• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    why bother when most series get cancelled only after 1-3 season anyway, and its only 8episodes plus extremely long hiatus times between seasons.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    ‘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?

  • StopForgettingIt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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    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.

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    2 days ago

    Hard to get invested when they’re all 6 episode seasons, 2+ year breaks, and canceled after 2 or 3 seasons.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    I’ve gotten to the point that I just subscribe to whatever service for like a month of there’s something I want to watch.

    At the height of the pandemic I had like five services and realized that I was just opening an app, browsing, then opening the next and browsing ad nauseam.

    I bought a few DVDs and Blu-rays for my background noise and can go to the library if I get real bored.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      I cancelled and went Jellyfin recently. High-five friend! It was the price hike and reality slop for me.

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        1 day ago

        usenet server + usenet provider + an ember subscription all come to less than one streaming service

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          I paid for a lifetime account to a private usenet server. Less than 1 year of any streaming service.

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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.

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      Oh but they added WWE shit and had it take up so much space I think they thought that I wanted it or something? Just like when they tried getting into mobile games before that.

      How long before they start bragging about paying some billions for exclusive sporting access that I also don’t gaf about but is extra shitty because the whole reason is to remove choice from those that do care about it, not provide any extra value.

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        its worse bro, my homepage shows an AD right at the top of the home screen now.

        And I think… last year, Netflix hosted one of the sports finals, and the feed kept cutting in and out, it was SO bad.

        I only have netflix rn cuz I wanted to see season 3 of 1670(Was mid). Cancelling it soon now, cuz I am over it. Ad on the home screen for fuck sake.

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      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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        2 days ago

        You can turn that off in the Web settings for your account (per-profile in case some monster actually likes that behavior).

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        And force the writers of what’s left to increase the total amount of recaps and reminders of what is happening. Just slowly approach pure exposition. With characters just narrating every action they take.

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      2 days ago

      they canceled blood of zeus, Sandman, although gaiman made netflix to not continue it. Castlevania nocturne is in limbo, but likely cancelled, probably wont even hear a word from it for another 2years like with sandman.

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    We’re cancelling this month. I realised I only watch one show. I have acquired the show and put it on jellyfin.