Recent content by Angel Ariel

I don't believe anything in what I wrote advocated for throwing the baby out with the bath water. 🤷‍♀️. But as someone deeply involved in education work, I am seeing in real time how skills are diminishing in younger students. It's not from AI - the lack of phonics instruction for decades is...

It will only be a tool as long as we continue to value and teach the fundamental skills necessary to do the work without AI as well. Unfortunately I see this as easy to abuse, where it can easily *replace* learning and skills rather than augment them.

I visit regularly because it is one of the few places that my child with disabilities can go and experience pretty much everything as all children do, and she can just be a kid. It is a week of respite from constant therapies and doctor appts that allows us all to relax. We've changed how we...

That's one valid way to look at the math. Now, from a guest perspective - using your numbers above. In July 2005, I could experience 1 or 3 hours of EMH time depending on the day (morning EMH, evening EMH), no matter what resort I was staying at. In July 2025, if I'm staying Deluxe, I can...

My apologies, I thought the statement "A win in my book" was talking about a win from a guest perspective. Of course removing the old school EMH is a win in Disney's book. When I can now book a 3 bedroom vacation townhome with a private pool for a week for half the cost of staying at a...

Once upon a time, EMH was an extra hour in the morning AND an extra 2-3 hours at night. I miss those nighttime EMH, especially when the park didn't close til midnight. Being in the park til 2am (back before kids) was really fun. Having to pay for after hours nights, or stay in a deluxe hotel to...

I preface this by saying I'm not a pixie duster - there's a lot of decisions the company is making that I don't like, and I do agree that what we get for what we pay has gone down a lot over the years. That said, yes, to an extent I do feel this way still, primarily because of Disney's...

BWI was similar as a SW hub, but this year especially we really noticed the cutback in nonstop flights available to MCO and the price hikes.

As an adult I don't either. The glasses are too big for my child's head. They don't sit the way they should, which bothers her sensory-wise, so she won't keep them on. When she was younger she also needed sensory headphones and the 3D glasses would not sit correctly under OR over the sensory...

We've had accessibility concerns with 3D attractions for years. I've emailed guest services in previous years asking them to use/make glasses that actually worked to fit over regular glasses (much like fit over sunglasses), because our child just can't use the 3D glasses as they are now. DH and...

This is very similar to our experience at rise in the same time period, so we may have been in the same line. The first CM who came out and told us it would be a short delay said to a bunch of us that they "really mean it" when they say take off hats and such, because the delay was caused by a...

I was relating my experience for myself.

I made no comments about how anyone else should or should not feel. I simply spoke for myself.

This is really what I'm getting at - even with current standards, the costume - for me - IS doing the thematic lifting. I've not ever seen anything in cosmetics/jewlery/tattoos that has detracted from it.

The point I was making was that nothing I saw detracted from theming in any way. (Previous posts had mentioned even current standards have done so). I agree that their costuming matters, but to me the clothing makes that moreso than hair. Entertainment CMs are different, imo, as you see...