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IRQ posted:From chim-pan-A to chim-pan-Z no you'll never make a monkey out of me
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Ravane posted:I'm interested in piracy, but I'm not really into buying books. Well I have good news if you have an e-reader!
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Mar 18, 2016 19:14
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IRQ posted:Well I have good news if you have an e-reader! Or a smartphone even, there's a million apps that can open files for you and even iBooks and Kindle will open .epubs or .mobi files that you haven't bought from them. [Edit: and even though I have an interest and have participated in piracy (oh sure BBC America I'll wait a couple hours to watch your chopped up versions of a show I can't talk about in this thread) I actually did buy "How Music Got Free" and you should too  ][Edit edit: oh right, this is Couch Chat. I really like Playstation VUE and have signed up for the middle tier plan (that new Sundance channel show with Omar and Christina Hendricks looks good, plus Documentary Now! is coming back soon). $35 a month for a service that includes pretty much every cable channel I care about that can record anything and everything and be watched on my phone is totally reasonable--Comcast wanted $55 a month when all was said and done for a similar service (with less channels even). gently caress that and gently caress Comcast.] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Mar 18, 2016 19:22
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Sober posted:Within hours? Try having the episodes available like minutes after the first broadcast finishes. Yeah I download hour long dramas that air at 9pm at 10:02pm. Literally as soon as they finish airing they're uploaded. Scene members must have multiple cable boxes, real time H624 compression, and university network upload speeds. It's pretty impressive.
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Mar 18, 2016 19:45
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There is this one group in "the scene" that used to release incredibly high quality rips of Hannibal and Mad Men. The Mad Men episodes were like 30 gigs. I don't know how they got their hands on it because there were no ads or AMC logos or anything, and this was when the episodes just aired on TV.
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Mar 18, 2016 19:47
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lelandjs posted:There's rumors that Paramount put The Little Prince on TPB and then when almost no one pirated it they took it to mean Americans didn't care about the film and dropped the domestic distribution rights This is really stupid even by the standards of media piracy false flag bullshit. Little Prince was just released outside of the US months in advance of its US release so the movie has had plenty of time to circulate in advance. If there was any merit to the idea that studios are intentionally putting media on piracy sites we would have found proof by now in one of the big hacks/leaks.
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Mar 18, 2016 19:53
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Trip report: Daredevil Season 2 is every bit as good as Season 1, there will definitely be a Punisher series on Netflix one day and Elodie Yung is crazy hot.
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Mar 18, 2016 19:55
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I seem to remember watching early 24 a day before it even aired in the states. I think the pirates intercepted the episode as it was beamed out to individual stations or something? Or maybe that was a dream, I dunno.
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Mar 18, 2016 19:57
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Rarity posted:Trip report: Daredevil Season 2 is every bit as good as Season 1, there will definitely be a Punisher series on Netflix one day and Elodie Yung is crazy hot. Do you people sleep?
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Mar 18, 2016 20:04
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bring back old gbs posted:Yeah I download hour long dramas that air at 9pm at 10:02pm. Literally as soon as they finish airing they're uploaded. Scene members must have multiple cable boxes, real time H624 compression, and university network upload speeds. It's pretty impressive. Also 265 encoding is a thing now and dramatically cuts down on episode sizes which in turn cuts download times, which was like the only downside of pirating if you wanted to download an episode that literally just aired but had to get it off a handful of seeds and compete with thousands of other downloaders. Now an hour long episode in 720p is like 200-250MB. Being on the west coast makes it even crazier, I can finish downloading some shows before they even air. TV piracy is kind of nuts.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:06
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IRQ posted:Do you people sleep? I slept early yesterday and watched the first four last night before coming in to work, I think they were better than almost all of last season. My plan is to get off work a little early today. Go home and sleep and wake up late to watch another four or so. Maybe I'll finish it by Sunday.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:08
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IRQ posted:Do you people sleep? I live in the UK, it started at 7am here. I'm just pausing to cook dinner before I hit the final episode 
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Mar 18, 2016 20:09
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I got less than two hours of sleep last night and I'm just about to finish the last episode Worth it imo
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Mar 18, 2016 20:11
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I'm with X-O in that I've only seen up to episode 4 but that string of eps alone was miles better than season 1. Hugely excited to finish.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:12
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How much ninja action is there?
