I would also like the answer to this question please

This is such important work o7

I would wait until it’s out on physical or streaming tbh. Sometimes you get lucky and there’s a press or awards release before then, but they’re often annoyingly watermarked. Once it hits streaming you only have to wait as long as it takes for someone to rip it

Quite possibly. Pink and green is right — it looks like a nineties music video lol. I’ll pay closer attention to the filename next time it happens (it all comes in via *arr, you see), and maybe I can find a way to filter them out of the searches…

It works in Minecraft

It’s so great having stuff just show up in your library as it becomes available

The thing about a movie or TV series is that every worker involved in it has already been paid, which makes stealing them morally fine. This is not the same thing.

It’s a great format. 45 minutes of procedural intrigue, then a load of guys in balaclavas bust in and fuck everything up for the last quarter hour

Me too! The sad thing is that the whole system is set up to prevent people from being able to really choose what to watch. Even within a liberal framework, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the optimum system would be something like ‘person decides they want to watch a show with x characteristics, they discover options based on user reviews or a Wikipedia deep dive or w/e, then they click play and the appropriate rights holder is compensated’. It’s never just been about compensation though. They can’t have users going straight for the good stuff, otherwise what will they do with all the slop?

It makes me very sad tbh. My Dad watches movies all the time, but it’s always some average-to-poor Netflix original, because that’s what the app surfaces for him.

So glad I ignored the hype and stuck with usenet

I got into Linux by building HTPCs and then media servers, so it’s been a while since I watched anything hunched over a computer monitor tbh

It’s not just a generational thing — most of the millennials who were torrenting 15 years ago (which was a lot of them!) have completely forgotten by now ime. Now I’m longing for the days when ‘VLC is the best media player’ was common knowledge and not arcana