Stuff that has to do with me:
LSATS; I scored slightly higher than the national average on the LSATs in June. I might have done better if I had remembered I was signed up to take them... or was sober (I drank 2 bottles of wine before realizing I had to go to the thing, but at least I got in, I can't tell you how many test takers were crying on the sides or in the hallway because they brought their cellphone with them or didn't have a #2 pencil... The were all Asian looking actually...they were, what do you want me do to about it? Lie?) . But it's good enough to get me to where I wanna go. This means that in a while I'll be able to win internet arguments by saying "fuck you, I'm a lawyer" and it won't be a lie. That is not the only reason I am going to law school, but it is the most fun one.
Suck my habeas corpus bitches!
Speaking of legal things, I am also currently suing the crap out of a certain City Agency for sucking at their job. After that, I will then be suing the private company that was involved. If that works out I will not have to worry about law-school tuition now that I think about it. Although I am still gonna go get a bottle of Jonnie Walker Blue Label.
I have been taking on new clients so I am actually a bit busy. But we will try to bring you plenty more of this nonsense.
Go Fuck Yourself Awards:
Apparently Hulu has decided they hate their customers and no longer wants to be in business, because that new interface/menu they came up with is complete garbage. I was lucky in that I used the PSN to access it, and they didn't get around to ruining that until September of 2017. Much as I love some of their original programming and the fact that I could rely on HD quality of programs I wanted to watch (no, Time Warner, I am never signing up for cable TV ever ever again), that menu is just so atrocious that the reverse value ratio it creates is just way too high and I'll just go back to pirating the shows I want to see. Seriously, was this designed by the nephew of the CEO or something? Because that shit pile seems exactly like the crap you get when nepotism and cronyism is involved (remember that Obamacare website disaster that happened because they no-bid farmed it out to one of their friends? Yeah, this is that). Dear Hulu, fuck you so much for doing that.
Also the target of many a "fuck you" from their users in recent memory is Photobucket. Yes the photo hosting service with the unsustainable business model has decided to change their game in the most Martin Shkreli-esque way they possibly can and charge exorbitant fees to anyone who wants their photos back. Now this should tell you something about Photobucket; the company (formerly owned by Fox News, so you know the kind of people there are just going to be absolute gems... oh no wait, germs) has absolutely no plans to exist past 2018. They're outta here. They know they're outta here, and they are gonna loot as much out of whatever they can before it happens. The MBA types (I already have one of those so ha), are doing some down and dirty ratios and have figured out that there is a significant percentage of users who will pay that fee. Either they have businesses that absolutely need to have images hosted and can't function of they go down even for one day, or they have more money than smarts and who gives a fuck. They are going to get as much money as they can, and then fold, because someone there is not gonna have this end without a golden parachute.
But if you didn't have locally stored copies of your photos and only had them on Photobucket then you're an idiot.
Boxing the office
So box office revenues are down and this year has apparently been abysmal. As for reasons, I tend to subscribe to the perfect storm scenario. The ingredients for this perfect storm are three main ones I think;
#1; stagnant wages. Let's face it, the generation that is supposed to be going to these movies has been screwed hard and nothing is going to get better. years ago, someone with a minimum wage job would only have to work 2 hours to afford to go to the movies (to say nothing about the baby boomers who didn't even need to work more than one to afford a movie ticket). Today, that is a laughable fantasy. When a movie ticket costs close to your entire shift at your shit-job, you are not going to purchase one lightly. Jacking up prices and charging extortion rates for flavored wax and carbonated sugar water is going to really bite into the whole willingness to pay part of consumer behavior.
#2; There is something better out there now. If you are already paying for Netflix, you are going to maybe say "fuck going to that 5th reeboot of whatever the crap it is" and just binge-watch Stranger Things or get caught up on episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia or Dragon Maid or something. Online content, streaming whatever, that youtube show you like, all that stuff is the "something better to do" part of the decision to not go to the movies.
#3; No one wants your shit. Seriously, blaming Rotten Tomatoes for falling movie revenue is like Hillary blaming Bernie Sanders for losing the election to Trump. Not only does everyone realize that is complete horse shit, but you come off looking like a out of touch artard who simply thinks so highly of themselves, they can't accept reality. No one is going, because the movies are crap, mostly made that way in a transparent cash-grab attempt at the Chinese market. Adding fuel to that fire, is the fact that marketing movies seems to be the only industry where it is permissible for the advertising to straight-out lie to consumers about the product. We have all seen trailers which basically show a completely different idea of what the final film is about, or even use scenes that are not delivered in the film itself. No other industry is allowed to lie to consumers with such impunity like that. So it has fostered a heavy skepticism regarding making the decision about whether it's worth spending money on.
Those three things all at once are a perfect mix of factors that are going to keep people from buying movie tickets. And like any industry dominated by head-up-ass CEOs, Hollywood will absolutely not figure it out until more studios go the way of Blockbuster Video.
The New York Post; Still stupid as hell.
In a September 8th article the NY Post proved that once again the lights are on but nobody's home, by using a photo of the helmet from Skyrim in a story about an actual Viking era burial site.
Come by next week when images from The Fast and the Furious will be used in a story about the New York Department of Transportation.
Whoop Whoop that's the sound of a cash-cow:
Long-running manga and excellent anime series Kochi-Kame (full name; Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo) which ended its 40 year run last year will be back as a manga again. In terms of animation there are no plans announced so far as I know. While based on police officers, they're Japanese police which are not as horrible as our American badged thugs so it makes it easier to like. Plus the cast of the anime is superb.
That's it for now. See you in the funny papers.
TAO
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