It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

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It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

Post by wexter » Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:43 am

An almost unwatchable TV show with the "paid for" media "Gawping and Praising." If a "big company produces castor oil (or snake oil)" you are going to take it and like it. Eat it Eat it. The show goes down almost as poorly as the Silmarillion, which I remember choking on, in disappointment, about forty-five years ago. The Silmarillion was Tolkien's backstory for his own use as "notes." and his estate just could not resist milking the cash cow for all it was worth. Amazon is just following the long tradition of selling random stuff, lying around in the dustbin, to the fools where were duped and mesmerized by the franchising-monkey.

I cannot say much about the article beyond the fact that it is the convergence of verbose "fan boys" and overpaid "public relations" trolls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_ ... s_of_Power

A banned sock seems to be the progenitor of this massive missive;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Disa ... r102020939

I double dare Amazon to create a series on "Mission Earth" a posthumously published series that was prescient about today's state of affairs; including using gender, lesbians, and transsexuals as mass distraction to lock down dissent...

Wikipedia does not have much to say about "Mission Earth;" (hence no link)
When read as entertainment Mission Earth is disappointing: it does not entertain. Many of the scenes (especially some sexual encounters) are incredibly grotesque, not in a pornographic sense, but they are violently aggressive about modern American ideals.The Mission Earth novels on the whole are a subversive, harsh, poignant attack on American society.

In 1991, the town of Dalton, Georgia attempted to remove the Mission Earth books from its public library, citing what was described as "repeated passages involving chronic masochism, child abuse, homosexuality, necromancy, bloody murder, and other things that are anti-social, perverted, and anti-everything".
So essentially; "Mission Earth" confronts manipulation by gender-politics , the power of public relations propaganda and marketing, misuse of law to subvert justice, the power of big business, and just about every aspect of life today laid out in plain detail forty years ago! The main characters are both heroes and villains depending on how you look at things.

The point is very Scientology "to save earth, hence Mission Earth."

https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Earth-10 ... B074BTWXQL
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Re: It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:08 am

wexter wrote:
Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:43 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_ ... s_of_Power
A banned sock seems to be the progenitor of this massive missive;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Disa ... r102020939
Yes, but the major author of this (now 192k bytes) pile of feces is this freak. A hopeless dork from New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Adamstom.97

Remember, they made a 192k byte article about a TV show THAT DID NOT RUN YET. Article was created in 2019 and reached this length THE DAY BEFORE AMAZON POSTED IT ONLINE. They were generating piles of crap based mostly on reviewers seeing preview episodes, on leaks about production issues, and from the ENDLESS squabbling by Tolkien whores over the "value and accuracy" of a show THEY HAD NOT SEEN YET. This is routine for Middle-Earth spergs.
The budget was expected to be in the range of US$100–150 million per season, and was likely to eventually exceed US$1 billion which would make it the most expensive television series ever made.
Because Bezos wanted it, because Bezos is a Tolkien pedant. They are everywhere. Especially on fucking Wikipedia.

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Re: It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

Post by wexter » Sat Sep 03, 2022 12:28 am

The Apple Car is highly rated by possible buyers before it exists
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09 ... -it-exists
And another multi-year "fanboy" and conflict of interest endeavor on Wikipedia


Complete with a list of "Alleged employees and affiliates," evidently you can make shit up.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ele ... ar_project

An Apple Employee and Fanboy is the major contributor to "the Apple Electric Car Project"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... Guy+Harris

Guy Harris - Apple
IT Director: Drives Innovation, Builds Scalable Infrastructure and Optimises Performance to Deliver Global Growth
Greater Reading Area
1,314 followers 500+ connections
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/guyharris


Fanboy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimthing/Apple,_etc.

