I'm sick of goddamned streaming services

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  1. Bickendan

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    Director: Cut! Elsa, you're supposed to make your own dildos, not turn Hans into a dicksicle!
    Elsa: Let it go.
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    The Xfinity app for Paramount+ has impressively bad navigation.
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  5. ed629

    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    Sounds like something that could be easily defeated with a piece of electrical tape or just blocking the device's view so it can only "see" one person.
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  6. Tuckerfan

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    Is HBO Max dead already?
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    "Now presenting HBO Max!"


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    So much for "too big to fail." :spock:
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    Warhammer+ is coming.
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  10. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    Does anybody else have a weird thing happen when watching TOS on Paramount+ where Shatner's opening narration is extremely quiet?
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    Fandangovudu is a thing, I think.
  12. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    I'm in....
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  13. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    I have a weird thing happen where I can't stand to watch any TOS.
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  14. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    This seems oddly specific and niche. But then again, I watch Dimension 20, which is an actual play D&D show produced by Dropout/College Humor. So who the fuck am I to judge?
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  15. Chaos Descending

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    Did you ever play the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning MMORPG?
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  16. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Choas have you ever played witcher
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  17. Jenee

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    where is teh baba anyway. It's been years ...
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  18. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Oddly no, I'm surprisingly shit at such games. Online chess, yes, but even there sometimes my dexterity lets me down and I click the wrong square, lol.

    Table top yes, although these days I'm more a painter (where my dexterity seems just fine, go figuure) than player as the time commitments are more flexible.

    Still, I can field a decent sized homebrew astartes army and have old ork, Orc, blood angels, vampire counts and high elf armies stashed away. It's the online painting articles, strategy guides, battle reports, upcoming TV series and lore which is catching my eye atm.

    Have you noticed, by the way, that 1d4chan has disappeared and GW have stated they're clamping down on fan generated content elsewhere? If the Emperor Had a Text to Speech Device is on their radar apparently.
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  19. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    I think the enduring popularity of WD, the BL and a slew of unofficial fan content hasn't gone unnoticed and it goes beyond possible animations and shows. There's a broad base of potential hobby related content which will doubtless sell and don't overlook how much of the LOTR rights GW still hold.
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    I thought 4 chan was a porn site?
  21. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Not 4chan, 1d4chan.

    It was a tongue in cheek fan made and maintained gaming wiki whose name was a wordplay mixing 4chan and 1d4 (the usual designation for a four sided die commonly used in role playing and strategy games).

    It explored lots of "traditional" (read tabletop and board) games but focused heavily on Sci fi/fantasy material. It even had sections on Star Trek. GW were never too keen because most of it's traffic and material was around properties they owned and took a somewhat irreverent approach which sat at odds with the tone of their official publications.
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    Ah. thanks
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    love rewatching nb sg on peacock. Must m9be ca0r8ca to peocaock from nbc too many comercials.
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    oh, now I remember ...
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  27. The Original Faceman

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    its like they think that once piracy rates decrease they will never go up again.
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  28. NAHTMMM

    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    And the rest of us that don't pirate? We just start to disengage with their property. We don't feel the need to buy DVDs or merchandise. We don't increase their visibility or entertainment value by discussing online or doing fanart or going to cons or passing our love of Star Trek on to our children. We find other things that attract our attention and our disposable income. But, hey, if the number of dollar signs is more important than the number of people in your fanbase, then that's the success you measure by.
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    I am in this camp myself. If you are using ST as some sort of lure to get me to subscribe to your service, fuck you and ST. However, I am perfectly fine if you are going to do like other properties and premier it to your subscribers and in a year sell the old season to netflix so the fans can still give you money. For that matter I hope NF sells it's original content to other services too. Seriously, if the MCU is not going to only be a disney+ thing then fuck the MCU.

    I might by another common service in the future or switch up libraries by switching services, but I am really not too keen on buying all these new services. The only specialty service I like is my crunchyroll. I might be interested in something like the BBC eventually because we get shit for foreign programming here in the US and there are some areas I might want to see. Even in the Anime streaming area I am getting a bit sick of multiple services, and I really do not want to go full funimation. It is not that I do not like funimation's dubbing, but they are supporting the texass economy. Sorry, but no. That state should be boycotted in it's entirety for their bullshit. I support a wall around texass.
  30. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    I have a new streaming service that can access all the Disney/Marvel shows. Tony, from Staten Island.
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