I only got Hulu when they started streaming a shitload of Criterion titles. Slowly making my way through them. That shit is worth it, especially compared to the prices I paid to rent VHS tapes and later DVDs at the local mom n pop foreign film video store. Though if given the choice I’d take the store-I miss that…

I was a bit old for Bill Nye. Mr. Wizard’s World on Nickelodeon was my Bill Nye:

I would probably pay up to four times as much for Netflix. The money is one thing, but having a bunch of different apps, I might as well just duct tape the cord back together.

And I don’t see the streaming balkanization getting better anytime soon, unfortunately. I like Hulu, but for the Criterion stuff. I’m not so in love with network shows that I’m gonna pay for CBS separately. Like it’s fun to veg out and watch the blacklist or the show with the tattooed chick I can’t even remember but I…

I don’t see this media balkanization getting better anytime soon. I’ll keep Hulu Plus because I’m working my way through the Criterion stuff they have (and really, so worth the money, I’d blow more a month renting foreign films at my local place a decade ago) and Netflix. Amazon Prime I just have for other reasons not…

Yeah like, I’m all about not having to be all dressy and stodgy all the time. And I like wearing comfy workout stuff. But one of the things I liked about comfy workout clothes was that, I feel like it used to be relatively unpretentious. You could just wear it. And now it’s yet another thing that’s been appropriated…

How about this cut off? If you were older then 18 in the year 2000, then your a Gen-x. If you were younger then you are a millennial?

I appreciate the comfort of wearing these kinds of clothing. And, clearly it’s a trend that many people are following so good for that mom who started her business.

Not attacking you, but it always seemed silly to me to posit hard divisions in generations. It seems like more of a spectrum. If you were in the first couple years of “millenials” you probably have a lot more in common (at least w/r/t cultural touchstones if not job prospects) with the mid to late Gen Xers than people…

I see you’ve taken my comment very very seriously.

Well, nuts are pretty expensive by my standards.

It’s funny when I see women in athletic wear without a sweat walking to Jamba Juice while smoking cigarettes.

Don’t support CBS, HBO, or any service that gives you content equivalent to one channel. Simple. Services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu are trying to replace the old-school cable services individually and single-handedly. They want to replace an entire service, not just a single channel. Supporting companies like CBS…

You’re making the assumption that every cord cutter absolutely must subscribe to every available service that’s not cable TV. False assumption.

Exactly- people need to stop trying to compare cordcutting to cable TV as if it was meant to perfectly replicate the cable TV experience. Its NOT!

This is all well and good NOW, but with the direction networks are moving, you’ll start seeing more and more content being limited to that network’s streaming service. Networks are giving up a ton of money to Netflix and Hulu by licensing so once they set up the hardware to host themselves, there’s no reason for them…

Nope... you are a millennial my friend... an old one such as me.

Two things:

So what’s gonna happen here is everyone is going to go back to pirating shows because the convenience no longer outweighs the cost. And then they’re all going to gripe about how everyone is pirating their shows again. We totally didn’t cause this! Never saw it coming!

At best, the few services anyone is interested in altogether still amounts to less than cable.

At wort, you learn to juggle, pay for one service and binge for the month, then cancel and reactivate at a later time when a new series or you have enough backlog to binge again.

The one service that makes that easy is Hulu,…