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"It's baffling that in 2024 we have to be like, the key to making a successful game is to make a fun game."
"They realize that they can still make money off of everything because because it's so popular, Korean dramas."
"It's almost as though we make better games when we're not thinking about making bigger games."
"I don't think anybody sets out to make a bad movie; sometimes it just happens."
"GTA 1 is still my reference point when people talk about the importance or not of polish time, of post production on projects."
"There's not many people in my industry who have... this red pill perspective, yeah, experience."
"Go and see what the bloody industry is about before signing with anybody."
"My mind is absolutely blown... everything AMD confirmed from here to about the end of 2024."
"It's kind of the big boy crypto rap. This guy works harder than anybody I know."
"To see why, you really just have to look at the huge number of pharmaceutical patent applications being put forth."
"Content is king... people actually do like a deal in aggregate in spite of all of that backlash."
"One out of every ten people in the U.S. actually use Self Storage. That's incredible."
"There's a saying in the self storage business: 'no toilets, no trash, and no tenants.'"
"The vast majority of the film industry is like blue collar workers."
"I really like their business model I think it's really clever and I think it's a great pickaxe kind of play on the puff puff industry."
"It's like a modern-day jam, we know we're all producers, so we'll go in there, someone, you know, even if you go past someone's room and you just hear a song you like."
"Drake shows an ability to get past shit right, and I think at this point with the energy Meek got, it's almost like coming full circle."
"Prototypes are trivial, volume production is hard." - Elon Musk
"It's unbelievable the opportunities we get when we travel to see how the parts we use every day are actually manufactured."
"I think we are looking to one another now, there is the reality in the industry."
"A catalog means something. People get caught up in the matrix numbers, social media."
"Guys working at Infinity Ward, they seem passionate man. I've never really seen that much passion from Infinity Ward in a long long time so it's a good sign."
"I think probably it's up to Sony. Sony has both those characters and has venom in their world. I don't know what their plans are for another venom or if they're going to do that but it seems likely at some point." - Kevin Feige
"There's never been a better time to be an actor."
"They're not football people, they're businessmen, they're bankers."
"Game developers have sort of a vested interest to know basically what's the experience that they're shipping with."
"If you don't want to do a song with Drake, something wrong with you, something wrong with you in your pockets for sure."
"There's a lot of money in trucking but you gotta work and get it. It's not going to fall in your lap and you gotta be smart about it."
"Video game entertainment is the biggest form of entertainment in the world."
"I can guarantee you that Wizards of the Coast game designers know this too, the real question is are they going to fix these problems with the new addition that's not a new edition that they're releasing in 2024."
"Filming is going just fine. I work on the show."
"I make music. The music maker people let me go once I'm done, I think."
"When you get that first hit record, the biggest change was I had been playing and singing at the same time. I had no idea what to do."
"Game development is hardcore PowerPoint presentation part."
"As long as they're super cheap to make and you don't need to make much in order to turn a profit, they're always gonna be around."
"You have insight to commodity supply chains that none of those pros have."
"I've seen the page. I could vouch for it. It's a thing that I just... I have a bunch of actor friends who are currently sitting at home not doing very much of anything, and all of them have expertise in taping themselves for auditions."
"I always mispronounce that guy's last name. Who idiot canned that Deathstroke origin film at Warner Brothers?"
"They are the Prestige and the Illusionist of video games."
"Remember, the number one enemy of streaming services right now is not other streamers, it's churn."
"This person said, 'R-rated Blu-ray,' and then is this confirmed, 'Oh, we shot all that stuff, it's got to go somewhere.'"
"Sony knows what they've been doing all along. We're just seeing it finally play out."
"I think having a mentor is very important in this industry."
"The only constant in game development is change."
"I just want you guys to know the whole community... my motivation behind all this stuff is to provide value and to just contribute insight to the industry."
"In some ways, I'm a Silicon Valley insider, in some ways I'm also an outsider and a critic."
"Challenge accepted. Now all the viewers at home get to witness the misery that is the job of content production."
"How do you make a small fortune in the rocket industry? You start with a large one."
"This just shows where the company's priorities are these days."
"He's the rare producer who really seems more with the [__] than like damn near any of the rappers."
"You need to become a student of marketing, not only in your niche but as marketing as a whole."
"I saw him earlier, he was out here at the studio, and he sat down with SimGuru Lindsay to talk a little bit about the future of the Sims."
"Making a good movie is really hard, and oftentimes people just fail, but not from a lack of effort."
"I've been around for eight years and I've seen ten thousand cryptocurrencies come and go none of them have ever taken over bitcoin."
"Amy Pascal was technically a co-producer on that, she Sony was co-producing that movie."
"To truly comprehend this story, we first have to understand not only what an iPhone is, but what Apple thinks it is."
"If you're an electric vehicle maker, your battery pack is everything."
"Here lies the remains of Marvel's Avengers, a live service experience that should have never existed."
"Movies are really hard to make. I want every movie to be great."
"For someone that honestly didn't know anything about this industry, you guys have no idea just how much of what you see on this channel is steered by her."
