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There's skill in being able to manage a declining or non-growth business in a way that still pleases your consumer base (and therefore reduces your attrition rate). Not everyone does it well.
Is the statement in the linked article that "The Internet Movie Database functions as a loss leader for the e-commerce giant" backed up somewhere?
IMDB offers both Pro Subscriptions. IMDB offers data licenses that the company claims are licensed "to a wide selection of businesses including movie studios, cable companies, websites, video retailers, software developers, electronics manufacturers, mobile applications, and more."[1]
IMDB offers advertising and has 250M visitors per month.[2]
None of these point to the likelihood that IMDB is a loss leader.
1 = https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/conte... 2 = https://advertising.amazon.com/channels/imdb
Turn 1 Swamp, Dark Ritual into Hypnotic still a magnificent play and one that used cheaper cards in its time (vs. a Mox or something similar).
I've been using Genius Scan for ~15 years and it also lets you send faxes (via credits you buy). My phone works for 99% of my use cases.
Hisense has never operated at the top end of the spectrum. They can sell these TVs for $1000 because they're buying the cheapest panels that the actual high-end TVs aren't using.
This is likely either a YouTube/Roku channel that shows relaxing images but monetizes them via ads.
This product exists because it's fun.
The UFCW claims they represent at least 800,000 grocery workers across the US.
I had a job as a union worker in a supermarket, and am glad that's still available to others.
https://www.ufcw.org/actions/campaign/albertsons-and-safeway...
If a business can't pay a living wage, it's not really a successful business. I, too, could become fabulously wealthy selling shoes if someone just have me shoes for $1 so I could resell them for $50.
As long as they keep their hidden illustrations away from my precious Swiss chocolate logos!
Progression is your level of skill as you get better at a game (whether it's something simple or its chess). I've had narrative events happen in games that, because they are guided by decisions of other players, I still remember more than actual stories in video games.
The idea is interesting, but at the same cost (or more) as a console, or the cost of a dozen board games, it falls into a space where the market is going to be limited.
I would definitely try this if it was available at a board game cafe, just not something I need for home.
The PR site as well as the main site refer to it as Apple TV+, so not sure where the renaming announcement is. But it's un-Apple to have the + missing on the press release for F1...
For those interested in the subject, recommend the book The Power of Strangers by Joe Keohane that covers this with further depth. Worth reading!
Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. is a Korean company, owned by a Singaporean wealth fund and a Korean company. US Starbucks provides licensing and supplies, nothing more.
So this is a decision by a Korean company, not an American one.
https://stories.starbucks.com/asia/stories/2021/starbucks-tr...
It's also interesting to see what decisions editors have made about animals. In English, for example, the article for the African elephant[1] is just the animal's name.
In Italian, Spanish, and Tagalog it's the scientific name of the animal.
This makes sense in languages (like Spanish) where an animal may have a lot of different names depending on the country, region, or dialect. If you look at the article for Pig[2], you'll see at least fifteen names listed.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_bush_elephant [2] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sus_scrofa_domestica
Tumble Leaf is really good as well. Highly recommend it.
There are still some wooden escalators inside the flagship Macy's store in Herald Square (Manhattan).
Where are you driving your own car to get groceries easily in lower Manhattan... twice a week?
The Museum of the Moving Image has had video games in its collection since the 1980s. https://movingimage.org/collection/collection-spotlight_vide...
Hauser & Wirth have had essays on video games in their magazine: https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/too-late-for-earth-too-so...
Especially when other merge games (Triple Town) existed for years.
They're all in the same general genre.
Forget it, Jack, it's Tripletown.
Walmart also uses 3rd Party Sellers; I don't believe Target does. There's enough commentary about false/bootleg products on Amazon that it's no longer my primary destination for any purchases I need delivered.
Scorcese's production company office was based in the Directors Guild of America building on 57th St for many years.
It still is rude... it's just become commonplace.
Marketing directly via ads is not free, either.
Most industries have trade and consumer shows (from film to boardgames to concrete). There's no reason to expect that gaming is somehow unique and should not have one. It's unlikely it will be like the E3 of decades past (or even have the name), but there's value to getting consumers to see/try a bunch of new games.
Those just look like AI images with brush lines.
Not a graphic novel you'd want to read, or a movie you'd like to watch.
Thank you! I had shared a photo I had seen of an Amazon warehouse painted this way, but couldn't find the source of it. In this picture specifically, the warehouses in the rear perfectly blend into the sky to the point where my brain thinks the horizontal stripes are JPEG artifacts in the photo.
I would also highly recommend FX's The Americans.
My point is that a million makers on a million joycons couldn't generate enough commercially viable content for a single game.
The toolset is limited, so you end up with Mario levels of LittleBigPlanet.
If you provide a fuller toolset (like UnrealEd or the ability to mod), then you absolutely have viable content, enough for (in the case of CS) the original publishers of the base game acquiring your commercially viable content.