The problem is that Galaxy’s Edge got descoped later in the design process while Eisner made decisions early on in the design process to ensure a cheaper park.

Galaxy’s Edge feels emblematic about the issues of design under Iger versus Eisner.

Eisner vastly expanded park capacity, but he didn’t just focus on E-ticket attractions. He intentionally built some parts of the parks to entertain but cheaper to add capacity and give people a place to be entertained if they didn’t want to wait in long lines.

In contrast, most of Iger’s expansions were generally a lot more costly and didn’t have the throughout of previous E-ticket attractions. This ended up pushing Disney into being a more premium experience.

I feel like this is a symbol of the difference between the Eisner and the Iger CEO tenures. Eisner built out a massive expansion of the parks under his leadership, doubling the gates in Anaheim and Orlando while planning international expansion. Iger didn’t, choosing smaller expansions with premium experiences over capacity expansions.

It is part of the reason that Universal has been able to grow so much, Disney doesn’t have the capacity that it needs to meet high end theme park demand.

It depends on what you define infusion as. Three big theme of magic versus tech isn’t that magic stops existing, but that tech radically changes the balance of power in how to use magic. To use a fire wizard as an example, the best use of a fire wizard is different between the medieval era and industrial era.

For the medieval era, the best use of a fire wizard is as magical artillery. Sieges are likely broken as the attacking army has enough fire power from their wizards to burn away defenders in a castle. You likely need these wizards to understand strategy, so they will likely be generals or kings. A fire wizard is going to have a high status in society.

For the industrial era, the best use of a fire wizard is as a replacement for coal. Weapons on the battlefield have replaced the need of fire wizards and some weapons have enough range to be a threat to the wizards, negating their need. Instead, a fire wizard is either used to melt metal or to power a steam engine because they are cheaper than using coal. At best, a fire wizard is going to be at the level of skilled labor in this society as their efforts are best used to be an energy supply.

That shift in power is going to have major ramifications on societies.

Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

I like magic settings that deal with non-magic technology becoming a threat to magic.

The complaints about the arms industry/the cost of war has been around since recorded history.

AI server farms has only been around for a few years.

This wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.

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My worst experience in Word has been adapting a state based Word document to municipal use. The state knows what it is doing and uses styles as a great way to organize the document to provide direction.

Then the fucking county had a 60 year old secretary create a wrapper for that document and it fucking breaks everything.

I had a guy buy me two drinks at an expensive Vegas bar. He didn’t really even want to talk.

That’s typical for most construction projects.

If I’m going to build a building or a bridge, the number of people required to build is far more than the number of people required to maintain.

It looks like we’re starting to hit the same issue with websites. You need a maintenance staff for websites, but no where near the level of staff required to build the thing.

It is the reason why Microsoft was able to gimp the Internet for so long with Internet Explorer. Companies couldn’t make money off of the browser, so Microsoft made a browser that helped defend the Windows monopoly.

Except during seismic events.

Depends on the sand.

That’s also generally more the geotechnical engineer’s call.

I’m a structural engineer. It is part of the job.

I’ve been mostly right.

I wished I worked out more right now. My problem is that I’m spending more and more spoons on my job and I don’t have enough remaining to exercise.

No country wants to build a tech infrastructure that they don’t control.

I don’t know if it is purposeful. It just seems to be a side effect of the market going all in on AI.

The kind of person that Trump is isn’t an abberation, but the oligarchs were expecting more of a Reagan instead of Trump.