The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Jul 12, 2011, 10:01:21 PM
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/235627/netflix_users_protest_proposed_price_increases_with_social_media_firestorm.html
Netflix users stormed the streaming video and DVD rental services' blog and Facebook page by the thousands on Tuesday to criticize a new pricing structure that will raise some users' monthly bill by 60 percent.
The service announced that it would separate its streaming and DVD rental services, ostensibly to let its users choose if they wanted just one service or both. The result: The $9.99 per month plan, which allowed one DVD out at a time and which currently includes unlimited video streaming will jump to $15.98 under the new price structure. Unlimited streaming or one DVD out at a time will now cost $7.99 each.
Netflix users weren't too happy to receive the news. Users left nearly 3,000 posts on the Netflix blog as of 6 p.m. Tuesday and around 10,000 comments on the company's Facebook page. Commentors accused Netflix of being greedy and alleged it was trying to "choke more change" out of its customers. Others suggested refreshing the streaming content to justify the price change. Others said they would be leaving Netflix.
[More at the link above...]
So I was reading about the change at my computer at work and thinking, 'oh, that's balls', but then I went into Merla's acct (since she's the primary acct holder and pays for it) and lo', I go to look at the plans and her price point of 23.98 is the same. Apparently... only cheapos are effected by this. :raiseeyebrow:
I mean, it's a big increase percentage-wise, don't get me wrong. That 60% is being quoted all over the place. But shit, 16.00 for streaming and at least three dvds a month (assuming you're turning your single dvd in on time) isn't bad. It's the price of, like, three bargain bin selections from Wal-mart when you think about it. Eat one less fast food burger combo a month and let's call it a day.
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I was thinking of getting Netflix too. But I'm sure I'd only end up streaming stuff.
Anyone know if you can record streams off your game systems?
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I think these costs are incredibly reasonable.
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16 bux a month isn't a bad price.
for that service. It's a pretty big hike though to happen all of a sudden I wonder what prompted it (i mean if it was something other than just WE WANT MO MONEYZ!)
IF it really is just a greed move, then this is a prime time for a competitor to move in and keep it real at 9.99.
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I was thinking of getting Netflix too. But I'm sure I'd only end up streaming stuff.
Anyone know if you can record streams off your game systems?
I don't know but I've never tried to.
for that service. It's a pretty big hike though to happen all of a sudden I wonder what prompted it (i mean if it was something other than just WE WANT MO MONEYZ!)
I think Netflix needed the money to get more content and renegotiate the current content. The studios want a bigger piece of the cheese and all that.
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Oh, also, Netflix thought more people would jump on streaming and use fewer DVDs but that didn't happen. So the people on the 1 dvd plan were basically getting it for 2 bucks. So Netflix wasn't saving on postage like it thought it would and had to raise the price. This, too, methinks.
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They already have a major competitor with Hulu Plus, and Hulu can give current shows as well as a back catalog, but it's not quite as large as NF. The cost is similar, though, compared to NF new streaming plan.
I think most who wanted streaming wanted a cheaper option anyway (including myself).
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Nuri it's not "people rage". it is "PEOPLE RAEG"
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I was about to bite on Netflicks actually. Course this doesn't effect me because I can't stream anyway. Which makes me a sad panda. I was over at a friends house and he was running Netflix through his Wii, and it was pretty awesome. I got the Wii, not that it does any good.
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I was about to bite on Netflicks actually. Course this doesn't effect me because I can't stream anyway. Which makes me a sad panda. I was over at a friends house and he was running Netflix through his Wii, and it was pretty awesome. I got the Wii, not that it does any good.
Which means you'll actually get it cheaper if you're just doing one disc at a time.
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I know...thus it doesn't effect me. I think I might still pay 16 bucks though if I could stream. I'm sure I pay that much to the red box over a few months and it has a lot more limited selection then Netflix does. Plus if I had unlimited streams I'd be watching movie after movie. I'd be like the really fat guy at the all you can eat buffet. I would make sure I got my moneys worth and then some. But alas...no high speed.
