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The Moon Monster posted:Yeah if it comes down to it Arizona will tell the cotton and sorghum farmers to pound sand before just disbanding Phoenix. They'll even provide the sand, free of charge! Agents are GO! has a new favorite as of 01:24 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Yeah if it comes down to it Arizona will tell the cotton and sorghum farmers to pound sand before just disbanding Phoenix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE
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Dec 6, 2023 01:26
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Lol, that's just the DFW metroplex (ie King of the Hill's setting) nowadays thanks to climate change, much less Phoenix.
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Dec 6, 2023 01:48
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I visited my folks in Phoenix recently (from the PNW) and the whole time I was thinking, "this city might just make this whole desert thing work... and if they don't, it'll be one amazing catastrophe". The Moon Monster posted:Yeah if it comes down to it Arizona will tell the cotton and sorghum farmers to pound sand before just disbanding Phoenix.
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Dec 6, 2023 01:50
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MarcusSA posted:Eh it’s not that big of a deal really. I was more talking about California and Arizona.
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Dec 6, 2023 01:53
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Krispy Wafer posted:The celebrity podcast deals always smelled funny. Not sure if the money was guaranteed or if they had to produce X amount of product, but it never seemed to make business sense. Maybe Spotify thought buying up rights to a bunch of high profile people kept competitors from getting exclusives, but I'm not sure if there are competitors for a Prince Harry podcast. It's been hilarious to watch. Harry and Meghan had a 20 million dollar deal, and over nearly three years they produced one 12 episode interview series, and one holiday episode. They were supposed to have made a ton of other poo poo. Ava DuVernay signed a multimillion dollar year with Spotify as well and it fell apart without her ever recording anything at all. And they're trying to draw new talent while their biggest success remains Joe Rogan, who is just actively harassing people these days, like having his fans go to his enemy's houses and poo poo, over anti-vax beliefs he gets from platforming RFK Jr. And while that's going on, they're trying to like... convince Michelle Obama to stick around. It's gonna be fun to watch it all crash.
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Dec 6, 2023 02:08
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Coasterphreak posted:I was more talking about California and Arizona. Oh yeah I absolutely agree with that.
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Dec 6, 2023 02:09
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The podcast stuff was Spotify’s attempt to turn a profit. They’ve been making losses with the music business for years. Turns out it costs a lot to maintain the technology, operations and compliance of a music platform. Tidal makes a loss, Apple Music likely does as well.
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Dec 6, 2023 02:19
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Vegetable posted:The podcast stuff was Spotify’s attempt to turn a profit. They’ve been making losses with the music business for years. Turns out it costs a lot to maintain the technology, operations and compliance of a music platform. Tidal makes a loss, Apple Music likely does as well. theres nothing wrong with trying to make a profit through podcasts but paying tens of millions of dollars to get celebrities with no experience to make them was catastrophically stupid. such a strangely ignorant and disdainful view of the medium and listeners, like the execs thought the field was crappy nobodies and they could clean up with nothing but name recognition
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Dec 6, 2023 03:20
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theironjef posted:It's been hilarious to watch. Harry and Meghan had a 20 million dollar deal, and over nearly three years they produced one 12 episode interview series, and one holiday episode. They were supposed to have made a ton of other poo poo.
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Dec 6, 2023 03:21
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Vegetable posted:The podcast stuff was Spotify’s attempt to turn a profit. They’ve been making losses with the music business for years. Turns out it costs a lot to maintain the technology, operations and compliance of a music platform. Tidal makes a loss, Apple Music likely does as well. Somehow Spotify leads everyone in subscribers, pays some of the lowest royalties per stream, and still can’t make a profit. Apple absolutely loses money on streaming, but unlike Spotify, Apple sells phones with a 30% profit margin.
