Magusoflight
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Magusoflight
10mo ago
Like, what figures were they expecting?
I guess you missed the part where the previous expanded universe series sold TENS OF MILLIONS of copies.
And no, selling a few thousand books isn’t “very good”. Like, cmon.
alleged billion dollar marketing campaign
“Alleged”. This isn’t a law court, this is just a fact.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
We have no comparisons to other books released at a similar time.
Ah so you didn’t bother reading the article. Cool.
The original Thrawn Trilogy sold 15 million as of 2014. And then, after the Star Wars Extended Universe was jettisoned by Disney and Kathleen Kennedy, it went on to sell five million more copies. A new boxed set of the original Thrawn Trilogy released in May 2022 has sold 13,031 copies by itself.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Sales figures are pretty good evidence of quality of product, but go off I guess
Magusoflight
10mo ago
100 grams of high quality animal protein is probably enough, with rapidly diminishing returns above that
Magusoflight
10mo ago
That’s for a newly released box set for a book trilogy written in 1991. So, yeah. Better numbers for the newly minted woke novels
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Reading Sotomayors and Jackson’s dissents all I can think is: “this is an excellent example of why affirmative action needs to be banned”
Magusoflight
10mo ago
We actually already have pretty good evidence which option works best here. Economic analysis shows that the productivity of high ability people goes up almost exponentially when in close proximity to other high ability people. This is an example of what is known as a “network effect” the flip side of which is when we put antisocial criminals together in a prison we accelerate their criminality. Like attracts and works best with like.
According to these principles diversity is a major obstacle to innovation and productivity. No one demanded that the Manhattan project be more diverse. Somehow a highly homogeneous team of male Hungarian Jewish geniuses pulled off major innovation, if DEI existed back then we would probably have never developed the bomb.
Anyway, hence we need high ability people together to get the most out of them. That’s if you actually care about society as a whole and not myopically focused on the welfare of a few antisocial criminal underclass cultural groups.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Relatedly, some applicants might be able to use the essay to imply their race in a clever way that gets them in
Magusoflight
10mo ago
It’s a silly argument. Does anyone seriously think a diversity in work ethic makes for a better team? A diversity in intelligence? How about a diversity of medical conditions?
For there to be a true diversity to prevent biases you’d need viewpoint diversity. Somehow that one never makes the cut.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
He at least had the good sense to feel ashamed of it
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Yeah the dissent… you should really read it. See attached
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Didn’t LePenne come in second in the most recent elections? With a serious chance as well? Seems like this just boosted her odds
Magusoflight
9mo ago
It turns out they mostly don't want to be stuck in racial ghettos and seen as seperate from the majority.
You sure about that?
Does the Australian police collect racial crime stats by any chance?
Magusoflight
9mo ago
I thought the Lebanese were heavily into organized crime in Australia?
Yeah, Redditors don’t really reflect the true fan base for, well, anything anymore. surprised someone still thinks that, especially in this space.
Successful? It merely is the best selling of the bunch, which is….not high praise given the pathetic numbers on display:
Yeah, why would the middle of a pandemic when everyone is stuck at home be a bad time to sell books?
According to the fans, yes, Zahn “did it right”. Money talks. Shit walks.
Judging by the fact no one knows who this character is, yes. Correct.
Lol, Disney is operating “on a budget”. Yeah, a billion dollar marketing budget.
This article has made you really angry. Why? Did you enjoy the new Star Wars and it’s abject commercial and cultural failure feel invalidating to you?
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