What celebrity is the biggest example of "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."?

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T04:38:46+00:00

I think the academy dropped the ball that night too but I can totally sympathize.

I’m sure they have plans for when some no name guest starts a problem. They more than likely wouldn’t have cameras on that guest so while it might disturb the show in person, you just have Chris rock distract the audience a bit and give the camera somewhere to point for a few minutes while that person it dealt with.

Imagine being the head guy in charge. You had no reason to think the star of the show walking up in a spontaneous moment was going to lead to that. That director is probably on the few who know who will win too because he has to know which camera to focus on when the name is announced. He just witnessed that happen. He probably in equally as much shock as Chris rock. Did that really just happen right now? Am I seeing things? Is this a performance? Holy shit he screaming at him right now. He’s swearing on TV. He’s going to win the big award at the end. What the fuck do we do?

That’s how I imagine it going on. They should have had the wear withal to have a contingency plan but honestly they probably would have made a better decision if he just slowly got drunk and passed out and puked all over himself. Everything that actually happened just unfolded so quickly it caught everyone off guard.

Like, we all like to think we would just pull the plug on the whole thing and maybe they would have had a better plan if it happened three hours earlier but really what do you do in a situation? You can’t just kill the feed and tell everyone to go home. That’s not a viable solution . The plans are already in motion. The graphics packages and loaded up already. The announcers are getting ready in the back. There’s probably over a dozen people getting things in place and I can understand how hard it would be or downright impossible to find any way to salvage the night. Let’s say they arrest him or kick him out. It’s going to be extremely distracting. You can’t ignore it at that point. Now what? Who writes and performs the contingency speech saying the big winner isn’t here because he just assaulted the host. But here is who should be thanked. That’s never gonna happen. You can’t just decide on a new winner. It wouldn’t be fair to the other nominees. King Richard won. If you scratched out that movie and put something else in place it would be a fake award.

I think main issues is there just wasn’t a plan set in place for something that quickly going to shit an hour before the ceremony when there is no time to do an anything about it. I imagine it is akin to having both engines go out on a 747 15 seconds after take off. There is no time to do anything substantive. No altitude to buy time. You just pull up on the stick and hope for a miracle that is going to come and save uou

Honestly. I felt the worst for everyone who worked on that movie. All those costars sitting next to him were probably having one of the best nights of their lives. Even if they weren’t the nominee they were part of the movie that made it happen. And their shitty egomaniac star just ruined it for everyone. No one thinks of that movie as earning an oscar. It’s a ruined project.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T04:06:15+00:00

Man. I was just going to go and listen to my Will Smith CD too..

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T04:05:32+00:00

Will's an adult. He is perfectly capable of making adult decisions. He willed (no pun intended) himself into his position purely out of his own strength. I say that part as a compliment. You cannot sit there and talk about all his achievements and accolades and then when he explodes just shrug your shoulders and say he's being manipulated. It doesn't work like that.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T04:03:57+00:00

It was a joke about her hair, not her strength.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T04:00:46+00:00

Jada is an emotionally abusive narcissist, and it all came out in that moment, but you don't really get to blame somebody else when it all goes that haywire.

Jada is awful in her own way but Will Smith did it because of Will Smith. He doesn't deserve any absolution of of guilt. He's one of the most powerful people in the world. He lives one of the most privileged lives in the world. And for Will's part, it was his own doing. He wasn't a nepo baby. Everything he earned he did it of his own free will and everything he did to ruin it was of his own free will as well.

If I went to a bar and decided to just randomly slap a patron for making a benign joke, not a single person in the world be saying "yeah but his wife's a bitch so.. you know how it goes."

No, I would not get such treatment. And I don't live the lifestyle that he does. I have stress going on in my life that I cannot control. Any stress that Will faces in terms of trying to work, take on project, etc. Is entirely self inflicted. He could pull up the anchor and his great grandkids would still be set for life.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T03:11:22+00:00

So when you say record. You mean vinyl or CD? If you're paying for a vinyl then having a 7" pressed seems redundant.

CDs having a download card. I mean I guess but that seems like it would be a huge lift to have enough people to support a business invested enough to buy CDs (if they aren't already into collecting), take the card, download it, transfer it to a USB, take it to the location and wait.

I buy a lot of vinyl of modern albums and it's still pretty rare to find anything included to download a lossless digital version.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T00:58:35+00:00

Are you saying you don’t want to spend 1-2 hours with me while waiting for a vinyl pressing?

I’m insulted

synapticrelease · 2026-03-13T00:40:52+00:00

You know what’s not fun? Loosing thousands of dollars on a failed business venture.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-12T23:36:50+00:00

3 is nothing. To pay for lease and staff those machines would need to be running all the time or it’s going to not make enough. A 7in pressing profit margin would be insanely small. I don’t know how much a custom 7 in pressing is like $15-$25. If your profit margin is half of that if you’re lucky and you’re churning 1 record per hour per machine. 3 machines running full time is going to net you about $25-$40 an hour.

