HBOMAX Is Dead, Long Live MAX…MAX Is Dead, Long Live HBOMAX

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Started watching Warrior on Max. I really like it
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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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Yeah it's fucking awful.
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tragabigzanda wrote:So ridiculously hard to play the latest episode of a show. Can immediately start watching the credits from the previous episode i watched, but if I want the latest, I have to scroll like six rows down, find the show, go to its landing page, then select the latest season (!), then scroll over to the latest episode.
And then if you start the last episode credits by accident, getting back to the show page that lists season/episodes needs even further technical skill. How can they be this bad at it?
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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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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:So ridiculously hard to play the latest episode of a show. Can immediately start watching the credits from the previous episode i watched, but if I want the latest, I have to scroll like six rows down, find the show, go to its landing page, then select the latest season (!), then scroll over to the latest episode.
And then if you start the last episode credits by accident, getting back to the show page that lists season/episodes needs even further technical skill. How can they be this bad at it?
It's like Hulu where you have to scroll down six times before you can continue the show you were watching the night before. Lame!
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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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Netflix content has obviously gone way downhill but it is still the gold standard in intuitive, fast, reliable UI. It is apparently really, really hard to pull that off.
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bart wrote:Netflix content has obviously gone way downhill but it is still the gold standard in intuitive, fast, reliable UI. It is apparently really, really hard to pull that off.
I think Disney Plus has the best UI/organization, but Netflix is good too.
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I’ve had no problem with the app called Max.
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Finally taking this for a spin. An annual spin.
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Starting Telemarketers.

Let’s see how this goes…
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watching Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God.

what a mess.
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dad wrote:watching Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God.

what a mess.
This is on our radar.
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oasisfan35 wrote:
dad wrote:watching Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God.

what a mess.
This is on our radar.
a lot of severely undiagnosed mental illness.
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dad wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:
dad wrote:watching Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God.

what a mess.
This is on our radar.
a lot of severely undiagnosed mental illness.
Sounds about right.

She's looking for something lighter, I think the run of The Bear and The Act along with some other heavy docs took a toll. I have it on the list but it might be a tick.
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Making my way thru the Stax documentary. Good, GOOD stuff.
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WB has to be the worst corporation of all these bad media corporations. Complete incompetence.
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:lol:

haha omg i wish we could read those marketing emails, see the agency brief, please
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