MajorHavoc

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MajorHavoc,

It makes me happy that somewhere, someone, is reading your comment with no knowledge of the scene you’re referring to. I hope they search for it and are delighted.

Edit: And I agree 100%.

MajorHavoc,

This thread has lots of company names without references or explanations.

While " controversy" is probably a solid search term, we could do better by including “why” right in the comments.

MajorHavoc,

Yarrr. I’ve not taken part myself, but I hear there be extremely affordable ways to obtain digital files in this age.

Spotify is a last gross gasp of the dying music industrial complex, before direct payments for early access, directly to artists, becomes the primary form of music sales.

MajorHavoc,

None of it is going to be smooth.

I’m all for paying for a discovery algorithm, and Spotify has a good one. But as Google found out, staying the top player in a discovery space is hard.

A serious risk that Spotify faces is that new federated social networks are popping up, with great support for finding new artists.

Without the Discovery portion of Spotify, and with the constant pressure by record labels to enshittify the service, I don’t see a long runway ahead for Spotify.

The new default is going to be piracy, again. (The old default was piracy, before streaming got good.) The paid option will be patronage. Then we will see massive amounts of bundling in the patronage services, as they re-discover that people are willing to pay for a discovery service.

If the record labels even still exist at that point, they will pressure the bundled patronage services to enshittify, and the dance will start over at piracy.

For anyone on the selling side who wants to skip a step or win for awhile, here’s the lesson: You can’t sell digital files. You never could - not from day one. You can only sell easy access and discovery.

Digital files are the ulitmate perfectly elastic good, and the consumer community will swing back and forth into piracy or paying, based on how well they are treated as customers.

MajorHavoc,

Everyone has to start somewhere.

I hope you got a coupon discount or something, though.

MajorHavoc,

It’s actually cut off at “bell” the first time before it passes out. It manages “belt” later.

MajorHavoc,

I do need to see Picard snap Q’s neck in cold blood.

Also it could be fun seeing Riker spend a whole film trying to kill Picard for no adequately explored reason.

Troi would be the saving grace of the film and end up with a separate stand-alone series of films that completely ignore all existing Trek canon.

The rest of the cast would also get solo movies, but ones forgotten either months after, or at worst, months before, their release dates.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. Aquaman was a fun time. I could enjoy that vibe brought to Trek.

MajorHavoc,

People on the internet suck.

They really do.

MajorHavoc,

We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don’t tell anyone. /s

MajorHavoc,

It’s perfect!

I’ve wanted to see someone make this since the first time I heard “engage the tractor beam”.

Of course, I was probably like 5. Then again, my humor hasn’t progressed that much since then anyway.

MajorHavoc,

Picard looking stern

“Belay that order!”

MajorHavoc,

True. But I do wish they would have had Avery Brooks talk over the music, to honor tradition.

“Space: The final frontier. These aren’t voyages at all, and - I don’t understand why Admiral Jellico insists on a log recorded in this format. I have important work that can’t wait. Computer, erase this log and send my regrets to Admiral Jellico.”

MajorHavoc,

Oh. Haha! That makes me sense.

MajorHavoc,

No, I’m pretty sure their relationship was platonic.

/s - obviously.

MajorHavoc,

Now that’s a plan!

MajorHavoc,

I can’t quite make the math work, but now I want a Captain Worf series that somehow features Colm Meaney in more episodes than Michael Dorn…

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. Losing a beauty/style contest to David Bowie shouldn’t really count.

MajorHavoc,

Yes! And Dolly Parton!

MajorHavoc,

the slaves were treated very badly so when they got the slavers they didn’t give them a very nice time.

I may be reading into it, but I wonder if that’s that generations way of saying they beat the shit out of the slavers before turning them over to the authorities, without admitting to anything specific.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. Their motto isn’t “Kill some humans.”, It’s “Kill all humans.”.

MajorHavoc,

“Ow! What did you do that for?! I’m here for an argument.”

“Oh! That’s two doors back the way you came. This is ‘getting hit in the head’ lessons!”

MajorHavoc,

Daniel Radcliffe. Since I watched Swiss Army Man, I’ve decided that I would watch anything with him in it without even questioning it.

That is an excellent plan.

  • Miracle Workers is a national treasure.
  • Weird: The Al Yankovich Story is ridiculous perfection.
  • The Lost City is much better than it has any right to be.
MajorHavoc,

Rory and Amy

MajorHavoc,

Joking aside, Lego makes sets that look like houseplants now, and they’re fantastic.

So…I guess I’m in this comic, and I’m okay with that.

Edit: Drat. I accidentally outed myself as a dinosaur.

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