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Melmac posted:I just saw the most ridiculous Sears commercial ever while watching Hulu My grandma worked for Sears back in the 60s and 70s. She still buys Kenmore poo poo and service plans to this day...
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thathonkey posted:This is a pretty weird position to hold. Goons really can hate anything You just know that there's a goon out there who is angry at the moon or something equally dumb
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Feb 29, 2016 18:42
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Cyril Sneer posted:What? How much music do you listen to? There's lots of small-time artists whose material is only available through Spotify, with no YouTube presence at all. At best, maybe a fan uploads a track or two. None of the smaller artists I listen to currently have Spotify exclusive deals so I've never really noticed this. I guess Spotify has something, then!
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Feb 29, 2016 19:05
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Professor Shark posted:You just know that there's a goon out there who is angry at the moon or something equally dumb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adz4rbKSsDI
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Feb 29, 2016 19:06
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Professor Shark posted:You just know that there's a goon out there who is angry at the moon or something equally dumb I for one think tides are HORSE poo poo
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Feb 29, 2016 19:07
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Professor Shark posted:You just know that there's a goon out there who is angry at the moon or something equally dumb loving tides. fake edit: ^^^^^^^^ loving A MAN
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Feb 29, 2016 19:11
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Sydin posted:It's not a public company but Spotify is probably going to eat poo poo in the next year or two. It was one thing when they were losing money hand over fist as the only game in town, but now they're losing money hand over fist and Apple Music is stealing all their paying subscribers. though 'm a bit tired of hearing "Well.. the thing is.. I was just wondering if you wanted to...." "Lost for words? Share a song!" ad every 5 minutes.
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Feb 29, 2016 19:12
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Xaris posted:Where do you see this? I loving love Spotify (and gently caress Pandora, I'm glad that poo poo is dying) so I hope they stick around without slowly bleeding out their entire music library (which is insanely comprehensive and good). I don't know anyone using Apple Music either. i wonder if companies are ever going to stop the "hey, X is successful! let's make our own version of X!" idea. it happened with netflix and with steam and the only thing those things achieved was fragment the user base. like who even bothers with Origin/whatever that thing ubisoft made on their computer?
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Xaris posted:Where do you see this? I loving love Spotify (and gently caress Pandora, I'm glad that poo poo is dying) so I hope they stick around without slowly bleeding out their entire music library (which is insanely comprehensive and good). I don't know anyone using Apple Music either. Because Spotify is losing a lot of money, and have been losing money for as long as they've been around. They've been propped up by investor cash for most of their existence, but if Apple Music eclipses them a lot of the investors will get spooked and run. As other goons have pointed out, it's not really Spotify's fault. Rates & royalties for streaming services are completely and utterly hosed, and Apple is taking advantage of their first party nature and sticking Apple Music front and center of every device they sell. Also they've got billions upon billions of dollars in assets and can afford to run their music streaming service at a loss in perpetuity until the RIAA gets dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
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Feb 29, 2016 19:32
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Captain Yossarian posted:Yeah I don't get that I guess. Who actively hates radio? I do as well, I used to work for a factory and we weren't allowed to use earbuds to listen to our own music, so we had to listen to radio. Radio sucks because it's poo poo music, fucktarded hosts and enormous amounts of lovely commercials, furthermore the public service channels without commercials have even more retarded hosts and even shittier music. So thank god for Spotify and other streaming services, I can't wait for the radio to die. Sydin posted:Because Spotify is losing a lot of money, and have been losing money for as long as they've been around. They've been propped up by investor cash for most of their existence, but if Apple Music eclipses them a lot of the investors will get spooked and run. That's just because they are still growing massively, once they settle down they will make a sizeable profit.
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Ah drat. That's too bad. I really do like Spotify and I think it's impressing that they've managed to get as much music as they have, like virtually everything is on there. Not looking forward to ever using itunes on PC.
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I guess I always listen to NPR or the BBC on radio? No smugness intended, I guess I could see not liking radio, but eh
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Business Gorillas posted:i wonder if companies are ever going to stop the "hey, X is successful! let's make our own version of X!" idea. it happened with netflix and with steam and the only thing those things achieved was fragment the user base. In Canada, Rogers (cable) and Bell (satellite) created their own streaming services to combat people using Netflix. Their thinking was that if you used Crave or ShoMi it wouldn't count against your data cap. They were also making the services exclusive to their users. Well the CRTC (our version of FCC) said "No" to both and now they are available to anyone for $8 a month but I give it a year or two before they are shut down.
