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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSay again rule
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    1 day ago

    All streamers are trash so it’s always pleasurable to see any of them being taken down for being the assholes they are.

    (This is in reference to the guy who is shocking his dog, not the woman who was assaulted, which wouldn’t have happened if Twitch allowed people to bring their own private security. I think streamers are trash but that justifies critiquing them not assaulting them.)









  • “Over the Air” is just relying on what is at this point very old technology and they keep kneecapping themselves with DRM just like internet options.

    Further, there is no reason for there to not be streams of over-the-air television available on the internet for people who can’t get their broadcast signals.

    I have lived in two different cities that were valleys and so unless I had a 12 foot tall TV antennae on the top of my house/apartments, there was no way in hell I was getting more than one OTA channel at all anyway. The airwaves are inefficient in that capacity whereas they could be putting the exact same daily TV content online for viewers.

    I see no reason why “over-the-air” can’t also be “over-the-IP” for people who can’t get a broadcast signal.



  • The frustrating thing is there are already shows with very small budgets that still don’t get a lot of episodes.

    It all comes down to the end of syndication and how shows just don’t have same residual income stream as they used to, so there isn’t a reason to make a bunch of episodes to run as re-runs on various other TV networks to make extra money after the initial run of the show.

    Well, maybe not just syndication. It’s also about the storage costs of high quality video and part of why some shows disappear forever: because they have such low viewing numbers that it makes more sense to free up the space for some other show with more views and more ability to retain subscribers/get new subscribers. Which in itself is an indictment of the inefficient ways the industry shares this media instead of using some sort of decentralized network protocol like bittorrent to seed the files out without necessarily needing them always centrally stored. Hell, even if it was just corporations sharing the data amongst themselves, it would still be more efficient than completely recreating the data anew in every corporate internal network.


  • I have all three seasons soundtracks, because they’re all so good.

    Joe Pera is my favorite out of all of them, honestly. I wanted to get him to sign my copy of his bathroom book “A Bathroom Book Not For People Pooping pr Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape” when I saw his standup show but the crowd was too big and I gave up.

    Joe Bennett, the creator of Scavenger’s Reign on HBO and Common Side Effects on Adult Swim did the art for Joe Pera’s bathroom book, which is how I first found his art.