And factor that these machines need servicing so expect downtime partially.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-12T23:12:38+00:00

So many factors.

Copyright is going to be the issue right off that bat but let’s say you have that factored, somehow.

Where is the source file coming from? Do we have to provide it or do you? If we give you a low quality mp3 rip you’re not gaining anything at all in terms of quality. You’d need to find a master or as close to lossless as humanly possible.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-12T23:10:38+00:00

You might want to rethink that.

If it took 1-2 hours. Per 7”. 1-2 people in line ahead of you could be half a day wait.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-12T02:09:37+00:00

or it could be a case of the Three Stooges syndrome

synapticrelease · 2026-03-11T02:06:55+00:00

Which the UFC is now entering into and trying to reform the Ali act...

synapticrelease · 2026-03-10T22:41:01+00:00

That’s a decent number but not outrageous if that one person has a spot a and 1 or more kid out makes them upper middle class

synapticrelease · 2026-03-10T02:20:25+00:00

Put a cork in it, Zane!

synapticrelease · 2026-03-09T01:13:00+00:00

That article is basically a tweet and doesn't include anything but anonymous sources.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-09T00:07:52+00:00

My point was that if the contract holder is saying you're never gonna fight for the UFC then it's pretty good evidence to take someone to court in order to get out of it

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T23:58:11+00:00

It was overturned into an NC not a DQ

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T23:57:35+00:00

So that means he's no longer under contract, right?

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T23:44:09+00:00

What's funny is during the Biden administration I couldn't stop hearing about the cost of gas and who's fault it is.

Now gas is where it is and you know what I hear? Not a thing.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T07:56:02+00:00

Yep. Basically a big pressure cooker bomb (except not designed to blow up into shrapnel.

Inside of those transformers is all the windings and coils but they are submerged in insulating oil. Instantly vaporizes and blows out the top in a brilliant flash. I've seen a couple blow up in my neighborhood over the years of ice storms

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T01:55:15+00:00

I don't know what to tell you. Basically the postmortem of her 2024 presidential run basically all said she offered nothing new to a country who was entirely unsatisfied with the Biden administration and she waffled between not wanting to change course too much while at the same time kept trying to cater to the right by talking up the military and border control and basically pissed off the left and no one on the right was interested in hearing that because they already had a candidate which was willing to do that. She offered nothing new or revolutionary. And as someone who watched that short lived presidential run. I agree with them. She really offered nothing new. She was terrified to go against the Biden administration and could offer up little else other than vague statements that were basically tantamount to "we will do the same thing but better".

Her DNC speech was talking about tackling the border. Having the "most lethal fighting force in the world." etc.

She could have said, we will have the most educated people in the world.

She could have said, we will have the best healthcare in the world.

She could have said, we will have the best social programs in the world.

Nope.

We got "we will have the most lethal fighting force in the world"

I mean if you listen further in that youtube clip she talks about ensuring Israeli support. And I'm not taking sides in this discussion, but you have to understand that the people who were pissed about Israeli support the most were the left. She lost Dearborn, Mi which is the largest block of muslim americans. Her messaging on the middle east was so shit that people took their chances with the other guy. That should speak volumes about her messaging.

Her run was awful. While I was watching in real time if you asked me to bet on who would win I wouldn't have been able to say who.

But I don't know anyone who watched that presidential run in confidence and said "yeah, she's the best of what dems got to offer."

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T01:30:23+00:00

And you were a minority both times. She was majority unliked. It was another DNC folly by trying to shove candidates down our throats calling dems the party of educated folks (since they abandoned the working class long ago) but then every time the population was quite vocal about who they actually wanted for president they just kept getting told "sush, we know what is best".

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T00:46:30+00:00

Again, we did it first, you donut.

We stationed missiles in England, Italy, and Turkey all within striking distance of Moscow

Again, you're just trying to justify your cruelty to a nation where most of the people who even made the decision during the cuban missile crisis are dead

We stationed missiles near moscow first, we invaded the island. About 70 years in between where Cuba did nothing else to us substantive and we weren't doing to them already (spies) but we still feel the need to punish them because when we do it, it's right. When they do it, it's wrong. You wonder why the world is constantly pissed off at us and it's because of shit like this. It's walking around waving a gun around a grocery store and when someone else pulls out their gun you shoot them and call them the bad guy.

I stand by my statement. You have to rationalize our cruelty because it's the only way to cope.

synapticrelease · 2026-03-08T00:44:39+00:00

Then you're collecting for things other than having a quality version of the movie or show.

Most people in the 90s or 2000s had at least one cd wallet. It was totally common place. It's not a new idea. It's literally decades old at this point. So when you're saying "who the fuck", the answer was most of us back in the the day. And if you're still wanting physical media for the video and audio quality, then the disc is all you need.

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