@ThanosReXXX yep, I'll be done with my pizza fasting on Easter. 😊 feel free to talk about pizza as much as you'd like. I was only kidding. But....... it does blow on my end not being able to eat it, but merely talk about it haha. Only another 10 days though!
@ThanosReXXX Whoops, yep, forgot to tag @Anti-Matter in my above post (or rather hit reply then changed tabs and started typing...I do that a lot...)
Some streaming stuff ads value. The music services are good. $10 ($8/mo if you pay for a year for Apple.....$20 is a bit more for the lossless services, but still, if you're a HUGE music listener or audiophile, you're going to spend at least $40 on CDs a month every month until you're dead anyway unless it comes down to choosing food vs music. So it's still a good value for the amount of music you can listen to for the price (whether critical listening or background music I probably have music on 10+ hours a day most days...imagine buying enough CDs to not get tired of stuff? And it opens the door to discovering tons of stuff since terrestrial radio is looooong dead (TOP 20 hip-hop 4lief, yo! No thanks....) Netflix, if you watch a lot of different shows/films and don't like repeating...that's good value at, what $10/mo for basic for them? I'm all for digital disposable services if they offer a value for dollars spent for time used.
But this TV stuff....it's garbage....padded with non-stop ads, where even the content itself is mostly an ad now....and the price keeps going UP. And it's still crazy popular? I never understood cable in the 80's at those prices, and I still don't get it now at these prices. Except the content was better back then.
I'm also suprised at Google going all in on "one size fits all Comcasti-style bundle" and becoming a most expensive option. Google always thrived on free or near-free everything and market disruption. "Most premium tier product" is not a good look for Google. Even with the YouTube brand. Backlash from this might finally stir a real competitor again (or just boost Sling.) Makes me wonder what they plan to charge for gaming....I figure $20/mo for the first 18 months, then they just slam everyone with $75 after they own the market and rename it "YouTube Games." Google's getting greedy(er.) It's weird move for them. Why not just go with PS Vue or DirecTV for those prices for most of their audience? I imagine nobody went with YTTV because it was the best option, they went because it was cheaper. It's so weird.
(note that YTTV and the other services here are TV services (cable replacements) not on-demand services like Netflix. Like your iTV. This is for TV with the commercials included where you can't get free over the air TV (like most of the US....) Or for all the channels you can't get beyond NBC/CBS/ABC/Fox.) So with this we're talking about from $35-55 for "real TV" that's part of the world.....and now dropping that (once again) entirely. No more world. I'll curl up in my bubble. After this price hike I effectively have no TV access, ONLY games and discs (and music.)
@NintendoByNature Ah, reacted much too serious to that, then. So much for playing the understanding elder, then...
@NEStalgia Although I do use Spotify, albeit not very often, I just don't like the disposable and "all available" nature of it all. It does completely cater to the whole "I want it here and I want it now" attitude of a large portion of today's society, so no wonder it's so popular and in demand, but it's just not for me.
Like with the food example I gave to @NintendoByNature, I like everything and anything that I consume, including music, TV, movies and games, to hold some value, and when you're just dropped into a space where all is available whenever you want, like a kid in a candy store, then I either simply lose my appetite, or I'm gonna grow really tired of it, real fast. Or like eating some special food every day, it all becomes a whole heck of a lot less special than when you only eat it once a month, or only a couple of times a year.
Back to music: I'm not really a massive collector in that respect, and I haven't bought any new stuff on CD's in decades. Downloaded quite a bit, though...
But even back in the day, when I used to buy CD's on a regular basis, it was only a few CD's per month, sometimes even these mini CD's, with just a couple of songs on them.
As for streaming: don't kid yourself into thinking there's no commercial ingredient there. And far as I'm concerned, the concept itself is far more nefarious: TV commercials are transparent in that respect. They're in your face, and they're just always there, every day. Streaming services on the other hand, secretly gather all your information, and build databases with them, to make their services even more addictive than they already are. Me? I'm just too smart of a marketing guy to fall for those kinds of shenanigans...