Fanboy - Article Progenitor - Optrimes
"My love is all about automobile and will continue to cherish and fall in love again n again ... Vroom Vroom Vroom"

Multiple tries to get the article deleted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk ... Apple_icar
This article is discussing a very speculative product. Nearly (if not all) the references simply reference the first Wall Street Journal article as their source for the existence of the product. Because this product is unannounced and all of the sources themselves see the prediction of the product as speculative, this article seems to violate part 5 of WP:CRYSTAL. Sorry, but I'm going to have to mark it as such. 158.222.170.250 (talk) 19:49, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes. No guarantee that it will ever be a product (and even less of a guarantee that, if it becomes a product, it'll be called the "iCar"; the last iAnything Apple announced was iCloud, and the last hardware iAnything Apple announced was the iPad). Slightly more evidence that the project exists, although the articles about it cite (not-surprisingly-)anonymous sources, so there's no way to assess those sources' credibility (sometimes journalists have been fooled by bogus sources). Guy Harris (talk) 20:21, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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Re: It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

Post by ericbarbour » Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:30 am

wexter wrote:
Sat Sep 03, 2022 12:28 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ele ... ar_project
An Apple Employee and Fanboy is the major contributor to "the Apple Electric Car Project"
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... Guy+Harris

Guy Harris - Apple
IT Director: Drives Innovation, Builds Scalable Infrastructure and Optimises Performance to Deliver Global Growth
Greater Reading Area
1,314 followers 500+ connections
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/guyharris
You'd better get used to that. WP has a number of Apple employees fiddling around with content. Most of them stay out of Apple-related articles. But a few are "tolerated", because APPLE IZ MAGIC.

Harris has been on WP since 2004. I would say 90% of his editing was to articles about computers, and at least 50% of that was on articles about Apple products. But no one will ever say anything to him because he's kissing every wiki-ass he can find.

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Re: It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

Post by wexter » Sun Sep 04, 2022 9:47 pm

Rings of Power - Amazon did not like the reviews so they deleted them; claiming victimization, they must be learning from Wikipedia.

Screenshots now document Zero Reviews!

https://imgur.com/a/DiVLu8q

A random Wikipedia editor (patsy) made a well considered edit complete with many mainstream references.. Wait for it; Wait for it; and then got spanked and reverted almost immediately;


This is OK - the company line
It has received generally positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for its plot, cinematography, visuals and musical score, but some criticism for its pacing. .........

When it debuted in early September 2022, Amazon suspended reviews of the series on its platform over review bombing concerns
This is NOT OK - reality
As of August 2022, the majority of available public feedback, in essentially every venue that accepts fan reviews, has been sharply divided and primarily negative. Amazon responded by disabling reviews entirely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1108390489
Very Elder Scrolls war-fighting or "Ponyo" ish or just Gold-fish-y-foolishnes to control a meaningless narrative;

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history
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Re: It Rings off the Power of Fanboys and Marketing

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:07 pm

wexter wrote:
Sun Sep 04, 2022 9:47 pm
As of August 2022, the majority of available public feedback, in essentially every venue that accepts fan reviews, has been sharply divided and primarily negative. Amazon responded by disabling reviews entirely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1108390489
And removed NINE MINUTES later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1108402556

Tolkien is a premium "nerd property". Anyone adapting a "nerd property" for TV or film knows, or quickly learns, they have to tread very carefully to avoid abuse from obsessed fans. Especially this one, because it's spawned endless imitations (D&D games, George Rail Road Martin, Richard Jordan, on and on). It "inspired" fans like Stephen Colbert, who can recite endless unimportant trivia from Tolkien books, on command and entirely from memory. And he's only an AVERAGE fanboy.

Amazon plunged into this project because BEZOS WANTED IT. And now he's being forced to hide the inevitable abuse he's getting from the pre-existing zombie-like fanbase. It's sad partly because Amazon probably rejected a number of show and movie proposals, in order to dump a BILLION DOLLARS into Rings of Power.

Wikipedia is quite similar now. We will never be rid of it because insane fanbase. Even if it collapsed tomorrow (it won't), numerous fanatics will try to recreate it. Thus it's just another Tolkien "legendarium", Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, you-name-it, fan scene.

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