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[–] 79 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Fuck Disney. I have sucked the mouse's cock since they took over Marvel. No more. I am even canceling my comic books subs and I have collected Fantastic Four for over 50 years. No more.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This impresses the hell out of me. I don’t collect but I’ve known many collectors, and I know what a decision like this represents.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Before this I was thinking of getting back into Spider-Man comics like I had as a kid.

    Not touching that with a 50 ft pole now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Hmm Is mtg a no- go for the ub content?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is a tangent, but I am so burnt out on Magic between the Universes Beyond and the new set every other week. I need to get back into just Cubing and not care about the plethora of cards from different IPs coming out, but I don’t know, just knowing about it all has kind of killed my passion for the game.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    May I suggest: just do the fun parts. Print your own cards. Ignore sets that don't interest you. Stop giving Hasbro money for no reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah - this is what I need to focus on. My tabletop/board game group actually just played a cube and it was super fun. And the guy who made it just proxied the cards so they wouldn’t have to pay an exorbitant amount for pieces of cardboard.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think the schedules going to cause burnout sooner rather than later.

    In the group of people I play with, no one's really buying anymore- a lot of times even for the ips they like.

    Even the guys who pride themselves in having non-proxy cedh decks have given up- by the time you've got the new cards in 2 weeks later, chances are theres another replacement. Mow theyre playing woth proxies for the cards in their flex slots, and only buying 3-4 times a year when they make a trip to go to a tourney.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's a good point I didn't even think of. They fucking OWN comics now. We need more independent comics that are as popular.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A lot of rich people are buying up media to control information.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It at least makes me very happy how plausible it is for a completely independent artist to make games on Steam or Itch that are universally enjoyed. Sadly there is a current trend of "NSFW" games getting banned on those platforms...

    I wanted to plug one game that had been particularly victimized. It was an "unreliable narrator" game where you played as a stalker obsessively trying to find the real name of his favorite pornstar. It was uncomfortable, artistic, thought-provoking, and immediately tripped the ban filters. I thought I bookmarked it but if someone else knows it a reminder would be awesome.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It makes me wish I had a Disney+ subscription to cancel

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean good for you. I hope nobody ever comes for you because of something you said on Lemmy? The thing about fascism is you never know who it's gonna eat next. So, good luck

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I didn't cancel my $1 per month Disney or Hulu subscriptions. But I did cancel my $40 ESPN + NFL+ subscription and made sure to put the reason why.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You should cancel your $1 per month Disney and Hulu subscriptions simply out of spite, and pirate their content instead. It is not hard to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    my $1 per month Disney or Hulu subscriptions

    I'm sorry, what?? Did you get grandfathered in on some crazy deal?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Now let them bring him back but keep your sub cancelled.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I don't want to see Kimmel come back as if nothing happened. I want to see him find a new platform and farm the stupidity of Disney, Sinclair, etc for gold for the next few months. What Disney and co. did was not some stupid PR misstep, they let the mask slip on how easily they would fall in line behind a political pay master to keep him happy and in the process effectively violate the 1st amendment by giving the government a method of silencing speech. Which should be the kind of thing that burns the whole corporation to the ground and gets those in charge ostracized from polite society.

    There should be no coming back for them from this.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I look forward to the return of Mr Mouse and how he will be portrayed in South Park!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Kimmel was a symptom. Disney needs to be canceled.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I want to known what the next step is? OK we punched then in the face, but what do we do to nock them down and curb stomp them?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't re-sign up, remember this moment, they aren't you friends. Torrent the movies/shows you want to watch, don't go to their parks, don't let your children get an early childhood obsession with them, don't buy their toys and merchandise, and do this for all the evil companies.

    McDonald's, BK, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, dominos, papa John's, pizza hut, those are easy ones. Stop eating fast food and stop feeding it to your children. I bet there are 20 good independent coffee shops near you, stop buying Nazi charcoal. Find a local pizza shop with a brick oven, I'm sure they deliver.

    Google, Amazon, stop paying for their services. Buy some hard drives and learn to self host, it's never been a better time. Blocks ads when not using their services.