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You should really get a better internets.
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You guys should see Netflix Canada.
The selection is fucking atrocious.
I can't see them changing the price up here, because NO ONE would stick around for it. It's already robbery as far as I'm concerned.
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You should really get a better internets.
I'd have to get betters house first, since the problem is they don't offer high speed where I live.
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Where do you live?
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It is not so much that I live in any middle of no where nearest neighbor is 30 miles away type place. I have several neighbors that live close enough that I can hear them when they are fighting. In fact we run off city water. The problem is that the companies around here are very cheap and lazy. They pretty much just cover the city proper and anything outside of that doesn't get covered. So unless you live inside the city limits you just don't get these services. Now it has been getting better as of late. They have started to move outside the cities in the last couple of year. They have even been following the main roads in and out, which I live on. But they have only made it so far and stopped it at intersection that is only 1.8 miles from my house.
There was a federal grant for expanding the high speed internet network, and a few places applied for it. But if they get it, how long it will take, and if it is even going to run by house are still up in the air. I just think it might be easier to move, which I have been trying to do for a few years now but luck hasn't been on my side.
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I feel like I've asked this before.
Have you looked into Clear?
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The only time I pay to see a movie is when it's something in the theater.
I was just so mad at the switch to blurays that i stopped buying movies altogether.
My dvd collection unceremoniously ceased to increase in 2007.
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The only time I pay to see a movie is when it's something in the theater.
I was just so mad at the switch to blurays that i stopped buying movies altogether.
My dvd collection unceremoniously ceased to increase in 2007.
HD is awesome, though.
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I feel like I've asked this before.
Have you looked into Clear?
No...but I will. I've looked into Hughes.net and Dish Network internet and both are a little on the high side. I think last time I checked Hughes.net it was something like $700 to install and $70 bucks a month. This was of course by satellite and that is still a little to new to be cheap.
And as I was typing this I checked Clear and no...I can't get Clear.
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Oh and I've been slowly changing over my collection to BluRay, but it has been slow. I only own 10 BluRays. And they have to be cheap for me to scoop them up. Also doesn't mean I stop buying DVDs if I can get them at a good deal. I don't tend to pay more then 10 bucks for a movie.
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You should move somewhere with proper INTERNET and people you can sell your writing to before you're on the wrong side of 40.
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Selling my writing from here shouldn't be hard. Hell I've already done it. If I got into script writing I might have to move someplace like LA, but I wouldn't move there if I could avoid it. Give me a choice between LA and NY and I'll pick NY every time. Besides I wouldn't start with script writing anyway, that would be something I'd move to later when I could pretty much write my own chell as far as what I wanted to do was concerned. I have had my eye on Austin, Texas as a place that I might like to move to. It has its own little movie people community there (anything to avoid LA.) climate is what I am looking for, and any city whose motto is "Keep Austin Weird" seems like an O.K. place by me. Main problem is that I think I'll have to sell a book for two before I can make that move.
But yeah I should move for the internet thing.
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I'm quitting teh Netflix. I don't have time for a constant stream of DVDs anymore, even one at a time. I can stream, but buffering is a pain and it's too slow for HD content. If I want to download HD stuff, well, Demonoid is free.
I was keeping Netflix for old time's sake and for when I would have time for it. But doubling the cost for it has tipped the scales towards cutting it.
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Selling my writing from here shouldn't be hard. Hell I've already done it. If I got into script writing I might have to move someplace like LA, but I wouldn't move there if I could avoid it. Give me a choice between LA and NY and I'll pick NY every time. Besides I wouldn't start with script writing anyway, that would be something I'd move to later when I could pretty much write my own chell as far as what I wanted to do was concerned. I have had my eye on Austin, Texas as a place that I might like to move to. It has its own little movie people community there (anything to avoid LA.) climate is what I am looking for, and any city whose motto is "Keep Austin Weird" seems like an O.K. place by me. Main problem is that I think I'll have to sell a book for two before I can make that move.
