It might just be because the public is now spread over so many services...
Are those morons trying to compare the numbers from years ago when you had like one or two nation wide channels with the modern landscape? And the one episode was announced like a week ahead and everybody would be tuning in to watch it at the same time. Now you stream an entire show at will.
It's moronic to want to use the same metric as a measure of success when clearly the entire landscape has changed.
I was recently reading a blog post by a generalist doctor (Baptiste Beaulieu). His kid, a baby (so no possible placebo effect, right?), was having trouble sleeping. His companion not being a doctor, wanted to try a baby chiropractor. Needless to say, he was very dubious about the whole thing, but nothing in his medical training was helping.
Twice they went and twice the chiropractor essentially lightly touched the baby here and there and done (no cracking anything!). Yet for months afterwards the baby would sleep soundly.
There are countless such anecdotes, but rarely anything scientifically reproducible. Ie, it's that baby chiropractor who's doing it. And he can't tell what exactly he did, so that BB could reproduce the effect, despite being a trained doctor.
It's as fascinating as it is infuriating for people who've dedicated their lives to studying medecine (amongst them, my father and my wife).
Same reason as usual : the music I like isn't conveniently available elsewhere I've looked to purchase, or available at unreasonable prices that won't benefit the artist, and I refuse to stream shit. So the high seas it is!
Next 20 years? Dude, I was being taught IPv6 back in 1997, as part of my network course. It was supposed to be the future back then, and so we were trained, expecting to have to implement it wherever we'd go work.
Yeah... I didn't end up in networks, but I sure as shit did not see it used even once in my career so far. Not a single time. It's kinda hilarious, really.
I wanted to, because I really was so impressed with The Witcher 3 and had gotten it for cheap. So wanted to pay back. But then I remembered the rule. I still really wanted to reward them, so I'll probably buy Phantom Liberty full price or something.
Please somebody, anyone, tell me you also keep reading it as "Rogue Princess of Persia" !
I can't figure out why, but it keeps happening every single time I see the name in articles!
Pandora. It was called Pandora, in the days before AI, before ubiquitous streaming, before YouTube, even. And then region restrictions happened and I lost my favourite way of discovering new music T_T
I was taught it around 1988, most likely on a Thomson MO5 ? Or maybe it was a TO9. It was a while ago :,)
I just remember the fascination watching the little pixels color themselves and experimenting with the instructions to see what we could come up with.
DDG since 2016 when I had to switch because I was in China. Never went back and with everything I hear about Google, I don't plan to. Only Google thing I still have and enjoy is Maps.
Pineapple on a pizza, eh?