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[MrPink]

9 minutes ago, captainwondyful said:

My phone has been spinning like it's going to turn off for hours.  Hopefully I can get it back working without losing everything.  I have like 90% of everything sync'd up in iCloud, but i don't know if my TLK seat counts I never logged but still kept are there. 😐

 

Have you done a hard reset? 

[Cap]

51 minutes ago, MrPink said:

Have you done a hard reset? 

Yeah, that's what it ended up needing.  All fixed.  Quickest I got out of Verizon in years.

[carolwoodpr]

Update on my foot.  I am in a lot of pain.  Yesterday was the hardest day since my surgery.  Today I am trying to do nothing.  No moving on the toes or anything.  Pain is still bad.  I have been told this is just the normal process of healing.  Damn it sucks.

[filmlover]

 

[dxmatrixdt]

el nino or la nina?

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

 

yeah, i stayed there last summer and they do have weirdly strict rules for the guests. they flipped out at me when i brought in some garlic bread.

[Cap]

*reads all of Miley’s tweets*

 

Good for her. It feels like today everyone wants everything perfect and “unproblematic”. I am glad Miley is open enough to talk about her fuck ups, even owning them while not asking for forgiveness or giving excuses, and acknowledging that growth is important. I hope her younger fans take it to heart. 

[dxmatrixdt]

the laws of this world

[Napoleon]

 

[dxmatrixdt]

aliens would laugh at how slow they are 

[carolwoodpr]

I have to ice under my knee because of all the padding over my foot.  An ice bag just leaked all over everything.  I didn’t feel it until it got to my crotch.  I now feel like I peed my pants.  😀. A little levity mixed with the pain.

[dxmatrixdt]

DONTGETCOMFY

god's work is most merciful

[dxmatrixdt]

why doesn't that man pray when everyone else does

[Napoleon]

 

[CJohn]

3 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

 

Brazil is fucked and will take the world with them into the black hole that is Bolsonaro.

[dxmatrixdt]

can you buy like 20 million of block tickets from your own movie when it is in theaters and somehow see 1/2 your money back?

[Napoleon]

I don't know what's most shameful, if it's what Taylor Swift is doing or how the media is covering it.

 

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Swift's connection with fans is certainly part of her magic, but her team's super-smart marketing is another huge component. Since Swift debuted "ME!" in April, she's been offering limited-edition bundles for her fans. Dozens of versions of items have been revealed on her website, and modeled by Swift and her friends in music videos and social posts. Each bundle includes a digital download of Lover, which means there are likely hundreds of thousands of direct-to-consumer presales that will be added to Swift's first week tally. A partnership with Amazon for Prime Day offered even more limited-edition goodies for Swifties to snatch up.

 

Roughly half a million of the first-week sales of reputation reportedly came courtesy of two deluxe-edition versions at Target, packaged within a magazine format. For Lover, Swift is literally doubling down: FOUR superfan versions of the album are available at the retailer, each promising exclusive pages from Swift's personal journals. You can bet plenty of Swifties threw down their cash to pre-order the entire collection. (Target is offering a $5 rebate to fans who buy all four versions at $17 a pop.)

 

(...)

 

For those reasons, I think it's not a question of if but of by how much is Swift's biggest debut of all time. I wouldn't be surprised if the final number is north of 1.5 million — in fact, I'll be rooting for it!

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2019/08/22/the-big-question-about-taylor-swifts-lover/#3e8663cf1606

 

 

She is clearly exploring her fans by splitting up her personal journal into 4 different special editions of her album, in order to inflate sales. And she also used her music videos to promote clothes and accessories that are being sold along with a digital copy of the album. What she is doing is pretty similar to fraud. She is clearly inflating the album sales numbers by making the fans buy dozens of copies of her CD in order to get items completely unrelated to the music.

 

And instead of calling it for what it is, the media is rooting for her to break records and praising her for her power to make young girls spend their parents money. When in reality everyone knows general audience interest in her and her music has been declining, and the streaming numbers of the singles she released this year are incredibly poor compared to the most popular artists right now.

 

 

[4815162342]

@CJohn

 

"There are no bad lifeboats"

 

"Porn can be a lifeboat"

 

"Except that"

 

 

And then 5 minutes later Roman jacks off in his office. This fucking guy. 

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

@CJohn

 

"There are no bad lifeboats"

 

"Porn can be a lifeboat"

 

"Except that"

 

 

And then 5 minutes later Roman jacks off in his office. This fucking guy. 

 

I swear I don't understand why Brian Cox's character trusts him. Such a ridiculous thing.

 

Unfortunately he hasn't been embarassed by anyone yet from the episodes I have seen.

[CJohn]

8 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

She is clearly inflating the album sales numbers by making the fans buy dozens of copies of her CD in order to get items completely unrelated to the music.

 

 

Guess who has been doing this for years? Games and movies. Nobody cares.