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Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by dang »

kentrado wrote: post #160
dang wrote: post #158

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Please don't turn HN threads into Nietzschean flamewars. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Nietzschean flamewars? Is that a thing or you just made that up?

I don't know if I made it up or you did, but invoking "slave morality" in a Hacker News argument was certainly a new one.

Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by b_tterc_p »

oeoeo00 wrote: post #152
b_tterc_p wrote: post #26

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Hmm I don’t think this is true. Most of netflix’s Content is story driven whereas never dying sitcoms were just kind of whatever. I’m sure people watched the sitcoms, some even on loop, but I doubt it was the luring factor. Maybe that’s just my personal misconception.

Anecdote; I’ve had family and friends cancel Netflix when their old favorites got pulled. People that are center of the road politically, and very nostalgia/tradition driven. It seems reasonable to me that type of person makes up a pretty large portion of the population (I grew up in the Midwest and feel that basically describes the region pretty well, accepting it’s just my gut sense.) Our brains like routine. That…

Forgetting any particular political whatever, it seems odd to define someone who favors tradition / nostalgia as anything but conservative. Although perhaps current conservatives have kind of co-opted the term to mean something very different.

The idea of preferring shows you have already seen is unthinkable to me.

Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by b_tterc_p »

dx87 wrote: post #46
ladberg wrote: post #31

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What content was too biased for you?

A lot of their stand up comedy specials are very political. You start to hear the crowd cheering a lot more than they're laughing. My wife and I watched the first episode of their new sitcom where Gabriel Iglesias is a teacher, and within the first couple of minutes it has a student saying that American history is just slavery and mistreating minorities, and the teacher makes a joke about our current president being…

I don’t think Rob Schneider is a particularly useful opinion to share. But the observation isn’t wrong. I’m definitely liberal, but a lot of liberal media content is pretty bland and annoying. Not Netflix, but the Twilight Zone remake suffered terribly from this. I’ve no doubt that there’s a ton of aggressively left comedians because... most stand up is bad?

That being said... I don’t really expect to watch even a majority of netflix’s catalog so idk if it matters if some low quality content exists.

Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by kentrado »

dang wrote: post #161
kentrado wrote: post #160

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Nietzschean flamewars? Is that a thing or you just made that up?

I don't know if I made it up or you did, but invoking "slave morality" in a Hacker News argument was certainly a new one.

So you didn't like that I made a reference to that?

Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by dang »

kentrado wrote: post #164
dang wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if I made it up or you did, but invoking "slave morality" in a Hacker News argument was certainly a new one.

So you didn't like that I made a reference to that?

I didn't like that you took a personal swipe in a Hacker News comment.

Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by kentrado »

dang wrote: post #165
kentrado wrote: post #164

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So you didn't like that I made a reference to that?

I didn't like that you took a personal swipe in a Hacker News comment.

That's not a personal swipe. There's a clear difference between attacking someone e.g. "you are a moron", and stating "it sounds to me like you are trying to get him to conform to slave morality". The first example attacks a person and the second example describes an action.

Re: Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by quelltext »

salemh wrote: post #62
quelltext wrote: post #57

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The Expanse has 3 seasons, a 4th coming. Not sure if Netflix has the rights to air those, though.

S4 of Expanse was actually picked up by Amazon, not Netflix.

Yeah, but Netflix didn't cancel the show or discontinue seasons, given that it's not a Netflix series. So the complaint is fine in the context of "Netflix is losing content I like" but not when it comes to Netflix's (mis)treatment of their own shows.
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