Normal commercials never bothered me, not then and not now. Like I said before, I just use them to be able to take a stroll to the bath room, get a drink, or something to eat. Also prevents me from continuously sitting on my lazy @ss for the entire evening...
Prices are still pretty decent here in general, so that must be a US thing. My current bundle includes high speed internet, interactive TV with additional plus package (more channels), a landline telephone connection and a data bundle for my smart phone. For all of that together, I pay €62,50 a month, which equates to around $70.33. There are no additional costs, so that's just the regular amount I pay every time.
I never got binge watching either. At most, I'm able (and more importantly: willing) to watch 4 episodes of any series I follow at any one time. I just don't enjoy spoiling an entire evening watching the same stuff, and besides that, most series always start with: "last time, on ...." rehashing what you've just seen minutes ago for the umpteenth time. Of course, I immediately imagine you saying "yeah, well, you can fast forward that bit, so that's really not a problem".
But that's just the thing: I don't WANT to have to do extra stuff, to not get annoyed at things like that, because that in turn would also annoy me, making me twice as annoyed...
And TV shows, as they are still called, are often tailored to being aired only once a week. It's clear from the entire format, and like with the food reference I made earlier a couple of times, I find that I look forward to watching them more, if I stick to the once a week thing that happens when you watch normal TV. It creates excitement and anticipation. On demand is like getting all the presents that you normally get at specific times in a year, all at once, ruining surprises, and severely diminishing its worth, far as I'm concerned.
For example: right now, I'm watching the latest season of The Black List. Love that show. After an episode is finished, I'm sometimes bummed about how it ended, or that I have to wait another week to be able to find out what happens next, but it also creates a positive kind of tension/expectation/excitement/anticipation/whatever, which for me personally, would fade away completely, if I could just binge watch the now still remaining 7 episodes of the current season.
And then what would I do with the time I have left every Wednesday around 9.30pm? I could of course watch another show, but there isn't any on TV on that time slot on any of the channels that I frequently watch, and as I already explained, I'm not about to pay extra to be able to add extra services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO or whatever to my interactive TV bundle, just so I can have even more to watch.
I've got more than enough to watch already, and watching stuff on the day that it is supposed to air, just makes it more of a positive experience for me, and something that I enjoy and savor far more than stringing all of it together in one single marathon session...
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@ThanosReXXX Truthfully, for music, the biggest problem isn't so much that it represents a poor value for consumers so much as that it's too much value and probably can't last forever....artists get peanuts (or less) out of it...that isn't sustainable. For consumers it's outrageous value. Which means we KNOW it can't last. Yeah, it's "disposable" but so much music is transient in nature because there's always more. There's that handful of albums you come back to for 30 years....but that's a small subset, and there's ever so much music out there to hear. To a large degree it replaces radio, mostly. In a month I listen to probably 1000+ tracks via these services that I'd have never heard because radio is dead and the middle of the night AM stations that used to have ecclectic stuff are long gone, replaced by Clear Channel robo-generated top-40 playlists in Houston playing in every city at once, and only playing the most marketable stuff. So where listening to a radio used to be viable, it's now a pay-for thing (but with tons more selection and higher quality.) Generally I'm in your camp with disposable society..but..that's one area where the value is very real and kind of replaces the role of an old-world service that mostly no longer exists (albeit better, but also more expensive, and conveniently can replace disc purchases unless it's special as well.)
I like your food example, though. I feel that way about a great many things. It's true to a point. Though music being a little different...there's what, 48M tracks on these services now? Granted I like only a portion of the genres, of course, but I could never hear it all in my lifetime, so instead of limited by money it becomes limited by time and focus.... I come back to the ones that are special, time and time again (and of course you can purchase the digital album through the same services. DRM-less digital so it's your own files to own, of course )
As for addictive streaming. I don't know. Well, music is addictive to me, streamed or not, and you generally want it to build your database so you can throw it into radio mode and it creates continuous radio out of what you likely want...that's as designed, not strictly commercial (other than that it does actually make a quality product you want to keep buying.) Video...I can't comment. I've never actually paid for a streaming service, and I'm not really interested in them...they'd be hard to addict me anyway. (Google TV is a cable-over-internet service, not an on demand streaming service.)
