why bother when you cancel every show after the second season?
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And every recommendation category is that same 20 programs in a different order.
Because they randomly cancel shows for no reason
‘cause they’ve enshittified.
We went from cable cutting to piracy to streaming services that were relatively inexpensive and ad-free back to services that emulated cable - expensive and full of ads, so guess what’s next?
It's getting harder to even find shit worth pirating so... Going outside?
You can branch out, that should be impossible unless you watch stuff 24/7 and are 40+, use an app like trakt to get shown more stuff you typically don't see. If you use something like stremio, the default view barely shows different content.
I mostly go off recommendations from friends or from reading about stuff online or YouTube shorts and then torrent whatever sounds interesting. The quality of what's getting put out has just gone to shit with a lot of it just being derivative of things that have come before if not just straight remakes or if it is something new the writing is crappy.
I have an infinite backlog, tons of great stuff out there, a lot of great stuff just never got popular enough to be recommended or stopped being talked about once it finished. I recommend stremio + torbox or some other debrid service, you'll see a lot more stuff that isn't popular currently (unlike browsing torrents and yt channels) and it'll all load quickly since it's most likely cached already.
Can't trust reviews, I've seen some 3/10 shows/movies I loved, some 10/10 ones I hated, from critics who I thought had the same taste as me.
Forcing me to relearn how to fucking read. Hate it.
Going outside is nice.
I picked up gaming again and started to actually play games I bought. Psychonauts is amazing.
I chose TTRPGs. Outside is still way too scare and full of way too many parking lots
No idea how many movies or TV shows you consume, but there's enough unseen by me to last me a decade as is.
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why bother when most series get cancelled only after 1-3 season anyway, and its only 8episodes plus extremely long hiatus times between seasons.
Don't forget the massive cliffhangers every time. It would be fine if a show would run for 2 Seasons if at the end its all neatly packed up. But no.
The OA finishes with them warping to our world and then just stops and this kind of shit.
Got crave TV and CBC gem instead.
Also: pirating like a madman.
Fuck Netflix. Capitalist hell machine.
We could have free streaming via public library systems, or something else that's not a profit driven malice, but this is the bad place.
We need to revisit copyright laws. Life of the author plus 70 years just encourages people to make money off work they had nothing to do with. 15 years then free domain.
15 years then free domain.
That's what I always say. Weirdly, a lot of people who don't have anything copyrighted themselves argue for longer copyright.
I would argue this with "but what about franchises getting slopped up with content that doesn't fit the original narrative/characterizations?" But then I look at what Disney has done with Star wars and marvel and realize I don't really have leg to stand on.
Disney is largely responsible for the life plus 70 years rule. And they're still trying to maintain control over steamboat willie!
15 years max! I was thinking 5 lol
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Netflix and D+ inspired me to finally get my arr stack going and now for less than the cost of 1 Netflix subscription I am able to stream anything I want from my remote box. So thanks for that, I wouldn't be here flying my 🏴☠️ without their service getting so shitty and expensive that I went well out of my way to set this up and now I love it.
We've cancelled our Netflix subscription almost a year aggo and back then it was already getting faaaaar too boring.
Good shows that only get one or two seasons: Oh great, thanks a lot assholes. Now I'm invested in these characters without any closure. <= it was like that all the time. Fuck that, I'm not paying for demos. Or big corpos that suck up to fascism.
Hard to get invested when they're all 6 episode seasons, 2+ year breaks, and canceled after 2 or 3 seasons.
You guys are getting two seasons?
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Maybe if they make Three Body Problem S2, 4 episodes, instead of 8, it will solve it. Or they could cancel Kaos again, or try running a washed up comedian, Im sure that will increase engagement. Actually, I think I want an Ad for my paid service, every 15 seconds. yeah. do that.
That and autoplay everything. Are you just trying to read a blurb to see what a show is about? Nah, we'll just start playing it for you anyway. Christ autoplay pisses me off. And yes, I have found and deselected autoplay in my profile to no effect.
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I finally canceled my Netflix in favor of going full Plex. They upped their subscription price for the last time and I was sick of it.
I cancelled and went Jellyfin recently. High-five friend! It was the price hike and reality slop for me.
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Because every time you open it, it's an assault on the senses. There's no sense of discovery.
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Fuck Netflix and its practice of cancelling shows at their second season. May it crash and burn when the AI market turns.
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Well yeah. You open the app and they just try get you to watch whatever they want you to watch. I want to watch what I want me to watch.
Is netflix out of touch?
No, it's the customers who are wrong.
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But are users who are doing this unsubscribing? Because if they don't, maybe that's what Netflix is aiming for. I don't pretend to understand the way of ~~con artists~~ executives.
It's not hard to get people to watch. Produce good shows with actual seasons (minimum 13 episodes, preferably somewhere around 20 for certain types of shows). Then let those shows run for multiple seasons to continue to build up a fan base, so you can start to make money on merchandising. Make sure to always film a proper ending and avoid cliff hangers for the series finale to increase rewatchability. In fifteen years, you can have multiple shows that have at least 5+ seasons/100+ episodes, greatly increasing variety and rewatchability.
I haven't used Netflix in ages, but their UI was horrible. Considering trends for the past twenty years, I can't imagine it got better. I'll never forgive them for deleting the reviews. Often, the Netflix reviews were the best reviews (that was not universally true).
But inevitably, they will increase prices, add more ads, then start spamming those 5+ seasons/100+ episodes shows made fully from AI slop.
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Yes, because i am using open source platforms now
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