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Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I saw a dude say Cheesoid was the worst skit Mitchell and Webb ever did once.

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Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Presumably you buried them in a field

# ? Aug 17, 2017 07:06

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I covered him in cheese and lit a match.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 07:18

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

That's Numberwang!

# ? Aug 17, 2017 07:34

DivisionPost: Jun 28, 2006; Nobody likes you.
Everybody hates you.
You're gonna lose.

Smile, you fuck.

HENNIMOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!

# ? Aug 17, 2017 07:45

Wheat Loaf: Feb 13, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

I remember how the "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads kinda sorta backfired because David Mitchell was playing the PC and came off too sympathetically while Robert Webb played the Mac as a :smug:

tosser.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 09:00

Snak: Oct 10, 2005; I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.; Grimey Drawer

Wheat Loaf posted:

I remember how the "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads kinda sorta backfired because David Mitchell was playing the PC and came off too sympathetically while Robert Webb played the Mac as a tosser.

I never saw those, I only saw the original ones with Justin Long as the Mac and John Hodgman as the PC.

But even then, it felt like they were literal representatives, like Microsoft sent John Hodgman to represent them, and Apple chose Justin Long. The fact that we were supposed to unilaterally side with the smarmy douche of the obviously uncool, but practical, nerd pretty much galvanized me against Apple for a long time. I wish it hadn't, because if I had a macbook now, most of the poo poo I wanted to do would be way easier/.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 09:22

Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Yeah those ads put me off Apple for a real long time. Now I love them and have had MacBooks for forever but I admit I may switch when my current one breaks due to their great new penchant for taking away a bunch of ports I use literally every day

# ? Aug 17, 2017 10:09

Mu Zeta: Oct 17, 2002; Me crush ass to dust

Been a Mac user since 2002 but I bought a Thinkpad this year because the new keyboards are garbage. Also I thought John Hodgman was clearly the sympathetic one in the ads. Who the hell likes Justin Long.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 10:15

Niwrad: Jul 1, 2008

Ray Donovan got real dark and good this season so far. Is anyone still watching?

# ? Aug 17, 2017 10:48

Gonz: Dec 22, 2009; "Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

Niwrad posted:

Ray Donovan got real dark and good this season so far. Is anyone still watching?

I am!

They killed Abby. Those goddamn sons of bitches. gently caress.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 11:02

IRQ: Sep 9, 2001; SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

raditts posted:

CBS's site appears to have a Hulu login for their live stream page, so there's that.
https://www.cbs.com/live-tv/stream/tveverywhere/

Now that's an interesting thing to know. Thanks.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 13:47

Guy Mann: Mar 28, 2016; by Lowtax

bull3964 posted:

Amazon, head and shoulders, continues to be the best delivery platform for premium channels.

I subscribed to Starz though it for American Gods and was floored by the image quality.

I've used it with Showtime the past few weeks to catch up on twin peaks even though Verizon is giving me Showtime free right now because it's that much better looking.

Tonight, I decided to compare HBO through Amazon vs HBO Go since I'm subcribed through cable right now. Even though HBO Go has always been the best looking out of all of the premium streaming apps, there's still no contest. HBO through Amazon thoroughly stomps on HBO Go quality. Guess I'll be cancelling it with Verizon and doing Amazon here on out.

It's also a hell of a lot easier to cancel and re-add based on what's on.

You know, if CBS teamed up with Amazon to deliver all access as an Amazon channel, I would actually consider subscribing when Discovery is on.

I wish I could get all my channels this way. I hate watching cable now due to how muddy it looks.

Well Amazon does own and run most of the servers that everybody else uses for their streaming services, I wouldn't be surprised if they prioritize their own traffic.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 15:59

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

Guy Mann posted:

Well Amazon does own and run most of the servers that everybody else uses for their streaming services, I wouldn't be surprised if they prioritize their own traffic.

It's not a matter of traffic prioritization, they are clearly different encodes. It's even more apparent with Showtime as Showtime doesn't even have 5.1 audio streams on their platform apps whereas streaming through Amazon does.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 16:02

Shageletic: Jul 25, 2007

Arist posted:

That reminds me of the guy who posted in the iZombie thread that Seattle has like a dozen murders a year and how funny it was that a single season might cover every single murder in the city.

The real-life version of the "Devil in Hells Kitchen" probably being a guy complaining about a bar being too loud and a dozen cops showing up b/c they've got nothing else to do.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 16:22

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

You'll have to read this one when you get home, but xhamster is offering to produce a third season of Sense8.

https://xhamster.com/blog/posts/691955

# ? Aug 17, 2017 17:28

Snak: Oct 10, 2005; I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.; Grimey Drawer

Amazon is really great for shows. I find that their movies library is somewhat hit or miss. Some movies have fine resolution but are strangely much darker than they should be. There are also movies that are not actually available in HD, such as Tarsem Sing's The Cell, which is like a bad DVD rip.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 17:31

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Amazon's awesome except for the way they organize their shows.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 17:55

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

zoux posted:

You'll have to read this one when you get home, but xhamster is offering to produce a third season of Sense8.

https://xhamster.com/blog/posts/691955

Like most of the things porn sites post this is just a publicity stunt. I doubt that xHampster has the money that it would take to make another season of Sense8.

Funny stunt though.

asecondduck fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Aug 17, 2017

# ? Aug 17, 2017 17:57

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

Rhyno posted:

Amazon's awesome except for the way they organize their shows.

Yeah, the UI leaves much to be desired. I bypass it by using the web to add things to my watchlist. That simplifies things a lot.

