Rick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGDfdg3Jzs

Six Flags is in the drain but is being stopped from going down via a lifeline from activist investors. Who might in fact ultimately be attempting a hostile takeover but who could say.

Basically the plan to raise the price of tickets to create a "premium park going experience" flopped big time. Toward the end of the year the CEO relented but they're down bad enough that it's unlikely he sees 2024 and if the recession is as bad as it could potentially be neither might Six Flags.

I personally think someone would buy them, or maybe the parks get spun off, but who knows.

Rick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGDfdg3Jzs

Six Flags is in the drain but is being stopped from going down via a lifeline from activist investors. Who might in fact ultimately be attempting a hostile takeover but who could say.

Basically the plan to raise the price of tickets to create a "premium park going experience" flopped big time. Toward the end of the year the CEO relented but they're down bad enough that it's unlikely he sees 2024 and if the recession is as bad as it could potentially be neither might Six Flags.

I personally think someone would buy them, or maybe the parks get spun off, but who knows.

smellmycheese posted:

Yikesaroo

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kanye-west-yeezy-porn-bullying-kim-kardashian-1234635221/

quote:

the employee recalls West making similar statements to colleagues about a shoe into which West or a Yeezy consumer could ejaculate — “not a sex-toy sneaker but something that you were so into that you would wanna have an intimate relationship” — at least 10 separate times. “He’d be, like, ‘literally gently caress.’ He would be very clear on what that meant.”

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Didn't Dan Snyder own Six Flags at one point or another?

”Wikipedia” posted:

In 2005, he bought 12% of the stock of amusement park operator Six Flags through his private equity company RedZone Capital. He later gained control of the board, placing his friend and ESPN executive Mark Shapiro as CEO and himself as chairman. In April 2009, the New York Stock Exchange delisted Six Flags' stock as it had fallen below the minimal market capitalization. In June 2009, Six Flags announced that the company was delaying a $15 million debt payment and two weeks later, Six Flags filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As part of the reorganization, 92% of the company ended up in the hands of their lenders with Snyder and Shapiro being removed from their positions.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Pope Corky the IX posted:

For the longest time I thought Achewood and Die Antwoord were the same thing.

Alaois posted:

roast beef is pretty zef

hawowanlawow posted:

I was going to go a few weeks ago, and the prices were ridiculous, but I didn't see any indication that the experience would be any different at all, much less some kind of "premium park going experience"

hawowanlawow posted:

I was going to go a few weeks ago, and the prices were ridiculous, but I didn't see any indication that the experience would be any different at all, much less some kind of "premium park going experience"

Foxfire_ posted:

What would a "premium park going experience" even be except fewer people/shorter lines?

Foxfire_ posted:

What would a "premium park going experience" even be except fewer people/shorter lines?

Foxfire_ posted:

What would a "premium park going experience" even be except fewer people/shorter lines?

Gann Jerrod posted:

That was/is the stupidest part, as they hiked the prices to keep poors and teens out, but haven’t done anything to make it a premium experience.

Gann Jerrod posted:

That was/is the stupidest part, as they hiked the prices to keep poors and teens out, but haven’t done anything to make it a premium experience.

Professor Shark posted:

I am dummy

Rick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGDfdg3Jzs

Six Flags is in the drain but is being stopped from going down via a lifeline from activist investors. Who might in fact ultimately be attempting a hostile takeover but who could say.

Basically the plan to raise the price of tickets to create a "premium park going experience" flopped big time. Toward the end of the year the CEO relented but they're down bad enough that it's unlikely he sees 2024 and if the recession is as bad as it could potentially be neither might Six Flags.

I personally think someone would buy them, or maybe the parks get spun off, but who knows.

smellmycheese posted:

Yikesaroo

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kanye-west-yeezy-porn-bullying-kim-kardashian-1234635221/

quote:

At the ranch, according to five former employees, he made unrelenting demands, sometimes to unqualified talent. “He might ask a chef to make a song and an architect to be his personal assistant,” says one staffer in Cody. “He may ask a song producer to design a school, and the next day that becomes an orphanage, and the other days it becomes an airport.”

But there were no curse words allowed by musicians visiting the ranch to record tracks on the album that would become Donda, and a former senior employee recalls West suggesting to people who said the phrase “Hell, yeah!” to repeat themselves with “Heaven, yeah!”

PhazonLink posted:

isnt Donda the album thats also on his lovely custom made mp3 player that only has Donda . oh and the gimmick of the player is you can do you own audio balancing and mixing.

quote:

Instead of anything resembling work, however, the collaborator claims West had hardcore pornography on the screen. “He showed me the video of Francesca Le, a buff porn star with a strap-on dildo loving another girl in the rear end,” the former collaborator tells Rolling Stone.
...
(In a statement to Rolling Stone after publication of the article, Le says it’s “extremely concerning, disheartening, and disappointing that someone would use my work in a way that is demeaning to other human beings.”)

quote:

But a dozen former Yeezy and Adidas staffers recalled an atmosphere in which West praised some employees while belittling staffers he’d publicly supported just weeks, if not moments, earlier — “playing mind games,” one former staffer called it. After one disagreement, for example, West made a young female designer of color sit on the floor for a meeting that lasted hours, according to a former staffer in the room. “You don’t deserve to sit at the table,” the staffer recalled West saying. 

Crazy Mike posted:

This is my second year buying 2 season passes and 2 dining plans for Six Flags. I live 15 minutes away and it's a good weekend activity for my daughter. First I heard they aren't renewing the dining plan option because someone went online about how they use it every day.

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

It's weird that we're discussing Yeezy but in a way some celebrities and jillionaires are a corporation to themselves. Limited liability ofc.

Glad that Adidas cut ties with him or I can't stop dressing like a Russian gangster in good conscience.

teen witch posted:

Sure Adidas cut ties but like, Adidas also seems awfully complicit, or at the least, is deserving a bit of a closer look.

Platystemon posted:

Dumb marketing move.

For every person who takes full advantage of the dining plan, there’s got to be twenty who read about the One Weird Trick but won’t eat more than a few meals in the park.

ghost emoji posted:

The "luxury apartments" approach.

Platystemon posted:

Dumb marketing move.

For every person who takes full advantage of the dining plan, there’s got to be twenty who read about the One Weird Trick but won’t eat more than a few meals in the park.