OnyxRex

I didn’t build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.

It’s not fully accurate to lay the blame at the feet of Netflix. At the time, they just saw the writing on the wall and did what they had to do to survive. Their catalog was massive because, early on, no one thought streaming would work. They had a massive collection of shows and movies that didn’t pull enough of an audience to air on TV for ad revenue. Netflix was able to get a TON of long-term deals that they used to grow, but when those contracts were coming due, the rights holders pulled out and started trying to make their own services. At that point, Netflix basically had to become a studio and pivot to original content, or else they wouldn’t have content at all. The long and the short of it is that because Netflix was first, it got to set the stage for the golden age of streaming, but because it worked, it was inevitable that streaming would become cable. It’s not Netflix’s fault. It’s just the course of the entertainment business. They suck now, but back then, I couldn’t think of a single bad thing to say about them… well, maybe that they got rid of the 5-star rating system. That system was definitely used to get demographics for their early programming.

I wish that me cancelling my subscription would do something. I just know that there will be new generations, new markets that will absorb the loss until they have new users and think of this as the new normal.

I watched so much scifi on Netflix back in the day. It was really an end of an era moment when they lost Star Trek.

It’s not that complicated Ed. I got a pretty clear picture from an hour of research. Maybe if you get out of your algorithm for 20 minutes you might find something more tangible on the situation than a few chapters from a dusty religious text and the word of a bunch of rich assholes with vested interests in the region.

legit first thought was Biff TV. as if Biff had a network in the movie but I don’t think he did.

I’m not dying for rich people that got power and decided to break literally every stabilizing thing in geopolitics so that they could make more money and then start a war to cover it up. I might die because of them, but there’s no way I’m dying for them. If they draft, I’m running. call me whatever you want.

I’ve reached a point where I can’t even list all the bs. I don’t even have to go international. I can just think about a dozen different half-remembered bs off the dome that happened here locally. I’m not fully versed in history, but I’ve also gotten to the point where I know enough to realize that humans suck. The ones that don’t are always destroyed by the ones that do. That scientist in 12 Monkeys had a point.

The thing that makes me tired; in a different time, That statement alone would have been enough to make people pause. Now it’s fake news. You can’t find common ground with people that don’t believe in documented historical facts.

It’s just wild to me that we got here. We had the most uncensored communication tool in generations and somehow still the shit heads showed up and stole it and figured out exactly what to say to make the idiots fall in line. It’s not new but I just thought that we had the ability to move beyond it. It breaks my heart. We could have been so much better but here we are repeating history.

What they did to force witches alone is heartbreaking. There was a moment, in Acolyte where I thought they might fix it but the show got cancelled. I’m not a toxic fanboy but damn if they don’t love taking old cannon, ripping it apart and then gluing it back together so it’s almost the same but not at all really. like busting up a sports car to build a wagon and it sucks to see.