• Ultragramps
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      🎶 We’re villains and black sheep, very bad eggs 🎶

  • @[email protected]
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    236 months ago

    They (all) just keep increasing prices. I’m sitting here with no subscription to anything and waiting for the day when this business model crumbles. Everyone complains they can’t afford groceries, can they afford entertainment?

    • @Pavidus
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      Yes. Because when life sucks, you need something to take your mind off of your problems. I agree that we should vote with our wallets, but for the most part, those willing to continue paying far outweigh us waiting to watch it all fall.

      Furthermore, that’s a vast difference in cost comparisons.

  • partial_accumen
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    The price hike follows Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney’s decision to bundle their streaming services, Disney+, Max and Hulu. The bundle will be available in both ad-supported and ad-free tiers. While the pricing has not been disclosed, CNBC reported that it will be offered at a discount in an effort to make it a more desirable option.

    Whats even cheaper than bundling is only subscribing to one at a time and canceling before subscribing to the next one. Rotating services make for a pretty cheap monthly streaming bill.

    • Flying Squid
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      256 months ago

      I know what be cheaper than that, matey. We’ll be talkin’ about it over at the Filthy Whore over a flagon o’ grog.

    • @[email protected]
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      106 months ago

      Even better is your monthly streaming bill being $10 in electricity and a $5 VPN subscription (if you’re in a country where your ISP sends angry letters and you don’t opt for Usenet instead)

      • SeaJ
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        56 months ago

        They will send angry letters about damn near anything too. I made the mistake of not having my Windscribe VPN turned on on my tablet while torrenting an exam book I didn’t feel like waiting for at the library. 6MB which took a split second to get and I got a nice angry letter.

  • @[email protected]
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    They’re in for a rude awakening if they think they can leverage :: checks notes:: 🤣🤣House of the fucking Dragon🤣🤣 into a price increase without losing subscribers.

    Come on guys if you’re going to do this shit at least try it with a good show first.

    • @TheTetrapod
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      66 months ago

      I thought HotD was pretty universally praised? I liked it.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        The potential problem is they waited too long to make season 2 and killed the momentum. Wednesday on Netflix is in the same boat.

  • Flying Squid
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    156 months ago

    Hmm… what to do… what to do…

  • @[email protected]
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    126 months ago

    Capitalism is destroying itself. It’s happening slowly, but on a long enough timeline, it can be observed. I don’t know that it’ll implode in my lifetime, but it’s certainly well on its way.

  • @[email protected]
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    106 months ago

    TIL Warner Brothers owns HBO.

    Totally did not know that. I know that AT&T sold it but didn’t realize Warner Brothers bought it.

    • HonkyTonkWoman
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      WB has always had ties to HBO & has traditionally focused on showing WB content.

      Discovery, Scripps, Time Warner & HBO were all tied up in the Discovery-AT&T merger.

      HBO is now part of Warner Media, which is part of Warner Discovery.

    • prole
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      26 months ago

      That’s why we went from an app with incredible HBO shows and movies, to Max which is full of Discovery channel “reality” TV garbage.

  • FenrirIII
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    15 months ago

    That free (ad-free) MAX subscription from my ISP is the best decision I have made in a while.