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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.catoFunny@sh.itjust.worksMe either
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    20 hours ago

    I legit think streaming sites have become worse than video rental places.

    It seemed like a big advantage that you could have unlimited number movies on a streaming site while a video rental store had limited shelf space. But it turns you you have to scroll through endless pages of crap to try to find something you actually want to watch.

    Also the shops would eventually have any movie you want to watch. With streaming sites many things will never appear there because the corporation that owns the movie owns their own streaming site and will keep it exclusive to them. In the past it wasn’t a thing where you’d have to keep track of which video rental shop had the rights to rent the movie you want to watch.

    There was a time when it was just Netflix and pretty much anything would come on there eventually. That killed video rental. But it’s been a long time since you could find everything on one streaming site, and it’s gotten to be more expensive and time consuming to find a good movie to watch, so going to a video rental shop might actually make more sense now. But they’re all gone now.

    Luckily there are websites with dubious legality you can find everything on. I’m willing to pay for a streaming site that’s actually convenient, but they don’t exist anymore, just like Blockbuster.





  • It’s difficult for people that have just learned to hate to come to terms with the fact that their allies are complete monsters.

    Yeah, the guys that chant “death to Israel” might not be good people. Go figure. They might actually be oppressive assholes using hatred to control people. What’s the term for an authoritarian regime that uses hatred and fear to control people? Damn, right on the tip of my tongue…

    But don’t think too much about what it means to be in a group that hates a certain group of people (but it’s a country of people, and also the people that think that country should exist you hate, so it’s cool to hate!) and then your allies have just killed 12,000 protesters in a week. Just keep on hating the people you’re supposed to hate and don’t ever think about things!