I encountered a poster using much the same language (and many of the same arguments, though on the subject of equal representation in games rather than reproductive rights—minus the face-eating, anyway) on Kotaku yesterday.

There’s something inherently terrifying in the power of groupthink—and particularly groupthink…

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.…

And just like that illegal pirating is taking a rise again. Spotify proved that if you offer everything for a decent sum people will stop downloading illegal shit. Too bad movie and TV series people don’t seem to get it and all want their own service.

This is what struck me. The numbers are all like “oh, people spent a long time watching Grey’s Anatomy, Friends, and the Office.”. You know what those shows have? A LOT of episodes. Natural breaks that keep the pace breezy. i.e., something you can leave running in the background while you do whatever. Each episode…

When do we reach peak streaming?

“Netflix says the company will just replace the shows we watch with new shows. Problem solved”

i think it’s pretty cool that someone’s going to reinvent cable and call it an innovation

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

They already did: 30 Rock   :-(

I was going to post the same thing. As far as I can tell, this (friend? taunter? parent?) has a Klingon accent.

It’s almost like a modern day Nuremberg trial with the number of “Don’t blame me. I was just following orders” comments that we hear from ex-Trump officials.

Surprise, surprise. Literally every single person who has left the administration has went on one of these media “don’t blame me for being evil” tours.

I forgot, which one is Nielsen?

“I didn’t cry when me own father was hung for stealin’ a pig, but I’ll cry now.”

The military-industrial complex is so firmly established in the US that it’s really difficult for any mainstream D or R politician to factually talk about US military power at a global level. Who the heck wants to admit that the US military is unnecessarily large? Admitting that means passively stating that the US…

“No, Gary, you’re not going to get shot again!”

Amy: I actually shot my husband and he complained less than this.