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instead waited another what 30+ minutes before handling the card?

It's called the traumatic experience, the timeline isn't fuzzy, you're just assuming you'd do any better and wouldn't need some time to collect yourself. Let's circle back around to you second guessing OP while totally safe and not stressed out at all, like give me a break.

No one is ever allowed to be rattled after getting robbed according to the both of you. It must be nice to have it all figured out and know you'll never get stressed or need some time to collect yourself.

It's very easy to say you'd do any better while you're sitting around browsing reddit.

You think you worry about your card before you call the police? I hope I'm never around you in an emergency.

Yes yes you're perfect we all get it.

OP just didn't submit the police report with their initial claim, now that they have they will most likely get their money back.

What's wrong with you? OP was robbed in a foreign country and you're lecturing them on what they called it and that they didn't call their credit card company quick enough even though it was done as soon as they got back to somewhere that was hopefully safe and they had a moment to take a breath.

Not everyone reacts perfectly in stressful situations and it's easy to critique them from the safety of your couch.

Says someone jumping to conclusions about what Conan knew and did.

They make a good point about how workplaces like this end up functioning which can involve protecting the person at the top from drama like this. And as an example we even have Conan himself mentioning how someone told the interns never to talk to him which is something he never said or wanted showing how it can happen.

Pointing out how you're jumping to conclusions is not being "unnecessarily defensive."

it's just objectively wrong, streaming income is different but exists. Actors just want to make more money. Damon wouldn't accept as little pay any more and can't see himself taking such a role. How much did Obsession cost, 1mil actual production?

No well known successful actor is going to work for SAG minimum which is the kind of pay you're looking at with a small production under $1 million. They hire unknown actors because that is all they can afford. Damon is talking about the middle range movies that 25 years ago might easily have cost $20-40 million, so $40-80 million today, are just way harder to get made. He's not talking about movies that cost $5-10 million today, they would be much smaller films than the productions he's talking about.

Yes opportunities exist in streaming for some mid budget films but there are not all that many of them made. Most streaming services would rather make cheap movies and series because they cost less relative to the hours of viewing they get from customers out of them. More expensive movies tend to lose money on streaming, they just do a few each year for the halo of having some stars in movies on their services. And streaming services don't pay much for movies that have already been in the theatre compared to the revenue the physical VHS and DVD rental market used to generate.

So he's right, with no secondary rental business traditional studios won't greenlight many mid budget films, and streamers aren't making enough that replace the number that used to be made. It's hilarious you're telling a guy that has been in the business for decades that he's wrong about there being fewer middle budget movies when the change is pretty obvious and matches the shift we see in the market.

Almost certainly was looking at their phone, either that or blind drunk.

And they basically stole fortnite from pubg after helping them with it.

This is an oversimplification, the concept of a battle royale was never going to be able to be copyrighted, the concept wasn't new and PUBG had no legal claim to it. What happened was PUBG contracted Epic to help them with their netcode and some of that work ended up in Fortnite, but the decision to change Fortnite into a battle royale had already been made. Fortnite was already pretty much a failure, so Epic figured why not try with the assets they had for that game.

So Epic basically got the PUBG devs to pay Epic for work they would have done anyway, but it didn't really affect the outcome, Fortnite would still have introduced a Battle Royale mode and it would have had the trajectory it's had.

Of course PUBG was rightfully pissed off and Epic almost certainly violated the contract they made with them, but in the end they realized it didn't make a difference in what happened and dropped their lawsuit. PUBG was a military style kind of shooter, Fortnite tapped a much more arcady kind friendly part of the market. The work maybe let Epic release it a little earlier, but it's not like no one had ever made a game with a hundred players before, Epic would have figured it out on their own.

Edit: It's unknown whether Epic ever paid PUBG devs, Bluehole at the time I think they were called, any money but it's quite possible Epic either paid money back or maybe gave free services, there was probably some kind of compensation since they knew they were in the wrong.

The Democrats will take both branches of Congress

While the democrats seem pretty likely to take the house, the senate is far more uncertain, the republicans might well retain it unfortunately.

Not to mention that what they are doing to Cuba is awful. They're blockading the island so that the power system fails and no one has any gas to try and and collapse the regime. But of course the people in charge in Cuba aren't going without, it's regular people that suffer, and since the leadership doesn't care about the people it won't work.

I get the Castro's and their* successor are probably terrible for the Cuban people as well and they'd be better off without them, but punishing ordinary Cubans for their government seizing US assets decades ago is wrong no matter how big an asshole this guys is.

If someone is making a post that is obviously repeating propaganda or seems a like a bot I might quickly check their profile to see if it's one of those with a 2 week old account that has made 500 posts because that is almost certainly not a real person. And if the profile is suspicious like that and they have their post history hidden then it's obviously a bot/shill.

