#193.2

[pacdevil]

never forget that knuckles car of choice is a jeep

#193 #193.2 #knuckles the echidna

[lokiondisneyplus]

Disney has revealed that it has spent $141.3 million (£110.6 million) on pre-production and filming of the second season of its Loki streaming series as it attempts to reinvigorate its struggling Marvel Studios division after a string of critical and commercial failures.

No expense has been spared on Loki Season 2 which cost more in pre-production and filming than many big screen Marvel movies including Doctor Strange (£102.7 million), Thor 2: The Dark World (£99.4 million) and Guardians of the Galaxy (£91.1 million).

Due to debut on the Disney+ platform in October, the sequel to the hit 2021 series stars Tom Hiddleston as the eponymous Asgardian god of mischief. He is joined by Owen Wilson and a new addition to the cast, Oscar-winning Indiana Jones actor Ke Huy Quan who team up to stop a time-travelling conqueror called Kang.

Indiana Jones star Ke Huy Quan is joining Loki for Season 2.2023 MARVEL

Quan's role has been particularly well-received with one fan gushing that "this is the greatest thing to ever happen. I adore this man". Another described it as "like seeing an old friend. It is comforting to see him on screen." One fan even went as far as to say that Quan is reason enough for tuning in. "I was on the fence on watching Loki season 2 but I saw that Ke Huy Quan is in it and yeah...I'm definitely watching that." It is more than can be said for most of Marvel's productions this year.

The studio kicked off 2023 with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a sci-fi film which opened in February and introduced the Kang character. Its domestic debut weekend box office of $106 million was the highest in the Ant-Man trilogy but then it fell by 70%, resulting in the biggest second-weekend drop in the franchise's history. The movie ended up grossing $476.1 million worldwide which was lower than both of its prequels. As we revealed, Disney spent $193.2 million on pre-production and filming alone.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was widely criticised for its CGI Photo courtesy of Marvel ... [+]COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS

Just days after her departure, Marvel was rocked again when Kang actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on assault and harassment charges. He denies them and will get a chance to explain why when he goes on trial this month.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was a rare recent success for Marvel © 2023 MARVEL.COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS

Then came Secret Invasion. Disney had high hopes for the streaming series which launched in June and was based on a beloved comic series about a race of shape-shifting aliens secretly invading the corridors of power. However, its serious tone, gaping plot holes and poor CGI put off fans leading to its crescendo becoming the single lowest-rated episode of any Marvel series with just a 7% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

As we revealed, staggeringly, it had a budget of $211.6 million. It explains why Disney's chief executive Bob Iger said in February that the studio needs to "reduce costs on everything that we make because, while we're extremely proud of what's on the screen, it's gotten to a point where it's extraordinarily expensive."

A total of 7,000 job cuts and $5.5 billion of cost-savings followed, but even that wasn't enough. Just last month, Iger told CNBC that Disney is slowing down when it comes to making movies and streaming series for its Marvel and Star Wars franchises. "You pull back not just to focus, but also as part of our cost containment initiative. Spending less on what we make, and making less," he said.

Season 2 of Loki was given the green light long before these comments and before Iger even returned to the helm of Disney in November last year. It shows.

The series was filmed at the historic Pinewood Studios just outside London as well as on location across the UK capital. It's a far cry from tinsel town and this shines a spotlight on the otherwise secretive cost of film-making.

Budgets of streaming shows are usually confidential as studios combine the cost of them in their overall expenses and don't itemise how much they spent on each one.

Shows made in the UK are an exception. They benefit from the government's Television Tax Relief scheme which allows studios to claim a cash reimbursement of up to 25% of the money they spend in the country.

To qualify, shows must pass a points test based on factors such as how much filming was done in the UK, the level of UK content and how much they promote UK heritage. Furthermore, at least 10% of the core costs of the production need to relate to activities in the UK and in order to demonstrate this to the government, studios set up a separate Television Production Company (TPC) there for each picture.

These TPCs have to file publicly-available financial statements showing everything from the headcount and salaries to the total cost of the production and the amount of cash they have got back.

The UK government's regulations state that each TPC must be "responsible for pre-production, principal photography and post-production of the television programme; and for delivery of the completed programme." Accordingly, there is no doubt that their financial statements show all of the costs of each series. It isn't even possible for studios to hide costs in other companies as the law also states that "there can only be one TPC in relation to a programme."

The companies usually have code names so that they don’t raise attention when filing for permits to film on location. The Disney subsidiary behind Loki Season 2 is called Limbo Productions I UK in a nod to title character's transient status. Its first set of financial statements were filed on Sunday and cover the 18-month period to October 31 2022 which is when filming wrapped.

