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Star Wars Minus Star Wars
Dec. 19th, 2015 10:26 amThe plot of the original movie, made without any footage from the original movie. Thus showing how much it both took from its influences and influenced others:
Dec. 19th, 2015
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Dec. 19th, 2015 12:00 pm- Star Wars medley on bass. I rather liked the laid-back feel of this.
- Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think
- What to say about fucking weirdo feminists
- What's really going on with "Baby it's cold outside"
- Baby Cakes by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Katy Riddell
- There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between what students and lecturers think university is for.
- A positive experience from a woman in tech
- How Ben Schwartz Became the Voice of BB-8 in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
- Denmark wants to seize jewelry and cash from refugees
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- Watching Star Wars for the first time, aged 29
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Google just emailed me, telling me that I could order "The Force Awakens" on Google Play for £9.99. And that they would email me the moment they knew when it would be released.
Let's leave aside the stupidity of spending £10 to "own" something in a digital format that's dependent on someone else's servers, and can only be watched using software that they supply, and cannot be watched offline on laptop.
Instead let's focus on the fact that the majority of movies on Google Play are £3.49. And that there are _none_ that cost more than £9.99.
So I'm incredibly unlikely to be saving money by buying the movie now. Instead I am handing Google money now so that I can get access to a film that won't be out for six months, in exchange for an expected saving of...nothing.
I don't know what the marginal utility of a tenner is, over a six-month period. But it's not _nothing_. So I really can't imagine a single reason why I anyone would do this.
Am I missing something?
Let's leave aside the stupidity of spending £10 to "own" something in a digital format that's dependent on someone else's servers, and can only be watched using software that they supply, and cannot be watched offline on laptop.
Instead let's focus on the fact that the majority of movies on Google Play are £3.49. And that there are _none_ that cost more than £9.99.
So I'm incredibly unlikely to be saving money by buying the movie now. Instead I am handing Google money now so that I can get access to a film that won't be out for six months, in exchange for an expected saving of...nothing.
I don't know what the marginal utility of a tenner is, over a six-month period. But it's not _nothing_. So I really can't imagine a single reason why I anyone would do this.
Am I missing something?