You know, MOL, for a moment there I thought AB was holding his own, then you had to go Mortal Kombat on him, and tear out his spine.
Really. Okay. Since you’re all about context, maybe you could spend a couple of minutes - not moments - considering the context of your comment. If you had to write a 1,000 word essay supporting it, where would the thinking lead? (Exercise for the reader, I’m neither demanding nor suggesting you actually do it.) But I see a “context” that leads pretty directly to my reply.
I guess I’m supposed to be all butthurt here at being called “smug,” but in my long experience “smug” is what’s tossed at someone who takes a discussion a long ways in an organized and intellectual direction - tossed by people who can’t be bothered to rethink their own position and arguments and just decide the guy on the other end is whatever they define “smug” to be. They don’t like his arguments, but either can’t figure out why or feel them cutting a little too close to the bone… “smug.”
Call this thread the Desolation of Smug if if makes you feel better.
“Stupid.” See: “smug.” Oh, I guess I’m being smug again, but I will get a good laugh passing your comment around. Suffice it to say that I’ve gotten enough kudos for the synthesis from people well-placed to offer it that I feel just a tad… well, smug about it.
Absolutely. I find their business practices and policies indescribably… oh, what’s the word? Stupid! That’s it. Which has next to nothing to do with the evolution of the thread, as I’ve pointed out a couple of times. But points to you anyway.
And more points for grasping that my little exercise here is only one facet of the matter.
Okay, snark back in the box here because you’ve made a couple of good observations. First, I think HBO** is **one of the best content-for-direct-profit models around, and its success and longevity and control of its material all speak for that position. (Maybe “content for direct profit” is a better term than “commodity” as I used it above - the latter is sort of out of context in this summary.)
I don’t see anywhere that I said it was too expensive, per se. I find it irritating, purely as a buyer, to have so few ways to access their products. They’re sort of the Apple of the video-content world in that respect. You can write those comments off as snark if you like.
I’d take up your comment about ad-supported TV but this thread has already yawed over a larger area than the Flight 370 search. I’ll just say that I strongly disagree; the costs of “free” ad-supported television are far higher, individually and collectively, than any pay-viewing option.
Nah. All those comments are precisely in the context I outlined. Yes, I do think [ad-driven] television sucks, and I do wonder about the actual intelligence of people who sit in front of it hour after hour, and I do have better things to do with my time… which sometimes includes watching some of that material completely ad-free and under my own control.
But as MOL has taken it on herself to defend the rights of mouth-breathing couch potatoes everywhere, I can only salute her dedication to her kind.
No.
Then I suggest you save the rest of your bitching for their less discriminatory taste.
This is pretty sad. “I’m just smerter than you guys! Everyone who calls me on my shit is just mad cos I am very smert!” Uh huh.
Well, I only toss it out here when it comes up in context, and as the OP, it wasn’t a context I intended to come up. “Fuck Netflix,” I was done - hey, it’s the Pit. I figure it’s worth sharing a peek into a project, some folks are usually interested and it’s only fair, since the comments I pass back from here keep the folks chuckling for days.
(Oh, [colleague name redacted] thinks you meant “discriminating,” but he’s only a sociology DH and they don’t really count, do they?)
You know, you really are a sad case. I’ve never read a post from you that wasn’t shitting on someone because they posted something you came along and decided to claim as a personal insult. Must be a bitch living in a world that’s completely out to get you, personally and exclusively.
I guess not everyone is smert enough to let general comments pass.
That hurt my feelings. 
You might want to revisit this.
I tried it, just now, while reading this. It didn’t work.
This is a literal jaw dropping post. Soo… because he avoids the 15 mins of ads while watching a TV show by online content provider, AB has a greater intelligence that those who ‘watch’ the extra 15 mins of ads in the SAME SHOW. The air of superiority for watching the same show provided over internet rather than when it comes on OTA is stunning. I mean, really… holy shit, dude.
And yet, oddly enough, these friends of yours only get referenced when you are getting called on your shit and they don’t appear to be capable of doing anything but approve of you.
This dumbass gimmick of Stoid’s dates back more than a decade. She used to do it for political stuff all the time. Basically “Her side”=“win”, “Other side”=“Lose”, regardless of the merits of any arguments made.
Yes, well, when you entrench yourself in a dumb position, your only choices are to either keep saying progressively dumber and dumber things, as you dig the trench deeper and deeper, or to admit you were wrong. Or to go out in a crazy blaze of meltdown glory, which of course is objectively the best outcome for everybody.
Don’t forget the most important part. If you think he is completely full of garbage, it’s because he’s too “organized and intellectual” for you, and you just “can’t be bothered to rethink [your] own position and arguments.” Also, if you think he’s stupid, you’re a couch potato.
While I’m usually in separate areas of the Dope than her, I’ve seen it before. Has she ever gone back and amended a score, or might I as well pin my retirement on a lottery ticket?
You have kind of a raging hard-on over avoiding advertising, and it’s draining all the blood from your brain.
Your ability to avoid advertising when watching your favorite show doesn’t change you from a mouth breathing couch potato to a cultured media connoisseur. Except for the Superb Owl, nobody watches for the ads, you use them to get a drink of water, or discuss the show, or check your email on your phone. They are a slightly annoying cover charge to get the show when you want to see it.
Sophisticated people watch 2-3 shows at once, never seeing an ad! 
You must be unfamiliar with our friend Amateur. It’s not enough to simply ignore the commercials. They leak their evil marketing hoo-doo deep into the center of your psyche and knowledge and education be damned, they hypnotize you into buying products you do not want or need and worse of all, they make you think you enjoy the things they force you to buy! Only a thick layer of superiority and apparently Netflix can keep you immune from the seductive succubus that is commercials.