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It's cyclical, though. No?
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durdencommatyler wrote:It's cyclical, though. No?
Maybe for House, but in general they are going to continue to drop shows not owned or produced by them. Netflix has something like only 50 percent of the non-Netflix content they had 2-3 years ago. They are invested in original programming rather than paying for the rights of other shows because it will be more profitable in the long run.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:It's cyclical, though. No?
Maybe for House, but in general they are going to continue to drop shows not owned or produced by them. Netflix has something like only 50 percent of the non-Netflix content they had 2-3 years ago. They are invested in original programming rather than paying for the rights of other shows because it will be more profitable in the long run.
I guess I get that.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The networks are failing anyway. The deserve the dinosaur treatment if they're so unwilling to change. I'd rather see new original content from the paid services at this point.

And movie? Meh. I've got Prime. And I've still got physical discs from Netflix. I can "rent" whatever.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:The networks are failing anyway. The deserve the dinosaur treatment if they're so unwilling to change. I'd rather see new original content from the paid services at this point.

And movie? Meh. I've got Prime. And I've still got physical discs from Netflix. I can "rent" whatever.
Yea, Prime and HBO are almost enough for us; Netflix rounds out the options but that's decreasing, and then we hunt down specific shows like Louie or Samantha Bee as needed. If Netflix is moving more towards content production, I wonder if they'll ever license one of their shows to another provider? 'Coz Amazon could somehow pick up Kimmy Schmidt, it's byebye Netlix.
Aw huh.

But Netflix is the original. They've done a good job of seeing/directing the future. Until they give me reason to believe otherwise, I'll continue to trust that they know what they're doing. But, yeah, if they aren't careful they're going to make themselves largely irrelevant.
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Realizing the old Art Linklater Kids Say the Darndest Things was all staged is really sad for me.
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The Argonaut wrote:Realizing the old Art Linklater Kids Say the Darndest Things was all staged is really sad for me.
it was like finding out that lenny isn't real..
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doug rr wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Realizing the old Art Linklater Kids Say the Darndest Things was all staged is really sad for me.
it was like finding out that lenny isn't real..
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This guy on the news just said "lost hurray" instead of "last hurrah". Haha.
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stevie janowski might be my favorite tv character
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:stevie janowski might be my favorite tv character
Heck ya!
he's top 5 at least...i don't really have a list so i don't know what i'm talking about
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:stevie janowski might be my favorite tv character
Heck ya!
he's top 5 at least...i don't really have a list so i don't know what i'm talking about
I do a decent Stevie impression.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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that's good work, trag
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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