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Mar 18, 2016 20:15
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Mu Zeta posted:How much ninja action is there? A loving shitload
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Mu Zeta posted:How much ninja action is there? A surfeit of ninjas
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Isn't the ninja poo poo what Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles makes fun of with The Foot? I don't like the actor playing Punisher and ninjas are too 90s for me. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Mar 18, 2016 20:18
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't the ninja poo poo what Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles makes fun of with The Foot?
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Mar 18, 2016 20:20
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Did they make the suit any better than it was in the final ep of last season?
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Mar 18, 2016 20:22
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Rarity posted:I live in the UK, it started at 7am here. I'm just pausing to cook dinner before I hit the final episode Yeah I know your excuse. And you get to work from home. The rest of you are nuts though.
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Mar 18, 2016 20:24
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't the ninja poo poo what Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles makes fun of with The Foot? Yup. Mutated by the same ooze that took Murdock's sight, fight the Foot instead of the Hand, trained by Splinter instead of Stick...
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Toxxupation posted:no you'll never make a monkey out of me Oh my God! I was wrong! It was Occ, all along!
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VDay posted:Also 265 encoding is a thing now and dramatically cuts down on episode sizes which in turn cuts download times, which was like the only downside of pirating if you wanted to download an episode that literally just aired but had to get it off a handful of seeds and compete with thousands of other downloaders. Now an hour long episode in 720p is like 200-250MB. Being on the west coast makes it even crazier, I can finish downloading some shows before they even air. TV piracy is kind of nuts. There is really a lot missing that studios either don't release as home media anymore or aren't available even on demand, especially those caught in the transition. The only other problem is piracy is also directly related to the popularity of a show, so at times it's kinda worthless unless you actually have someone going to the actual effort (instead of passively, as pirates are doing) of archiving stuff that even the studios don't give two shits about, because let's be honest how many people are gonna be pirating MTV's Hard Candy 5 years from now? Even some shows the scene just for one reason or another just drop midway through, I've seen that happen with some smaller foreign/Canadian stuff. But at least since VoD and streaming has gotten more robust in the years I guess a home release for shows with piddly ratings or being mothballed forever are no longer necessary as you can effectively sell whatever rights to rebroadcast it or the option to buy the digital formats these days.
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't like the actor playing Punisher Is this even allowed?
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I caught about two minutes of some DC superhero show my brother was watching (I think it was Supergirl), and it confirmed the reasons for my apprehension to watch any superhero TV show: the dialog. Is there a way that writers can write villain dialog without pulling directly from the Joss Whedon School of Snark? The scene was some blue girl warps in and sees two people making out and vomits up this great line: "I would kill you, but your planet is going to burn up in three days anyway. Uuuuuuuggggh I can't believe I'm in the same world as Candy Crush!  "I already had this impression that superhero shows would feature bad acting, a much lower budget (particularly SFX) than they needed for the scope of a superhero who saves the world, and "witty" dialog. Joss Whedon-esque dialog, where every character shares the same voice (smug sarcastic banter) is the reason I didn't like Firefly, Buffy, or most of the dialog in The Avengers. Is all the dialog in Supergirl, The Flash, Agents of SHIELD, and Legends of Tomorrow like this?
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Mar 18, 2016 21:27
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X-O posted:I slept early yesterday and watched the first four last night before coming in to work, I think they were better than almost all of last season. My plan is to get off work a little early today. Go home and sleep and wake up late to watch another four or so. Maybe I'll finish it by Sunday. I'm currently on ep 1, it's incredible. I won't lie, I liked last season a bit more simply because he was barely surviving some of these fights. But then again, I'm still only on ep 1.
