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olives black
Nov 24, 2017


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Nooner posted:

Lol no matter what they are selling they will make bank off of idiot millennials, I bet they will sell avocado toast and caramel macchiatos

it's going to be something much lamer like a 90s nostalgia streaming service but with a vhs filter or some poo poo

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olives black
Nov 24, 2017


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if some crazy rich person has been stockpiling CRT TVs and VCRs to launch a chain of viewing parlors then my idiot millenial rear end will throw them $30 to relive Ye Olde Goode Days before they close a month later

Crow Buddy posted:

Streaming service, but you watch commercials and earn NFTs for doing so.

Spazzle posted:

No, its probably an nft or crypto scam. There is some group buying up defunct IP like radio shack and using them as nostalgia bait to lure people into grifts.

but yeah these seem more likely

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


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I. M. Gei posted:

Blockbuster is a lovely rear end company with awful business practices.

On the other hand, gently caress Netflix and gently caress streaming in general. I wouldn't mind if Blockbuster turned the tables and bankrupted all those motherfuckers.

how do you imagine that they will do this

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


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Black August posted:

I know one way they could. AI Movies. You 'rent' a movie from them by sending in a description of exactly what you want, with a ton of options you can tick. The cost of the rental goes up a little bit for every extra option. Are you modifying an existing movie? Crossing it over with another? Making a new sequel? Replacing actors with other known actors? What soundtrack modifications? Genre changes? How long? Maybe you want Groundhog Day where you explore an additional 20 days of Phil's adventures. Anything and everything, then they whip it up for you with the wizards on the other end who know all the prompts and train up the best AIs on just movies. Then you rent it, and similar searches get it recommended as an immediate choice, so others rent it, and they attach a pizza delivery service, and options for physical media of personal copies and etc etc.

Slap a name like Blockbuster on that and watch the digidollars pile up as a billion people blow $100 each pull on remastering the entire Lord of the Rings movie to replace every actor and make Legolas and Gimli kiss and also the Evil Bilbo scene to be half as scary

would be funny to watch how quickly the wizards burn out from 99% of the requests just being "[Movie X] but all of the lead actresses are barefoot/have their tits out"

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


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Black August posted:

They won't. Simple stuff like that will be caught by the AI and autogenerated.

there'll probably still have to be some tweaks given how bad ai is at doing hands

I. M. Gei posted:

99% of the requests will definitely be porn and they will make piles of money from it and you know it

oh, they'll definitely make money from it. and they will also definitely have some sort of team of human reviewers that want to drink bleach after every shift like facebook/twitter/et al. do

olives black fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Mar 21, 2023

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


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Black August posted:

Some are good at hands now. It'll be a year, tops.

are they good at feet though

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olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
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Spazzle posted:

Blockbuster doesn't exist. It was liquidated years ago.

there's still a couple of stores open iirc

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