But yeah I should move for the internet thing.
Austin is awesome.
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Well that's one endorsement. I do need to visit. I've never been. I've been to Dallas...and Lubbock, but not Austin.
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You guys should see Netflix Canada.
The selection is fucking atrocious.
I can't see them changing the price up here, because NO ONE would stick around for it. It's already robbery as far as I'm concerned.
With zip still cornering the market on disc based services, there's nothing to split.
I think zip/Rogers will be throwing their hat into the streaming service game real soon. Netflix just can't work out the rights to enough to make it worthwhile. My brother has netflix, and it's all righ in a sense than if you just want to watch something you can probably find something to watch, but forget about actually having a movie in mind and finding it on there. Way too little shit.
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Well that's one endorsement. I do need to visit. I've never been. I've been to Dallas...and Lubbock, but not Austin.
Why the fuck would you choose to go to Lubbock? Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. These are the only places I will go (and Big Bend).
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Not even to Houston to find Bernie?
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I've never even heard of Zip. Either it's not available in Manitoba, or they've just done a really piss poor job of advertising it here.
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Well that's one endorsement. I do need to visit. I've never been. I've been to Dallas...and Lubbock, but not Austin.
Why the fuck would you choose to go to Lubbock? Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. These are the only places I will go (and Big Bend).
Wedding. Not by choice. It was for my cousin and he ended up divorced anyway.
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Not even to Houston to find Bernie?
I suppose ... but I don't care for the city.
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I didn't realize Bernie was missing.
Lost in Houston: The Bernie AKA Story.
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So I was reading about the change at my computer at work and thinking, 'oh, that's balls', but then I went into Merla's acct (since she's the primary acct holder and pays for it) and lo', I go to look at the plans and her price point of 23.98 is the same. Apparently... only cheapos are effected by this. :raiseeyebrow:
That's because current account holders won't see their price increase until September.
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Ohhhh you gon get it in september!
Time for a fly by night company to swoop in and make money off netflix passing the buck to the consumer instead of eating their fiscal shit pie themselves.
If I had some start up capital I'd be all over this.
It would be called Netflixxx and every stream/dvd would start off with HGG.gif before the previews.
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I think you should call it Cinephile, or perhaps FlixBox, or the ever popular Movie Gunge.
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So I was reading about the change at my computer at work and thinking, 'oh, that's balls', but then I went into Merla's acct (since she's the primary acct holder and pays for it) and lo', I go to look at the plans and her price point of 23.98 is the same. Apparently... only cheapos are effected by this. :raiseeyebrow:
That's because current account holders won't see their price increase until September.
I've always been able to see the price changes if I go into her account to change the plan. In fact, it shows the DVD and streaming only options and the combined single-disc option w/ streaming at the new prices. So I don't believe I'm viewing an old price for the upper-tiered plans. It gives me an option to change plans and says if we change it, we're stuck at the new price point. But there is no new price increase showing for "two discs + streaming" and over that I can notice.
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Netflix Separates Its DVD, Streaming Businesses (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=140604377):
Netflix Inc. is separating its DVD-by-mail business from the online movie streaming service it sees as the future of entertainment consumption.
In announcing the changes, CEO Reed Hastings also apologized to subscribers for the way the company communicated its decision to split the two services, which raised prices for those who want both.
The mail order plan will be renamed "Qwikster." In a few weeks, Netflix subscribers who want to get DVDs by mail will go to a separate website to access Qwikster. The streaming business will continue to be called Netflix.
Members who subscribe to both services will have two entries on their credit card statements. Instead of Netflix, the distinctive red envelopes that end up in customers' mailboxes will now say Qwikster.
[more at the link above...]
Um, are they TRYING to get rid of customers? Aren't the combined services what makes it different from competitors? Who the hell wants to go to two different websites? And Qwikster is a stupid-ass name.