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Feb 29, 2016 20:09
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Captain Yossarian posted:I guess I always listen to NPR or the BBC on radio? No smugness intended, I guess I could see not liking radio, but eh I do wish it was a less advertising driven medium so you could get more BBC or NPR type content and less 90 MINUTES OF GENERIC ROCK HITS IN A ROW EXCEPT THE FIFTEEN MINUTE BREAK FOR COMMERCIALS
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Feb 29, 2016 20:15
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KiteAuraan posted:My grandma worked for Sears back in the 60s and 70s. She still buys Kenmore poo poo and service plans to this day... Kenmore stuff isn't bad. It's largely rebadged Whirlpool brand appliances. They've taken on other makers too, but usually the only difference between a Kenmore washer and a Maytag/Whirlpool/Amana washer of similar specs is the sticker that says Kenmore. As for the plans, well that's a judgement call on her behalf.
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Feb 29, 2016 21:29
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Pawn 17 posted:I want free poo poo in return for my unbiased and honest review of 1 star. quote:Hello [Internet Denizen], IT'S JUST A PAIR OF SCISSORS.
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Feb 29, 2016 21:43
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Online reviews are a disease and if possible I'd like them to be cured asap, tia.
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Captain Yossarian posted:Yeah I don't get that I guess. Who actively hates radio? It's the same thing with who watches actual tv with ads? Who doesn't browse streaming media sites without an adblocker? It confuses me more that people actually do these things than it does that someone hates radio. I don't even know anyone under 40 who listens to the radio so I don't see how hating it is that strange. Khorne has a new favorite as of 21:58 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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Feb 29, 2016 21:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI Terrestrial radio is dumb though and I wish I could blow it up. NPR and local public radio (KBOO in Portland, OR) is p cool and I listen to AM talk radio to laugh at idiots but other than that it's all terrible.
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Feb 29, 2016 21:55
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Bonzo posted:In Canada, Rogers (cable) and Bell (satellite) created their own streaming services to combat people using Netflix. Their thinking was that if you used Crave or ShoMi it wouldn't count against your data cap. They were also making the services exclusive to their users. Well the CRTC (our version of FCC) said "No" to both and now they are available to anyone for $8 a month but I give it a year or two before they are shut down. Shomi is so awful too. You'd think they'd at least release the service in a state that its at least as useable as Netflix but NOPE, the app is barely functional on iOS (occasional crash, cant remember last viewing spot, no next episode autoplay). From what I'm also reading, android also sounds like a disaster. It wasn't even available on the PS4 (largest install base of the current gen consoles!) until a week ago and STILL isn't available on the Xbox One! They're basically counting on users flocking to the service JUST for the content that they've snatched exclusivity rights to and completely ignored the quality of the experience. I agree, I give the service a year or two before its done. Business Gorillas posted:like who even bothers with Origin/whatever that thing ubisoft made on their computer? Origin is, sadly, the only way to play EA games. So if you're like me, and love Battlefield or the latest Bioware Waifu simulator, its the only way to go. Origin has gotten way better, though. Uplay, ehhh...I think you have to have it installed to play Ubisoft games even through Steam? I played around with the client to play The Division beta and its gotten a lot better too. Yeah, I don't like every publisher having their own DRM-Digital-Storefront, but that's where we are now.  I guess it keeps Valve on their toes? 
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I distinctly remember that despite buying Farcry 3 via Steam I had to then link it to a uplay account which I promptly forgot, and so when I wanted to replay it a year later it wouldn't let me launch the game I clearly owned and installed via Steam because it was linked to different uplay account. Oh well, Ubisoft is currently on the receiving end of a hostile takeover from Vivendi, so whoever the goon was who called their demise earlier in the thread gets a cookie.
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Sydin posted:I distinctly remember that despite buying Farcry 3 via Steam I had to then link it to a uplay account which I promptly forgot, and so when I wanted to replay it a year later it wouldn't let me launch the game I clearly owned and installed via Steam because it was linked to different uplay account. Almost same thing for me, but thankfully I had the log in crap stored somewhere. Still had a blast replaying that game. I'm just bitter about having all the good splintercell games except Pandora Tomorrow  Youtube is loving amazing if you can work a job that isn't totally nazi about what you are using your internet for. The problem with music on youtube is that you will find an entire album uploaded, free of intermittent ads, suddenly disappear a year later or so.