"In an interview with Warren Spector, Smith acknowledged the poor quality of the technology, the AI, and the story."
"You can make more as a computer programmer or doing something in a creative arts industry."
"This is a story about creative interference."
"I came here looking to make partners with you at a very reasonable valuation that was done by experts not by someone that says well I see what the wine industry is."
"A lot of design nowadays is just about the destination and then once I drop all the raids flex you know like that's what matters and it's like oh yeah but what's the process."
"Tesla's got the brain. People aren't understanding that the brain is what really matters."
"Beyoncé came up to L.A. Reid and told him that Rihanna was a beast."
"I once heard the head of a movie theater chain say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, we are not in the movie business, we are in the candy business,' and that really is quite accurate."
"We talk about supply chains and what he expects to happen."
"It's very difficult guys to make animatronics into plushies, you just gotta believe me okay?"
"At the end of the day, all that matters is if you make a great game... everything else is going to follow behind it."
"I would think this would be a smart no-brainer to add to your lineup."
"A lot of people...lose sight that Hollywood is...very human people."
"Elon Musk is kind of cheat coding the algorithm a bit and trying to give everybody the power of lidar without having to give everybody lidar." - Video Narrator
"Devs are important devs are what you want right now."
"There's something there between us that, you know, it's once in a lifetime in this business."
"As an SIE first party studio we will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the world's most renowned development teams." - Jade Raymond
"When I first got into the industry, I was trying to learn and went to YouTube to learn about RVs, and this was one of the very first YouTube channels that I stumbled across."
"Dave Filoni is just the perfect person to have talking about your prop."
"The entertainment industry is not real life."
"You can grow financially and not grow your sport. Your sport could become less healthy as you become more profitable."
"Fonsworth Bentley finally came clean about why he dipped out of the industry."
"This company is not what most people think. Gamers are not its target audience."
"Agents or producers can't be in two places at once."
"For almost every person we've spoken to, with the exception of one talent, who stated the pandemic was just one big work."
"I hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes tour of JLC's world-class manufacturer."
"CEO of BYD just as close to the entire world how you make electric cars make a lot of them and sell them at a profit. He's basically giving away the secret."
"At its core, real estate is a people business."
"That's the entire function of this, it's a business."
"This ain't about the blogs, the hype, the media. This ain't really about that."
"New Kids on the Block NES game was merely a concept; no work had been done on it past the initial designs and pitches." - David Crane
"I'm not giving advice necessarily, so much as just talking about what we do and where the business is headed."
"Wedding photography is a great place to be if you can get it."
"For example, in Canada we have a lot of mining, smelting and refining of nickel, but beyond that you're going to have to export the nickel to other countries to transform that into nickel sulfate."
"Don't forget head over to Patreon if you'd like to see a legacy automotive manufacturer once again go on the record explaining exactly how they intend on going bankrupt before the end of the decade."
"We all know that's sort of the air surrounding these projects."
"They made it look easy, and that is just astounding to me because in this industry, what works the first time you put it all together?"
"Ninja on Pepto-Bismol, which helps coat the throat, has been a lifesaver for many voice actors."
"SWAT analysis, when used, can help a company understand where it is now in its industry and what the future holds and how the company can progress itself in a beneficial way."
"Real news regarding the Aon's Conquest show... there's some momentum behind this show... looking like something that will probably happen." - David Lightbringer
"This is a car that really shows that Hyundai understands the market."
"The Escalade's cabin is all Cadillac, hiding the fact that it shares a platform with Chevrolet and GMC."
"Iterative development, we'd call that in the software world exactly." - Everyday Astronaut
"We are giving you the game for free, and this is the game coming from professionals."
"Elon Musk was invited by Herbert Diess to talk to the executives of Volkswagen."
"Hitman turned into a game about being a spy which may be better understood as a model for how games can be about how people act and fit in with one another."
"If you do the math there for a brand new character, brand new subset, brand new fight style, voice dialogue, additional gear, that's good."
"His brain is working because he's realized that they're not going to catch up to Tesla."
"Gary V understands what's happening in NFTs and he's not going to waste any time."
"It's not until you've been exposed to the industry for a good chunk of time... you realize just how out-of-control off the rails underwear on the head pencil up the nose Gaga freaking insane a lot of the gaming world's marketing can be."
"Walk of Shame, Captain. Don't run up on me again. Do you understand? Do you understand? And learn the law."
"The two guys I've worked with in the wrestling business for over 25 years that like nobody thinks like because the it's like a different level of thinking it's Jim Cornette in Dutch Mantell."
"Working on other people's music helps you understand how music works on a deeper level and improve your own skills."
"Video games are a business and businesses need to go where the money tells them to."
"Some of our best customers, in fact, a lot of our best customers are budtenders and that makes me super prideful because those are people that are around weed all day."
"This genre of game is pretty Niche, but there's so much potential."
"Instead of trying to cater to fan demand they just make whatever they're confident in because as it stands it's pretty clear that's how you make the better game."
"Having been involved in the industry, some of this developed almost overnight..."