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Fucking god damn it.
Definitely switching to just streaming and also saying I lost the DVDs I have because I sort of have lost them.
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Aren't they expecting to lose 1 million customers by the end the of the year? I think they're trying to kill the DVD service and just become a video game service.
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If I were paying for this, I'd probably axe it all. I wonder what the hell happens to my queue with the switch since I'm only a sub-account of Merla's.
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It goes bye bye.
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I got that email from Reed what's his face, and he can lick my ass with as much fake sentimentalism as he can muster, which is a lot. It was all, "oh, I love and miss what we were...fuck it, we be streaming from now on!" They can take Quixster and choke on it.
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I think they're seriously jumping the gun with this shit.
Many of us take broadband Internet access for granted. But a new government survey paints a different picture of the nation.
In a survey of more than 100,000 people in more than 50,000 households across the U.S., 40 percent reported no broadband or high-speed access to the Internet, while 30 percent said they have no Internet access at all.
Sponsored by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and conducted by the Census Bureau, the survey found that most of those interviewed said they either don't need broadband or find it too expensive. Some said they have no computer, but many of those in rural areas reported that broadband is simply not available.
^ From http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10454133-94.html
That's a huge amount of people that could have Netflix and not be able to stream shit. Even if you assume that everyone with Netflix has an internet connection at home and discount that 30 w/ no connection at all, the low-speed folks outnumber the high-speed ones. As if the Netflix's stream offerings come close to their DVD catalog anyway. Balls.
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Fuck these people that say its too expensive. It's 1$ a day. They can burn in slow INTERNET hell.
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I find the video quality of Netflix streaming abhorrent. That's Netflix Canada, though. Our selection is also fucking pathetic.
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I think they're seriously jumping the gun with this shit.
Many of us take broadband Internet access for granted. But a new government survey paints a different picture of the nation.
In a survey of more than 100,000 people in more than 50,000 households across the U.S., 40 percent reported no broadband or high-speed access to the Internet, while 30 percent said they have no Internet access at all.
Sponsored by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and conducted by the Census Bureau, the survey found that most of those interviewed said they either don't need broadband or find it too expensive. Some said they have no computer, but many of those in rural areas reported that broadband is simply not available.
^ From http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10454133-94.html
That's a huge amount of people that could have Netflix and not be able to stream shit. Even if you assume that everyone with Netflix has an internet connection at home and discount that 30 w/ no connection at all, the low-speed folks outnumber the high-speed ones. As if the Netflix's stream offerings come close to their DVD catalog anyway. Balls.
Did I ever mention that I was one of those people that can't get broadband? I just wanted to make sure cause I can't remember if I ever did.
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Yeah, you've mentioned it. Broadband service ends at the edge of your lawn, or some such.
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Then run a cable to the sidewalk.
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It's not that close. It is like 1.4 miles away.
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I have DSL, but it tops out at 1Mbps. As a result streaming doesn't work all that great, and forget anything in HD.
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It's not that close. It is like 1.4 miles away.
I would be calling the company that would be providing broadband every fucking day to complain.
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My streaming speed is relatively okay as long as both Merla and I aren't both playing a game or loading something while using Netflix.
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It's not that close. It is like 1.4 miles away.
I would be calling the company that would be providing broadband every fucking day to complain.
Doesn't do much good. Till someone else ponies up the cash to run the lines (the ISPs just don't do that around here.) then they won't do it. It's bullshit, but bullshit I have to live with for the time being.
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Or move.
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I've tried that. Looked about a dozen houses, and I don't mean drove by it and noticed the for sale sign, but actually went inside and looked around with an agent. Even put an offer in on one. Lost it, but at least I tried. Ah well.
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Do it again and again andd again
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Just got e-mail from Netflix.
No Qwikster. Everything is staying at Netflix.
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Ha ha, we really had you going with that whole Quickster thing, didn't we? Psych!
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Someone. Fire. Reed. Hastings. NOW.
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He probably already has been fired.
