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"i wish i could buy cable a la carte. buying each channel for $1 a month would be pretty cool. I only watch like 10 channels, so $10 a month instead of $250 would be awesome" *companies all offer channels for $5-20 a month* "no not like that" *cable companies going broke*
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Philthy posted:"i wish i could buy cable a la carte. buying each channel for $1 a month would be pretty cool. I only watch like 10 channels, so $10 a month instead of $250 would be awesome" People constantly bring this up, but the issue is that you aren't really buying the equivalent of channels. Pretty much all of these streaming services are trying to cater to everybody instead of focusing on a specific audience. Netflix has killed extremely popular shows because they didn't have enough international appeal.
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Feb 1, 2023 15:47
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Caesar Saladin posted:I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Gen Z have never pirated anything and don't actually know how. Last month, I taught one Gen Zr about usenet. There's still hope.
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Feb 1, 2023 15:56
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Me: well gently caress Netflix then, I don't watch that poo poo anyway Also me: poo poo, I'm going to have to entertain my kids myself now
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Feb 1, 2023 15:56
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teen witch posted:glad that streaming saw the errors of cable and went “no wait let’s make that poo poo even worse” Spaghett posted:But the best part of all is the feeling of power that I get when I turn off the TV in every one of their houses, simultaneously. It makes me feel like the god of TV and I'm unleashing my pent up fury on the over-consuming peasants.
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oh hey, im on s3 e4 of The Office, imma go watch it now oh, it's on peacock now for the next two weeks, then itll be on hulu for a month and 5 days and then itll be on
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Feb 1, 2023 16:12
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When this happens i'm just gonna switch it to the lowest paying tier for my mum because she only watches netflix on a Ipad and end up going back to pirating stuff and using plex for myself. kinda dumb from netflix not to just make it restricted to 3-4 devices. i really dont use it enough to justify my own account
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Feb 1, 2023 16:20
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Who can't afford their own Netflix account? It's one account what could it cost? $200 a month? It's just a netflix michael
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Dystopia Barbarian posted:gently caress Netflix and every other streaming service. Even HBO, which I love, took down Westworld. Back to piracy it is than, fuckers. Wow, they really did. I thought it was a joke. What next? Are they gonna take down The Wire? Rome? Westworld had the most amazing season 1 of nearly anything. It isn't worth watching after that, but it truly was an amazing first season (it turned really bad afterward, just pretend it didn't happen) and that first season should be kept around for posterity. Oh, and Netflix? They really are slowly disappearing up their own rear end. Their good content from elsewhere is long gone, and their exclusives have turned into complete garbo since they decided quantity > quality with as low budget as possible. I do recommend "La Casa de Papel" and "The Queen's Gambit" if you still have a subscription. Then let it expire. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Saoshyant posted:Wow, they really did. I thought it was a joke. What next? Are they gonna take down The Wire? Rome? Are you gonna argue with the raw business acumen of the man who put Honey Boo-Boo on TV?
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Saoshyant posted:Wow, they really did. I thought it was a joke. What next? Are they gonna take down The Wire? Rome?
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Feb 1, 2023 16:27
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A lot of people I know are switching from Netflix to my friend Nate's Plex server
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Feb 1, 2023 16:29
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Westworld season 1 doesn't excuse the existence of its subsequent seasons.
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kntfkr posted:Westworld season 1 doesn't excuse the existence of its subsequent seasons. Eh, who cares. I really liked that first season thought it ended on a pretty alright note and I was more or less sure that anything following it wouldn't turn out to be good, so I just didn't bother. fake edit: After season 1 just put on the movie and skip to where Yul Brynner is going on a rampage.
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Extra Large Marge posted:A lot of people I know are switching from Netflix to my friend Nate's Plex server That sounds like an enticing proposition. Please PM me the deets. Let's all watch Nate's picks.
