Yeah, they seem to all be forgetting the power of rampant copyright infringement, if people so choose. Love or hate it, there's no denying the strong possibility of it just happening spontaneously and then no one being able to do much about it.
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#192Turner Classic Movies streaming app is quietly full of win. Approx 100 curated sometimes thematic movie classics that change every few weeks, View it or lose it.
Unfortunately you need to have a cable subscription with TCM to use the TCM app. They have a fantastic catalog that I cannot pay them directly to watch. I have to pay Comcast first. Not cool. BTW cool angular animation on https://noiralley.tcm.com/?icid=espnav8-noir-alley
TCM is bundled or absorbed but not featured into HBOMax, which does offer direct subscription
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
When reducing copyright terms or eliminating copyright comes up, there’s always someone posting about how horrible it’ll be if the rate of creation of new media plummets, and I just cannot relate. I’m not even going to get through every video game that’s probably worth playing, that already exists, before I die, and that’s a fairly new medium. Music? TV? Film? Books? LOL. LMFAO. If all publishing magically entirely s…
FTL already exists, so there's not really any point making new video games anyway.
I love FTL, but.. are you playing it with mods or something? I get way more replayability out of Slay the Spire.
In particular, a lot of events in FTL have very binary outcomes (literal coin flip: gain a crew, or one of your crew dies), whereas events in STS feel like they have more strategic and tactical value.
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The thing for me is that the media companies that thought they could just launch their own streaming services and keep all the money for themselves completely devalued the engineering of Netflix. It was "FAANG" for a reason. Viscerally, Netflix doesn't feel like it belongs alongside Google, but it did, because it was good. How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech c…
Netflix's tech is unremarkable now, though it was impressive 10 years ago. The tech difference from a user's perspective between HBO, Disney, Hulu, and Netflix today is nil.
I think Netflix still has an edge on syncing progress across devices making it seamless to switch devices (ex iPad to apple tv) mid-show and just keep watching, although I haven’t tried the others for that recently.
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Isn't the issue there that some people basically just don't like soccer so they can't appreciate the differences? I would put myself in that camp - watching soccer just doesn't appeal to me that much, so it all kind of seems the same. But I can very much appreciate the differences to people that enjoy watching the sport, and I think this could be said about nearly any endeavor.
I think that soccer has a problem where the goalies are so effective that the game often comes down to attempting to shoot on the goal as many times as possible in the hope that eventually the goalie makes a mistake. Things are made worse by the fact that when the goalie gets the ball they generally throw it most of the way down the field; effectively resetting the state of the gameplay. As a result, any given segmen…
I dont have stats on hand but I promise you a relatively small proportion of goals are scored on keeper errors, even if you expand the category to "shouldn't be beaten from that angle" type stuff instead of an explicit error. I suspect you do not watch much soccer.
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Once you see a detective show, you basically seen 80% of all detective shows. That's why it seems that there can be nothing to watch, because 80% is basically a rehash, just with different characters and slightly different plots.
There was a show I watched every episode of, not because I particularly liked it but it starred one particular actor that I really wanted to watch. I'm rather embarrassed to admit this, but there it is.
Why embarrassing? I also do this on occasion. Sometimes I acknowledge the show isn't very good but I really like the actor or actress.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Once you see a detective show, you basically seen 80% of all detective shows. That's why it seems that there can be nothing to watch, because 80% is basically a rehash, just with different characters and slightly different plots.
Honestly detective fiction is perhaps the worst format you could give for your example, because the structure of the story allows you to essentially tell a different short story with different characters every time. Moody Twin Peaks has almost nothing in common with the goofball Psych (except the one tribute episode). Inspector Lewis plots are complex and intellectual, while Castle is fluffy and predictable. Recipes…
Agreed. Police fiction is a good format.
You can vary it by focusing on a realistic procedural, or the mystery, or ditch the mystery and just focus on characters. And police shows vary a lot by country; shows from the US, the UK or Norway will be wildly different.
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it discounts the entire parent post. BAMTech wasn't a shitty in-house development, it was a billion dollar buyout of the widely acclaimed MLB streamer.
Disney is also a huge tech company, and has been one for a while. They didn't buy a system for managing theme parks off the shelf.
Disney is a huge tech company in the same way Lockheed Martin is a huge tech company.
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#200I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I have very little sympathy for writers. The work today is on average horrible, derivative and opposite of inspired. I'm at the point where I'm almost ready for AI to take over. It's just that rare gem that hits now and then that gives me pause, but frankly, I can't remember the last time I watched a movie that actually moved me.
It's not that unpopular - I see it a lot on FB and Twitter. People really dislike modern media. Zoomers in particular watch and listen to a ton of older stuff.
With a few exceptions, movies are terribly written these days. A lot of people think the issue is "wokeness", but that's just part of it - everything is slapped together poorly. The quips, the one liners, the new archetypes, all pales to how fucking horrible dialog has become. Shoehorning in an Indian and a Chinese guy to appeal to those markets? Fuckit, add a talking dog.
Watch TV from the 90s and aughts. It's much funnier, dialog is tighter, there's subplots and overarching plots and character growth.
You know what is good? You know what doesn't have a writers room? Low-end YouTube channels, which have completely replaced TV for the actual working class. Watch TFL Truck - it's funny, human, they mess up a lot, and it's a good time. Then watch a Marvel shitfest. Repeat with streamers, with review channels, etc.