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Probably isn't good enough. :fingershake:
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Fired isn't good enough, unless you mean fire-roasted. Mmmm, CEO, yummy.
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Only if he's coated with a sweet 'n salty crunchy shell.
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Aren't they expecting to lose 1 million customers by the end the of the year? I think they're trying to kill the DVD service and just become a video game service.
They almost did.
Saw this on the front page of the business section of nearly all the major newspapers I work for (NY Times, WallSt Journal, USA Today) but every single one of them noted that Netflix lost almost 1 million customers (I think it was between 800k and 900k) and their stocks dropped around 30%, maybe even 70%.
I wonder if the CEO is listening now.
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I just read an article today (I don't remember where, maybe at TIME mag's website, so I has no link) saying that Netflix is living on "borrowed time". With all of the deals they've made and want to make to get new content, they need a steady stream of new subscribers. Apparently, in a little over three months they decreased 2/3 of their own market value. Goddamn, son.
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This is proof that CEOs don't deserve 450 times the wage of the average worker. They might be smart but clearly they're not 450 times smarter.
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I really hope Netflix doesn't go away. I hate Hulu Plus and Blockbuster is run by a couple of cock suckers.
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If DVD by mail does and streaming is the only alternative, fuck it, I'll just get what little I watch nowadays off torrent from now on.
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I really hope Netflix doesn't go away. I hate Hulu Plus and Blockbuster is run by a couple of cock suckers.
Hulu makes me happy. Day after on the web is a good thing.
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I don't want it to go away either but on the upside, they still have some value. So if they go tits up, maybe someone else will buy them and take over.
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Blockbuster.
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Ugh, no! Quiet, you! :mad: Bah, Fuckin' Crap-buster... :razz:
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Re: Netflix. Should I install that new interface thingy on my Wii? I don't trust this company anymore so I keep telling them NO. Did anyone do it? What do you think about it?
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Whoever rezz'd blockbuster is a genius. They could've folded many times before now and instead they bided their time and waited for netflix to show a weak spot and BAMM! stuck their corporate spear into the heart of their enemy.
bided isn't a word?
bode their time?
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Bided is a word.
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I tend to use Redbox almost exclusively these days for rentals.
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That's because you don't have real internets.
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Bided is a word.
Not according to this spell chell for some reason :/
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That's because you don't have real internets.
Tru dat! Tru dat!
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BUMP. Frickin' Netflix finally forced me to update. The new interface is as clunky as I've heard.
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I haven't used it since April or so. Suspended account. I may unsuspend it to test my HTPC setup over the weekend, but probably not for longer than that.
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I'm still trying to figure out (1) what was wrong with the old one and (2) why the whole "Netflix for Kids" thing wasn't a separate download. I have to choose between regular and kids Netflix each time I load Netflix? Rly? =P Everybody who uses Netflix has kids who share their Wii? Frick.
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First World Problems lol
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What, like spending $40 to import Cinnamon Toast Crunch? :blink:
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(http://www.shwiggie.com/boards/putdowns/ker-zing.gif)
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O shit, the post on another thread answering to what Nuri said was supposed to be here. wtf happened!!
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Did you have more than one tab open or something?
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Nope!
CALL MULDER
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Can we call someone who isn't a sex addict?
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I had my Netflix on hold for several months, but it was set to resume on July 1st. I wanted to put it back on hold until I could get my HTPC set up to run it, but I couldn't find the hold option again. It's like they hid it.
So, as Ahnuld might say, "FAHK YOO!"
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BUT THEY ARE YOUR FRIENDS!
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I needed my space!
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What the difference between canceling and being on hold? Is it just about keeping your queue?
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Putting the account on hold means you stop using it for a while, and they stop charging you until you come back from vacation or whatever and then everything resumes. Canceling means The End: unless I re-up before the end of the month, the queue and everything else is gone.
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So if it's already on hold they don't let you put it on hold again? Was it always this way or were you able to do that before?