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Shomi and whatever the other one is is almost certainly just a way for the big telecoms to prevent streaming rights for most content from lapsing into the hands of a viable streaming service in Canada. That's a weird industry right now because they've got a near monopoly on their market but at the same time the big players seem to be losing their poo poo. Shaw sold off a bunch of their rights to the wireless spectrum for cell service then bought Wind Mobile like two weeks later, makes zero sense.
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Regional rights are garbage too. I liked Netflix so much more when I had a dns changer because Netflix Canada would get some shows up to season 2010 while I had to switch over to like Mexico or whatever to get the content. Mexico is getting season 2 of Better Call Saul the same week as it is aired on AMC yet Canada just recently got season one. Arbitrary limitations on digital media is the worst and it just leads to piracy.
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Professor Shark posted:You just know that there's a goon out there who is angry at the moon or something equally dumb gently caress the moon. Also radio is just plain awful and I wonder how anybody can even listen to that poo poo.
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1500quidporsche posted:I do wish it was a less advertising driven medium so you could get more BBC or NPR type content and less 90 MINUTES OF GENERIC ROCK HITS IN A ROW EXCEPT THE FIFTEEN MINUTE BREAK FOR COMMERCIALS ....why not just listen to NPR then? I must be missing something lol
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Canadian Netflix is just poo poo. They have 12 seasons of Hercule Poirot, for example, but not the 13th season... which aired in 2014 They also mostly upload Asylum or cheap Asian movies, every-so-often some popular title from the mid 2000's They deserve to lose subscribers because they suck and instead of making their service better they're cracking down on paying users who connect with Netflix US
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TontoCorazon posted:gently caress the moon. Also radio is just plain awful and I wonder how anybody can even listen to that poo poo. CBC and especially BBC Radio are both excellent.
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thathonkey posted:This is a pretty weird position to hold. Goons really can hate anything Radio the content can go die in a fire for all the points others have brought up IE being nothing but poo poo. Snuffman posted:Origin is, sadly, the only way to play EA games. So if you're like me, and love Battlefield or the latest Bioware Waifu simulator, its the only way to go. Origin has gotten way better, though.
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Captain Yossarian posted:....why not just listen to NPR then? I must be missing something lol They don't have NPR in 
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Khorne posted:gently caress radio. I'd like radio if it actually played music, but it's 50%+ ads on every station. I'd rather listen to nothing at all or music I brought on a usb device/whatever. I guess I do have this super hatred of ads in general and radio seems to have the way worst ads around than any other media.
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Sydin posted:Because Spotify is losing a lot of money, and have been losing money for as long as they've been around. They've been propped up by investor cash for most of their existence, but if Apple Music eclipses them a lot of the investors will get spooked and run.
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Professor Shark posted:CBC and especially BBC Radio are both excellent. That's one thing I'll admit state run and public radio seems to be pretty great.
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It does get pretty old listening to another Flo commercial when jumping between stations that are all doing ads at the same time.
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If you listen to anything on NPR other than the actual news and Car talk then you are what's wrong with white people.
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Irradiation posted:If you listen to anything on NPR other than the actual news and Car talk then you are what's wrong with white people. RIP Click (or was it Clack, I dunno)
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1500quidporsche posted:They don't have NPR in  It's me... I'm the old person who listens to news on the radio  I haven't listened to music on the radio in like.. 10 years
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Irradiation posted:If you listen to anything on NPR other than the actual news and Car talk then you are what's wrong with white people. I would imagine it's similar to the CBC where they have very good stuff and then stuff way off in white upper middle class liberal fantasy land. I've got about four reliable stations, two are CBC, some listener supported station and then campus radio which is crazy hit or miss.
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Houle posted:Regional rights are garbage too. I liked Netflix so much more when I had a dns changer because Netflix Canada would get some shows up to season 2010 while I had to switch over to like Mexico or whatever to get the content. Mexico is getting season 2 of Better Call Saul the same week as it is aired on AMC yet Canada just recently got season one. I can cast Starz from my phone to my TV using an xfinity login. I can use the starz app on my Amazon fire using the same login. I can not use the Starz app on my smart TV using that login. 
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1500quidporsche posted:I would imagine it's similar to the CBC where they have very good stuff and then stuff way off in white upper middle class liberal fantasy land. Bingo
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