They reveal that the company was handed a $27.9 million (£21.8 million) reimbursement bringing its net spending down to $113.4 million which is still far from small beer. The colossal cost dates back to the peak of the pandemic when much of the world was locked indoors addicted to streaming content. Disney was eagerly adding shows to its streaming platform in a bid to attract more subscribers than its rivals.

Season 1 of Loki was the most-watched Marvel TV show to date on Disney+ ©Marvel Studios 2020. All ... [+]COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS

According to industry analysts Samba TV, Loki's first episode was watched by 2.5 million households in its first five days giving it a higher audience than any of Marvel's other streaming shows - a record which stands to this day. The streaming bubble has long since burst thanks to the easing of the pandemic and pure strings being pulled due to rising inflation. However, Season 2's budget could be more important now than ever. Disney doesn't just need it to succeed in order to give a glow to Marvel but to its entire streaming platform.

Unlike theatrical releases, which share ticket sales between studios and exhibitors, Disney receives all of the revenue from its streaming platform. Subscribers pay a single fee which grants them access to all of its new content throughout the year, with or without advertising depending on how much they pay. This makes it impossible to calculate how much subscription revenue is generated by each streaming show.

Instead, the total costs of the shows are deducted from the total revenue to determine whether the platform overall made a profit or a loss. The more subscribers it has, the higher the revenue and the greater the potential for profit. However, Disney wisely changed its goal of chasing subscribers in light of the bleak economic backdrop. Its aim now is to reduce the cost of the programming which also gives a greater potential for profit. It is badly needed.

Disney+ hasn't made a profit since it was launched in 2019 and made an operating loss of $659 million in the first quarter of 2023 alone. Disney has assured investors that the platform will be profitable by the end of its 2024 fiscal year and time will tell whether Loki Season 2's blockbuster budget is a help or a hindrance to that.

[terminusantequem]

Allan Kaprow (American, 1927-2006), From James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, 1956. Oil on canvas, 213 x 193.2 cm

#allan kaprow

[theaskew]

Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese b. 1959), Can't Wait 'til the Night Comes, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 193.2 x 183.2 cm. | 76 1/8 x 72 1/8 in.

#art #artwork #modern art #contemporary art #modern artwork #contemporary artwork #21st century art #21st century modern art #21st century contemporary art #Japanese art #modern Japanese art #contemporary Japanese art #Yoshitomo Nara #Japanese artist #Japanese painter

[thinwishes-tinydreams]

193.2 (0)

sigh. i had my favorite sandwich for lunch, ran 3.74 miles at the gym and worked legs, had leftover mushroom risotto for dinner and a tasty cake for dessert. maintenance? come on man, i wanna see the 180s. i need to stay hungry, no matter what i'm feeling. i don't wanna be fat anymore. i want this process to go quickly. have to stay hungry, keep moving and drink water.

#weight loss #thinspo #ana #anna #anamia #pro ana #pronana #ed #tw ed #anareksea #anareksia #not pro just using tags #only pro for me

[eglectic]

December 31 — Celebrating the Wins

Current weight: 193.2

What I ate today:

Cold brew

Big ass pan of veggies & shrimp; about 4.5 oz of macadamia nuts

Cold brew

2 baked ham & cheese sliders, 1 smoked wing, 1 banana muffin, 1 meatball

I wasn’t going to eat at the NYE party, but my friends cooked all this food and honestly when people put a lot of effort into preparing food I like to at least try it. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Actually I should have asked to take some home! I hate when I cook for people and no one even tries it. If it had been like store bought stuff I wouldn’t have eaten it.

Anywayyyy I’m not at my goal yet, but I’m staying committed until I reach it. And I want to celebrate some wins I got just from setting it! Also health related wins from this year.

I’m on average 10 pounds lighter than I was a year ago.

I spent a month weighing 185 consistently.

I proved to myself I can lose weight with or without exercise.

I got comfortable with hunger and became a lot more patient.

I got MORE committed and consistent as time went on.

I never gave up.

I learned to be kinder and more compassionate to myself. Biggest growth period for this was right after I got out of the hospital. I was looking in the mirror and bullying the shit out of myself about being broken, old, and defective. I was so cruel to me when all I needed was tenderness. I’m glad I learned to be gentler.

I prove to myself that I can survive in a new city, where I hardly know anyone, while sick, with little money and nowhere to go after the hospital.

I had to rely on the kindness of strangers and friends and actually found grace and help on the other side.

I was resourceful and had my own back even while walking around with a tube in my stomach for months.

I persisted in dealing with the mega-bureaucracy of the medical system and got surgery for myself even though I had to travel 90 miles each time I needed a test or procedure or had complications.

I took care of and celebrated my body even while under extreme physical stress and prolonged physical discomfort.

I actually took advantage of my health and physical abilities once I recovered from surgery and have been exercising, eating well, dancing, paddling, and hitting my bucket list items.