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Don't know. I just know that I couldn't find the option, and it passed me off enough to haul off and drop it completely.
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I could have used your account while you took a break from it, you know
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But Netflix hates Japan. That's why the logo and Reed Hastings face were on Little Boy.
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Baby I have butt goblin
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:poo: ??
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lol WAT! Did you put that word on the filter or did you actually edited my post?
I m sure I didn't write that......wait....yeah I'm sure I didn't........
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LOL, ok. It's in the filter. I was like "Huh, 'butt goblin'?" I completely forgot about that. It was someone's user name and we were calling him "butt goblin" for some reason. Ho ho.
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Oh shit I think I actually remember that...
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What was the word?
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h o t s p o t :)
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I don't remember that at all. But I don't doubt there was someone running around with that handle, since that is the name of a Transformer.
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An awful transformer.
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y, bro?
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y, bro?
Oh god.
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Consequently, that guy is married with children now, and not really douche-y at all.
Still, the guy's name comes up as "butt goblin" or "scrotum mangler" at BONR.
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Did he use to be douchey or something? I can't recall.
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I don't think I ever knew about that guy.
I remember a dude actually named Goblin. His avatar was a pic of Masa and Mune from Chrono Trigger.
(http://i49.tinypic.com/29m6gj9.jpg)
But he didn't know how to resize shit so it always looked fucking mangled.
He was alright though. Had a sense of humor, and I don't recall him ever being an asshole to anyone.
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I don't think I ever knew about that guy.
I remember a dude actually named Goblin. His avatar was a pic of Masa and Mune from Chrono Trigger.
(http://i49.tinypic.com/29m6gj9.jpg)
But he didn't know how to resize shit so it always looked fucking mangled.
He was alright though. Had a sense of humor, and I don't recall him ever being an asshole to anyone.
That's sad, that he mangled it, because they are awesome.
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I don't remember any of this.
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I don't remember any of this.
http://wikicheats.gametrailers.com/images/f/f9/Chrono_Trigger_Masamune_Boss.png
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You know, I think his name was just goblinbot. There might have been an underscore or some numbers in there too, I can't recall.
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Oh, yeah, I remember...he had this scrunched-up little gnome guy as an avatar.
Did he use to be douchey or something? I can't recall.
He was a bit of a smart-ass. I think he was part of that MAS, which may have been after your time.
Hell, I don't remember too well. That's been a while.
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Joe, that was Goblinbot. He lived in Hawaii so whenever he came on most people were asleep. At least I'm pretty certain that was him. But he's a different guy than Hotspot.
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There was a guy that used to visit...bt it was the board on that other address... he used to have an avatar of a quactar or whatever the hell that little cactus is called. He was like around my age and used to send me mssgs about wanting to marry me and shit
Can't remember his name now but he was here before me
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There was a guy that used to visit...bt it was the board on that other address... he used to have an avatar of a quactar or whatever the hell that little cactus is called. He was like around my age and used to send me mssgs about wanting to marry me and shit
Can't remember his name now but he was here before me
I thought that was Cactus Joe.
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Second cousin to Cotton-eyed Joe.
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There was a guy that used to visit...bt it was the board on that other address... he used to have an avatar of a quactar or whatever the hell that little cactus is called. He was like around my age and used to send me mssgs about wanting to marry me and shit
Can't remember his name now but he was here before me
Nova chromebot. Of some variation thereof. a.k.a. Stink Boner.
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That rings a bell (the first one not the second one lol) you might be right
Anyone heard of Bitch? Is she still alive?
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That rings a bell (the first one not the second one lol) you might be right
Anyone heard of Bitch? Is she still alive?
I remember Bitch. Is she still one?
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Second cousin to Cotton-eyed Joe.
Where did he come from? Where did he go?
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That rings a bell (the first one not the second one lol) you might be right
Anyone heard of Bitch? Is she still alive?
lol, the second one was never an official name for him. No, I haven't heard from Bitch.