BarbecueCowboy

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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I like Trakt as a concept, I've used it sporadically, but their pricing was always optimistic, even at $30 a year. It has worked for them overall so far because it's a well made project and people like them, but the value proposition of paying $5 a month now for something like Trakt feels crazy. It's hard to look at different types of services at that price point and come to the conclusion that Trakt is comparable. There are actual streaming services creating some of the shows that show up on Trakt that are very similar in price (Dropout as a good example).

Only rational thing I can think of with this recent decision is that they're tired of running Trakt and hoping to sell it off or close it up.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This was mostly pre internet and he's just never addressed it making it a non story. He claimed he had amnesia and couldn't remember the accident which definitely at least feels like it adds evidence to the drunk driving claims... But, nothing ever came of it.

He was driving with Jennifer grey, she's talked about it a bit and is obviously still traumatized, but she still backs up the 'he was sober' story that they managed to sell at the time.

I'd be really curious to hear your thoughts after watching the secret life of Walter Mitty.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Matthew Broderick.

He's an alright actor, but seeing him always reminds me of that time he got drunk (rumored) and killed two people with his car in Ireland but faced almost zero repercussions (he got a small fine).

Worst part is, those are usually the best ones.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It sounds like they're trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I'd be interested to see what people could do with it's fancy display options combined with everything else.

They definitely are, more and more, it's the same as every popular movement. They pad the propaganda with legitimately good advice and some controversial but easily supportable facts. That makes the more controversial items easier to swallow.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Personal opinion, but for android at least, I always though nzb360 was dramatically better. May be a good alternative for anyone who will be missing LunaSea there.

Too bad about iOS though, the options there have always been sparse.

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