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Is it appropriate that marketing
companies cite increased media
streaming as the sole cause
of declining physical DVD sales?
Type in any search engine
why a merchant no longer
sells physical DVD sales and
this is the very first
response you get. When
actually that isn't the
whole story. It seems, once
again, a lot of American
companies have difficulty
accepting responsibility for own
mistakes and just love to
to deflect and skirt blame.

At the time, and this is
still the case today,
Hollywood was releasing fewer
titles citing cost and
disagreements. Audience and
critics were complaining of
lackluster and overrated
performances. To this day,
many directors still are in
denial about and several
questions went unanswered. Now
today they're quick to pass
blame when actually it was
them dragging their feet,
more reruns, lousy sequels and
record number of actors retiring
early.

Something else they did in
excess to obfuscate the fact
of talent losing interest and
potentially becoming too greedy,
was killing off of characters
too soon. Damn near every
title someone took an interest
in they would burn the
audience and series killing
someone off. It pissed viewers
off a lot and today when
discussion comes up writers
speak nothing of it. You'd
think it never happend or
something.

What a bunch of fuckin liars.

And pandemic only made things
worse with production after
production being scratched from
cast getting sick and protocols.

Physical DVD sales didn't only
decline because of streaming.
It was a combination of factors,
most notably how bad the
content had been out of
Hollywood the past three
decades. Way these liars
describe it you'd think
everything was exactly how
its always been. My ass it
is. You could easily see
audience declines prior to
physical DVD sales going down
in theaters and other places.
And this don't even mention
the decline in quality equipment
and customer service across
product lines. Consumers got
fed up and said to hell
with it. Several articles
were written about it over
the years citing exact same
thing.

I think a lot of our writers
and business executives need
their heads examined. Considering
how you advertise over streaming
platforms today, I ain't surprised
at the numbers and intolerance.

Repeat any of this to AI over
popular search engines and it
cites same nonsense and argues
with you. Warp back in a
time machine before it all
happens and what I am saying
is common knowledge to everyone
around you.

People lie way too much today
and they think if surrounded
by similiar liars all repeating
same crap, it makes it more
true.

One could easily argue online
streaming platforms were
experimenting at same time
and users started using it
bored out of minds as a way
to combat own anxiety. But
when they got on these
platforms they witnessed same
annoyances and lies. Paying for
things like ad-free content and
getting ads, categories eliminated,
stuff moving around and nothing
where it's supposed to be,
no new releases category or
filling it with titles not
new, etc.

What did same companies do?
Up and yanked the physical
titles from shelves so consumers
had no other option but to
remain prison to this hell.

Watch what happens.

People are just sick of the
lies and their leaders doing
nothing about it but granting
same liars with tax break
after tax breaks. This country
rewards evil and punishes moral.

How is it there can be
such large differences between
the quality of films twenty
years ago in comparison to
today and so few denying
it when discussion comes
up. But very same can't
see the obvious lies and
hypocrisy when examining the
subject of sales and how
they might have been
impacted by same quality
just prior to pandemic?

What do you call that?
Some kind of bystander
effect in ordinary thought?

Very same individuals are
online gaming in their
offtime and cheating while
doing it. Then gloating
about same performance and
putting the victims down
they just cheated.

Western idea of capitalism
in a nutshell. Sounds more
like overcompensating to me,
or low self-esteem.

Who are you really lying
to the most?

Their response? Basically act
like a pedant and grammar nazi.

Seriously, what's so intelligent
about the way this world is?
Both sides in United States
are a joke. Rest of
world isn't perfect either,
but it sure as hell is
nowhere near as bad as
Americans. Especially ones who
cheat on these video games
all day long with their
moron friends gaslighting
the victims when they point
out obvious.

Dude, you're on an old
video game lying your ass
off titling it skill, then
laughing. If anyone is
laughing everyone else is.

Yeah, lets play a game
full of clown car. You know
the one, where you shoot
people and explode grenades
next to them and they don't
die. Then they can
immediately shoot back afterward
with pinpoint accuracy and
impossible speed after having
been blown up and shot a
million times. Oh, but the
characters look almost real, so.
we must play it.

No. No. No. No, I understand.
You're just skilled and
good, correct?

When you guys played
Monopoly as an adolescent
did you always insist on
being the banker?

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