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Cake day: August 1st, 2023
  • Hux@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What subscription service would you gladly pay for?
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    23 days ago

    I’d say I go to see a movie in an actual movie theater once a year, but the truth is I probably go half as often as that.

    It isn’t that I am not interested in movies, I just don’t see the value. I am supposed to pay for a ticket, concessions, and whatever goes into travel to the theater to watch a movie with a bunch of (probably annoying) strangers in a fairly gross environment?

    My guess is my annual box office contribution is approximately 0.5x the current ticket price.

    If, however, there was a $20/month subscription service which would let me watch new releases at home, I would subscribe.

    Even if it was relegated to expensive hardware, like an Apple Vision Pro, I would very likely buy the device and sign up for the subscription.

    $240/year would be a hell of a lot more revenue than my current $5.50/year—regardless of whether or not it would be exclusive to certain hardware or platforms.

    Honestly, my current TV and sound system may not be as impressive as a theater, but they are good and I’d take that experience over the modified bus depot experience of a public movie theater.

  • Hux@lemmy.mltoAutism@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    8 months ago

    • Suddenly makes a game of “tag” way more high-stakes—and FUN!

    • Don’t have to feel guilty about boiling your lobsters alive.

    • Ticks and mosquitoes? Never an issue.

    I’ll admit it makes petting zoos a tragic affair, but what the hell good is “smelling” ants?

  • Hux@lemmy.mltoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.world•Average mission for Qui-Gon, honestlyEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Since the Jedi had fucked up “codes” to live by, I never would have expected them to rescue the mom.

    Queen Amidala, however…

    How fucked up is it that she was taken in by Anakin’s mother, who (as a god damn slave) fed her, gave her a place to stay, allowed her son to risk his life in a pod race, and ultimately gave her only son up willingly to go with her and the two Jedi, not really knowing what would happen but just trusting he’d be safe—but then, that same kid who gets attacked on the way to the ship just leaving Tattooine, ends up flying a fighter craft and destroying the droid control ship which saves Amidala’s entire planet and people. The fact the kid survived any of that is a miracle, but he clearly misses his mother. A fact Amidala was blatantly aware of.

    The fact that Amidala, who had nearly infinite resources at her disposal, owed her life and every life she was responsible for in Naboo to Anakin, and was clearly aware of pretty much the only thing Anakin wanted in the entire universe—his god damn mother—and yet Amidala didn’t do jack fucking shit to drop a few coins on Watto and free Shmi.

    I never would have expected the Jedi to free her, but Amidala? What a fucking piece of work…