I suspect that Amazon does h265 to any client that supports it (basically anything that is capable of streaming UHD) while the native solutions from the premium channels only do h264 since they don't want to manage compatibility on a device level. That would account for the quality difference.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 18:32

PriorMarcus: Oct 17, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT BEING ALLERGIC TO POSITIVITY

lelandjs posted:

Like most of the things porn sites post this is just a publicity stunt. I doubt that xHampster has the money that it would take to make another season of Sense8.

Funny stunt though.

They definitely do. They are the third largest porn site on the internet. They could easily afford a few million for sense8.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 18:39

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

lelandjs posted:

Like most of the things porn sites post this is just a publicity stunt. I doubt that xHampster has the money that it would take to make another season of Sense8.

Funny stunt though.

You really think the biggest porn sites in the world aren't making major dollar?

# ? Aug 17, 2017 18:40

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

PriorMarcus posted:

They definitely do. They are the third largest porn site on the internet. They could easily afford a few million for sense8.

I'm pretty sure that Sense8 cost somewhere around 10 mil per episode.

Rarity posted:

You really think the biggest porn sites in the world aren't making major dollar?

Not enough to gamble 80 million on a gambit that, at most, would get press coverage and maybe $10000 of ad revenue.

poo poo Yahoo! couldn't make Community profitable, and I'd wager that more people watched season 6 than would ever watch season 3 of Sense8.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 19:36

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Yeah but Yahoo has always been a clusterfuck of terrible.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 19:36

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

I mean, as someone that wishes almost everyday for a second season of The Middleman or Clone High, I understand being excited at the prospect of a beloved cancelled show getting another chance, no matter how unlikely it seems. But porn websites have a habit of doing silly publicity stunts to try and steal traffic from one another, and even when it's things that are actually feasible they don't actually happen (link SFW).

asecondduck fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 17, 2017

# ? Aug 17, 2017 20:00

WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

This is an incredibly weird stunt for them to pull if they're not actually planning anything, though.

# ? Aug 17, 2017 20:06

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:

This is an incredibly weird stunt for them to pull if they're not actually planning anything, though.

It's not weird if you look at it this way. Were you talking about Xhamster on SA yesterday?

# ? Aug 17, 2017 20:12

Mu Zeta: Oct 17, 2002; Me crush ass to dust

Here's Jaime Lannister squatting while Lin Manuel Miranda sits on his shoulders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNmPznRYMjs

# ? Aug 17, 2017 21:58

Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Croatoan posted:

It's not weird if you look at it this way. Were you talking about Xhamster on SA yesterday?

Surely they could pick something bigger than Sense8 if it was a publicity stunt though

# ? Aug 17, 2017 23:39

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Oh, this bodes well for Inhumans:

Dark Horizons posted:

There have been complaints that ABC�s �Marvel�s Inhumans� series looks cheap. Turns out there�s a reason for that.

Roel Reine (�Death Race 2,� �Hard Target 2�), who directed the first two episodes of the series which will premiere in IMAX in two weeks, spoke with CNET about his involvement and says a big reason he was hired was he could do the work quickly and cheaply:

�I think they liked me for the job because I was able with my action movies to shoot in a very short time, or with very low budgets, action that looks like a big-budget movie. The schedule was super-tight. I had TV schedule time to shoot it with IMAX cameras, 20 days to shoot two episodes. It�s nerve-wracking but I come from a low-budget film world, so 20 days for me is luxury.�

Reine also says Marvel was strict about continuity and had an executive on hand at all times to keep an eye on things:

�There was always a Marvel executive around me, just to make sure that whatever I did, or whatever we did together, would tie in with other characters in other universes, in other comics, in other series or movies. They�re very protective. These people are very passionate about their product and about characters and about doing the best version of everything.�

# ? Aug 17, 2017 23:52

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Escobarbarian posted:

Surely they could pick something bigger than Sense8 if it was a publicity stunt though

Sense8 has a lot of sex scenes, is I think as far as this logic goes.

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:00

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

I'm not surprised. Agents of Shield got a huge budget cut for the new season so I'm wondering how lovely that is going to look now.

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:01

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Presented with the comment "holy loving poo poo":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5dMYx2no

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:09

Guy Mann: Mar 28, 2016; by Lowtax

lelandjs posted:

I'm pretty sure that Sense8 cost somewhere around 10 mil per episode.

Not enough to gamble 80 million on a gambit that, at most, would get press coverage and maybe $10000 of ad revenue.

poo poo Yahoo! couldn't make Community profitable, and I'd wager that more people watched season 6 than would ever watch season 3 of Sense8.

Sense8 was so expensive in large part due to the huge international production, you could probably make it for a lot cheaper if you stuck to interiors and greenscreens instead of flying everyone all over the world to show off your Netflix budget.

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:15

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

Based on rips, it seems like Showtime might be the only stream that surpasses Amazon in terms of bitrate/quality.

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:34

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

precision posted:

Presented with the comment "holy loving poo poo":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5dMYx2no

Soviet Russia is a lot more British than I remember.

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:34

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Lurdiak posted:

Soviet Russia is a lot more British than I remember.

It's the guy who did In The Loop and VEEP. :thejoke:

# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:50

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

Josh Lyman posted:

Based on rips, it seems like Showtime might be the only stream that surpasses Amazon in terms of bitrate/quality.

Not to my eyes, not even close. Showtime had always been bottom tier in streaming quality with their apps behind Starz and HBO.

The rips are likely recodings directly off the c band distribution satellites, before the cable companies have a chance to gently caress with them.

# ? Aug 18, 2017 01:02