Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.

I saved up a bunch of shows and waited all year to binge in one month over the summer and cancel.

may I recommend…
✨piracy✨?
- I love your recommendation. Unfortunately I am very out of the loop with that sort of thing these days. And I’m without resources if I accidentally break something. I need my desktop for work as well. I’d be happy to read up on the topic if you could suggest some reputable sources that someone without a tech background could break down. It’s why I save it all up until summer. So I pay them as little as possible.
sub for a month with a prepaid gift card (so no potential issues cancelling). binge for a week, run out of stuff to watch, the rest of the sub goes unused and wasted. been down that road once every year or two here.

Literal enshittification!

While also raising their rates, of course.

Hey, that sludge pipe wasn't cheap!
Yep, cancelled my subscription the day they announced the two-tier plans.

Netflix subscribers: "I just like to watch shows."

Gosh, if only there were another service, or another way to do that. Shucks.

Doesn't your library let you borrow DVDs? Seems outdated but I very recently binged three seasons of Succession thanks to my local library!
- In my country the library barely exists lmao… sad life.

Yar-har, fiddle-dee-dee!

I hate these subscriptions everybody and their mom has, but it's insanely expensive to buy blueray discs these days, it's easily 30-40 euro per movie f.e.

I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don't cost 30 to 40 euros there.
You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It's free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.
- Well DVD's are yes, but Blu-rays are rare second hand. Heck, they are rare online and in stores, at least in NL and the parts of Europe I can order from.
  As far as I know, the libraries here don't really store a lot of movies and games any more.
  These days I just use the arr stack .... Doesn't work for most of my music though.
  I hate subscriptions with a passion and only pay for a couple that are needed (domain, website, bitwarden, Proton, etc), but for things like music, physical is way more expensive than Spotify (especially now with the family discount and I get it for free), buying the album of every band I listen to at least one song of. Finding a Green Day CD for a couple euro is possible, but even for things like Kensington it is already quickly 10 euro per album. Heck Discogs even has issues realising that Europe is not a country ...
Is it? I usually see them priced around similar to DVDs, that is like €3 - 15. Though I don't recall if new. Certainly so for the upper part, I only want to spend like €5 for used ones.
I like Momox for used and Rarewaves for new discs.
Well, unless... the price you mentioned seems right for UHD BluRay.
- Well yeah I am probably talking about UHD BlueRay, it has been a bit since I looked that closely to it. I just remember the Back to the future trilogy for 140 euro
...what? Have you heard of Goodwill or Value Village?
- Considering I work in the accountancy, yes, I have heard of Goodwill /s.
  Considering the closest Goodwill or Value Village is like a 9 hour flight away it doesn't do me any good.

🛥 see you on the high seas

So what you're saying is, Happy Gilmore 2 will not save streaming?

I thought that was an Amazon bag sitting in the doorway due to the logo/handle similarity.

Mhh, multiple flavors of septic waste
- How does one pronounce "Mhh"?

Finally!

Streaming services are crap. For new years I wanted to give myself streaming for a month and nothing looked good. I didn’t get anything.

That fucking alphabet grid where you try to type search terms with the four arrow keys is what always sends me back to reading books. Like, just doing that with a keyboard-type layout would be way better or even T9 - or maybe they could recycle old used Blackberrys for the purpose.
- Recycling? In this economy? Cheaper to cover the planet in e-waste, my friend.

I didn't watch the sewage pipe much but I kept up my subscription for the next seasons of Corn and Asparagus, but when they raised the price I had to finally cancel.

The stuff Netflix puts out, particularly the documentaries are far better quality than just about anything I’ve seen on cable or tv. I know people like to shit on Netflix but they have better content than most

They put out a lot of uninspired trash and axe the good shows early, but they do have a couple of truly great shows.
For quality originals though, Apple TV+. Highest ratio of good to bad content I've seen. Much smaller volume though.
- Tbf im not familiar with the Apple+ library since it was that one streaming service too many for me, so I never got it. Netflix is great for true crime documentaries i think
I'm watching Poop Cruise
- I’m hooked on all the true crime ones. Sins of our mother was crazy.

I can't remember if it was The Goodies or Monty Python that did this exact skit in the 1970s. :)

I don't know the Goodies or Python one, but Stewart Lee did it in Comedy Vehicle as well, I think in Series 1?
- Maybe that was the one I was thinking of.
  Man, that's one of the best series ever. The 'audiences like you killed Robin Williams' bit, I think in series 4, is one of the most amazing 30 minutes of standup ever.

I seem to be in a minority in thinking I get good value for money from Netflix.

I cancelled after I realized I watched 2, maybe 3 shows a year on it. Had it since the pre-streaming days.
Are you living in 2015? Nah, I'm kidding, if it gives you enough, then fine. I just canceled right after the pandemic.
My wife is in your boat. I've tried to convince her many times to cancel but she refuses.
Netflix isn't terrible. The Titan sub doc was good. Black Mirror, Love/Death/Robots. They have some good shows
It isn't a bad value if you watch it regularly.
They do cycle in good movies, but they aren't always up front and noticeable. Every service has a massive amount of trash and crappy interfaces for discovering stuff.
If you like their content. For me, it's like one in 50 items are worth watching, if that. Sorting through the duds costs time and ain't nobody got time fo dat as far as I am concerned.
Someone told me they're funding Sesame Street, is this not true?

Not sure I’d call Suits or The Hitlist “septic waste”, but you do you!