    Boycott and divestment works, it's what ended apartheid in South Africa, it's effecting Israel's economy and may very well end the apartheid in Palestine once Americans wake up and stop the unlimited funding of genocide with their children's future. These companies will only stop being evil when customers let them know that evil is a red line, but as long as apathy continues it'll be more profitable to be as evil as they are today, and worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Microsoft is worse than Google, Oracle is worse too. I mean yeah, boycott Google, but fuck Microsoft and Oracle extra hard.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I didn't mean to leave them out, I wasn't making an exhaustive list, I just thought of what everyone probably still uses and pays for (Google, YouTube, Amazon prime, etc).

    Microsoft is all cloud and enterprise now, they are much harder to directly boycott effectively by consumers. But yes, avoid them too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I know this is Lemmy where we're all on Linux already, but a lot of people out there still use Windows, and that's a massive source of income and control for Microsoft that people could stop using. At the very least they could cancel OneDrive.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Cool I won’t be resubbing. 🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Kimmel shouldn't return. He should tell Disney to get fucked and go the Spotify route.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago*

    He should definitely do something else and shove it in their face. They still have to pay him regardless. I don't think Spotify is the right route though...

    I personally think he should tour a live show as Conan did and really take it up a notch. That single tour launched an entirely new world of opportunities for Conan, and I'm sure it would do the same for Kimmel.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Spotify is infinitely worse than Disney imo.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I said the Spotify route, not actually go on Spotify. Lol

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    Podcasting. Independent media. YouTube. Etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    YouTube is the Spotify route? I'm not getting it. Are you using "Spotify" to generically mean "audio content", like people might have said "radio" at some point? Or to mean smaller-scale streaming content or something...?

    Sorry, I just woke back up and didn't get much sleep last night. So may be being dumb.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They just mean independent route rather than solely one of the above listed things. They just used Spotify as an example that some people have taken. I think independent would be a better word for it but I think that's what they meant.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not even close. Disney is way worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Spotify is funding genocide and selling weapons.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Uhhh, Disney is more. Please, boycott both, but Spotify only recently started supporting fascists when they platformed Rogan, Disney has spent decades normalizing violence and portraying non-whites as evil violent terrorists. Disney has anyways been a little too racist for the time.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    NBC News is also reporting more alarming news for the conglomerate.

    “A number of celebrities, including NSYNC band member Lance Bass and ‘Transparent’ star Amy Landecker, have shared screenshots to social media that show their cancellations of their Disney-affiliated subscriptions,” NBC is reporting before adding, “As the message gained traction over the last day across social media sites, Google Trends showed an uptick of searches for the terms ‘cancel Disney Plus’ and ‘boycott Disney,’ as posters declared they were leaving the streaming platforms behind.”

    That led popular podcaster Bill Simmons, who was doubtful about Kimmel’s ABC future to have second thoughts.

    I don’t know who those people are. Or care. (I “know” NSYNC, but it’s not like I can name them or any songs.) As for a “popular” podcaster - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay?

    Just - for a huge story on billion dollar media conglomerates folding under fascism, ending with . . . that - what I quoted there . . . ehh. Not great. Obama? Harrison Ford? fuck, i dunno - someone with a little more footprint or relevance?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I don’t know who those people are.

    But divorced parents trying to buy their kids love care. And after comic book nerds collectors , they're probably the second biggest income for Disney. After all the collectors only buy for themselves usually, whereas a parent may have to buy for more than one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    some of these podcasters have higher viewership numbers than Kimmel, just fyi.

    these boomer networks are a dying business and they know it, when people leave they don't come back

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Start their own media company

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It has been suggested before, but it is obscenely expensive

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Kimmel and Colbert are rich they can afford it. They don’t have to start a new ABC studio. A small indie internet only studio is way more affordable than a full network that broadcasts on cable. If Sam Reich can afford to start a successful streaming service so can Kimmel and Colbert.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can give in suck the pumpkin's penis all you want but in the end, all you're left with is a bad taste in your mouth. Not more money.

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    What is this? Just another streaming service? Or somehow more specialized as an anti-Disney alternative.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    take a look and you’ll find out real quick not trying to flag anything

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I did look before I commented. It seems geared toward getting discounts of some kind.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    huh? you sure..? you didn’t look hard enough lol. search for a show or a movie

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