"Game of Thrones" was not my "cuppa tea" so I didn't even watch it when
I had HBO. I'm sure there will be a lot more complaining this year
because in the US you often pay a $90 or more tax a month to watch HBO.
That is in the form of your monthly cable or satellite bill. If the
past "Thrones" fans have complained as to why they can't just buy the
episodes the day after they air like they do other series. Well, the
"Premium" channels won't do that. They're stuck in an antiquated 20th
century business model and I bet some board members as well as
stockholders complain about leaving the money on the table they could be
getting from making those episodes available for sale on places like
iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and VUDU.
The series I would really like to see that HBO has trapped is Mike
Judge's series about Silicon Valley:
http://mprod.wired.com/2014/04/mike-judge-silicon-valley/
I like what he had to say about his experience of working at a Silicon
Valley company (which of course gave rise to the movie "Office Space"):
"It really felt like a cult. The people I met were like Stepford Wives,"
Judge says. "They were true believers in something, and I don't know
what it was."
I saw "Office Space" with a couple of former co-workers and their
wives. We had a great laugh at how he managed to skewer the nonsense we
experienced. I experienced it from the level of being a manager and
actually trying to keep things sane and productive which meant that I
kicked people out of the office if they were spending too much time
there. The first day on the job my boss said the owner didn't like
people to work too long of hours so I had the right to hone in those hours.
As a kid my mother would make me stop working long on projects
explaining that I would reach a point of no return so take a break.
Indeed not only did some of the people at work want to live at the
office as if it were a monastery but they were incensed at the idea they
were working too long. In fact some burned out and after I left
apparently the new manager wasn't so good at curbing hours and some had
nervous breakdowns.
On 04/03/2014 03:35 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
For those of you who have watched the show and are looking forward to
the next season of Game Of Thrones as much as I am, these are utterly
hilarious. And in ways that totally nail the publications and
reporters being parodied.
Spoiler warning passed along if you haven't watched the show so far
and plan to and don't want to spoil anything. I don't think there are
any spoilers for the upcoming season, or if there are, I didn't notice
them.
If The Media Reported The Events Of "Game Of Thrones"
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/if-the-media-reported-the-events-of-game-of-thrones>
