smackmyballsoff
Netflix and Hulu, etc. Have left a bad taste in my mouth as well. Was a member when Netflix began and was only a DVD rental service.
They had so much good content and if it wasn’t available for streaming you could almost always just rent the DVD, they had a pretty decent DVD rental program for a while.
Wow, that all changed rapidly. Took a hiatus from streaming and only came back a couple years ago. Subscribed to Netflix again like “yeah! Gonna be 100× more shit than before!”
No, much of the best content was gone. The entirety of Netflix only provided less than a handful of shows I was even “meh” about. No more DVD rental either.
I watched squid games and that was pretty much it. Let that trial expire and began to explore different services.
Sheesh, wtf. Just to catch up on some old stuff and watch a few new things I’d been hyped about I realized required me to basically subscribe to damned near everything. AMC+ for TWD, Hulu for iirc workaholics, Netflix again for don’t remember, Amazon prime solely for The Boys and Omniman or whatever it’s called HBO max for iirc mortal Kombat Paramount for old south park And I’m positive I got at least two more.
That’s 8 subscription services a MONTH I’d have to pay, just to watch the equivalent of what I used to get on cable.
Of every single one of those trials, I don’t think I watched any more than the one show/movie I’d initially signed up for. Forgot I even had a few just because they didn’t have anything else I liked anytime I checked.
Then discovered a great site that I’m not sure if I can name here. This isn’t an ad for it because I don’t want to see it shut down.
Was everything that those services should be. Just have EVERYTHING I can think of to watch including older movies. Anytime I remember a show I used to like I just type it in and it’s always there, never had a search that didn’t yield results.
All that and the interface is even better. No ads with a blocker ofc, no subscription reminder Bs, no promoting their own originals, no promoting what companies have paid them to… they just show the most watched stuff in the feed but you can easily find whatever you want.
Even Netflix last I checked couldn’t keep up with that. They have a search function but 99% of the time what you’re looking for isn’t available. Their categories are also just… horrible. It’s just a hodgepodge of stuff they want you to watch, they aren’t really categorized well.
I really wish that we could rewind 20 or so years to back when Netflix first became successful and instead of just creating umpteen streaming companies competing against each other maybe… just maybe we had one single streaming platform with everything people actually want to watch…
But that would likely mean $100+ monthly subscription fees… worse than the cable we ran from, and then ofc they’d just have ads anyway like Hulu unless you pay even more… it’s ridiculous. If they’d just consolidate and ask a reasonable price pirating wouldn’t be so prevalent at all. Problem is, it’s now so much easier to pirate and in my case I get even better service that way.
It’d be a monopoly ofc, but isn’t it basically just a big Monopoly anyway? A select few companies basically run the entire industry in the U.S. sure they’re technically different companies but they have made it almost impossible for smaller companies to start up. How can you compete with Disney, for example?
This is a fun idea
1: Keister some fentanyl in, poison the food with fentanyl, set food outside hut.
Depending on the dosage it will either die or be very weak for a while.
2: refuse knife, demand shovel. Dig giant holes to trap it. Possibly fill holes with sharp sticks so it’s impaled or at least fucks up a foot or two. Bonus points for digging smaller holes all around the Hut then piss it off and watch it break it’s legs.
3: depending on how intelligent it really is, you could possibly get it to do it’s self great bodily harm. I caught an angry squirrel in a cage once. The squirrel just headbutted the cage over, and over and over. By the time I’d gotten to it it’d already busted it’s head open pretty horribly, like it hurt to watch. Didn’t stop it though, just kept headbutting that cage in a… rage? Not even “normal” headbutts, these were full body jumps from one side of the cage to the other. It was trying to use it’s head as a battering ram I guess. So maybe provoke the rex and run to your indestructible hut. Maybe it knocks itself senseless trying to get to you. Personally I wouldn’t bet my life on that but eh, you do you.
4: just… traps. Summon your inner Hunter. "What would kill this thing and how to I make that happen? Deep hole strategy again, collect some vines, scale a tree, hoist down with the vines above the hole and now you’re bait.
Idk
As was pointed out I guess I’d have to dig the holes close® to the indestructible hut.
Tie the knife to a long stick then wait for sleepy time… still idk how you’d go about getting away
If you could craft a shovel you could dig a deep hole and trap it maybe, then stick-knife it’s eyes out. Or a bunch of relatively small holes so it breaks a leg, maybe sprains an ankle and is weakened…
Oh this is actually a pretty decent idea!
Just dig deep a deep enough hole that it won’t be able to escape then lure it in.
Bonus points if you dig the hole down path from a creek then drown it, it’d have to be a pretty big hole though.
Once it’s stuck in the hole just tie the knife to a long stick and poke away.
Maybe sharpen a bunch of sticks and have them at the bottom of the hole so when it falls in it at least fucks it’s feet up or possibly is impaled depending on the size of stick.
Idk I’m starting to think fuck the knife, just give me a shovel, a month may be steep for such a big hole but I’ve done enough digging for a living to know it’s possible, if you’re motivated enough.
bonus: alternatively, dig relatively small holes everywhere so it breaks it’s legs
I tried to do that, somewhere between installing python, fit, bash, chocolatey, stable diffusion itself, the model, etc.
On the very last step, where I was waiting for it to say “running in 127.003” or w/e I got an error message that it somehow couldn’t access my GPU (maybe because it’s internal?). It gave me a command argument to place, --skip- cuda-test or something like that but I have no idea where to put it.
It definitely can be installed and used on the PC but isn’t as simple as just installing from an .exe, there are a lot of moving parts
Exactly. Not sure why cars are the exception other than profit
Though in retrospect I do retract, or admit maybe my view on only allowing cars that go to 70 mph is flawed, can’t hate on people that want fast cars, it’s up to them if they want to upgrade and have something nice, I do too, but it is definitely excessive