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Rob Kozlowski's avatar

The problem with some people in some organizations is they don’t understand scale at ALL. The vociferous bleating of pretend activists on social media seems to have convinced these unnamed organizations there are 100 million people expressing support for certain causes when it’s really just one million people expressing that support 100 times as much as a person with a job and “things to do” would do. One million is an awfully big number in my head. I can’t picture a million objects, no matter how hard I try, so I’m convinced the number is huge, astronomical, and 100 million is essentially the same as one million because I can’t picture that in my head either. But it’s not. 100 million is a lot more than one million. In fact, I daresay, it is 100 times more than one million, so making those one million people happy and not putting forth any effort to figure out what the other 99 million people are thinking would seem to be, well…really stupid, that’s all. The Marvel problem, I fear, is just that there are only a handful of interesting superheroes, and they can’t create new ones because the business model won’t allow for it. It was why Disney paid through the nose for 20th Century Fox. It was solely for the rights of the Fantastic Four and X-Men. Of course, now it takes five to 10 years to develop a single film because of the insane budgets and the years of focus groups and marketing testing and the two dozen trust fund kids who call themselves screenwriters employed to fine tune these screenplays until they drain enough humanity out of them until they seem to have been written by a chatbot in about five minutes. So even though Disney bought Fox seven years ago, still no X-Men, and all they have to show for it is the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, an IP that’s had the life drained out of it by a handful of terrible films produced in the last 20 years. Seeing the city through someone else’s eyes is a marvelous experience. END OF COMMENT.

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Jackie Volbrecht's avatar

You are rich, rich with life and experience and full of colorful stories. You are beautiful and kind so yes, even bitches smell wealth they are just limited in their idea of it. She just missed the time of her life. She doesn’t even know it as she looks for a $5 drink.

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