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| ▲ | thayne 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't understand how that kind of clause can be legal. Its existence puts anti-trust enforcement in a catch-22, either they allow the merger, which reduces competition, or they reject it, and the acquiree is decimated, also reducing competition. |
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| ▲ | thordenmark 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's not like we aren't drowning in entertainment options. Food on the other hand, that's a real problem. |
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| ▲ | alfiedotwtf 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 12 Fast and the Furious, 42 X-Men movies… yeah - drowning | | |
| ▲ | fainpul 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not to mention franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, Alien, Predator, Jurassic Park etc. | | |
| ▲ | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Speaking of anti-trust, all of those franchises save Jurassic Park are owned by Disney through mergers. | |
| ▲ | hulitu an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm still waiting for the "Alien vs Jurasic park". It must be a very entertaining movie. /s |
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| ▲ | loloquwowndueo 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Look back, not forward my dude. Plenty of good material from previous years. With the benefit of hindsight having filtered the crap out |
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| ▲ | digitaltrees 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sounds like an opportunity to open grocery stores. |
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| ▲ | themafia 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | So when it's not happening as readily as we expect what do we do next? | | |
| ▲ | ssl-3 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | We just sit back and watch as the invisible hands of capitalism cleanse themselves of our existence. |
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| ▲ | pantalaimon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Aldi is always looking for property | |
| ▲ | alostpuppy 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I suspect in a lot of those places there is only the one supply chain. | | |
| ▲ | brookst 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | UNfI is the big distriubor, Kehei is second. Both serve essentially all grocery stores. |
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| ▲ | grosswait an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Forever seems pretty definitive |
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| ▲ | thisisnotauser 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Except you need food to live and tv shows are an artificially scarce resource that's actually free to distribute in unlimited quantities, so the harm is very different. |
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| ▲ | ClikeX 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Real people work in this industry, though. A merger of this size is bound to come with some layoffs and canceled projects. It's not as bad as food scarcity, of course. But it can do some collateral damage. | | |
| ▲ | dabockster 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8. | | |
| ▲ | nake89 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Me and my wife were Star Wars fans. The last Star Wars media we watched was episode 8. I almost walked out the theater. | | |
| ▲ | wooger 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I've watched and enjoyed Andor since, but yeah other than that zero star wars movies and TV shows since episode 8. I hear 9 was also hilariously bad, but I'll not ever bother seeing it. | |
| ▲ | baq 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Star Wars is synonymous with Andor at this point. The original trilogy is second, but it isn't a close second. | | |
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| ▲ | i80and 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I mean, 8 was easily the most functional of the new trilogy, if a somewhat overly ambitious muddle, so that's a bad example. There is a real problem with too many sequels and adaptations though. | | |
| ▲ | phantasmish 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | 8 is at least the fourth best Star Wars movie. Maybe 3rd. Jedi is gorgeous but the script for everything past Jabba’s Palace is a mess. Doesn’t know what to do with all its characters, feels the need to have them all around anyway. | |
| ▲ | NBJack 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If 8 had followed through on its narrative promises, it would have had a chance. But unfortunately, much like a modern LLM that exceeds its context window, it lost its way in the final act. As for sequels, we are at a weird time in history. Due maybe in part just how prevalent media is and how easy (relatively) it is to create, we've been super-saturated in "like X but with Y" stories. We have dedicated websites mapping tropes. It's hard to come up with anything that hasn't been done a few million times. AI will probably accelerate that, and I can't say I know what comes next. |
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| ▲ | AlexandrB 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Seems like a bad example. The problem with Episode 8 was not lack of creativity. Episode 7 was a complete retread of "A New Hope" and a bigger offender. At least blue Jedi milk is new. | | |
| ▲ | bananaflag 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Episode 8 was a retread of Empire Strikes Back (ships chase through empty space while the main character trains with the old master on a wild planet). It seemed subversive just because ESB was subversive relative to ANH. | | |
| ▲ | NBJack 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Complete with "this guy will help us" to "oh no, they betrayed us!" |
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| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You will still have Amazon, Apple, Paramount, Disney, and NetMax spending billions each on content and streaming and Sony being the mercenary creating content for the highest bidder. WB under Discovery was already becoming an also ran and more financial engineering than a real company. |
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| ▲ | orionblastar 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Does that mean the DCU Movies might get delayed or canceled? | | |
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| ▲ | hopelite 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m not sure it’s a fair comparison, groceries that sell food on one hand and a brainwashing and propaganda delivery system (see History of criminal, industry/advertiser, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, and foreign nation direct ties to the industry) masquerading as “entertainment” on the other. You don’t have to be “harmed”, just do not pay them your money. Problem solved. If the prospect of not being “entertained” fills you with anxiety and frustration, maybe that’s something to reflect on. |
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| ▲ | cwillu 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The machine works in the aggregate, and so does the harm. Lets not pretend that all will be well if I just avoid the propoganda myself. | | |
| ▲ | hopelite 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | That makes no logical sense. So if I give up my “entertainment” subscriptions because the execs need their bonuses and drive the prices up to compensate for the penalty, causing me to think about how to spend quality time with my family paying games, reading books, and doing activities; is equally harmful as if I can’t but groceries in my town because the grocery store was closed? | | |
| ▲ | cwillu 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | I most certainly did not imply that cancelling subscriptions is harmful; I think you read something I did not write. |
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| ▲ | psunavy03 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > a brainwashing and propaganda delivery system (see History of criminal, industry/advertiser, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, and foreign nation direct ties to the industry) masquerading as “entertainment” I'm sorry, you appear to have dropped your tinfoil hat. Here it is. |
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| ▲ | fragmede 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| money is just this construct that we invented to distribute limited resources. why are we doing this? |
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| ▲ | netsharc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Too many people are too obsessed in making some number in a database be as large as possible... Maybe they should just play that paperclip game. | |
| ▲ | jachee 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The Invisible Hand demands its tribute. It’s giving us the Invisible Middle Finger again. |
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