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This is honestly why I’m an AI hater. We don’t need more stuff faster, that’s the last thing we need. The more I think on it the more I realize that all the art, media, even technology that I’ve really cherished and thought deeply about in my life had some kind of social connection; friends, family members, shared experiences.
I am now surrounded on all sides by water and I have nothing to drink.
I have endless unwatched DIY, travel, Investment etc utube vids and 10,000 books in my Calibre library, now that I’m retired my problem is a lack of time to watch anything (i retired at 40 and am now 61). I haven’t turned the TV on for about 7 months.
retired at 40 and am now 61
Oh dang, a billionaire in our midst.
40000 channels and only 150 of them have anything good on.
Several generations of people grew up watching a dozen TV shows and a few movies … generations before that just read books … and endless generations before that just talked to each other retelling stories to one another … I think we can exist by just watching less.
I’ve got several subscriptions on the go right now and the more I think about it, the more I realize, I don’t need all this junk and if there is something I really want to watch for some reason … I’ll go sail the high seas and get it myself.
that really is the waym it’s a better user experience.
Needle meet haystack. The worst thing is that they all are requiring commercials even if you paid for not having them.
kind of your fault for going corpo. it’s not even easier. every artist I know tells me to pirate. there is literally no good reason to pay corpos for art.
We just type the name of what we want to see, wait a minute and then watch it. Done.
Why would we want “hundreds of streaming services” only to not know what to watch 🤷🏻
The sheer number of streaming services, all with different content, is the real problem. At one time, you could have a Netflix subscription and be set, but now, not so much - the shows I’d potentially want to watch are spread over so many that the end result is that I don’t subscribe to any of them.
If they offered like, 1 week subscriptions for 1/4 the price of a monthly one, I’d consider subscribing to watch one thing then letting it lapse, but there’s not a month’s worth of content on any of them, so I just go to illicit sources instead.
Netflix failed to pay enough to make everyone in the world happy to use them as their streaming platform. Fair enough. They were smaller then and probably couldn’t. If they had become the end-all-be-all same probably be sitting here complaining about their monopoly and yearning for a world with multiple independent services we could subscribe to at will.
I pirate seasons of interesting-looking television and copy them to my phone so I can watch them with VLC whenever I want. This macguffin in my pocket can be a television too!
Me looking for a new trash anime.
pipiru piru piru pipiru pi
Cable TV needed to fill timeslots…
Streaming has to put out enough to not lose subscribers, and they know most people aren’t going to ever bother canceling.
It’s this weird market where a streamers best customer: is someone that never launches the app. Too much content and they have to pay for the bandwidth.
Not even getting into how monopolization is limiting competition.
I have this theory that the streaming platforms hire UI and UX researchers to design their apps and websites in a way that makes it as hard as possible to find the good content you actually want to watch. An hour spent scrolling their app is an hour of 4K content they didn’t need to stream.
Classic gym membership model.
find artists you like and try to organize a production. absolutely do not pay corpos for shit. it will be shit.
Oh buy there’s. You. To watch I mean.
