Lanfordr

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I probably would be one of them, but I paid for a year subscription last November. Once that's up, I'm probably dumping it for some other service, at least until House of Dragon and The Last of Us come back.

HBO MAX was my favorite service when it launched. It's slowly lost good content and added shitty low quality reality shows in their place. It still boggles my mind that a company like Discovery could purchase Warner Brothers.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Since he is an ex-president who is guaranteed a secret service detail for life, isn't he much more likely to be granted house arrest or some other sort of "private" incarceration?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

T-Mobile offer cheaper plans without Netflix. Plans that still have all the unlimited data/calling of the Netflix plan. We pay $100 fir two line with them. If I wanted to go to the cheapest plan with Netflix, it would cost me $120 a month...i.e. it's cheaper for me to stay on my no Netflix plan and pay for Netflix separately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't his acquisition a large part of why it has such a heavy debt load in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Connect is much cleaner in my opinion. Still has some clunkiness and I don't like that touching the screen on images closes the image, but overall it's a great start.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Van Gundy was bad, but Mark Jackson is terrible. Yet somehow Mark Jackson still has a job. If ESPN is cleaning house, why not get rid of both of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Considering I had very low expectations, that looks surprisingly good. The jokes feel in line with the classic series. Some of the story lines (covid/crypto) seem a little on the nose, but I'll withhold judgement as some of the best episodes of the first revival were pretty 1 for 1 digs at current topics (i.e. eyePhones).

Overall looks better than the lows to which the Simpsons has fallen and it still loks worlds better than Disenchanted. I'll give it a look when it comes out...just wish it wasn't on Hulu, I may have ro wait a bit as I don't currently subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's nothing. It's been slowly getting more and more shitty for years. It's just been happening so slowly that there wasn't a breaking point where most of us left until now.

I've been casually looking for an alternative for years, because the content has gotten so low effort. There just hasn't been any good alternatives. I tried Voat, but that got over run with racists and Trumpers almost from the jump.

Lemmy is the first thing I've found that seems half decent and it needs to triple ot quadruple it's engaged user base to really have a shot. Too many posts with no comments or very few. What made reddit special was the comments and interactions. I have hope lemmy can get there, it just needs way more users to do so.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not if the redditors that leave are the ones that do the majority of the moderating and quality posting. If the quality goes way down, people will look elsewhere. Also, I have a feeling we'll see a much bigger migration once the third party apps all die on the 30th.