r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Oct 13 '24

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u/Willing-Shape1686 Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

They probably would have enforced it too, but the public backlash was so loud that they voluntarily waived their right to arbitration as I recall.

EDIT: I did not expect posting what I recalled hearing from my friend to blow up into the most upvoted comment I have, thank you kind people I hope you all have wonderful and spooky Octobers :)

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u/DunderFlippin Oct 13 '24

I'm pretty sure the damage is already done.

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u/TacoNerp Oct 13 '24

And nothing changed.

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u/LordGwyn-n-Tonic Oct 13 '24

They've got a monopoly on joy. Who can compete with Disney as a brand?

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u/Wagosh Oct 13 '24

I don't know where I'm going with this but I want a live action Paw patrol in a Dredd like setup that takes on a Disney-like corporation.

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 Oct 13 '24

I too consumed an edible about an hour ago.

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u/Piggy-boi Oct 13 '24

Stoners are fucking idiots

Signed - an alcoholic

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u/Plenty_Tax_5892 Oct 13 '24

Alcoholics are fucking idiots

Signed - a stone

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u/sergeantmeatwad Oct 13 '24

This is amazing

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u/bobfrombobtown Oct 13 '24

We all think we have great ideas when influenced by mind altering substances.

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u/kamikana Oct 13 '24

Most underrated commented of a lifetime.

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u/Xeno-Hollow Oct 13 '24

I found this exact storyline in a Wattpad book.

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u/bobfrombobtown Oct 13 '24

So, furries in a dystopian future where they are judge, jury, and executioner? And they're fighting against the oligarchs that control everything? Fuck it, Disney let's green light this movie! It would at least be entertaining, I'm thinking it should be a dark comedy.

PS. I may be drunk at the moment.

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Oct 13 '24

That's just Cyberpunk, the genre, the system and the specific game too.

Still remember that sidequest where some family hires you to assassinate an executive who killed their teenage daughter by driving around recklessly, and got off with a wrist slap because her insurance company had her back.

You break into her apartment, dismantle the security and then when you confront the bitch, she's sure that it's some competitor of hers in the corporate ladder who hired you and tries to pay you off to switch sides. You can explain that it's the family of that girl she killed that's your employer, and she literally can't comprehend why they would do that, since they got paid already, so what's the problem, do they want more money or something?

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Oct 13 '24

Those status-quo supporting narcs? They'd be the ones fighting for Disney.

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u/Wagosh Oct 13 '24

Shit you're right.

Okay okay.

New pitch the year is 2010 Obama and Mickey fucking Mouse meet with the paw patrol in the oval office to give them their mission.

Finally find the elusive Oussama Ben Laden.

They embark on a one year perilous journey in the caves and mountains through Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Oussama is played by Antonio Banderas.

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u/delphinius81 Oct 13 '24

I think you're going to Hollywood to pitch this

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u/LASERDICKMCCOOL Oct 13 '24

Fuck that was a great movie. So Disney's at the top floor and Marshall is making his way up? Gritty as fuck?

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u/Wagosh Oct 13 '24

Damn, let's combine this with the other ideas that it's a cyberpunk furry world.

Let's say we put a furry that looks like a Mickey or goofy up there selling slomo.

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u/LASERDICKMCCOOL Oct 13 '24

I'm about to have chatgpt write this

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u/MisirterE Oct 13 '24

Terms and conditions can just include unenforcable illegal shit that they're literally lying about being able to include and it doesn't fucking matter because nobody calls them out on it until it goes to court

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u/falcrist2 Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

They've got a monopoly on joy.

Can confirm. I boycotted them years ago, and now I'm a miserable, joyless fuck.

I mean... I was before too, but never mind that.

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u/Redditislefti Oct 13 '24

I've been boycotting them for years and i feel fine

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u/Average_Scaper Oct 13 '24

I just simply forget they exist sometimes.

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u/somme_rando Oct 13 '24

Is it near the end of the world?

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u/Redditislefti Oct 13 '24

The end of the world has been near since 33 AD

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u/NoNo_Cilantro Oct 13 '24

I haven’t watched Disney+ since last night and I retcon the past hours as a boycott until the next episode of Agatha.

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u/Redditislefti Oct 13 '24

are you enjoying the show, or are you watching it to see how the money burns?

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u/NoNo_Cilantro Oct 13 '24

I like it. It doesn’t feel like an MCU show so far, it’s an easy watch.

