I played it for just a couple of hours and I understood why you were saying that. It was either dance around like an idiot or make no progress. I didn’t like it and stopped playing it.

This is fucking hilariously evil and short-sighted.

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I’m still waiting for part two of the final season of stranger things.

That’s another thing I forgot about Netflix: all the shows cancelled without any decent conclusion or even a plan for one.

I know that’s common on TV too, but when a show fails they don’t usually continue advertising it.

I seem to be the rare person that notices that something has changed slowly and completely (ship of theseus or frog boil style) over time.

I’ve cancelled and renewed Netflix a couple of times over the last decade but it’s really a shadow of what it was at the start like you’re describing. Occasionally, they have a single show worth pirating or binging over the course of like a year.

Cable providers have unskippable ads on their own “on demand” platforms. I’m sure they track everything you do on their apps and their (often required for no technical reason) cable boxes. The only reason they didn’t participate more in surveillance capitalism is that they didn’t have the technical chops. They tried – and are still trying – their best to strangle broadband with needless data caps and anticompetitive agreements with alternative ISPs.

Cable companies were also rabidly anti-dvr as anyone who had a tivo can attest to. I’m glad you like your cable provider or whatever, but cable companies suck in the US.

No, cable was commercial-free when it first came out just like streaming was. They repeated the ota signals for the broadcast stations which of course contained commercials, but extremely similarly to streaming they started out with a quality and ad-free pitch for their own networks and then wound up pivoting to screwing over the customer any way possible.

(As they continue to do today, btw.)

Streaming just waited to roll out unskippable ads so they could win customers early on with an artificially, temporarily better service.

This is the exact same thing cable did when it came out.

Season 2 available yet?

I used this service in a rental for the first time in a few years. It sucks compared to other streaming services. I don’t even know what people are possibly watching on this thing.

One week the whole US news cycle was dominated by “Cheungus posted an AI pic of Trump on truth social”… I mean… I get that the presidency was at times considered dignified in the modern era so it’s something of a “vibe shift”, but the media has to have a better eye for bullshit than that. The indicators unfortunately are that it’s going to continue this slide as well because news rooms are conglomerating, slashing resources, and getting left in the dust by slanted podcasts and YouTube videos.

Some of it is their own fault. People watching the local news full of social media AI slop are behaving somewhat understandably by turning off the TV and going straight to the trough instead of watching live as the news becomes even more of a shitty reaction video.

Consultancy is where the dollars are at. You get big money to tell people to implement things that won’t work, and then your contract is up and you’re out of there before shit hits the fan.

Remember to tip your landlord (down a staircase)

Everyone gets a fixed allotment of pencils bro. Isn’t capitalism great bro?

Let’s not go that far. This person got something they deserved. Generally speaking, what someone deserves has little to do with what they get.

Look, the CEOs already have the fifth cheapest yacht chef available on their payroll, what are they supposed to do? Source the caviar themselves?

I don’t remember all of the differences, but I think you’re conflating copyright, patent, and trademark here. Software patents should almost not be a thing, but copyright and trademark should still exist.

I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck’s sake.

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Flush

It’s almost always playable