Cable prices...wow...all taht for $70-something?! Here you're looking at, generally, $80-120 for the basics packages. But that $80 is just for year 1, then goes up to the 120 later. That doesn't include taxes, fees, access charges, etc that generally add another $20-30. And that most definitely doesn't include your cell...that's another $40-60. So for landline, smartphone, internet, and TV, you're going to be looking at $140 for year 1 up through closer to $160-200 most of the time. Varies by region of course.
" On demand is like getting all the presents that you normally get at specific times in a year, all at once, ruining surprises, and severely diminishing its worth, far as I'm concerned."
This Direct sucked! We already knew about everything in it from the leaks! They should have saved something for E3!
I've binged only 2 or 3 series...generally sci-fis that ran 6 to 8 seasons with 22 episodes a year.....so it still took months to work through the series that way. And of course I was watching it on discs I bought, not streamed...it was some time ago It was fun...and the series was so good I wanted to do it again but never had the time. They're free with Amazon now....and I still can't see myself doing it again.
I do miss the old way the world was scheduled. Not for $50/mo though. Google can shove it. But I miss when EVERYTHING was scheduled. Meeting up with people? You have a designated location to be at at a designated time. Calls must be scheduled at designated times. It SOUNDS less convenient than the modern world of "just grab your cell phone and do everything on the fly"....but it was MORE convenient. Back then everyone was on the same page. X event happens in X place at X time and everyone is prepared for that same result. Meet up at spot X at X time, and everyone made sure to be at X place at X time. Now it's randomly "just call so and so, tell him to go here, no change the plan, tell him to go there then, and change the time..." The result is noise of everything trying to do everything their own way, pull everyone else into doing things their own way on their most convenient time/location, and the dominant personality controls the group. The most selfish person gets what they want because they just force everyone to accommodate their random whims, and planning gives way to frustration. The disciplined person always loses, the haphazard person always wins. Similarly with on-demand, everyone lives in a bubble of their own rather than what used to be a simpler, less varied, but shared experience among the public.
Music, however, still is different. It was never unifying in that sense, not even in the early Hi-FI days of the 1950's. It was always a personal thing "on-demand" (unless it's a concert which hasn't changed.)
@NEStalgia I think I can agree on your music analogy and point of view, so not much to argue where that is concerned, but of course there are daily shows, with certain DJ's one might like, and then there's also stuff like the weekly top 40/top 50 radio broadcasts. Over here, these are usually broadcasted on Fridays or Saturdays, so that was/is also something to look forward to, depending on your personal music preference, obviously.
So, in that way, it actually IS kind of unifying, in that all people listen to that together, and at the same time. And especially with radio shows, you have the interactivity with the DJ and/or presenters, often enough giving people the opportunity to phone in and get their 2 minutes of fame on national radio...
But besides that, music was, is and will always be a personal and on-demand kinda thing, thanks in large part to decades of all kinds of commercially available media, meaning that having access to a collection of personally chosen music/sound tracks has practically always been there, ever since the His Master's Voice Gramophone...
No, wait, these were preceded by wax rolls, so I think we might even come close to covering well over a century and a half in personalized music collections...
Moving along...
It would also seem that we at the very least share a (partial) sentiment on how things were, and/or are supposed to be. I wanted to add that to the previous comment, with my series example, but I forgot. Long story short: Wednesday night is Black List night for me, and I look forward to that every week, much like I do with any other series or program that I like to watch. Screw the bingers and their disposable nothingness... (your example of binging your own bought physical media notwithstanding. That's different, and something I've also done on occasion, especially with older series)
But just for a minute, imagine if they would in the future be able to do the same to sports broadcasts...
Oh, the horror...
Luckily, that will never happen, so the shortcomings of real life and human capacity/ability come in real handy there, making Saturdays and Sundays the only worthwhile soccer evenings for fans over here. Unless of course there's a UEFA tournament or a World Cup going on...
