A while ago, I really wanted to watch the most recent season of Call The Midwife. It had been over for weeks, people online were talking to me about it, I was excited to watch it. It wasn’t on Netflix yet. It was on Amazon, but it wouldn’t let me access it because it wasn’t on Irish Amazon. It was on the BBC streaming…

Well I for one applaud your adultness. Because nothing screams, rants, and raves “I’m an adult” like swearing at a stranger online while telling them to grow up.

Well done, we are all very impressed with how much of an adult you have become.

Agreed, and just to clarify, I’m not from the US either. Brazil here, and our options are Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go and YouTube Premium.

Yep. Piracy reportedly dropped significantly in my country once streaming services became available a few years ago. It seems likely people will go back to it since, to my knowledge at least, competition hasn’t exactly encouraged the existing subscription services to keep prices down.

Most people wouldn’t steal if the media oligarchy wasn’t so consistently anti-consumer and money-grubbing. Piracy isn’t free; there are real costs to the consumer in terms of effort, time, bandwidth, data storage, and risk of exposure to malware. A simple streaming subscription is actually cheaper than the cost to…

A lot of people has already said it lately, but it’s worthy to be repeated: this trend will make piracy skyrocket, and it will be the sole fault of greedy corporations. A lot of people, myself included, are up to pay for legal ways for getting content, but there’s a ceiling of reasonability that is about to be broken.…

I actually misread your first step and thought you meant a stick, that was on fire, and then you invite all your friends over for a neolithic fireside storytelling version of the shows that people are streaming.

What worries me most is that Netflix says they are going to make more original shows- which is great, they have a fairly solid track record there- but they also seem to think 3 seasons of 10 episodes is enough. It isn’t.

When do we reach peak streaming? How many services can the average viewer reasonably adopt?

A friend- so which Stark do you think is gonna die this weekend?

THANK YOU! Enough with everyone pretending it wouldn’t go straight back into the economy (this goes for universal healthcare naysayers too - we see you!!!!)

Yeah, because what this country really needs is a less educated populace.

Enjoy being blithely uninformed about how economics works.

I was about to say “This plan gives you Boomer dicks grandkids, you should all be on board.”

Oh. So we’ll all just refuse to get degrees until no one has them and they aren’t required anymore?

Being able to afford a Masters is not the same as being able to get one. At least half of the cohort in my Masters program dropped out at some point. It’s not for everyone, nor does it need to be. That does not mean it’s not valuable for those who get one, and I’m sure you’ve take advantage of the knowledge from people…

It is completely bananas how much we pay for college. I went to community college for the first 2 years of undergrad in the late 90's/early aughts and thankfully that cost me less about $1,000 a semester. I could barely afford that. I had to work full time to pay tuition and rent but I lived in a relatively low cost…

People that think like that drive me nuts. I’m 39 and have paid off my student loans. It sucked, and of course I would have preferred to spend that money on other things. But I don’t want the next generation to have to go into debt simply because I did. If everyone thought that way, society would never progress even…

A massive wipe of student debt in the U.S. would trigger a huge spending boom in housing and autos, and probably bump up birth rates as young Americans who were looking down the barrel of decades of debt would decide they could have the 2.5 kids their parents had. And all the critics are going to worry about is that…

greyworm is for sure dead. i’m thinking missandei as well. brienne and tormund as well.