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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.
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.
In the 70s as a.kid I had exactly 4 channels to pick from (sometimes 5 if the weather was right ). One of those channels was PBS which always beat soaps and the news. Did us a lot of good. We have too much crap.
I was in rural northern Ontario ... we had about the same ... except that instead of PBS we had TVO, our provincial public broadcaster, and together with CBC, the two were basically our PBS ... every morning was watching 'The Friendly Giant' before heading off to school
that really is the waym it's a better user experience.
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.
No time? How you even manage that? I retired at 20-something and still game everyday and watch stuff (*arr-stack and no streaming crap). Wifey too.
While I admit, I still haven't found time to "work down" my calibre-library in over 3 decades. Don't even consume youtube, and still read no damn book....Maybe the next decade it is! 😉
retired at 40 and am now 61
Oh dang, a billionaire in our midst.
Don't need to be a billionaire for that. Just good investments instead of wasting money on shit noone needs to impress people you dont even like.
It's not trivial but also not reserved for just the 0.00000001% of ultra-rich.
Check what you REALLY need, apply a lil buffer for the unforeseeable, wait till your passives meet that and be done with whatever.
Know a couple, they're making 18k/month after taxes. They rent an expensive large poser-house in poser-town, drive expensive poser-cars and live big in every aspect. Travel once a month most expensive, waste 3k a month on dining outside or delivery, No investments, no savings. Every penny left is burned on desires.
And they hate their jobs while doing everything to have to stay there....
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.
If it was like game consoles, where there were 3 or 4 streaming services that shared 90% of the same shows and each had a small number of exclusives, I doubt it would be a problem. That's not the situation... there's tens of streaming services each with their own completely proprietary library, and all of them want $15-$25 / mo. It's cable TV all over again. Cable TV got away with it because the alternative was video rental stores, though. Now, we have plenty of less scrupulous options.
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.
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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.
Search something on the YouTube TV app and it tops out at like 20 results without even a filter for age...
That's just insane considering how much is YouTube, they definitely make decisions to limit how much people will watch.
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.
