That is very interesting anecdata. My perspective on the park is minimal. We did it twice when I was a kid but our version involved ferrying back and forth from my dad's high school buddy's house where you slept on the floor in a sleeping bag. Fun was of course had but it wasn't the immersive experience they designed the place to be.
That said, a couple years ago we decided to forego our normal OBX trip due to the pending arrival of our little guy. Just seemed crazy to do it with a newborn. As a consolation prize for my oldest we did a long weekend at the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg. Now obviously this was not at the level one would expect of Disney but it delivered that slightly hokey Americana thing, same kind of vibe you're describing with the sing along, and damned if kids didn't still eat it up. My son (5 and a half at the time) was in heaven. We have a picture of him from that trip sleeping with the most serene look of happiness on his face I have ever seen. This is consistent with similar experiences at various other little camp grounds and things like that we've done that were clearly ripping off Disney whenever they went live in the 70s-90s.
All of which is to say there is still juice in those old formulas. I was never invested enough to feel that sense of betrayal you get from other people about Disney but it's hard to look at them without asking 'wtf are you people doing?'
Don't worry about it. We all said a lot of things back there in that thread. The important thing is that we now have this review and can move on with our lives.
No, they certainly aren't doing the anime thing, though one gets the sense there's a part of them that at times might kinda sorta want to be, but for the fact that those are also problematic in their worldview. No matter how much that genre has matured we all know who the butt kicking babes were originally designed to please.
I also didn't mean to imply it was that simple. That's just one small subset of their problem, which is that they don't believe in their own product anymore. However they also know they can't totally get away from it so keep releasing mediocre messes.
We've gone from the uncouth but love-able neighbors with a rednecks that won the lottery vibe to total dicks with a penchant for the petty and vindictive.
My goodness. If you find yourself in the market for new hobbies I can vouch for those things my Clark Griswald lifestyle permits, which currently are lifting, shooting, and a very unserious dart league. Otherwise all I can say is I am deeply sorry for your loss.
OK don't make fun of me. My last serious gaming was of the Quake Team Fortress and C&C Red Alert era. Did the original run Halo games with my little brothers. Dabbled in Warcraft 3. Sometimes would get really drunk and play Soul Caliber with my friends in like 2004. I gave up games to chase tail and haven't persojally owned anything for gaming, console or PC, since the first term of the W admin. I am completely ignorant and uninformed. My questions:
1. Are those cut screens actually in a video game? Because they look like South Park. I mean.. the voice...LMAO
2. Are you telling me they made a game in feudal Japan but your character is a black dude? Because that's also f-ing hilarious.
I don't know that it's liberalism exactly. It seems to me more that they've decided that the princess archetype, which inherently involves a plot around interpersonal/social (as opposed to violent) disputes, vulnerability, and a romantic heterosexual resolution is just too problematic to deliver. The result is they don't make them anymore or when they do it's reluctant, soaked in derision, and embedded in a constant pitch for something else.
Their problem is that people but in particular lots of little girls still love the princess archetype. Not all, nothing wrong with those that don't, or boys that do. But there are enough that love it to support a several hundred billion dollar a year business empire in an otherwise tough and fractured media market. Disney used to serve up the best princesses but now it's like going to a steakhouse where the ownership has gone vegan, the waiter won't stop asking if you're sure you don't want the sustainable fish paste instead of the ribeye, and when they finally bring you the meat its dressed up in a bunch of crappy sauces and bewildering sides that weren't what you came for. Maybe the best way to think about it is that while Disney invented the modern steak house they seem unable to understand that they did not invent the steak.
Beware the horse shoe theory of hate speech.
That is very interesting anecdata. My perspective on the park is minimal. We did it twice when I was a kid but our version involved ferrying back and forth from my dad's high school buddy's house where you slept on the floor in a sleeping bag. Fun was of course had but it wasn't the immersive experience they designed the place to be.
That said, a couple years ago we decided to forego our normal OBX trip due to the pending arrival of our little guy. Just seemed crazy to do it with a newborn. As a consolation prize for my oldest we did a long weekend at the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg. Now obviously this was not at the level one would expect of Disney but it delivered that slightly hokey Americana thing, same kind of vibe you're describing with the sing along, and damned if kids didn't still eat it up. My son (5 and a half at the time) was in heaven. We have a picture of him from that trip sleeping with the most serene look of happiness on his face I have ever seen. This is consistent with similar experiences at various other little camp grounds and things like that we've done that were clearly ripping off Disney whenever they went live in the 70s-90s.
All of which is to say there is still juice in those old formulas. I was never invested enough to feel that sense of betrayal you get from other people about Disney but it's hard to look at them without asking 'wtf are you people doing?'
Don't worry about it. We all said a lot of things back there in that thread. The important thing is that we now have this review and can move on with our lives.
https://youtu.be/dzk0yH9Achw?si=cBJy_E3hzy1DHt98
That is an interesting angle I would never have considered.
I'm just glad my comments can be interesting.
No, they certainly aren't doing the anime thing, though one gets the sense there's a part of them that at times might kinda sorta want to be, but for the fact that those are also problematic in their worldview. No matter how much that genre has matured we all know who the butt kicking babes were originally designed to please.
I also didn't mean to imply it was that simple. That's just one small subset of their problem, which is that they don't believe in their own product anymore. However they also know they can't totally get away from it so keep releasing mediocre messes.
We've gone from the uncouth but love-able neighbors with a rednecks that won the lottery vibe to total dicks with a penchant for the petty and vindictive.
My goodness. If you find yourself in the market for new hobbies I can vouch for those things my Clark Griswald lifestyle permits, which currently are lifting, shooting, and a very unserious dart league. Otherwise all I can say is I am deeply sorry for your loss.
OK don't make fun of me. My last serious gaming was of the Quake Team Fortress and C&C Red Alert era. Did the original run Halo games with my little brothers. Dabbled in Warcraft 3. Sometimes would get really drunk and play Soul Caliber with my friends in like 2004. I gave up games to chase tail and haven't persojally owned anything for gaming, console or PC, since the first term of the W admin. I am completely ignorant and uninformed. My questions:
1. Are those cut screens actually in a video game? Because they look like South Park. I mean.. the voice...LMAO
2. Are you telling me they made a game in feudal Japan but your character is a black dude? Because that's also f-ing hilarious.
I don't know that it's liberalism exactly. It seems to me more that they've decided that the princess archetype, which inherently involves a plot around interpersonal/social (as opposed to violent) disputes, vulnerability, and a romantic heterosexual resolution is just too problematic to deliver. The result is they don't make them anymore or when they do it's reluctant, soaked in derision, and embedded in a constant pitch for something else.
Their problem is that people but in particular lots of little girls still love the princess archetype. Not all, nothing wrong with those that don't, or boys that do. But there are enough that love it to support a several hundred billion dollar a year business empire in an otherwise tough and fractured media market. Disney used to serve up the best princesses but now it's like going to a steakhouse where the ownership has gone vegan, the waiter won't stop asking if you're sure you don't want the sustainable fish paste instead of the ribeye, and when they finally bring you the meat its dressed up in a bunch of crappy sauces and bewildering sides that weren't what you came for. Maybe the best way to think about it is that while Disney invented the modern steak house they seem unable to understand that they did not invent the steak.
I am completely unfamiliar with this controversy.
One has to be amazed at just how intentionally Disney has gone about sabotaging its ownership of the market they themselves created.
Got it now I understand.
Is there a typo or some nuance about polls versus people who showed up to actually vote I am not getting?
I am struggling to understand how voters under 30 could have 'supported Biden by large margins' but 'Trump probably narrowly won 18-29 year-olds.'