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Dec 6, 2023 04:40
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Krispy Wafer posted:Somehow Spotify leads everyone in subscribers, pays some of the lowest royalties per stream, and still can’t make a profit. Yeah it's like how Microsoft loses money on Xbox but who cares, they have Windows and Office and everything else. (IIRC Xbox is still losing money anyway, it might be profitable with game pass now though)
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Dec 6, 2023 06:23
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Platystemon posted:Unless these golf courses exist inside Biosphere II or equivalent, they are not recycling water. Well it sort of depends. There has been a lot of regulatory issues allowing its use which complicates things. The public courses in Pima all pretty much use gray water, but the rules make it difficult for private courses to follow suit, even if they want to (which they probably don't). https://azdeq.gov/recycled-water-rulemaking history of recycled water in Arizona (this is pretty blatant propaganda but it does cover the history): https://wrrc.arizona.edu/reuse-whats-in-store There is movement to change the rules, and Phoenix claims they are going to start using recycled water as drinking water next year, but, well, they say a lot of things when it comes to water conservation.
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Dec 6, 2023 07:36
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Rags to Liches posted:Yeah it's like how Microsoft loses money on Xbox but who cares, they have Windows and Office and everything else. With Xbox in particular it's basically a back and forth depending on whether the factions who want to break into the console business have a say and also haven't managed to catastrophically gently caress things up this week.
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Dec 6, 2023 07:43
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Ghost Leviathan posted:With Xbox in particular it's basically a back and forth depending on whether the factions who want to break into the console business have a say and also haven't managed to catastrophically gently caress things up this week. Yeah, it seems like Xbox does better the less anyone tries interfering with what Phil Spencer is doing from what I can tell, it seems to me that the fuckups happen more often when he has to deal with other people at Microsoft. (it's also entirely possible I'm reading it wrong though!)
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Dec 8, 2023 07:56
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I'm pretty sure that for the longest time, Nintendo was the only game company that actually made profit on the console itself. They were generally considered loss leaders because all the money came from games and accessories. Unless I'm remembering wrong.
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Dec 8, 2023 13:11
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Yes Nintendo has always had consoles that will turn a profit on sale and not have to rely on being a loss leader. They are also the only company that is pretty rare to have any sales on their software.
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Dec 8, 2023 14:54
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes Nintendo has always had consoles that will turn a profit on sale and not have to rely on being a loss leader. They are also the only company that is pretty rare to have any sales on their software. I might be misreading this, but Nintendo sells a poo poo ton of their software? Mario, Zelda, etc etc.
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Dec 8, 2023 14:59
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Duckman2008 posted:I might be misreading this, but Nintendo sells a poo poo ton of their software? Mario, Zelda, etc etc. They might mean that there isn't a lot of licensing fees? All the big sellers on Nintendo consoles are games Nintendo developed or technically isn't developed by Nintendo but is from studios they own.
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Dec 8, 2023 15:04
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No theyre saying that Nintendo games still cost 60 dollars 10 years after they launch
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Dec 8, 2023 15:12
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Duckman2008 posted:I might be misreading this, but Nintendo sells a poo poo ton of their software? Mario, Zelda, etc etc. I'm pretty sure they mean their games rarely go on sale. As in Nintendo never has a Summer sale where all their games are 20% off.
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Dec 8, 2023 15:14
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Correct Launch Switch games are still pretty close to original price
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Dec 8, 2023 15:26
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Duckman2008 posted:I might be misreading this, but Nintendo sells a poo poo ton of their software? Mario, Zelda, etc etc. Nintendo profits from the console in addition to the huge profits from both their own and licensed software (Whereas the other companies took a loss on the hardware but made it up on licensing/storefronts)
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Dec 8, 2023 15:56
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A lot easier if you don't try to grow loving rice and almonds in the desert. It's best if settled, agricultural-industrial civilizations don't live in deserts. There's a reason they stayed away from deserts for 5000 years until they discovered fossil fuels. It's just not going to work. No matter what happens, eventually most of the people in the American west will have to leave.
