Yeah, this is my thought, too. I’d be willing to bet there are a lot of shows that would envy having as many as 37% of their audience actually stick with it to the end.

This franchise is now in “Pirates of the Caribbean” territory in that I can not remember which ones I have seen and which ones I have not.

I mean in that case you could do what some Anime series have been doing recently and drop multiple episodes on the first week, then go to a traditional 1 episode per week format.

I will continue to collect Blu-Rays until they’re no longer made. I don’t have the money for a 4K television, and I certainly don’t have the money to replace all my Blu-Ray and DVDs with 4K, especially as many rare or obscure titles aren’t available in that format.

While anecdotal evidence isn’t a guarantee, I agree. I have hundreds of CDs, DVDs and BDs. I have had a few CD failures due to improper storage back in the “CDs in the car” era, always due to the top laquer coating getting scratched. I have had one DVD fail, due either to bad manufacture or some secret workings of my…

Similar results here too with DVDs and CDs.

Yeah, I’m very skeptical of the 10-yr. estimate. They’re talking to us like we were just born yesterday. I have dozens of DVDs from the late 1990s, and all still play. (I also have 200+ CDs from the early 1990s and on, and all still play.)  

Rip. Rip everything. Enjoy and savor your physical media, replace when necessary if possible, and make digital backups of anything and everything you truly want to have access to for as long as possible. Redundant storage across multiple locations is also recommended as it’s only redundant until it’s not.

I had no idea she wasn’t american. 

i think dumping whole seasons at once has actively harmed the longevity of shows in the streaming age. Shows can’t stay in the cultural zeitgeist as long as it would have when people were talking about the next exciting episode week after week and i think companies have realized that it shouldn’t be done for EVERY new…

VaulTec had ties to the government, I think the US government (later Enclave) let VaulTec blew up the world so they can pretend it’s not their doing. The fact that the president and his staff escape to the oil rig before the event, meant they knew and had involvement on it.

If you actually print a lot of documents it’s best to buy a black and white printer and not an all in one. Those color cartridges are expensive and black always runs out quickly.

Honestly nothing about the map makes any sense 

Meh talent, skill, and experience can get you far also. Hard work.. well essentially the whole point of success to avoid ground level work. Money will get you through a lot.. even better a combo of all the above will take you the furthest of all.

Every entity online that uses advertising for its income is doing this. Blogs, podcasts, streams, streaming music, social media platforms. EVERY. Single. One.

Its gotten bigger again. The same activities have been going on and growing in popularity for years, just the word podcast has gone in and out of favor.. and now its turning back around to being in favor again.

You sound like someone saying, “Nielsen ratings are a thing? And people actually care about them? All I watch is public television and this whole other side of TV feels antithetical to the purpose of TV”.

the sky is blue, water is wet....etc.

I sort of remembered that as an end, but that was season 2 episode 20, The Dragon’s Graveyard.

Exactly Robotech had people actually die. It also took death and war so seriously that it was deemed that the message of the show was well told in the show itself and did not need a one minute end cap with the characters telling you to not use drugs, or run through a construction site