to think about for too long honestly. I've only been reading this thread during 2021 but I can safely say that it's not an act. No way. He never breaks it and the people who have worked with and for him said he's always like that. He's just a narcissistic weirdo who thinks he's a branding genius and that branding is the only thing that matters for a business to succeed. Totally delusional capitalist failson.
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GolfHole posted:looking at this page it looks like the lasagna was manufactured by a local place that does only lasagna; full-time https://prettospasta.com/butter-chicken/ It is not branded Big Cow, obviously, and clearly this is a chicken lasagna, but it is an already-extant orange lasagna sauce which seems fairly damning.
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Rinkles posted:Is it that unique? Polish does the same thing. French has vache and bouef, and did in Norman times (although consistent spelling is a new thing). For one thing cows are female but beef is from male or female animals.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I've only been reading this thread during 2021 but I can safely say that it's not an act. No way. He never breaks it and the people who have worked with and for him said he's always like that. He's just a narcissistic weirdo who thinks he's a branding genius and that branding is the only thing that matters for a business to succeed. Totally delusional capitalist failson. Agreed, I don't think Nathen would have done so many embarrassing things like tongue a Garfield stuffed animal if he was just a vanilla narcissist. Plenty of his other cringey content would definitely still have happened regardless - Ahmed and Howard is a perfect example of a classic vanity project - but while they're embarrassing, they're not as outright damaging to one's own image or a company's IP as compared to his lust for the orange cat. You can cook up plenty of bullshit about why a team-based project like that movie wound up being a stinker in the end, but there's nobody to blame except Nathen for his social media output, especially considering how he publicly goaded Chris Pratt on social media as well. Absolute bonkers move that someone with perspective would recognize as being potentially ruinous in his position. At this point, I'd have considered Viacom to be acting irrationally if they didn't cut him free. He's only gonna get worse until either he gets reined back in by his family and effectively silenced on social media, or he burns out hard enough that I don't wanna witness it. im saint germain fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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Frank Frank posted:KFC is a huge deal in Japan on Christmas. They sell these holiday meal things that sell out months in advance. That was a marketing coup by KFC that convinced people that it's what American's eat for Christmas. You still have to reserve holiday sets but plenty of grocery stores and department stores sell fried chicken as well so it's not just KFC anymore. I almost did it last year for a laugh but paying extra for a huge holiday set I had to reserve weeks in advance seemed plus, even for just the experience.
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Knormal posted:I'd always heard it was a uniquely English thing, but I guess not. It's definitely not the case in the Romance Languages. English is a trainwreck of multiple language roots. Cow is germanic in origin. Beef is Latin in origin. For many many words in English there's essentially synonyms that are from the two different roots. Generally speaking the latin one is more educated sounding consider ask vs inquire. I would guess the split in English in part came from the nobility in French conquered England referring to their meat as bos while their peasants were saying kowh. I don't think the same thing is causing the split in Polish.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I've only been reading this thread during 2021 but I can safely say that it's not an act. No way. He never breaks it and the people who have worked with and for him said he's always like that. He's just a narcissistic weirdo who thinks he's a branding genius and that branding is the only thing that matters for a business to succeed. Totally delusional capitalist failson. I wouldn't say it's not an act, more like there's nothing else underneath to show through
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I'll never understand how this business failed when it was banging out absolute masterpieces 24/7
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The celibacy thing is just a wierd rebranding of being asexual - juat be a boring wierdo asexual like a bunch of other millennial sad brains. They're just as online and hostile as sex having gays that we've let them in on the acronym.
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It's not an act and he's not asexual. He has deeply rooted mental illness and repressed homosexual drives to the point that he just claims celibacy because he's not facing it.
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Well do you? Do you see everyone with a Garfield-shaped pizza head? DO YOU MOTHERFUCKER? ANSWER ME.
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The Alchemist posted:the scooby-doo shaped pizzas are going to bake even worse They'll just make them round and give you two and call it "The Velma"
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Big Beef City posted:They'll just make them round and give you two and call it "The Velma" At some point Nathen made disparaging remarks about Velma but I can’t remember the context.
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Frank Frank posted:At some point Nathen made disparaging remarks about Velma but I can’t remember the context. iirc she just didnt exist in Mazri's headcanon. All the other kids were presented in the promo pictures but her.
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The Alchemist posted:iirc she just didnt exist in Mazri's headcanon. All the other kids were presented in the promo pictures but her. No I’m pretty sure he said something inexplicable about her but I can’t remember what it was.
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Frank Frank posted:No I’m pretty sure he said something inexplicable about her but I can’t remember what it was. If Nathen doesn't get a new venture soon this'll be the obituary to the entire thread.
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reignofevil posted:If Nathen doesn't get a new venture soon this'll be the obituary to the entire thread. I was one of the folks calling for it to be goldmined a while ago and that was a mistake. Unless Nathen literally dies, he’ll do something sooner or later to resurrect it even if it goes dormant for a while. My prediction will be that he’ll have a “new me New Years” thing shortly.
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lt_kennedy posted:The celibacy thing is just a wierd rebranding of being asexual - juat be a boring wierdo asexual like a bunch of other millennial sad brains. They're just as online and hostile as sex having gays that we've let them in on the acronym. It's 100% just him being spurned on Grindr and using his corporate social media presence to loudly declare "that's okay, in fact, I NEVER liked to gently caress, and btw neither does Garfield!!" The vibe of neediness he puts off with all of this is an extreme turn-off to say the least.
