I wonder if they include the conversation between Reagan and Nixon where Reagan called black people "monkeys."

Or the Lee Atwater quote where he talks about his strategic use of dog whistles and starts it off by saying the N-word three times.

Man, Reagan sucked.

I don't know what I'd call this person, but I don't think it would be "film fan" if Thor 4 and Mario alone made up 10% of the movies seen.

Obsessive compulsive, maybe? Hyper competitive? Bit of both?

They literally released a new game six months ago

Well I deem the final result "terrible" and the original concept "even worse."

The only season of Picard worth revisiting is season 3. Thank goodness they brought in a new showrunner for that one.

Paramount used to show no ads whatsoever for their no-ads plan, but now they show an ad at the beginning for another show. For the longest time it was unskippable, but at least now these can be skipped.

Hulu does the same thing. No ads should mean NO ads!

I used to have office jobs just like this; it's much worse today. The office jobs depicted in the movie are slower paced, just like office jobs used to be. In other words, despite the level of drudgery and manual toil, people generally had time to actually do their job. Not everything was optimized into oblivion, and that was a good thing. It gave people time to learn, gain mastery, investigate options, and be creative. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it was a better time.

Now, besides an "always on" demand that many companies expect, if you have to work on site (in order to prop up the company's real estate investment), forget about a cubicle. Cubicles got a bad rap, but they enabled each person to imbue their workspace with some of their own personality, and they provided a modicum of privacy. Now you only have an open floor plan with desks side by side, and more likely than not, the desks are hot (meaning you have to reserve them in advance). There are very few offices except for executives.

No one has time to do anything, and on a very much related note, many roles that used to be dedicated no longer exist. Instead, their job functions were piled on top of the job responsibilities of people who already had too much on their plates to begin with.

Frankly, in many ways Office Space is nostalgic for me these days. The only two things I have over it are that I work remotely (pros and cons) and I don't have to wear a pressed shirt and tie anymore.

Oh man, you want the real answer?

The people who run these kinds of companies ascended to their roles through a mixture of amorality, naked ambition, willingness to do whatever it takes to ingratiate themselves to those above them, credit stealing, blame shifting, and sabotage of rivals. As a rule, they are uncreative, unintelligent, and cowardly, but they have arrogance in spades. If you think you've met an exception to the rule, you're either wrong or they just haven't been pushed out yet. Natural sociopaths are common, but so are those who have intentionally become sociopathic in the pursuit of power. It's a trait that's selected for.

They will replace successful leaders with their own cronies and yes people because they would rather suffocate a successful thing they don't control completely than tolerate success from someone that's threatening to their ego.

For all of their performative hand wringing about layoffs, they don't actually care and will say terrible things in private.

Long story short, they're all Carter Burke from Aliens, but the more power one accumulates, the more of an asshole they become.

Source: from millionaires to billionaires, I've had to deal with these human-shaped bags of shit up close and personal my entire career.

The value proposition of Prime Video for me as an existing customer is so low at this point that it's not even worth paying for it at all, let alone the extra $36/year to watch their shows ad-free. I've watched everything I'm interested in and the shows I liked have all ended, with one heavily qualified exception (Rings of Power). I'd cancel it entirely like I did with Netflix and "Max" if the shipping benefit didn't make Prime itself so worthwhile to me. Maybe I'll just delete the app from my media player and move on with my life.

I've watched that clip probably a dozen times and laughed every time. They have an entire row of fake mannequin people in the middle of the shot surrounded by lots of real actors and extras. Utterly bizarre.

This is why I don't use the word "content" to describe this stuff. That's the word execs use, and it's because they see this kind of thing as fine. It's just mass-produced product to them.

Many of us are interested. More post content (versus bare links) wouldn't hurt though

Because no one read the article, it sounds like they're just adding CNN to Max, alongside other Max content.

Somewhere at NBC there was an analyst who told the execs that this was a terrible idea that was going to lose a ton of money and the execs ignored that person and did it anyway.