I quit smoking weed in pursuit of my weight loss goal and discovered so many rewarding byproducts.

I became soooo much more conscious of how my brain functions and I use it so much more effectively now.

I watched all the overeating masterclass videos and annotated them. I watched all the overeating workshop videos.

I got coached again and again about my relationship with food, my body, and overeating.

I changed my relationship with desserts.

I allowed soooo many urges to eat and overeat.

I learned that I can eat healthy even when I never cook or don’t have regular access to a kitchen.

I proved to myself that I can lose weight while on vacation/traveling (like when I went to Chicago). I don’t have to overeat even if I don’t know what will be served.

Ok that’s all I can think of for now! But it would be a fun exercise to try to come up with like a hundred things. I think if I did it for my other wins of the year I easily could. And now I will later this week in my personal journal! I’m talking fun wins like going on a jet ski for the first time, paddle boarding, kayaking in the keys, key west, etc. and also I will list relationship and financial/career wins.

Oh and here are some gym photos. I figured it’ll be nice to reference later as a checkpoint. By the way I pretty much never suck my stomach in in photos, so I thought I’d do relaxed but also with my stomach sucked in! Idk, why not lol

It’ll be interesting to me personally later. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anyway I’m SO excited for the year ahead! Thanks for being here! See ya in the next post!

#170 #me #fitness #fitness journey #weight loss #food journal #food diary #gym selfie #selfie #happy new year

[antigonewinchester]

sorry to bother and do not feel pressure to answer if you don't feel like it this is just something i’ve been thinking about, and i didn’t feel like going through all of post-s5 to try and satisfy my curiosity, but are there any instances where sam actually talks about how long he spent in the cage with lucifer? because i see people throwing around numbers a lot, from 200 years to thousands of years, and idk are there any moments where the amount of time sam spent getting tortured is actuallly talked about? or are people just extrapolating from what we've been told about hell+time in s4? what do you think🤔

Not a bother at all! :)

From what I can remember & from checking the Supernatural Wiki, Sam never got a specific number for his time in Hell like Dean did, so people have taken to guessing and extrapolating out how long he was trapped there.

Since we know the Cage was in Hell, I tend to use Dean’s time in Hell as a way of approximating how much time Sam spent there, too. In 4x10, Dean says his 4-ish months in Hell felt "like 40 years”, meaning 1 month on Earth is approximately 10 years in Hell. I actually did some calculations once to see if I could get a specific Time on Earth vs. Time in Hell ratio, and came up with this: If approximately 4 months (120 days) = 40 years (365 X 10 = 14,600 days) > 1 month (30 days/month) = 10 years (3,650 days/year) > then 1 day on Earth = approx 121.6 days in Hell. Based on when Dean died and was resurrected (May 2nd and Sept 18th, respectively), this accounting would technically mean he was there for more than 40 years, as if he’d been in Hell for 138 days, then 138 X 121.6 = 16,780.8 days / 365 days/year = 45.9 years.

Taking the 1 day = 121.66 days and looking at Sam’s time, he went to Hell (also!) on May 2nd, 2010, and then his soul was pulled out of Hell in early December, 2011. (I’m not sure on these exact years within the show, but it is implied that Dean spent a year with Lisa, met up with soulless!Sam after that year, and then timing of the plot approximately followed the timing of the show’s airing.) Let’s say December 2nd, 2011, is when Death pulled Sam’s soul out of Hell, just to keep it simple. That would makes Sam’s time in Hell 365 days + 215 days = 580 days. 580 X 121.6 = 70,528 days / 365 days/year = 193.2 years.

I suspect where people are getting the ‘Sam spent thousands of years in Hell’ idea is from 6x14, where Sam remembers his time in the Cage when he’s unconscious for 2 – 3 minutes and then tells Dean that this time felt like “about a week.” If 3 minutes = 1 week (or 10,080 minutes) > 1 min on Earth = 3,360 minutes in the Cage. 60 mins X 24 hrs = 1,440 mins / day on Earth > 1,440 X 3,360 = 4,838,400 mins per day in the Cage as 1 day on Earth. 580 days X 4,838,400 mins = 2,806,272,000 minutes / 60 mins/hr = 46,771,200 hrs / 24hrs/day = 1,948,800 days / 365 days/yr = 5,339.17 years in the Cage.

Now, I don’t think the writers were likely thinking of Sam or Dean’s times in Hell is this specific detail. Dean’s “40 years” in particular feels like it’s meant to evoke Biblical stories, like God telling Noah it would rain for 40 days & 40 nights during the flood, Moses being on Mount Sinai for 40 days & nights, or Jesus wandering the wilderness and rejecting Satan’s temptations over 40 days. Dean’s “40” being years is a way of further emphasizing the horror of Hell & his experiences there, as well as more metaphorically evoking the time dilation of trauma & traumatic events.

