People underestimate the value of weekly rhythms and routines.  There’s a reason that the most popular sport in the U.S. is football, which plays one game a week.

This is literally the opposite of whats happening. Every streaming show ends in a cliffhanger to make you want to press play on the next episode immediately. Streaming shows are more guilty of this than any weekly release show.

In many ways, this underscores the difference between Netflix and its competitors. Netflix has always been a tech-first company, driven by data and algorithms. Other companies now in the streaming sphere (Disney, Warner, Paramount) are entertainment companies, that got to where they are by shepherding creative talent.

Back in the day, having your music video on Beavis & Butthead was a HUGE boost. Henry Rollins once talked on his podcast about how Rollins Band suddenly began selling out shows after ‘Liar’ appeared on B&B.

Come on, toothbrush!  Let’s run around and do things set to popular music!

I agree - your example, in which a movie theater insists that each patron buy four tickets to see a movie, does indeed sound stupid.

Come on people. Every single one of you knows exactly what the deal is. Of course a ‘household’ is tied to a physical location where the subscriber or their family lives. Obviously, the account should still be viewable outside of that physical location (and will - Netflix isn’t going to take that away, you freaks),…

Kotaku, May 13th: lol Square Enix are idiots for selling Tomb Raider and Deus Ex instead of making more games

This game is pandering, microtransaction-filled trash, and I will continue to believe that right up until the point they release Lumpy Space Princess DLC

While this is hardly important, the example use cases cited in the blog post won’t be compelling to the average person. There’s Call of Duty Vanguard, a game that Activision not only has tried to distance itself from, but one which chuds actively hate because it has diversity. Then its other example is Overwatch 2, a…

Who here can remember the last movie they rented from a RedBox?  Mine was The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

“It’s not just a meme, it’s a whole damn Twitter account” (that constantly reposts the meme)

Look closely, and you’ll notice a callback to the gold Krugerands from season one. But pay close attention - it’s easy to miss!

there are, as near as I can tell, no specific U.S. laws forbidding this.

I mean, we can joke about the Wonder Twins being D-listers, but... they’re probably in the top 10 most well-known DC characters.  I would almost guarantee more people know who the Wonder Twins are than, say, Martian Manhunter.

We just started watching American Dad again for the first time in a while and both of us were like ‘who (and what) the hell is Rogu???’ Overall, I’ve found that American Dad’s core family is entertaining, but the 3rd-tier characters, outside of Jeff and Patrick Stewart, are uniformly awful.

I gotta say, I can kind of see their strategy here. The last time I actually watched broadcast cable it seemed like every channel basically has one or two shows that they run constantly in giant blocks. It’s possible that instead of canceling the existing shows, they just steer them to HBO Max instead.  Then the broadc…

Reddit is still the go-to place for niche communities. Almost any video game, the #1 place for news and discussion is the game’s subreddit. Ditto for various hobbies or fandoms. Reddit may have peaked around 2009/10 or so but it’s still very much woven into the fabric of online life.

Does this really follow Musk’s M.O., though? This is the kind of thing I would expect if, like, Microsoft or GE or somebody bought Twitter. Some big corporation hellbent on monetizing it. Musk is buying Twitter as a meme. He just wants to own the playground where everyone is playing. I’m not even sure he’s interested…

Everyone: Twitter is the absolute worst thing to ever happen to the internet, if not civilization itself