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  1. So I haven’t watched ep 3 yet but I’ve been unable to resist reading the comments on this thread. It sounds like those of you that watch ep 4 will be hate-watching it, no?
  2. I don’t know how big a piece they actually had remaining but the PE firm kept him on-they initially had Tim as CEO and I expect that was part of the deal (I.e, they wanted him as CEO and in exchange he retained some ownership). Again, this is all presumptions, but I think he got really tired trying to manage the increasingly insolvent business and also caught flack for not providing sufficient sexual harassment protection amongst theater staff (which is probably somewhat a byproduct of running a business that was kind of boot-strapped and informal from inception). Add Covid breaking theatrical and they’ve kind of been running a zombie business. At least locally, it wasn’t food that made Alamo, it was that it was fun. It was the programming, the Rolling Roadshow, doing crazy stuff that probably didn’t make a lot of money but created a kinship amongst patrons that the owners and staff were huge nuts about curating an experience. That part didn’t get revived after Covid and I think THAT is what Tim lived for.
  3. I think it’s telling that the League’s were bought out. I would think Sony would be happy to have them on board, even if it’s just for appearances.
  4. I grew up in a small town and probably 75% of everyone I knew was Baptist or non-denominational but in congregation that had broken off from a more traditional Baptist church. There was definitely good people and pastors that cared, so I don’t want to paint with an overly broad brush. That said, talking in tongues, proposing that the rapture is imminent, anti-Christ lives among us now, etc., it’s all just bananas. Plus my experience was 20-30 years ago and the world should have (by their predictions) should have ended 5 or 6 times by now. I’m mostly just amazed that it’s taken this long for membership to fall because membership amongst pretty much ALL organized groups have declined over the past 20 years, and it’s at least correlated with the increase of online activity.
  5. The cost or the price? If your concern is the latter, that’s market economics.
  6. I guess…let’s be honest, that’s probably not top five, for me at least, in weird practices among the Baptists.
  7. Also, I bet they didn’t pay anything but will take on debt obligations.
  8. It was a long-time coming but end of an era-Tim and Karrie League built something really cool. I’m really interested to see what they do next.
  9. I don’t know why you think Sheppard is getting past the Spurs at 4. Of course, Murphy’s Law-if they draft him he’ll be a two time all-star and a starter on a perennial championship contender. Buzelis is my number two option at 3, mainly because all the scouting reports talk about how weak he is and that’s fixable with age and training.
  10. Hah, we watched it last night, too, same outcome. I’ll say this-it’s much better than the Anne Hathaway cougar romance show I was made to watch last week.
  11. Do you think maintaining faith is an institution unworthy of it is a virtue?
  12. Well goddamnit, they are even worse. A bunch of antisemitic poop fetishists. I bet we can draw a straight line from the supposed superiority of the “master race”, immigration into central and west Texas, and the current, misguided, sense of Texas exceptionalism.
  13. And that’s why we should have never let those dago guinea bastards (and their wives) into the country in the first place. What’s next, we’re going to let in the thieving Irish?
  14. Ukraine needs to add to their population, it seems there’s a grand compromise available here.
  15. I’m sure this has already been proposed multiple times, and there’s probably a good reason for its absence, but the lack of a “Classics” thread like we had in the Hornfans days is something I miss. Additionally, if one goal is to increase traffic from Gen Y and Z, then Classics is useful as a repository for all the inside jokes that are otherwise a barrier to a lurker who might otherwise engage with the board.
  16. The strikes are at least partially to blame, but the chaos at the studio level isn’t helping. I don’t think anything is predictably making money right now and the studios are pausing to recalibrate.
  17. Oh I do, too. Clutch on Clutchfans also seems to prefer Lurch and if he doesn’t pair well with Sengun then he’d trade the latter. I think Sengun is the only (drafted) Rocket that has a floor as a starter on a good team and I’m not eager to look for upgrades there.
  18. Kelly Iko of The Athletic keeps beating that same drum, too. I’m typically skeptical of beat writers in general, but Iko has made the point that the Rockets under Stone really like length and he thinks that’s just integral to their draft strategy.
  19. I'm sorry, are we not supposed to make sniper jokes because of something that happened 58 years ago?
  20. I will admit that this formerly seemed like a value add but I’ve come to dislike it. And for me it’s not the waiters, it’s MY eating that disrupts the movie watching experience. I’m usually apt to pass on food at The Alamo but continue to patronize them because they reliably kick out disrupters and the seats are sufficiently distanced that someone stuffing their face with popcorn doesn’t distract me.
  21. I remember some ball player talking about Griffey Junior’s time with the Reds and made the point that a lot of good major leaguers still have their skills when they are older (I.e., raw bat speed is still there), but they just are never at 100%. That’s accounts for a lot of the performance irregularity (I don’t buy that but thought it was interesting that it’s what pro athletes might believe).
  22. Normally I think that’s a terrible sentiment if you want to win championships, but then I remember Hakeem in a fucking Raptors jersey…
  23. I think there’s been a little bit of a historical reevaluation of the Bush presidency, partly due to time and partly because of the changes in the GOP. And unfortunately I think people are forgetting that it was chock full of really, really stupid ideas.
  24. I haven’t watched it, but I love to imagine the whole “Spider-Man Universe” came about because of a Bohemian Grove like retreat held by a bunch of Sony production execs and lots of cocaine. “Look here man, those idiot fucks Lord and Miller made $1b with a cartoon and it wasn’t even about Peter Parker. We can do this! You have Madame Web and we’ll get a bunch of hot young chicks, it’ll pull in teen girls AND boys! And you over there with the pipe, we’ll give you Kraven the Hunter. No, you can’t have Spider-Man do a cameo but we’ll do a post credit scene with Morbius, we still have a five picture deal with Leto.
  25. If it's somewhat soothing, Amazon and Apple+ both appear indifferent to profits (I'm sure that will change). Both are taking BIG swings. I don't have access to anything internal, but I'd be flabbergasted if the analytics remotely justified the rights and production cost of The Rings of Power (and I don't think the critical response was sufficient that they might think "this is really good, we just need to promote it more"), yet they greenlit a second season. Apple is basically HBO from the 2000's without the "VP of Tits" that everyone would joke about when the trip to the Bada Bing included nipple shots or we had a tracking shot through Littlefingers' bordello.
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