Imo, this kind of metaphorical read also applies to Sam's 3 minutes = 1 week in the Cage flashback. I do not think this was intended to line up with Sam's actual time in the Cage, as Sam isn’t physically going back to the Cage but only remembering his time there. This kind of time disparity again evokes traumatic events and how someone’s experience of time can be affected by both trauma and their remembering of it. It’s also another way the narrative can emphasize why getting rid of Sam’s wall would be a really really bad idea… which then makes Cas breaking Sam’s wall at the end of the season such an Oh Shit!! moment.

#asks #sam #dean #dean & hell #sam & hell #thank you for the ask! #also i really really hope i did my math right here lol #personally while it's fun to try to get specific numbers i don't think there's a 'real' answer here #and it's enough for me to know that sam spent A Long time in Hell and it was Bad; that's its importance w/in the story #also tbh 5000+ years just feel. kind of absurd. hard to take seriously as compared to 193 yrs you know?

[juswannabepretty]

updated wl progress:

weighed myself today in my pajamas and the scale said 193.2, i always add 5 pounds to the scale cuz theyre usually less accurate than hospital scales. but even with adding the 5 pounds im so happy to be under 200 again :) my anniversary is in a lil less than 2 weeks and i definitely think i can lose a minimum of 5 pounds, hoping for at least another 8 pounds gone tho. cuz i do have to eat a bit more on thanksgiving since im with family. wish me luck guys! good luck to you as well, stay safe and hydrated! also, completed my first ever 72 hour fast, how crazy 😩 i feel so strong

[highfunctioningmoron]

I have to remember it's okay to gain a little back

I ended my fast with a chicken salad. Total calories was 750. I only ate about half so I'm not sure how many calories I actually ate. I also ate about 200 cals worth of fires.

Yesterday afternoon I was 189.6 and this morning I was 193.2

I just ended my fast and drank a whole bottle of water.

It's okay to see a little weight gain. As long as you lose it soon.

#ana dairy #ana rant #annorexix #anorex14 #i want to be weightless #st4rv1ng #ana trigger #ed disorder #ed not ed sheeran #ana #ana and mia #an0r3c1a #anatumblr #ana shit #anablr #an4r3xia #i wanna be weightless

[abwwia]

RITA ACKERMANN, Mama Május, 2019

Oil, acrylic, pigment, pastel, and china marker on canvas: 187.8 x 193.2 x 4 cm / 73 7/8 x 76 1/8 x 1 5/8 in © Rita Ackermann | Photo: Andreas Zimmermann

#rita ackermann #art by women #art #palianshow

[pacdevil]

#i just think they're neat : D #193.2 #193.9 #shadow the hedgehog #knuckles the echidna #193 #193.meme

[terminusantequem]

Paul Bloodgood (American, 1960-2018), Reading, Waiting, Copying, 2010. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 193.2 x 234.2 cm

#paul bloodgood

[sailororbiter]

Monday, February 5, 2024

Weight: 193.2

Exercise: Treadmill, Arm Ergometer, and Recumbent Bike

The first measure is wrong. I was on for 30 minutes, but my tracker paused somehow. The second one is as right as it can be. The third one is wrong. I definitely could have gotten a more accurate read if I were to have put it on my ankle.

#me #mine #personal #weight #weight check #weight loss #exercise #health journey

[thinwishes-tinydreams]

193.2 (+.4)

sad. i skipped breakfast and lunch yesterday, ran 4 miles and had a good sized dinner. to be fair, the dinner was not healthy (mushroom risotto) and i had two drinks and a snack board (crostini, deli meats, cheeses and honey...) so i'm not surprised. i just couldn't wait to be out of the 90's. when i hit 189 i will feel better, for some reason. maybe i should be running longer than an hour... if only my foot wasn't constantly hurting...

#weight loss #thinspo #ana #anna #anamia #pro ana #pronana #ed #tw ed #anareksea #anareksia #not pro just using tags #only pro for me

[thenewsart]

Crypto miner CleanSpark mulls buying 160K Bitcoin miners by 2025

United States-based Bitcoin (BTC) miner CleanSpark Inc. has announced a strategic agreement that could see it purchase up to 160,000 miners by the end of 2024. According to CleanSpark’s Jan. 8 statement, the firm purchased 60,000 Bitmain S21 units at $16.10 per terahash for $193.2 million. Delivery is expected to take place between April and June 2024. The company may also exercise a strategic…

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[netbuzzafrica]

First National Bank to support Zambia’s capital markets

First National Bank (FNB) Zambia has participated as co-arranger of the recently issued International Finance Corporation (IFC) Second Zambezi Bond valued at ZMW 193.2 million. The bond was issued to support the development of the country’s domestic capital markets and increase access to local currency financing. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution…

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#First National Bank