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BJPaskoff posted:I caught about two minutes of some DC superhero show my brother was watching (I think it was Supergirl), and it confirmed the reasons for my apprehension to watch any superhero TV show: the dialog. Is there a way that writers can write villain dialog without pulling directly from the Joss Whedon School of Snark? The scene was some blue girl warps in and sees two people making out and vomits up this great line: "I would kill you, but your planet is going to burn up in three days anyway. All the DC shows have terrible dialogue except for iZombie, where the dialogue is pretty great. Agents of SHIELD has much better dialogue than the other DC shows but it's still kind of got that Whedon snark at times, but not nearly as overbearing.
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IRQ posted:Yeah I know your excuse. And you get to work from home. The rest of you are nuts though. Dude I haven't worked from home in 2 years. I just booked off today as holiday  BJPaskoff posted:I already had this impression that superhero shows would feature bad acting, a much lower budget (particularly SFX) than they needed for the scope of a superhero who saves the world, and "witty" dialog. Joss Whedon-esque dialog, where every character shares the same voice (smug sarcastic banter) is the reason I didn't like Firefly, Buffy, or most of the dialog in The Avengers. Is all the dialog in Supergirl, The Flash, Agents of SHIELD, and Legends of Tomorrow like this? Try the Netflix Marvel shows, they are nothing like that. Rarity fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Mar 18, 2016 21:33
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X-O posted:All the DC shows have terrible dialogue except for iZombie, where the dialogue is pretty great. Agents of SHIELD has much better dialogue than the other DC shows but it's still kind of got that Whedon snark at times, but not nearly as overbearing. Heh, I was almost going to write "I'm watching and enjoying iZombie right now and the dialog is sometimes snarky, but not bad". I'm guessing the reason that Agents of SHIELD is snarky but better than the DC shows is that Whedon has either gotten over the crutch of writing every character with his voice that he used in his earlier work (like I said, The Avengers wasn't terrible and it was a later project) or he has other writers. And the DC writing is terrible because it's trying to emulate Whedon, and of course a bad Whedon sounds like early Whedon. Rarity posted:Try the Netflix Marvel shows, they are nothing like that. Daredevil wasn't bad. I can't say I'm as excited as everyone else to watch season 2, but I'm going to watch it. The problems I had with Jessica Jones had nothing to do with the dialog. LifeLynx fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Mar 18, 2016 21:37
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BJPaskoff posted:Heh, I was almost going to write "I'm watching and enjoying iZombie right now and the dialog is sometimes snarky, but not bad". I'm guessing the reason that Agents of SHIELD is snarky but better than the DC shows is that Whedon has either gotten over the crutch of writing every character with his voice that he used in his earlier work (like I said, The Avengers wasn't terrible and it was a later project) or he has other writers. And the DC writing is terrible because it's trying to emulate Whedon, and of course a bad Whedon sounds like early Whedon. Joss Whedon has nothing to do with Agents of SHIELD, it's his brother and sister-in-law that run the show.
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I've only seen the first 4-5 episodes (the first arc, I suppose), but as a whole in terms of writing and direction it was much stronger than the beginning of season 1 for sure. That whole graveyard scene was loving GOOD.
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Rarity posted:Try the Netflix Marvel shows, they are nothing like that. Nah, Jessica Jones is absolutely like that.
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iZombie's dialogue is just like the others, it's just the Thomas school instead of what you're calling the Whedon one.Sleeveless posted:Did they make the suit any better than it was in the final ep of last season? Hard to say, you can't actually see anything in this show. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Escobarbarian posted:I'm with X-O in that I've only seen up to episode 4 but that string of eps alone was miles better than season 1. Hugely excited to finish. Just starting episode 4 here. That episode 3 fight, holy poo poo, I was kind of expecting a Batman hit counter to appear in the corner.
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Aphrodite posted:Hard to say, you can't actually see anything in this show. Yeah, but you can hear it really really well. Like REALLY well.
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Ravane posted:You know that's right. psych is good i recommend the spelling bee episode which iirc is 1x02
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Aphrodite posted:Hard to say, you can't actually see anything in this show. Might try fixing your TV. I didn't have a problem with the episodes I watched.
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Sober posted:It's sort of a necessary evil. I really doubt things like Netflix or other VOD services would've evolved as much if it weren't for piracy. Same for computer games and Steam/Origin/GoG/etc. 
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