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Dec 8, 2023 19:22
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Platystemon posted:Unless these golf courses exist inside Biosphere II or equivalent, they are not recycling water. <gestures toward Lake Mead> Don't care how much "recycling" they claim to do, it ain't gonna fix that
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Dec 8, 2023 20:33
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Woolie Wool posted:It's best if settled, agricultural-industrial civilizations don't live in deserts. There's a reason they stayed away from deserts for 5000 years until they discovered fossil fuels. It's just not going to work. No matter what happens, eventually most of the people in the American west will have to leave. The faith production is incredible of you manage the to snag desert folklore though
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Dec 8, 2023 20:41
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Sentient Data posted:Nintendo profits from the console in addition to the huge profits from both their own and licensed software It has to help that a bunch of older-console (NES/SNES/N64) games are available on the platform, too. Although they had some genuine gently caress-ups in the past, don’t think they’re ever too smart to fail at making a console (or games for it). Seriously, does anyone even remember the Virtual Boy in all its red-framed glory? It sat between the SNES and N64, and was a catastrophic failure on all counts. It got pulled after a year, and only 22 games were ever made for it (2 Mario games, no Zelda, no Metroid). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Boy_games More recently was the WiiU, which I didn’t realize was a separate system to the Wii until after the Switch had been released for a while 
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Icon Of Sin posted:It has to help that a bunch of older-console (NES/SNES/N64) games are available on the platform, too. Although they had some genuine gently caress-ups in the past, don’t think they’re ever too smart to fail at making a console (or games for it). The same kid on the block who owned a Vectrex instead of a normal console also had a Virtual Boy. He only had one game for it, and he was real snobby about letting people play it. I think I only got a single turn on it. It was that game where you shoot a ball against a wall or something? I don't even remember now. I thought it was awful at the time but was so shocked by *technology* that I couldn't not be in awe of it and impressed by my friend for it
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Dec 9, 2023 00:53
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Virtual Boy can be emulated with modern VR stuff and I have heard that some of the games are pretty OK once you get away from the terrible stock headset? I did not watch the video below, just skimmed it, but it shows what I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nme6wZV8W1Q
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I'm pretty sure that for the longest time, Nintendo was the only game company that actually made profit on the console itself. They were generally considered loss leaders because all the money came from games and accessories.
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credburn posted:The same kid on the block who owned a Vectrex instead of a normal console also had a Virtual Boy. He only had one game for it, and he was real snobby about letting people play it. I think I only got a single turn on it. It was that game where you shoot a ball against a wall or something? I don't even remember now. I thought it was awful at the time but was so shocked by *technology* that I couldn't not be in awe of it and impressed by my friend for it I had a Virtual Boy. I got it really cheap after they discontinued it and I think I was only able to find 3 games for it, Tennis and I can't remember what else.
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Virtual Boy was kind of like Laserdisc. The fire burned quick but man it burned bright when it first came out
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vyst posted:Virtual Boy was kind of like Laserdisc. The fire burned quick but man it burned bright when it first came out Laserdisc was actually around for like 20 years.
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Basticle posted:Laserdisc was actually around for like 20 years. Yeah but only weird people cared about it after those first couple of years.
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Dec 9, 2023 03:54
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Do... do you know where you're posting?
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It was far more popular and long lasting in the Japanese market I think
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yeah but only weird people cared about it after those first couple of years. I own >100 laserdiscs and watch them. Probably 5 in the last 30 days. I also own a virtual boy.
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Dec 9, 2023 06:14
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I've always had a fascination with laserdisc but that's probably because any friend of a friend who was rich had one. Or that one time we actually got invited to eat at the McMansions built across the street in what was a humble blue collar neighborhood when my grandpa bought his house there.
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Rick posted:I've always had a fascination with laserdisc but that's probably because any friend of a friend who was rich had one. Or that one time we actually got invited to eat at the McMansions built across the street in what was a humble blue collar neighborhood when my grandpa bought his house there. I feel this way about the 3do and other primordial cd consoles.
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vyst posted:Virtual Boy was kind of like Laserdisc. The fire burned quick but man it burned bright when it first came out It also quickly burned your retinas.
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