Some day, that man is going to wake out a fugue state and be VERY SURPRISED that he's a movie star.
We already know what his reaction will be:
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Some day, that man is going to wake out a fugue state and be VERY SURPRISED that he's a movie star.
I mean, you just answered that question yourself. As a longtime veteran of other similar online things like MMO or their expansion pack launches, there is no reasonable way to prepare for these sorts of load scenarios because it's not fiscally reasonable to hire 20-50x your normal max network capacity for a few hours of insane demand.Last episode of WandaVision dropped at midnight PST. And despite being up to watch it, I haven’t even been able to start the episode yet because the D+ servers are so slammed that the episode won’t even load.
Also amusing: We have never had live TV at home since our daughter has been born, so this has been a good education for her to understand "no, it used to be you could only watch things by being in front of the TV AT A CERTAIN TIME and you only got one episode a week and sometimes it was a rerun!"Yeah, I agree. Its not only better to absorb material, I feel like it makes so much sense in terms of marketing and branding. Cynical as that may sound, it won't be consumed and forgotten so quickly, which means more visibility. There are countless reasons to be BEAT level cynical/distrustful/fearful about Disney but it seems like they at least know how to keep people in mind of their carefully tended garden compared to Netflix's media dump approach.