"On The Other Claw...."

The Hoard Potato: These Things No Longer Bring Joy

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 04:11:27 GMT

I have reached the point where Disney has honked me off enough that I just want to Marie Kondo everything they own out of my life.

This is the only possible reaction I can have to Disney+.

I was already annoyed by them completely crapping on every pre-D+ Marvel TV project; I am furious about them shoving the Fox catalog into the vault.

The prospect of new Big Franchise content almost made the monthly fees for D+ negotiable -- how many movies worth of Marvel and Star Wars mini-series are they going to offer? I live in the Bay Area; even a matinee ticket to the theater is the price of a single month of their streaming service, and an evening ticket is at least two months.

HOWEVER

The thing that has pushed me over the edge ...

The thing that has me wrestling the karaoke mike from the adorable red panda ...

Is that my Twitter feed has been full of absolutely uncritical squee over the debut of the channel.

#FirstThingIWatched is trending ... and so many of the responses are "I watched Steamboat Willie!"

AND AND AND

MOTHERFUCKERS

THAT FUCKING CARTOON SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO.

I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR PEOPLE LAVISHING PRAISE OVER THE ROBBER BARONS WHO BROKE COPYRIGHT OVER IT FOR ALLOWING YOU TO PAY THEM A MONTHLY FEE TO SEE IT.

I dropped Star Trek over the CBS "All Access" paywall. I can drop Star Wars and Marvel -- the MCU, the comics, the cartoons.

The MCU ended with Endgame. Star Wars ends with Episode IX.

I do not need the Mouse.

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Writer's Block: News development

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:26:22 GMT

[Error: unknown template qotd]

What's the first major news event that you remember hearing about as a child? Where did you learn about it? How did it impact your world view?

The Vietnam War wasn't really an event when I was a child: it was simply another fact of existence. It was always there, always part of adult conversation, always part of my father. I don't actually remember the period that my father was in Vietnam, or even when he came home, but for as long as I can remember, his time there has been one of the defining attributes of his personality.

The first event -- or series of events -- that I really remember as news stories would have to be the Apollo flights, and I learned about those by having my mother bundle me up in front of the TV and watch every single manned flight.

Let's see if LJ will recognize its own template if I cross-post from DW...

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In Which Your Obedient Serpent Clones His Journal

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:19:56 GMT

Your Obedient Serpent finally found out how to import the entirety of his LiveJournal into DreamWidth, where all the Cool Kids seem to be going.

It's the whole shebang, too: journal entries, comments, tags, filters, everything except my ridiculous gallery of icons (DW maxes out at 15, which really is plenty; LJ allows me 202, and I have 82. Time to pick and choose!)

LJ-specific templates like the Writer's Block questions didn't make it through; I don't know if polls did, either, since I don't use them enough to pick a poll-entry out without slogging through pages and pages of archives.

I don't know if I'm going to shift my primary posting habits over there, but now that I don't have to abandon eight years of archives, that's become feasible.

Of course, DreamWidth makes it much easier to cross-post, so it does make sense to make my posts from here_DW rather than over there_lj.

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Dreamwidth Crossposting Test

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:08:32 GMT

This is a test.

This is only a test.

Did you study?

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