Why do they keep giving the word “streamers” new meanings??
A streamer is someone who streams, as in Twitch streamers.
But for some reason they started using it about the streaming services and now it’s also the people using streaming services to watch stuff…?Breaking: Streamers renamed Ribbons, totally unrelated streamers are up in arms
What’s up, streams. You been streaming today? I stream every day, stream on brother
Using it to describe streaming services isn’t new. For example, here’s a Variety article from 2019 that uses it that way.
I agree, I’ve always known them as subscribers, not streamers
That’s the usage you’re familiar with. But even if it was widely accepted at some point, the meaning can change over time. That’s normal, that’s what languages do. If you complain about shit like that, you sound like my 80 year old father.
Right, but part of that process is people thinking some of it is stupid and pushing back. Language isn’t immune to the pressures that form it.
Likewise, just because you know how something works doesn’t divorce you from the causal forces that bring it into being. The language changes because we change it. It’s okay to try to do it actively.
Because “streamers” existed before Twitch? 🤷♂️
Yeah for paper ribbons
If you say so…
Ha! Jokes on them! I’m middleaged, tired and depressed. I just watch the same shows over and over again.
Same! What are your shows? I’m always playing Seinfeld, Office, Arrested Development.
Agatha Christie’s Poirot is pretty great
Looks good! And it’s got 13 seasons. Thanks!
Mostly car restoration shows.
Since I had my daughter I dont have whole weekends to spend armpits deep in engine bays swearing at spanners.
Makes sense! I need to branch out for sure. I rewatch those shows all the time because I find them familiar and comfortable.
Bojack Horseman is good.
Sure it’s not Ibsen but it’s a perfectly serviceable depression re watch.
i started to watch shows that i was too busy to watch when i was younger… ie: i just finished watching the oc, i watched scrubs and degrassi for the first time during covid. i’m thinking of watching skins (uk) now.
Same. Star trek is always there for me.
This is the same issue i seem to have with Game Pass. All scrolling, no playing.
Same issue with my Steam library
I’m starting to just choose something that look good on the cover as quickly as possible and we where that leads me. Because I used to have the same issue. I have to say, this method has been good to me.
Broke out of this habit by forcing myself to have a handful of games I’m playing concurrently. Some that are right up my alley, others that are gems from outside of my typical interests, a few that are flyers. I try to pick from that group first before going to the libraries…but mainly because my library is out of control and everywhere. One thing that helps is Playnite as a launcher…that keeps all your libraries in one place and makes it really easy to manage.
The quality of shows they are outputting is quite worrying. They think they can get away without writers continuous input and it shows.
Netflix in particular I’ve gone from following many shows to only a few.
Surprise! It’s always been garbage! The 80s-2000s probably only have a couple dozens shows that were really big standouts. And Reality TV since the 2000s made a lot of content more available, so it drowns out even more quality shows.
I follow only about 5-8 shows a year anyways. Even less for movies now.
you know, I’ve got 2K movies on my jellyfin server, along with about 6K episodes. it takes me FOREVER to find something. Endless entertainment, and i still can’t find shit to watch.
Plex has a random button for movies and TV so often my friends/family and I will play a game I like to call the random game.
Everyone gets 1 veto, and any movie can be skipped by majority vote. Just keep hitting the random button until something sticks. Eventually you’ll hit a movie to watch, and it’s never failed to be a good time.
Bonus game is try to guess the movie first - unfortunately I usually win because I put the movies on there so I know the approximate list of options.
How much storage space do you have??
20TB. Small by comparison to some people.
Well, yeah, there is just so much junk “originals” on streaming services since the studios think the best way to gain subscribers is quantity over quality.
Back in the day, random bad movies are FUN to watch, but now, they are just bad in a boring way.
I don’t think anybody wants to attach their name to a bad show, people usually want to be proud of what they worked on. But of course, if the ones insists on pushing out as much “”““content””“”" as possible at the cost of people’s passion, treating people as disposable metrics to pump up the number of shows on your streaming service, then passionless “”““content””“” that nobody wants to watch is what you are going to get.