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Lets not forget egeez, everybody. Nathan is far from done, and losing Garfield only sets him free to spend time on all his other entergaging projects.
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lmao just caught up with the thread why does he insist on wearing creepy rear end contact lenses? those can't be his real pupils wtf
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Mega64 posted:I can't imagine how Nathen could've lost the Garfield license. also lol
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I'm pretty sure the Big Cow thing is to make it seem like it's a legit company partnership where he found an established and vetted brand to work with, not just something they made up for it (which is what it was). And then Big Cow bc cheese and beef is from cows and big would insinuate it's extra fat and yummy. It's just a marketing ploy. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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I'm telling you all it's because of the Jim Davis US Acres cartoon that literally has a big cow as a main character that would be part of the Garfield license
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Frank Frank posted:No I’m pretty sure he said something inexplicable about her but I can’t remember what it was. Wasn’t it due to a new Velma show that’s coming out on HBO Max, and thus likely they were against this maniac having any kind of say with regards to her image leading up to it.
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Futanari Damacy posted:It's 100% just him being spurned on Grindr and using his corporate social media presence to loudly declare "that's okay, in fact, I NEVER liked to gently caress, and btw neither does Garfield!!" The vibe of neediness he puts off with all of this is an extreme turn-off to say the least. It's possible that his passionate making out with Garfield was meant to be cutting edge satire. Superman kissed a man in a comic and, for all of two days the internet was abuzz with talk. The Garfield kissing dropped just then, and came coupled with manic statements about how "Society says this is okay!!" I think at least one person must've voiced their disapproval where Nathen could see it (Nathen's audience was very small but boy did he care) because Nathen suddenly declared himself celibate and very angry about "too much sex in media". I can only assume he was trying to tell us that, no, no, he's not mad about men kissing, he's mad about kissing in media in general as some kind of damage control. I don't think he needed to have bothered, since there was no real damage. The amount of people who pay attention to this measured in the tens, and the amount of people who can accurately parse it all measure in the nones (I am quite likely wrong, and merely seeing patterns in noise).
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Big Beef City posted:I'm telling you all it's because of the Jim Davis US Acres cartoon that literally has a big cow as a main character that would be part of the Garfield license Going off by memory there’s a pig, 2 sheep, a duck, a chick and an egg. I don’t think they had a cow or if they did, my brain completely repressed it.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Going off by memory there’s a pig, 2 sheep, a duck, a chick and an egg. I don’t think they had a cow or if they did, my brain completely repressed it. Well they used to until the lasagna, obviously
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The Alchemist posted:Lets not forget egeez, everybody. Nathan is far from done, and losing Garfield only sets him free to spend time on all his other entergaging projects. Now all he needs to do is wait for businesses to line up to purchase product licenses from the guy who managed to lose three licenses in one year in the most embarrassing manner imaginable
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I think at least one person must've voiced their disapproval where Nathen could see it (Nathen's audience was very small but boy did he care) because Nathen suddenly declared himself celibate and very angry about "too much sex in media". I can only assume he was trying to tell us that, no, no, he's not mad about men kissing, he's mad about kissing in media in general as some kind of damage control. Nickelodeon, Viacom etc. are big companies and I imagine they had a person involved with the license checking in from time to time on the social media aspect. There's no way they were watching every minute or they would have caught his antivaxx Instagram stories or something else equally disqualifying. With public licensing agreements there's often a "morality clause" that says you can't do certain things that might have the knock-on effect of damaging the brand, under penalty of losing the license itself. It is kind of fun that there are so many potential things that would have done it and we can only guess what the straw was that broke the camel's back.
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Let's not forget the whole menuMr Luxury Yacht posted:
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steinrokkan posted:Let's not forget the whole menu  Scooby-Doo EATS Charcuterie Board The wood is salvaged and hand selected for quality and uniqueness. Urban trees are under stress due to the harsh environments; many of our slabs have beautiful figures or characters, such as curls, spalting, Birdseye, and quilting. The live edge material is salvaged from locally-felled permit remover urban trees to avoid and hinder deforestation. The one-of-a-kind Scooby-Doo EATS beautiful BBQ conversation piece is made from Canada sourced black walnut. This unique charcuterie board is handcrafted and sanded down to 220 grit leaving it smooth to the touch. Finally, it’s finished with a liquid-resistant, scratch-resistant, food-safe finish that makes the wood grain pop! #Farm2board indeed! Rooby-Rooby-Roo. $249.99 Get notified when this proudct is back in stock
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This Christmas my mom got her daughter-in-law a charcuterie board. The daughter-in-law in return had gotten her a charcuterie board. Neither of them have a cartoon characters on theirs so my Christmas contribution will be in the form of permanent sharpie-penned drawings of nude Garfield all over their boards.
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Futanari Damacy posted:Nickelodeon, Viacom etc. are big companies and I imagine they had a person involved with the license checking in from time to time on the social media aspect. There's no way they were watching every minute or they would have caught his antivaxx Instagram stories or something else equally disqualifying. With public licensing agreements there's often a "morality clause" that says you can't do certain things that might have the knock-on effect of damaging the brand, under penalty of losing the license itself. It is kind of fun that there are so many potential things that would have done it and we can only guess what the straw was that broke the camel's back.
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