Jon Miller

D23 tickets options are really confusing. I want 3 days of convention access and one Honda show, but no idea what the cheapest way to do this is, despite reading the news article several times.

@scaling_shields TLDR of this post - spammers are still making money.

my mates older brother worked at a tech company in dublin for 6 years senior developer €95K salary - stock options - private health insurance - gym membership - free lunch every day - the whole package he was the "safe" one in the family every christmas his dad would say "at least one of you has a proper job" got laid off on a tuesday morning at 11:14am not even a meeting a google calendar invite that said "organisational update" followed by a zoom with someone from HR hed never met badge deactivated before the zoom ended 6 years of loyalty and they couldnt even do it in person he messaged my mate that afternoon "im getting let go" "what? why?" "they said theyre restructuring the team around AI workflows. my whole department is gone" "the whole department?" "14 people. all gone. theyre replacing us with 3 contractors and some AI tools i literally helped implement last quarter" he trained the system that replaced him spent his last few months building internal documentation and AI workflows thinking he was making himself more valuable he was making himself REPLACEABLE took him 4 months to find another job and the one he found pays €71K €24K paycut because the market is flooded with senior devs who all got the same tuesday morning zoom call meanwhile my mate - who his dad always called "the one messing around on his laptop" - runs a small agency doing about €20K/month no employer no single client thats more than 15% of his revenue no HR department that can end his income with a calendar invite when his brother got laid off my mate offered to help him out financially his dad went quiet at christmas dinner this year heres what nobody tells you about "job security": there is no such thing as job security when one decision from someone youve never met can delete your income overnight the only real security is having a system that generates revenue whether you show up or not not one boss who decides your worth not one client who holds all the power not one platform that can change the rules a system cold email is mine 5,000 emails go out every morning at 6am whether im awake or not if one client leaves tomorrow i have 30 more replies sitting in my inbox by lunch my income doesnt depend on one persons mood or one companys quarterly earnings call it depends on a system i built that runs EVERY single day the people getting laid off right now are some of the smartest most skilled people on the planet and it didnt matter because they had one income source controlled by someone else build something that cant be taken away from you with a calendar invite your job isnt safe your client isnt permanent your employer doesnt care about your 6 years of loyalty but a system that books you calls every morning doesnt give a shit about any of that it just runs

@rankingthemouse I wonder how much of this is the internationalization of the ships? It was really notable on the UK Fantasy cruise that the adult pools and kids clubs were almost deserted because British families tend to not want to split up for the day in the same way US families do.

The decline of adult-only pools/decks on the most recent Disney ships is so strange. Definitely a bummer, too - nothing better than taking your kid to kids club & heading to the adult pool for a few hours

@lukefmorris Yup it's a fantastic machine but clearly not for anyone who is interested enough to do deep research into whether a particular laptop is right for their needs. If they need to ask, it probably isn't.

yep. The neo will be the default option for students, grandparents & maybe even commuters? For me it sits in the same bracket (weirdly enough) as the iPhone Air…in that it’s 100% a vibes purchase. Anyone putting thought into whether it’s “right” for them is missing the point…

Love the new Figment animation. Do we know who animated it?

@levelsio Thank you for this post, it means a lot.

Good for him! 🌈 Gay rights are one of the things the Dutch are pioneers in and I'm proud to be Dutch for that Traveling the world when you're Dutch you quickly see how the rest of the world isn't as tolerant as the Netherlands The last few decades the Netherlands has actually become less tolerant exactly by importing people from countries that hate gays, which I think they should have never Tolerance is a fundamental part of Dutch culture but we should not tolerate the intolerant "Unconditional tolerance leads to the destruction of a tolerant society"

@AliciaStella Florida's book banning continues

End of an era

So the real story with Universal isn't the new coaster it's what's replacing Supercharged? 🤔

@tommyhawkins @AmusementInside What are the chances this is going to be the BttF ride in UK?

Me and @AmusementInside told you all

Whoever you are. Wherever you’re from. Universal Orlando Resort will change you and everything you know about vacations. This changes everything.

@rankingthemouse I never understood why Hollywood Rip Ride was in New York. This could have been the perfect chance to fix that calling it New York Drift or whatever.

My personal (& unneeded) opinions on UOR's Fast & Furious: ELITE Unique layout GREAT Replacing a 🚮 coaster GOOD Quick opening timeline AVG IP is solid but tired BAD Copying USH coaster AWFUL So many better IPs available INEXCUSABLE "Hollywood" name/theme is laughably lazy

Visiting Galaxy's Edge before the timeline changes was like going to see a classic band play where they only do new material but don't play any of the hits. It's enjoyable enough, but not what you quite had in mind when you booked to see them.

@FrshBakedDisney That video nails what it's like walking through Galaxy's Edge!

OMG thank the maker for John Williams (but this is hilarious).

@Oddernod @DreamfinderGuy 100%. I love that sort of immersive roleplaying and would have spent the money but had no interest in what I saw which seemed to be Star Wars in name only. I want to be on a grungy cargo ship not a luxury yacht.

@DreamfinderGuy Agreed. If they went OT characters from the onset, the Starcruiser would still have a waitlist…

It’s pretty great how they took the lore of Galaxy’s Edge so deeply seriously, especially with the Starcruiser in Florida, and now seven years later they finally realized people want Star Wars in their Star Wars land and just caved into that

@DreamfinderGuy @Tylon_The_Ninja Even if you haven't seen Fantastic Beasts, Wizarding Paris is spectacular. But Batuu, with only Rey and Kylo and certainly no Star Wars music... it's like going on an empty set of a film you haven't seen, rather than a magical place you've been transported to.

@Tylon_The_Ninja Lots of people are calling Ministry the best ride ever so 🤷‍♂️ Epic struggling in general aside, it seems to be working out fine

@imakethasums @MHawk9955 They had some music in the rides, and some random diagetic sounds in the land, but you never heard the Star Wars theme or the Imperial March like you hear the Harry Potter theme in Wizarding World. Star Wars without music just doesn't feel like Star Wars.

@jondbm @MHawk9955 I still haven't been - was there music before at all?

This is the only DisTwitter gripe against SWGE I actually agreed with and they’re finally fixing it OMG YOU GUYS WERE GONNA BE SERENADED BY JOHN WILLIAMS ON BATUU

@rankingthemouse Of course! That goes without saying.

@jondbm Yesss!! Your other reason is hanging with us, right?!

Oh my gosh Galaxy's Edge is finally going to be elite 😩😩😩

It's a shame the current Imagineers weren't in charge during the Starcruiser days or we could have had a successful reworking to the film and characters people actually like, and a success, instead of stubbornly sticking to Kylo and Rey until they drove it into the ground.