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Dude, what the actual fuck is your malfunction?

Yes, wanting factual, unbiased journalism truly is the greatest form of simping.

You clearly didn't read the tail end of my original comment. Fabricated grievances dilute genuine ones. This publication is crying wolf. This makes people pay less attention when news breaks about an actual fuckup.

All of this is at best tangential.

The NSA broke no law. The article's headline implies that the NSA broke the law. This headline is misleading.

Sure, but ex post facto is a thing. If people feel that this should be illegal they should write their representatives, but this headline is disingenuous.

Actions are only illegal if they were against the law at the time they were taken. If fireworks become illegal on July 5th I can't be found guilty for shooting them off on July 4th.

The headline implies the NSA broke a law that does not exist, actively misleading those who read it. Shame on the "journalist" or editor that wrote it. Fabricated criticisms and grievances dilute genuine ones.

African or European?

Hey, thanks for sharing!

It's completely beyond me why scripts get rushed out the door before they're at the very least solid. Sure, a production company might make their money just a little bit sooner but they run a massive risk of losing all of their money making a movie that completely bombs.

It's impossible for every script to be a masterwork, but holy crap it seems like an audience wanting a competent script is too much to ask. It's not like there's a shortage of aspiring writers that can take a crack at a script until it's at least passable.

I'm sure there's plenty of those making a mess of things, but taking time in the writing process, getting input from relevant parties, and doing as much preparation as possible cuts out a myriad of problems.

Studio got a product placement deal? Great, let's integrate that into the story long before filming even begins so it feels natural.

Director doesn't know if he wants plot point A to happen or not? Good thing he heard about that while the movie was just a script instead of having him decide with dozens of people on set.

I'm sure there are uncontrollable, unforeseeable problems that will come up in any production. There is no reason to exacerbate those by being willfully unprepared. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure but it seems like film studios reliably hamper the "prevention" part to shave a few weeks off on prep time and end up losing more time or huge piles of money because of it.

That's what sticks in my craw. If I'm a studio exec who's going to invest potentially hundreds of millions of dollars it's beyond stupid to jeopardize that to get a payout a little faster.

It just seems stupid to put a time crunch on the most important phase of your investment. I don't see how taking a greater risk of a project being a flop is worth getting the script a few weeks sooner.

At least for some of those there's an excuse of needing to get the news out ASAP, but there's no reason an in depth piece or an online article that's been up for a few days should be butchered.

Bad writing for film and television really irks me because of how avoidable it is. I'm not talking about mediocre or lackluster writing, but the actual bad writing.

TV shows and movies are tremendously expensive to make. Every part of it costs a fortune except for one: the writing. Even if a studio or production company was paying for a whole team of writers to work full time it's still only a fraction of the cost of paying film crews, actors, editors, and VFX artists.

Given the relatively lower expense, relative lack of time constraints, and enormous importance of the script to the overall quality of the product it absolutely boggles my mind that production companies consistently fuck up the writing process.

I'm against circumcision too.

I didn't downvote a guy who had it done to him against his will for sharing his personal experience.

The more time I spend on Lemmy the more I realize people here are just the worst.

No problem!

I've participated in the unemployment tallying in the US. That's not how that works.

The only thing that I can possibly imagine you're alluding to is discouraged workers, who are people without jobs who stopped looking. They drop off because it's really hard to hire people who won't apply for any job, which is important to know about when you're trying to determine the number of people available to fill job vacancies.

Not sure why you got down voted for asking an honest question.

There was a single influential painting from the 1800's depicting three Romans doing the gesture. This lodged in the minds of some people in the early 20th century as the way ancient Romans saluted despite the fact that there wasn't any historical evidence for this, just a painting portraying it.

The situation was a bit like the whole "people eat X number of spiders in their sleep" thing where an innocent falsehood spread like wildfire and was accepted as fact. The idea that Romans saluted that way is still floating around and would probably be more prevalent if the Nazis hadn't adopted the gesture.

Thank you and I hope you have the same.

An IPO is an initial public offering. It is when shares of the company are being sold for the first time. This allows a company to (potentially) raise an enormous amount of money to expand their business.

When people buy and sell stocks or you see stock prices being reported on this is more or less a secondary market, people or investment firms trading stocks amongst themselves. The company doesn't get any money when a stock trades hands in this fashion.

An IPO is different. The company is selling little pieces of ownership and the money from those sales go into their coffers. To raise the most funds the company wants to convince potential buyers that the company is valuable and is now or will soon be profitable (and will pay a dividend out for each share owned). This assessment of value (called valuation) is often complex and can take a long, long time.

Reddit's recent effective shutdown of third party apps to force mobile users onto the Reddit mobile app was almost certainly an effort to get a better valuation. It shows potential buyers of shares that the content on Reddit can only be accessed on mobile devices via an app that the company would get the ad revenue from.

All the kerfuffle and shakeups at Reddit have been leading up to the big day, the IPO. The big news scoop is that that date has been set for March.

Only one of us is worked up into a rage.

It ain't me.

I'd argue that they could have continued making movies, perhaps indefinitely. The problem is that Disney invested a billion dollars and then didn't spend a dime on writers.

Planning out an overarching story, major plot points, and compelling characters beforehand would have solved just about every problem with the sequel trilogy. Instead Disney seemed to hand the films over to the hotshot director du jour who would more or less shoot from the hip.

Even if we'd ended up with fan service rehashes like the Force Awakens it wouldn't be the end of the world, just a wasted opportunity. Instead Johnson came in and kicked over the sandcastle which forced Abrams to come back and frantically try to patch it back up.

You'd think that spending a billion dollars would make a company at least try to do some prep work to maximize their investment.

Well if that isn't putting words in my mouth I don't know what is.