So as people may have noticed here lately in Houston, the city is looking pretty Orange lately.
Not burnt but bright, because a certain team is in a certain series to win a certain championship if you certain feel me. Ok, I'll stop, certainly. But you know what comes with success, new fans, and people who complain about the new fans.
You see, the old fans, the die-hards they go when a team is bad, they go when a team is good and they say that makes them REAL fans. If you only support the team when it's having success than your a fair weather fan the die-hards will tell you.
It's like the guy who says "oh you listen to THAT band? I used to love them but now they got big and everyone loves them." SO WHAT?!?!? You were right and eventually everyone agreed, why are you bitter?
IF you buy the tickets and the eight dollar beers if a team is bad or good, than why should they get better? If no matter what their fans will spend the money then there is no reason for the team to improve except for pride and internal motivations, but sometimes success requires more than just want, sometimes it requires economics. That's why the good fans leave when a team goes bad, and come back when a team is good. They're showing the tough love and voting with their precious dollars.
So next time you see someone complain about all the bandwagon riders, just roll your eyes and ask him how lonely he was when the team was terrible and he drank his eight dollar beer alone in the stadium.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Nerd News!!
What?! Two days in a row? Oh we're grinding now.
So these are some fun news stories this week that are based on the things I care about. This week beer, funko pops and getting paid in new ways by the internet.
I like craft beer.
This home brewer had a crazy great kickstarter and is about to go to market with products shipping in January. As near as I can tell, the recipes are shared worldwide, you do everything in this one contraption and then in 4 weeks, BEER!! Check it out.
The Good, the bad, the ridiculously cute big headed pops
Funko is going public and is hoping to bring in about $240 million bucks, that's the good. The bad, they got about $319 million in debt, which is roughly 75% of last year's revenue and they only did about 6% profit on that $426 million dollars in revenue, ouch. The last one is obvious.
Cha-Ching!
This is kind of a high-concept and it feels a little bit like self-betting, like if you could pick yourself on Draft Kings. Everytime you are active daily you get entered into pools and than you get paid for winning said pools. How this all works is kind of anyone's guess, I see the need for company sponsorship, and corporate patronage to make this really work, but it's a neat idea. It would be cooler if you and your friends could make small daily bets or maybe an annual bet and than percentage pie it out like who won more daily contests and activities, and let each person pick the event or contest for that micro time period and than everyone splits the winnings accordingly by the pie. Just a thought.
#talkingnerdy2u
So these are some fun news stories this week that are based on the things I care about. This week beer, funko pops and getting paid in new ways by the internet.
I like craft beer.
This home brewer had a crazy great kickstarter and is about to go to market with products shipping in January. As near as I can tell, the recipes are shared worldwide, you do everything in this one contraption and then in 4 weeks, BEER!! Check it out.
The Good, the bad, the ridiculously cute big headed pops
Funko is going public and is hoping to bring in about $240 million bucks, that's the good. The bad, they got about $319 million in debt, which is roughly 75% of last year's revenue and they only did about 6% profit on that $426 million dollars in revenue, ouch. The last one is obvious.
Cha-Ching!
This is kind of a high-concept and it feels a little bit like self-betting, like if you could pick yourself on Draft Kings. Everytime you are active daily you get entered into pools and than you get paid for winning said pools. How this all works is kind of anyone's guess, I see the need for company sponsorship, and corporate patronage to make this really work, but it's a neat idea. It would be cooler if you and your friends could make small daily bets or maybe an annual bet and than percentage pie it out like who won more daily contests and activities, and let each person pick the event or contest for that micro time period and than everyone splits the winnings accordingly by the pie. Just a thought.
#talkingnerdy2u
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Rant of the Week!! The Trailer Breakdown Guy
Hi guys, and welcome to what is the returning blog of Cory DLG! We are starting with a rant because frankly, that's what I do best ;)!!
So the trailer just dropped for your favorite movie, you've watched it like five times and you're so pumped for the movie that's still like eight months away. Than you see the link to the youTube blogger of the week with his twenty five minute breakdown of the two minute trailer.
He's got freeze frames and voice overs and magnifications and speculations, somehow suddenly the two minute and fifteen second trailer you had been enjoying has now grown exponentially into a brutally long, awfully boring, completely off base "break down video".
The dreaded break down video is about twenty three minutes longer than the video clip its breaking down and is full of things that wind up not even being in the movie. What ever happened with just sitting back and watching the video? Just enjoying it and seeing what comes next? When did we need everything spoiled and explained? I didn't, did you? I didn't think so. Someone do me a favor and tell the "break down video guy."
So the trailer just dropped for your favorite movie, you've watched it like five times and you're so pumped for the movie that's still like eight months away. Than you see the link to the youTube blogger of the week with his twenty five minute breakdown of the two minute trailer.
He's got freeze frames and voice overs and magnifications and speculations, somehow suddenly the two minute and fifteen second trailer you had been enjoying has now grown exponentially into a brutally long, awfully boring, completely off base "break down video".
The dreaded break down video is about twenty three minutes longer than the video clip its breaking down and is full of things that wind up not even being in the movie. What ever happened with just sitting back and watching the video? Just enjoying it and seeing what comes next? When did we need everything spoiled and explained? I didn't, did you? I didn't think so. Someone do me a favor and tell the "break down video guy."
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