• br0da@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The only inconvenience this is causing me is pricing out additional storage for my NAS. I know I may not be the majority here, and I may not be the target audience these tactics are focused on, but for me, these companies aren’t getting my money this way. Microcenter is.

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    I don’t know the name of the practice. But I already do the buy for just 1 month thing when they’ve got something I really wanna watch.

    Right now I’m waiting for Bleach to finish so I can get a month of Hulu so I can watch that and the new Futurama.

    They don’t deserve a concurrent monthly payment. And I’m happy as hell to deny one to them.

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        4 days ago

        They make a lot of high quality shows in my opinion, and have made a lot of great ones in the past. Max is a better service than Netflix in my opinion.

        HBO make shows that feel closer to the “human condition” than most other companies.

        Max has the following great shows: Game of Thrones House of the Dragon The Sopranos Oz What We Do In The Shadows The Wire Silicon Valley Rick and Morty True Detective Season 1 Rome +++

        Edit: Remembered Last of Us which was great

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          4 days ago

          What we do in the shadows isn’t an HBO property. Most of the other shows you listed were made years ago.

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            HBO has always had a pretty nice spread. It’s not the newest it’s not the hottest, But there’s usually something on there that I want to watch, coming from the let’s just log in and see what there is to watch scenario. I hopped onto Max when they brought all the old cartoons over, I started ripping and stripping for all I was worth because a lot of that stuff was not readily available at the time.

            Then they had their big shutdown and they lost a lot of that content and I walked away right then.

            You’re still good for streaming reruns of decent rewatchable movies though I’d say more so than Netflix.