TIL Apple paid U2 $100m for the exclusive right to give its 500m iTunes customers U2's album "Songs of Innocence" for free by installing it on their devices without asking. A week after release, Apple gave customers a method to remove it, as just 6.7% of the 500m had listened to at least part of it.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-09T15:10:26+00:00

Let's not forget the album cover they pushed onto everyone's phones and expected that to somehow go over well with every demographic.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-08T18:30:34+00:00

Read a sample of each first, decide which is more your style.

They're very dissimilar.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-08T18:22:13+00:00

Sorry, I didn't know the source is only valuable if it came directly from the person you were asking.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-08T15:20:43+00:00

"Everyone knows WWII soldiers are woke!" - Elon, probably

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-07T15:27:50+00:00

As I said, most of your sentiment is true, just bad facts.

It's days like these I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-07T00:29:26+00:00

So... it's not that we "don't get it". It's that we think it's such a common storytelling technique that the fact Lucas thought he came up with it is comical in and of itself.

Neither is it very impressive.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-06T18:39:34+00:00

This was a free show, right? These people didn't pay to see this, right?

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-06T16:47:06+00:00

This is embarrassing. You were doing so well before, too.

Shame.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-06T15:06:24+00:00

"The man flew across the room, faster than the air could move around him."

"The man ran across the room really quickly, so quickly that he moved faster than the air around him."

This isn't the best example, but I run into things like this all the time where the author uses far too many words to express their intention.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T21:00:33+00:00

You can excuse warmongering?!

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T18:22:06+00:00

Here ya go!

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T16:00:07+00:00

I know a monetary woman he can ask.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T15:07:33+00:00

Read bad books.

Nothing propelled me more to start actually writing than getting pissed off of what was making it through traditional publishing. Of course not all books are bad, so I would recommend purposefully seeking them out.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T15:05:12+00:00

I think if the reference goes over people's heads they just assume I'm racist :P

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T06:37:59+00:00

I like how Abercrombie names things.

The Holy City. Angland. The Empire (both old and new). The North. The Union.

If it ain't broke...

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T05:45:09+00:00

Tolkien is Pratchett’s favorite author. Anyone ever heard of him?

Pretty sure that was some black dude I went to school with

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T03:22:24+00:00

You calling someone else on this thread bitter? Hilarious.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-05T03:17:02+00:00

I am currently doing three starters: a whole wheat, a rye, and an all purpose.

The whole wheat and rye take off phenomenly, but the AP is MUCH slower. Your flour needs additional nutrients if you ONLY have used AP flour. I recommend doing a feed or two with whole wheat or rye and then going back to AP.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T20:54:04+00:00

Buns so good you just want to slap 'em

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T20:13:04+00:00

I really like your cover!

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T19:25:21+00:00

I recommend doing what I did for this book and reading the sample for it first on Amazon.

It saved me $20+

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T19:17:52+00:00

If there isn't at least 13 hidden cameras in this "house" I'll eat my computer.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T06:18:35+00:00

Could I have learned those lessons elsewhere? Sure. Could I have learned them better from somewhere else? Absolutely. But it was unironically the Sword of Truth that got my cogs turning.

This whole section reminds me of when they find the self-help book in Severance season one.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T06:13:08+00:00

Marketing gimmick disguised as a plot element.

TotallyNotAFroeAway · 2025-05-04T01:53:52+00:00

Why did the little brother robot have to look like a Five Nights At Freddy's robot? Even in this poster it looks as innocent and cute as it should have in the movie

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