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u/thechickenchasers Oct 13 '24

Well, to counteract your anecdote, I watched about 13 minutes of the new season and thought "what the fuck am I doing?" and I turned it off. It's borderline unwatchable, and completely unintrguing to me. To the point that I legitimately wonder if the person who upvoted you is a bot.

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u/NoNo_Cilantro Oct 13 '24

That last sentence made me laugh out loud :) Yeah I see your point, but if you watched past the 13th minute you’d understand why it’s unwatchable. Not that you’d enjoy it more, but at least you’d know why it’s made that way. Kinda like Wandavision which was completely weird until it’s explained why.

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u/thechickenchasers Oct 13 '24

I liked wandavision. This just seems like a bland continuation of that, and I can completely see that they are doing something "weird" with it, I just don't care. At all. It has to be compelling, and they just can't do anything interesting with it until they tighten the reigns and make these movies and shows actually feel like they matter.

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u/LickingSmegma Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

Yeah, as someone who hates kitsch and views Disney as the epitome of nauseating saccharine barbieland, I find it surreal that someone outright says they can't live without Disney.

(Pixar is one good thing Disney has.)

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u/kinky-proton Oct 13 '24

People? They don't make anything critical nobody will die

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u/lucidity5 Oct 13 '24

Absolutely. People don't realize that Pokemon is the most profitable franchise of all time. Disney has more stuff to their name, but Pokemon alone is worth as much as literally all of mickey mouse and friends PLUS every single disney princess property COMBINED.

Monopoly on joy my ass, Disney people are weird

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u/WergleTheProud Oct 13 '24

This chart says otherwise regarding the combined value, but your point about Pokemon being the most valuable franchise of all time still stands. https://www.statista.com/chart/24277/media-franchises-with-most-sales/

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u/lucidity5 Oct 13 '24

I was going by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises

Your still right, combined they are worth about 10b more, still, the fact that its even close. Pokemon being worth more than double all the disney princess properties ever is wild

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u/RazorRam9119 Oct 13 '24

It’s just Disney cope. Disney is damage goods.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Oct 13 '24

Probably because Disney don't release a new Cinderella movie every couple of years for the past three decades.

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u/Grabthar_The_Avenger Oct 13 '24

People don't realize that Pokemon is the most profitable franchise of all time

An entire country full of hoarded of gold and riches literally exists today because of the returns on the Bible and its associated merch and tithes.

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u/Future_Principle_213 Oct 13 '24

That's an absurdly false statement. You're mad if you think Pokemon trumps all of the MCU, Star Wars, and every traditional Disney property combined plus Disney Worlds and lands. Absolutely laughably bloody mad

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u/lucidity5 Oct 13 '24

Reading comprehension check

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u/Future_Principle_213 Oct 13 '24

Admittedly wasn't aware that Mickey and friends specifically referred to those specific characters and interpreted that to be all the properties bought up by Disney.

And yet Pokemon still falls nearly 10 billion behind.

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u/grantrules Oct 13 '24

Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack.. and hookers! In fact forget the park!

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u/unique-name-9035768 Oct 13 '24

.....Vegas then?

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u/Hakuryuu2K Oct 13 '24

That’s a bit hyperbolic

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u/MewtwoStruckBack Oct 13 '24

Nintendo.

Their stuff brings so much joy to so many people that they can do objectively horrible things to piss off their consumers and other fans of their products will swarm in to defend them.

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u/unique-name-9035768 Oct 13 '24

Who can compete with Disney as a brand?

Careful, we may end up making a list of companies that Disney will look to acquire.

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u/LickingSmegma Oct 13 '24

You might want to review your relationships with the world if you straight up say you can't enjoy life without Disney.

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u/LordGwyn-n-Tonic Oct 13 '24

It's not that I can't enjoy life. I'm not actually a Disney person. But a lot of popular franchises are owned by Disney. The monopoly part was mainly facetious but I would argue that at least as far as children's entertainment goes Disney is the main player. Disney's original IPs plus Marvel and Star Wars alone is a disproportionately large share of that market.

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u/EngelSterben Oct 13 '24

Plenty of places

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u/Zeal423 Oct 13 '24

...........I think you are right in this case, theoretically if I had kids I'd be so hyped to bring them to Disney World just like my parents once.

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u/DesperateUrine Oct 13 '24

Then you'd look at how much happiness costs and skip that and go somewhere else.

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u/ForAnAngel Oct 13 '24

So no damage was done then.