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I pay $15/mo for a Plex share in lieu of paying $15/mo for 6-10 independent services that are all gonna put ads in within the year We went from cable to piracy to legal streaming to pirate streams because the streaming companies are just disaggregated cable now
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I'll do the "I'm paying for X streaming service so I can watch Y show/movie but because the interface is hot garbage I pirate it and don't feel guilty.
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Jun 19, 2022 21:23
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none of the "free with ads" sites have bad ads though. it's always just a couple short car insurance ads or whatever. not like youtube giving you literally 5 minutes of ads every 2 minutes of content lmao
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Medullah posted:I'll do the "I'm paying for X streaming service so I can watch Y show/movie but because the interface is hot garbage I pirate it and don't feel guilty. The appletv experience.
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i think someone else said this before, but YouTube is actually a good place to buy movies that you want to be able to watch anytime hassle free. they're usually cheaper than Amazon and the interface to watch your poo poo is super fast, unlike Amazon
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Jun 19, 2022 22:01
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precision posted:none of the "free with ads" sites have bad ads though. it's always just a couple short car insurance ads or whatever. I read once that YouTube technically doesn’t have a limit on ad length as long as there’s a skip button Fall asleep to Techmoan and you’ll get an hour and a half NFT ad drilled into your brain
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I had something go wrong with different ad blocking and facebook tracker blocking add-ons in firefox a while ago and somehow it broke only youtube ad blocking and the "skip ad" button on youtube. I learned fast that there are 90+ minute ads all over the place on there.
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precision posted:i think someone else said this before, but YouTube is actually a good place to buy movies that you want to be able to watch anytime hassle free. they're usually cheaper than Amazon and the interface to watch your poo poo is super fast, unlike Amazon It really is. And you can play it on whatever device you own that has YouTube with zero hassle. I have a small library going and it's great.
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Don't forget Kanopy. It's free but you have to get it through a public library system or educational institution. If you have a .EDU email address, try signing up, otherwise go through your library. It has a ton of stuff. It has things from Criterion and A24 just to give you an idea. edit: I forgot some words because I can't type. Jose Oquendo fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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precision posted:yo, Magic Trip is free on youtube. it's super good if you didn't catch it when it came out This was really good, yea
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Jose Oquendo posted:Don't forget Kanopy. It's free but you have to get through a public library system or educational institution. If you have a .EDU email address, try signing up, otherwise go through your library. Came here to say this, Kanopy rules. Limit of 4 watches per month at my library, but still great.
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I like the ads on Tubi because instead of being structured to happen during scene changes (like Hulu or live TV) they will just straight up play an ad in the middle of a sentence
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RRR goes straight Triumph of the Will at the end, huh. movie whips but holy poo poo.
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yeah it's propaganda as gently caress for most of its runtime but goes all out in the final song Like Wolf Warrior tho I'm willing to take a certain amount of nationalism if it's in the name of overcoming white devils and/or kicking the poo poo out of British soldiers I loved how absolutely anime villain ridiculous so many of the white characters in RRR are (except Jenny who manages to completely avoid any culpability in child kidnapping)...like, the scenery chewing Governor (who filled almost every room of his castle with TNT, very smart) being a ridiculously skilled marksman, or his cartoonishly evil child-stealing sadist wife who carries her own extra-mutilating torture whip 
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Punkin Spunkin posted:yeah it's propaganda as gently caress for most of its runtime but goes all out in the final song the villain jump-scouting and landing on his knees out his loving flipping car had me pumping my fists.
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Wolfsheim posted:I like the ads on Tubi because instead of being structured to happen during scene changes (like Hulu or live TV) they will just straight up play an ad in the middle of a sentence It was hilarious to watch Martyrs on Tubi since it would go from gruesome disturbing scenes to "are you having a McDonald's day?".
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Also it shouldn't be underestimated just how convenient pirate stream sites have become by now. It used to be that pirating was a fairly complex undertaking with dead links, risk of viruses, and so on, but nowadays it's dead easy. At this point they literally have better user interface than loving Prime. 
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Mrs.Marvel is a well produced teen show that seems like there is some sort of campaign against it online because of course there is
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It has a female Muslim lead actress of course people are going to be losing their poo poo
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Perestroika posted:Also it shouldn't be underestimated just how convenient pirate stream sites have become by now. It used to be that pirating was a fairly complex undertaking with dead links, risk of viruses, and so on, but nowadays it's dead easy. At this point they literally have better user interface than loving Prime. 
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Upsidads posted:Mrs.Marvel is a well produced teen show that seems like there is some sort of campaign against it online because of course there is It is good and we enjoy it a lot. But yeah as soon as I saw it was a female Muslim lead I just knew the internet would lose their poo poo.
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I do miss the comic book body horror powers but her family supporting cast is the real star of the show and the principal who isn't played as a joke
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Oh snap I thought it was still a lovely wasteland, I'm still just pirating in the old ways. I need to get on these, just too old to find em "naturally" anymore. Stremio.