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Feb 1, 2023 16:42
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Greetings fellow Plex Server aficionados I never quite forgave Netflix for loving over Bojack Horseman's last season coincidentally after all their animators unionized Actually, gently caress Netflix entirely for all the ways they weaseled out of giving animators their pay raises with their stupid "order 24 episodes for a season 2 but release them as 12 episode seasons 2 and 3 so they can get out of giving animators their season 3 pay raise"
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How do you even torrent these days why did I try to go legit and actually use streaming services why am I a fool
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Because Lars Olson will break down your door if you listen to this song
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I've been paying for Netflix since about 2014 and share with a few people who all use the service more than I do. The instant any of us have trouble logging in I'm going to cancel and we'll all just pirate poo poo instead. Good job Netflix this'll really drive up your subscribers by making your service a PITA to use.
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bagmonkey posted:How do you even torrent these days You get a VPN to keep cox off your anus with "accusations" that you're torrenting then install qbit or whatever torrent client and I'm too old to find new servers so I just go to piratebay still.. it has 98% of the stuff I look for.
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Nobody torrents any more unless if they're in a circlejerk invite only club.
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Wendigee posted:You get a VPN to keep cox off your anus with "accusations" that you're torrenting then install qbit or whatever torrent client and I'm too old to find new servers so I just go to piratebay still.. it has 98% of the stuff I look for. Careful which torrent client, some of the old popular ones are absolute trash now. I like qbittorrent, I think that's non-trash(?)
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Wendigee posted:You get a VPN to keep cox off your anus with "accusations" that you're torrenting then install qbit or whatever torrent client and I'm too old to find new servers so I just go to piratebay still.. it has 98% of the stuff I look for. Thanks OP which VPN is good for that? I am prolly gonna get that sorted out this week so I can continue my watch through of LAW AND ORDER SPORTS VEHICLE UTILITY
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Nordvpn for VPN client... Hunt around you can usually find a good introductory price with a coupon... Qbittorrent as someone mentioned above is the torrent client I use
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bagmonkey posted:How do you even torrent these days Usenet my dude
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Zil posted:Usenet my dude Yep, takes a little while to get set up but it's way better in the long run, especially for automatically grabbing episodes and such.
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I'm googling Usenet right now... It's been ages.. don't you need to pay for access to a list server? I assume you would also want a VPN
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Tristesse posted:I've been paying for Netflix since about 2014 and share with a few people who all use the service more than I do. The instant any of us have trouble logging in I'm going to cancel and we'll all just pirate poo poo instead. Good job Netflix this'll really drive up your subscribers by making your service a PITA to use. Literally the same use case for me. If they implement this, then the first moment poo poo stops working my subscription is done, and I bet we're not the only ones. The image is whatever, the but the sentiment is still very true:  Netflix literally has to compete with free, and they're doing a poo poo job of it. Pirating poo poo has never been easier. I can literally start downloading anything Netflix offers in glorious 4K in two minutes, slap it on my media server and start watching it on my TV through Plex. The more dumb bullshit you throw in my way and the more you raise my subscription price, the more you restrict my account, the less inclined I am to pay you for the convenience of getting things now instead of 5-20 minutes from now. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Zil posted:Usenet my dude Use WHAT????????????
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Thanks fam I will look into these things I appreciate you all more than I ever appreciated Netflix
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Wendigee posted:I'm googling Usenet right now... It's been ages.. don't you need to pay for access to a list server? Usenet news servers are paid but there's always big sales going on. I'm paying $48/year for mine. VPN access isn't as mandatory as torrents since you're not publicly announcing the  on your machine.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Usenet news servers are paid but there's always big sales going on. I'm paying $48/year for mine. I think my VPN is about to expire so it might be time to look into Usenet. Any suggestions on which server to use or are they mostly the same
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Nobody torrents any more unless if they're in a circlejerk invite only club. Dystopia Barbarian posted:Careful which torrent client, some of the old popular ones are absolute trash now. I like qbittorrent, I think that's non-trash(?) I torrent from a private tracker circle jerk club using qbittorrent and it works well. I used utorrent for years and then there was some sort of drama surrounding it (collecting data or something?), but I don't remember exactly.
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I use Astraweb for main stuff, and blocknews as a backup. If you're considering getting your feet wet I suggest visiting the Usenet thread in SHSC. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3409898
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I use Astraweb for main stuff, and blocknews as a backup. 
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