And yes, streaming is definitely supposed to be/tailored to be addictive. Could of course be that it doesn't work on you either, much like how it doesn't work on me, but it certainly does work for the majority of the general audience/hapless victims. Suggestions popping up in your searches, emails and what not, and all kinds of other tactics to push their content towards the target audience in a tailor-made format. Like watching CSI? Then you might also like... or "here's another 200 similar suggestions"...
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@ThanosReXXX I miss real shows with real DJs. They don't do that anymore. They have the "morning zoo" garbage with obnoxious fake perky personalities...or barebones "read the script and try to sound excited" channels that make Forza's radio stations positively delightful by contrast. But nothing like the old old days of known DJs that really spun mixes and programs to entertain and surprise and add some character to it. Deep tracks, new stuff off the beaten trail. It was cool. They just have personalities to fill in the ad spots and generically introduce computerized playlists on repeat.
Oddly, streaming is the last place you can get real DJs. Apple Music famously/infamously has Beats 1 Radio....where the DJs are supposed to be the highlight...but one radio station, worldwide, for all formats, makes no sense. And there's of course SiriusXM that's chock full of DJs (which is ironic, as XM debuted as mostly being commercial and interruption free, Sirius was all in on personalities....) They charge like a cable company though. That's cool they still have it over there, though I shouldn't be surprised considering the other kind of DJs (nightclub/electronic/dance/composers, I.E. Martin Garrix, Avicii, etc.)) seem to unanimously be from there....there seems to be value on that kind of music presentation of a person to attach to the music that was lost here some time ago.
I think dance stations in general though still do the "DJs live at the club on Friday nights" thing....I haven't tuned in, and I think the last real dance station here in my area became another hip-hop station some time ago.
Haha, yeah, and before the gramophones, there were the music boxes with copper disks/plates etc. Such a shame they were mostly all thrown into the ocean when the gramophone came out. Humanity never changes....
Ahh, Black List is one of the few modern TV shows that actually has piqued my interest in the ads. I haven't actually seen an episode, to date, but it does look intriguing. And I like James Spader, so his role made me interested.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure EA is probably working on a way of just using Frostbite to replace the weekly matches...
It's funny how none of the addiction stuff works on me. Music it does but I'm actively trying to train the engine to recommend more things within my interests because I actively want to find them. The different algorithms for discovery are why I have 4 services at the moment But yeah, video...it just doesn't work on me. YTTV sent me monthly emails with things I might watch. I actually did set the DVR mode to record the Michael Jackson animated Halloween special.....because it was just so bizzarre sounding I had to find out what it was...but then I never actually watched it and they delete your recordings after 6 months so it's probably gone (in my last month of membership....) For video I'm very much into "if I don't already know I want to watch it, I probably don't". Maybe if I weren't a gamer, I"d find it more appealing.
I don't subscribe to any sort of TV service; the only entertainment service of any sort that I subscribe to is Spotify. Games and some occasional (free) YouTube compose the vast majority of my screen entertainment. I have no desire to watch most shows these days barring reruns of cartoons I enjoy(ed).
Cable seems like a waste of money IMO. You can thank my parents for that; there were maybe a dozen channels we watched with the basic Dish package they had, and to me the channel balancing was inconsistent. There was a ton of Nickelodeon for example, but no Cartoon Network stuff barring Boomerang (which was fine). I don't find it necessary to pay for a bloated package that I'd barely use and STILL comes with commercials. There were even a ton of pointless infomercial channels.
...Though sometimes it was fun to go back into the nosebleed channels and make fun of the...erm...ADULT titles of some of those that you had to pay extra for....
I've considered getting Netflix and Hulu time and again, particularly since the latter is available with my Spotify plan right now. The problem is, if I'd get them, then I'd feel obligated to watch them to get my money's worth....