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Thanks for whoever recommended Love, Death + Robots. It’s got some really cool episodes.
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Field Mousepad posted:It has a female Muslim lead actress of course people are going to be losing their poo poo It's also eating poo poo in the ratings. I think it's the best Disney+ Marvel show by a wide margin.
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I'm pretty ambivalent about Ms. Marvel after the first two episodes. Everything about it is just Fine in my opinion, like a lot of other Disney + shows, and I don't feel like the target audience for it at all (understandably). So I don't think I'll continue watching, but I know enough about the character now to enjoy her whenever she pops up in the future. So far, here are my Disney+ MCU show rankings: - Shockingly excellent: Hawkeye - Pretty interesting: WandaVision - Didn't regret watching: Loki, What If...?, Ms. Marvel - Didn't bother: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Moon Knight
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I think Loki is the best show they've done by a wide margin. I don't know if they had a bigger budget or what but that show was awesome
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I think part of it is just that Hiddleston is a better actor and it's more charismatic than most of their leads, and ditto for the supporting cast.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think part of it is just that Hiddleston is a better actor and it's more charismatic than most of their leads, and ditto for the supporting cast. Oscar Isaac is incredibly charismatic but moon knight still sucked
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Yeah I was super excited for Moon Knight but it just kind of fell flat
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That's true, but also moon knight is an incredibly low rung hero, even for the marvel television shows and Egypt stuff isn't really having a moment now like it was in *checks notes* the 1990s or 1920s.
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I liked Moon Knight enough, my favorite parts were the action scenes with missing time, but they billed it as a limited series, but in the end, it wasn't. The story wasn't resolved, in the slightest, in part because they're clearly planning on doing more with the character. They held their punches. And it was a bit strange to have a series about Egyptian gods, to have a Thor 4 coming out a few months later where the villain is called Gorr the God Butcher, and not have the stories tie in with each other at all. So far, Wandavision, Loki, and Hawkeye were the best MCU shows so far. Falcon and the Winter Soldier fell flat because they gutted the core story about a global pandemic after they finished filming the series because they thought it was smart given that we were going through a global pandemic at the time.
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Baron von Eevl posted:That's true, but also moon knight is an incredibly low rung hero, even for the marvel television shows and Egypt stuff isn't really having a moment now like it was in *checks notes* the 1990s or 1920s. Moon Knight's fundamental problem was that the show was dealing with too large of a scale of a problem. It absolutely should have not been about trying to save the world. I was incredibly bored by the two giant CGI gods duking it out. It also had an incredibly lazy ending where the plot was resolved by two Deus Ex Machinas in a row..
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I don't get the whining about ads. Like, isn't the point of being in business to make money? Sure, gently caress capitalism and gently caress CEOs who make a dollar while the rank and file make a dime, but are these companies just supposed to provide poo poo for free?
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Timby posted:I don't get the whining about ads. People are mad about bad ads, as noted Freevee and Tubi have a bad habit of just slamming them into the middle of scenes. Also ad creep. HBO Max and Netflix are going to start lower ad-filled levels and almost certainly raise the price of the ad-free service shortly afterward. Disney won't let you get a bundle with Hulu without ads so it's a double tax on getting it ad-free if you'd like to have Disney+. Amazon Prime had a bunch of TV included in the membership. Now as a "feature" a bunch of it is on helpfully on Freevee, because they realized a lot of people have Amazon Prime for other stuff so they can cut TV/Movies without much drama. All the people who liked watching Bosch on Amazon Prime now have to watch ads cause it's on Freevee. I guess it's cool that the one person without Amazon prime who started fresh with Bosch: Legacy gets to see it for free, but it's bad for everybody else  .
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Ads suck, it's why I like streaming
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Timby posted:I don't get the whining about ads. I stopped watching PlutoTV because it was just nonstop ads for the raunchiest, nastiest right winger poo poo with actors in scrubs telling me healthcare makes kids gay. I was fine with it as an ad supported service until that became the norm.
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Timby posted:I don't get the whining about ads. I pay Paramount to remind me they have some cringey show I will never watch (or continue to watch) before every episode of some other show I actually enjoy. But It's mostly just the way ads are made. They're either really heavy handed with people loading guns loudly to the rhythm of Adigo in D Minor or Lux Aeterna or some insanely chirpy pharmaceutical/hard-seltzer ad with twee music and a bunch of people running around looking happy. It takes you out of the experience. If you're getting the service for free that's to be expected. But paying for a service and having to watch anything but your selection feels invasive. Having a mute button on your keyboard is fine for sound. But it seems advertisers have caught on to this and typically half the ads I see should have an epilepsy warning or something before they show. And using TV to forget your drinking problem only to be visually assaulted by rotgut advertising. It can get disgusting. NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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has anyone been able to stomach an episode of irma vep yet. I tried
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Seeing ads makes me feel like a drat sucker. I might put up with Amazon's dumbass preroll ads or the occasional full color loudmouth during a 3am viewing of Perry Mason, but they all make me feel like poo poo.
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