Support the strike, so that there is a possibility that after all this, people can refind their passion and make good, sincere, and human things again.
I joke that I pay 15 dollars a month to watch thumb nails of movie box art scroll by from right to left. I’ve thought a lot about this, why was it easier to find a movie to watch when you drove to a video rental store? I think it’s because there was a shift in how descriptions of movies were being done from Tape/DVD era to streaming. You’d get a few paragraphs and a few pictures on the back of a DVD or Tape, but on streaming you get one MAY BE two sentences. Plenty of times I passed by a movie on netflix called “The Devil’s Rock” the box art look like cinemax T’n’A garbage, and the description made it sound very run of the mill shitty horror relying on tits and shitty monster effects. I ended up watching the movie and I was really impressed on how well it was done and how god damn poor the description was.
I also think the move toward algorithms deciding every single fucking aspect of what we see across all platforms has had a huge part in this trend. When combined with the shitty non-helpful descriptions, the algorithm just randomly picks a fraction of whats available to show you in weird, always different categories. When you’d go to a video store, they had back stock, which was organized by genre. So you could walk in and just be in the mood for a horror movie, or a sci-fi movie and browse based on that interest. It’s a lot harder to browse based on genres on most streaming apps, Netflix used to let you look at a full list of genres but most streaming services have moved away from that.
So in summary, shitty descriptions for movies, ever shifting categories where you have little control in what you get presented. This makes the total available list of movies feel amorphous. No way to, or not easy to find genres to help narrow down based on a general mood. It’s ironic, we have more access to just about any movie you want, but it’s harder to actually settle on anything in particular. Also, the move toward streaming has meant that if a movie isn’t carried by any major platforms, it for all intense and purposes, doesn’t exist. For many years, it was very difficult to find Dogma any where to stream, as an example.
I could make suggestions on how to fix this, but I don’t know, maybe they’d help, maybe they wouldn’t. It doesn’t matter because all tech companies are in fucking love with their algorithms to steer users.
I have spent literal hours looking for something to watch.
This is why I like star trek. Finished watching TNG? Better watch DS9 again. Finished watching DS9? Well I haven’t seen Voyager in a while. Done with Voyager? Well I haven’t seen TNG in a while
In other news, record amounts of filler & dreck being endlessly firehosed onto streaming services.
No I’m not. I have a list of hundreds of movies to watch and I can almost always find what I want.
Sure, here at sea I don’t need to wait some stupid service to decide what I can watch and when. The open sea welcomes me and provides for me.
That’s why I don’t have any subscriptions running atm. I sub one month and watch the thing I want to. After that I’m tone again.
Just wait and see how streaming services will give special discounts for 24 month subscriptions in the near future. After VPNs and password sharing the monthly subscriptions will be the next thing that falls. Then we’v gone full circe to cable.
Meh, I don’t think cable will make a comeback, either. My roommate is a boomer and she still watches cable TV, and I can’t even stand to be in the room when it’s on.
I’d just watch nothing if streaming platforms were taken away. I’ll never go back to cable format.
Does anyone have a tool they recommend for choosing a movie to watch with friends? We usually spend ~30 minutes trying to find something everyone’s interested in watching that none of us have seen before.
I use a tool called Series Guide (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.battlelancer.seriesguide) to track the various series i am already watching/interested in. But for movies generally we add the to the list and then choose from it if we fancy a film. But I suspect as it’s usually just the two of us that’s an easier decision.
Even though I pay for a handful of streaming services I’m subscribed via RSS to a pirate scene releases log. If something catches my eye, which doesn’t really happen all that often, I add it to Radarr which downloads it to my home server / Plex. Other times me or my girlfriend add movies to Radarr due to word of mouth or some other reason.
This library is basically stuff we have an interest in watching so when we’re up for watching something it doesn’t take long to choose.
Gotcha yeah thnx, Plex + *rr apps are also what we use. We just spend ~30 minutes browsing Plex titles and collections 🤣
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