I was reminded how much I HATE public radio the other day though. I normally rotate CDs but didn't have any in the car at the time. Not only are the ads, boring talk shows, and sports coverage rampant, but few stations around here play what I'm into. I've tried getting Spotify to run in my car off the phone since the car came with basic Bluetooth/hands-free capabilities, but I haven't been able to make it read from anything other than my phone's actual music folder.
I suppose Sirius XM is an option, but I like having more control over what I listen to.
@ThanosReXXX I consider myself a member of the text wall club here, though I've gravitated away from huge posts a bit. I browse this site on mobile 90-95% of the time, so typing a text wall takes forever. XD That huge post was composed on my laptop last night and still, with some proofreading, took about half an hour. And that's WITHOUT fighting the autocorrect and auto-complete on my phone....
I try not to do "one more try" evenings on weeknights too often since that directly affects my performance and mood in my line of work. I'm not a morning person to begin with and normally spend the first hour or so of my weekdays in a perpetual state of blah. The last time I recall gaming into the wee morning hours was at a point when I was playing The Wind Waker over a year ago.
@NEStalgia Wait, what? Haven't seen any episode of The Black List yet? Well, then you've sure got some binge watching to do, if you ever decide to dive in, since right now, they're in their sixth season.
And obviously, I am most certainly going to recommend it to you. It's one of the series that I've remained interested in for its entirety. Nowadays, a lot of series kinda lose inertia, steam or whatever after the second or third season, becoming all samey and what not, but the writers/directors of The Black List somehow manage to keep things both familiar and still fresh and exciting with each following season.
I don't know if this season is going to be the last, since there's still 7 episodes to go, but all in all, it's been a very fun and entertaining, and exciting ride so far, so if you're even remotely interested in crime/suspense/police/secret service taskforce drama, then you could most certainly do worse than watch The Black List.
And even without the wonderful James Spader, who's acting out the role of one of the leading characters fantastically well, with stellar performances at times, the show as a whole is just solid, with a number of highly interesting premises (also interesting for conspiracy theorists, by the way), and interesting characters and character relations, which are expanded and built upon with each following season.
But yeah, it's probably if not definitely Spader's best role ever, and even though he's a hardened criminal, and is evil through and through, you still grow fond of him while watching. He's the proverbial love to hate/hate to love 'em kinda character, so most of the time, you're always torn between feeling shocked at how he could do that to <insert certain character> and admiring him for the intricate and devious way in which he pulled it off...
Funny thing is that if you're completely drawn into an episode, you're putting that on the character, while obviously, it's actually the highly talented writers behind the wonderful acting, who make the characters do what they do in the first place. The wonderfully entertaining acting qualities of the entire cast is (are?) actually just the cherry on top. But what a cherry it is...
Go watch it now, or at least put it in your "to watch" list. Trust me, you won't regret it.
Long time ago, when I was still 16 years old, I was captivated by NYPD Blue somehow. Also, i have ever watched Michael Hayes (by David Caruso). At that moment, i created my own Police detectives team after i created some random characters from my scrap paper. It was B.S.P.D. stands for Blue Star Police Department, starred by 5 main protagonists: Edward Georges, Jennifer White, Dr. Marc Drummond, Charlie Vaughan & Clark Hugo.
I changed the name into B.P.P.D. (Blue Phoenix Police Department) when i was working at my school now, 3 years ago.
Btw....
My characters have very DARK background history when i created for the first time after i watched CSI Miami and New York when i was 20's years old.
To tell you, here is my character background history before i changed completely into more kids friendly background.
1. Edward Georges
The main protagonist. He is 28 years old. His father was a captain police before he was killed by a murderer that Edward saw him by his eyes. But, apparently the murderrer was never founded after the incident and somehow it drove him to avenge his father dies by joining in police department. He has younger brother Edmond Georges, 10 years younger than him and he was still in Edward's Mom tummy when his father was killed. His mother is a cafe owner. Edward work as leader of detective police to support his sibling's college and his Mom. Edward is very good at shooting, sometimes he called as "Bullet Boy" for his high accuracy shooting range. He's expert in identifying non-living things, ballistic and handwriting.