"Cash is definitely King... but you know in our industry the kings are the ones with the biggest inventory."
"It's the first time that anyone in Hollywood's openly admitted that what they've been pushing on us for the past decade or so just isn't working."
"It was chaos because you're going from a movie that's like a page and a half a day to seven pages a day. It was really exhausting." - Elizabeth Olsen
"For some reason, hearing someone problem-solve about an industry that I know nothing about stimulates my own brain."
"Developers love it when their games do well."
"Directors work way harder than actors do on a movie."
"PAs have the most thankless job in the show biz industry."
"If you think there's going to be less work for the guy who CG animates somebody exploding into a big bag of blood and then the guy who actually sprays down the blood on the set, yeah, no, he's still in work, he's still having a great time."
"The switch has really hit a market here that I don't think Sony gaming distributors and many others understand."
"Feedback is very important for games, especially for gaming companies."
"It kind of grew out of a lot of my other activity where you'd learn about different industries and you'd say, wow, this is really broken."
"Insomniac is like, 'Yo, we're gonna give you guys like five games in the first eight months.'"
"Amazon is so much more than just the e-commerce business."
"The people I started with, I know writers on Ted Lasso, I know writers on Dave."
"Follow the rabbit hole to learn about the industry."
"The docu-series was a real insight into the inner workings of the beauty industry which for millions of people would bring an interest into both the beauty industry and the beauty community that they never had previously."
"But, like, outsiders to an industry, it's really hard to have the nuance to have any idea what the fuck is going on."
"I'm going to give you my insight into what I see happening in the accounting industry in the next 10 years."
"Every job has a con even beauty makeup gurus."
"We're going to talk to the president of Midwest BioAg and get his take on the industry today and where he thinks that we're headed."
"Think of it as bloody knuckles for me learning about what really happens in the supplement industry."
"Let's go ahead and let's dive in and take a look at the production at hand."
"From a business standpoint, it's very much smaller. Sometimes you might think somebody's getting 10,000, they get 500. Sometimes you might think a league made a million dollars, they made a thousand dollars."
"You can actually get a reasonably good understanding as to what's happening for that particular industry or for that particular stock."
"I wouldn't be in the music business if it weren't for sample-based beats."
"He's got something, yep, and he understands he has a clear understanding of where the industry is."
"We don't realize how dark Hollywood is behind the scenes."
"It was an amazing time. I had a great time in Italy, met a bunch of friends, met the staff at the Sonos Faber, the designers."
"It's not the movie star that sells the movie; it's a slice of the pie, not the whole pie."
"I think it's the holy grail of real estate leads."
"This kids' show has a lot to teach us about the dysfunction behind your favorite cartoon shows and movies."
"Usually, there is most practical advice anyone has ever given from the stage, you know, usually it's like 'believe in yourself'... right, 'every day I don't do your thing, I don't know'... your look, there's agents here, and this is how you take it, like nobody told me that."
"It's so good, dude. And then they show the struggles of being in game development and how tough it can be."
"Welcome to Hollywood, right? It says, you know, real quickly, really early on, that it's a tough, tough business."
"I think if people feel like there's more about the industry that they would like to shed light to, at the end of the day, it's all education."
"I made a promise to myself and to you guys to share the truth about the industry, hashtag freedom of information."
"Christian Bale on Leonardo DiCaprio: Any role, and he gets it, it's only because Leo passed."
"That's the flat out truth about the industry."
"Socializing with men in their 40s and 50s also provided me with opportunities to learn about economic structures and various aspects of different industries."
"This industry is fair game, and you can make it from anywhere."
"Half the battle is just knowing that these are the qualities studios are looking for."
"In the last 10 hours of discussion, our focus has been on understanding the importance of manufacturing."
"The industry is full of egos and full of weirdos, but what an employer is really looking for is to make sure that you're a good fit for their team."
"Hope you've enjoyed this look at the Chinese history of piano making as well as where we are in the current industry."
"It's really refreshing to see a content creator who has a high awareness of themselves and the creator industry."
"That's the ultimate rule: if an A&R doesn't have the project and they don't know about music, they're not going to care what's right or wrong."
"Aviation is such a fantastic industry to get into, and although we might be in a lull currently, things will pick up again one day."
"If you're operating in an industry that has high inventory turnover but low inventory margin, you'll know how important it is to have complete visibility over all the transactions that are occurring in your warehouse."
"That's one thing you can count on is change, and it's another thing I've learned being in this industry."
"If you can understand the pain points of the industry, I guarantee you, you'll be able to create your own blue oceans."
"You got to have multiple streams of income in this industry."
"When you work in building construction, you start to understand value."
"It's also sometimes instructive to ask other people who know nothing about your industry and maybe even talk to your customers what do you really care about."
"Marvel and DC need to recognize that they are not competitors; they are colleagues."
"We are going to get to see behind the scenes of this industry, new technology, ride vehicles, roller coasters, animatronics, theming, and so much more."
"I don't want to work for the next man just because he's the next man; I want to filter out the people in this industry that are for me."