You know all this is fuelled by the desire for eternal growth, which at the end is unsustainable but human greed has no boundaries I guess. And all the SaaS and in general the subscription model so many companies are trying to promote has exactly the same goal.

I do remember the early days of mobile phones and apps when you were actually able to buy a lifetime license for different apps and get meaningful updates. Now everything turned into a giant SaaS garbage and data collection pile of shit.

This is more feel than empirical data, but Netflix feels like they've gotten markedly better over the last 2-3 months.

I get the subscription as part of a membership on some other things, but would not have paid for the service the way it's gone over the last ~2 years. That said after seeing the recent improvements, if my access to Netflix was cut off tomorrow, I'd probably shell out for the lowest non-ad tier of service.

However, mad respect for the people out there keeping the P2P/torrenting communities alive.

Edit: spelling errors

Are we gonna pretend Netflix was ever a "hero"? They were revolutionary for sure, but they were always profit driven. I don't think it's particularly wise to see any company as "the good one". Not to say companies can't be beneficial/useful, but it's always good to remember their singular goal.

I mean, that's actually an excellent way to prove their point.

No matter how terrible stuff like Rebel Moon may be, Netflix is succeeding by the only metric that matters; subscribers.

People talk about viewer counts a lot in the context of streaming while completely forgetting that, for the most part, they don't actually matter.

For Netflix, the absolute perfect scenario is a world where everyone is subscribed, and no one actually watches anything.

If their subscriber count is going up then Netflix is succeeding, and they couldn't give two shits if Rebel Moon is the worst movie ever made.

Still can't believe Zach Snyder went from accomplishing the impossible in Watchmen to the absolute garbage that followed.

Netflix does not care about box office, they care about subscribers.

I got real excited for a second

With the entire two last episodes dedicated to setup for the non existent fourth season

I couldn't even finish it

Yar!!

They hit my mom's account with the wrong household bullshit when my little cousin who lives down the street tried watching a show. Thankfully I get it free with my phone plan and never use it, so I just gave her my account.

I'm stupidly close to buying an 18 TB HDD from Amazon, setting up Overseerr on my home server on top of the *arr/Plex stack I run, and giving everyone a login. I have gigabit so it's not like I can't support even Blu-ray playback. I figure if I set the torrent to delete after 2 weeks of not watching we'll never run out of space.

It looked cool. I don't think I made it past 15 minutes. They wanted to tell me a story with words, not show me a story through actions and emotion. I know, it's early and they needed to establish a background, but I couldn't take it.

I finished it, so cheesy I had a heartburn after

Oh no!

...Anyway.

Hoists Jolly Roger

I wonder if it's region specific, I'm on Basic in Canada and it's $9.99 and I believe limited to 720p. This was my compromise to switch to with my wife to not cancel during the the last price hike, but she's just agreed we're done when this plan goes away. We've invested in a boat and will sail the high seas even more.