I rarely look at someone's profile for just run of the mill comments that don't seem off in some way.

We have no idea if they ignored it or that universal was even aware that they had done damage they hadn't paid for. We don't know if the volunteer group even communicated with universal after they hadn't been paid the 6k before they went to the media.

Universal is a huge company, the people paying their bills are not the same people on the set who did the damage, it does not take any conspiring on their part to mess paying someone up. The old phrase "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" could be far more the case here than Universal trying to screw anybody over.

I feel like after the success of the show that he will sort of be living in his own shadow and will struggle to feel like it's needed even more than most sequels do. I feel like the fans of the movie already watched the show, and the show was arguably better than the movie at pretty often.

If it's just a two hour long episode of the TV show I doubt it will be what saves him. And that Taika had very little involvement after the first season of What We Do in the Shadows and his string of misses it makes me wonder if with him back in charge it might well be a worse two hour episode of the show.

Do we know this was some nefarious scheme by universal to avoid paying the 6k or just a miscommunication? It is not uncommon at all for an invoice not to get paid for any number of reasons and when reminded the company pays, mistakes do happen, that's hardly worthy of going to the media if that's what happened here.

We also don't know if the group with the boat dotted all their I's and crossed their T's, it is very possible a small volunteer organisation in another country made mistakes on their end which resulted in them not getting paid.

Maybe Universal was being shitty, maybe only the publicity got them to pay the bill, but it is also very possible it slipped through the cracks and someone at the boat organization went right to the media instead of even trying to work out a problem that Universal might have been happy to fix even without the bad publicity.

This was resolved in August a few weeks after the story broke, Universal paid them the 6k months ago. As always the follow up resolution never gets the attention the initial story did. I'm sure like any big company Universal has done lots of shitty things but this one got cleared up fast.

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Oh ok, yes for sure the Ameicans do try and undermine European defense projects by trying to pitch them as unnecessary because they could just buy some American product instead. And buying those sales pitches too often has definitely come back to bite Europe today since the US has become such an unreliable ally.

The US has definitely lobbied hard for Europe to buy American arms for decades.

However maybe it's the double negative but I don't understand your second sentence.

For many people the narrative is as simple as Europe is dependent on the US for defense becuse that's been the headline story for so long. And that is in some ways is very true like how reliant NATO force projection is on American logistics and command and control. Also Europe doesn't have a 5th gen stealth fighter of its own and is reliant on the F-35. But it misses the ways in which the US is reliant on Europe for many parts, globalization did not miss the defense industry but I don't think a lot of people really get that.

I agree that any European country is very unlikely to cut off supply chains going to the US defense industry.

The revenue sharing pool is 6% of total league revenue, which for last season would mean it's well north of $300 million. The NHL doesn't release who gets what but the bottom 15 teams are eligible and small market teams get a bonus as well. The lowest earning small market teams could easily be getting $30 million each, that is almost 30% of this year's salary cap for instance. The cap is based on a percentage of revenue so if it goes up so will the amount in the revenue sharing pool.

It might not put you on an equal footing with the bigger earners but that is a substantial chunk of change that would make a huge difference in how much you can spend on players and so on.

Or it's early access and they said several times while that feature is on the to do list they haven't finished it yet.

Not saying it isn't annoying but the game runs well for most people which a lot of early access games don't even manage, they were very clear with what wasn't done yet, if you bought it anyway not sure that makes them incompetent.

Revenue sharing cushions that blow however since if you're revenue is lower you get it supplemented.

I'm sure smaller market teams are concerned about rising costs but the pool was well over $300 million last year I think and will only go up as revenues increase since it's based on a percentage.  Not saying it fixes the problem but for instance if the bottom 15 eligible teams split that pool it would be over 20 million each, but no doubt he lowest earning team gets more of that.

Europe is definitely trying to distance itself from being as reliant on Ameicns defense products in some areas, artillery shell production is way up in Europe for instance. M any Ameicns defense companies rely on parts from European companies that that would be impossible to replace quickly if the supply chain was disrupted for some reason.

It's more of an interdependent relationship, not a totally one sided one as it is generally portrayed as.

defense supply chains around the world rely on US components.

And a lot of American defense companies rely on parts made in Europe as well. For instance 25% of parts for the F-35 are made in Europe and the UK is the only supplier of ejection seats. If those parts were cut off F-35 production would be hugely delayed, even the planes intended for the US.

The narrative that it is only Europe that is dependant on the US for weapons ignores that globalization exist in the defence industry as well. Sure the US has greater overall production capacity as well as several capabilities Europe just lacks, but a pause on parts sports from Europe would immediately throw the US defense industry into chaos. Europe is not as powerless in this aspect as many seem to think.