Changes: His father was died from accident during patrol when he was 10 years old and Edmond was still not yet born. In this version, i add with his geek hobby as a video gamer. He tends to play video games with his boss Dr. Marc Drummond after working time. 😁
2. Jennifer White
The only female character in my team. She is an "Unlucky in Love" 29 years old woman with platinum blonde hair and blue eyes who oftenly failed to get her permanent boyfriend for unknown reasons. She apparently have managed a lover but her boyfriend's parents didn't agree with their relationship. After broke up, she got a new boyfriend but this 2nd time boyfriend was a traitor and he sent into jail after that. Finally, after she found another boyfriend (3rd time), she have managed to engagement at the end of story. She is working as detective police with her skills as DNA Queen for her outstanding Biology knowledge from animals until plants.
Changes: Not so many, i just removed the traitor boyfriend. She is still looking for a boyfriend in this version.
3. Dr. Marc Drummond
The boss, deputy chief and former of medical examiner. He is 52 years old, living with his 18 years old daughter. His wife was sent into jail due to illegal drugs business. He is the only black skinned character in B.P.P.D. He is a tech savvy, expert in operating machines, gadgets and encoding the system. He's also expert in identifying dead bodies conditions. Somehow, he still have conflicts with his wife even she has sent into jail and he found his wife was planning for undercover illegal business from prison.
Changes: His wife was lost during accident on their vacation. Dr. Marc is still trying to find his lost wife. Apparently, his wife founded still alive at the end of story.
4. Charlie Vaughan
A handsome 32 years old captain police with platinum blonde hair, blue eyes and friendly smile. He was the 7th kids in his family at German. His name was Charlie Ziebhen when he was young but later he changed his last name into Vaughan after he decided to move out from his luxury life to live with his uncle on North America at 13 years old. He was bulied when he was at High School until it droves his second personality as a cold blooded people, made him attack the bullier brutally until he killed them by accidentally. He was terrified and want to end his life, but after he got some theraphy and second chance to continue his education at College, he joined in police department as Rookie when he was 22 years old. Apparently, he has managed into Captain Police to lead his troopers in counter-terrorism, negotiations, arresting the criminals and homicide cases. He likes young kids and easily to befriend with kids, especially for the cases that involve kids as victim. He has outstanding Judo skills and shooting. He has two personality, one as very friendly guy and other is his darkside as a cold blooded guy when he is triggered with his worst nightmare.
Changes: I changed him as a cheerful guy with pessimistic behaviour when he is completely under pressure.
5. Clark Hugo
The only Asian member in my team. He was born in Guangzhou with his Chinese name Zhang Wu Ke. His parents died by accident and his auntie adopt him with very rude and strict discipline. Clark was a spoiled brat when he was a kid, couldn't treat anything seriously and crybaby. But, the strict disipline from his auntie built him into very serious guy and lack of sense of humour as his auntie hates something funny. He oftenly called as Mr Strict or Mr No Smile due to his attitudes. As a 36 years old of Detective police supervisor and interrogator, he is an expert in Drugs, chemical things and fingerprints. He stayed in apartment with his auntie when he moved to North America and changed his Chinese name into Clark Hugo, but his auntie got serious stroke as she couldn't move at all and have to stay on her wheelchair with her nanny when Clark have to work. During the story, he got a warning message from mysterious guy who has set bombs inside his appartment and will explode in 10 minutes. But before Clark able to get into his apartment, the bombs destroyed his apartment and killed his auntie and the nanny. In the end, he has managed to arrest the mysterious guy.
Changes: Still same smileless Clark Hugo but his auntie cannot walk due to her age, no stroke.
Phew....
That's very loooooong explanation from me.
Sorry if the reply is too long. 😅
@Tyranexx Aha, I see. Hence also the adult titles reference in your previous comment, then.
Kinda makes you wonder why that is, though. Is it because they're an afterthought, or do they want you to really make an effort to find them? Kinda reminds me of how the adult magazines were always either on the top or bottom shelf in the store, so that people would definitely see you reaching for that latest issue of Playboy and such...
By the way: just out of curiosity, but how does one make fun of adult titles?
@Anti-Matter Don't worry about the long explanation. It wasn't bad to read, and the drawings are good, as always, so compliments for that, but they're still chibi, so regardless of the somewhat more adult explanation and backgrounds (which do mostly sound like your standard crime series fare, to be honest), that massively takes away from the characters being able to be perceived as dark, much less more adult-oriented. Well, for me anyway.
So, in short, I'm still quite surprised that you like to watch several CSI series, since they contain just about everything that you always claim to be so aggressively against, so it's actually pretty much against your own beliefs to watch them.
And then condemning games for doing the same and not wanting to play those for those very reasons is now even more ridiculous than it already was, so no wonder that both me and @NEStalgia were kind of amazed at this.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX
Oh, Chibi style of my B.S.P.D. was the plot revision version.
Before that, i drew them in Normal realistic size.
It was before 2009 until i changed my drawing style into Chibi started from year 2009.
And about CSI, it was the only rated 16+ thing i "allowed" long time ago before i changed my entertainment references after CSI Miami and NY ended. And don't worry, i still can embrace the LGBT things from some America's Next Top Model cycles (Some episodes were rated 16+ due to sexual references like kissing, nude photoshoot, LGBT theme, etc)
@Anti-Matter I love those drawings! While I definitely have the imagination needed for art, I don't have the talent. XD I can churn out something halfway decent if I take my time with it, but I definitely couldn't live off of my art lol.
@ThanosReXXX Yep, I think their channel placement was primarily to make them difficult to find. As for the titles, some of the phrases and so on used to describe them were...well...weird. Pronouncing acronyms (like reading "lol" as "lawl", which I did in my early internet days) also helped make it entertaining.
Man, I really hope Yo-Kai Watch 3 goes through a physical reprint here. From what I can tell the initial run was pretty limited; it's sold out everywhere except Amazon, where the prices are in my "definitely not worth it" category. I want the game, but I'm not a collector willing to pay over 200% of the MSRP.
@Link-Hero
Um...
That was my preferences long time ago when i was around 20's years old before i changed my preferences to more kiddie as i grew up.
But i still did the same treatment for gaming rules, still play until rated Teen games.
Well, got a wedding to go to tonight for my buddy. Have to take a half day off work since its quite the drive and it starts at 5. At least on the bright side, open bar 😉
@Anti-Matter Yeah, those are more my style, and more believable as troubled characters. I can understand, to a certain point, your change in style, but I for me, small puppets looking like children just can't replace actual adult characters, so to put a heavy emotional story on chibi dolls just doesn't seem fitting to me.
But hey, it's all personal preference, and we can't all be or like the same, so that's okay.
As for the modeling/LGBT thing: I never had any doubt that you would be okay with that, so that bit was more or less stating the obvious. We already know about your somewhat outlandish tastes, after all...
The only acronym that looks like that, and which I am okay with, is LBT, as in Lettuce, Bacon and Tomatoes. On a sandwich. Other than that, I like real women. Adult ones, with some shape in their body. Huge pass on the stick figure models. Those aren't normal.
@Tyranexx Well, that was actually even more puzzling of an answer than what I had expected, and I literally have no idea what I should imagine concerning titles or phrases, and far as I know, but I'm certainly no expert or anything, even adult films don't have words or acronyms as "lol" in their title.
But I probably misunderstood that part. Well, it's either that, or I must really brush up on my 18+ movie knowledge.
Anyway, I figure you can't really explain it more clearly here, lest someone starts swinging the ban hammer, so I guess we just leave it at that. Some mysteries will forever remain...
As for the location of those channels: must be a universal thing, because over here, it's the same.
I don't even have 600 channels on my set top box, but there they are, well into the 600 and somethings...
@Link-Hero Well, that is a bit harsh, isn't it? We can't all be the same, and Anti here is kind of a typical character, like you don't come across every day, but a hypocrite? Meh...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
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