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Salrite posted...

Is that bad? Seems equivalent to most things that are cheap and disposable.

its bad for something that needs to be appealing for newbies to get into

reading comics is a very expensive hobby

Revelation34 posted...

What are they now?

not sure about magazines in general but comic books have hovered around $4-$5 for years though some have been $6-$9

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was reading silver age teen titans before bed earlier

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What even prompted this topic?

just seems like an excuse for cynical people to try and describe why they think humans are savage selfish animals at our core and that trusted friends/family are only nice to you because they benefit and once they stop benefiting then they arent so nice

i can stream something whenever I want as opposed to when the network wants me to watch

thats why I can never go back

Every so often I get a small taste of modern cable television when I use a temporary sling tv pass to watch football

Gotta say Its a dumpster fire

does anyone here still watch it?

TigerTycoon posted...

I think good and evil are fictional human constructs based on societal norms and culture, personal experience and perception.

That said, I think most people try do things that meet their personal view of being "good".

However, one person's "good" can be seen by another person as evil.

People can easily do terrible things under the belief that their actions are morally justified.

not sure I agree with this because it should be undeniable that helping others is good

anyone who sees somebody helping the homeless as being evil is probably a selfish jerk that thinks its everybody for themselves

if you are a horrible person then its obvious you are a horrible person its not a label constructed by society

Pikazard1 posted...

@NightMareBunny thank you for this, whenever I find work again Ill sub to dc ultra

you are very welcome

Pikazard1 posted...

sure I do! have plenty of physical issues & bigger books, currently subbed to marvel unlimited. didnt know about the other two, what are they like & what are their price points?

global comic is $6.99 per month with its gold and is a treaaure trove of indie comics

dc universe infinite is like marvel unlimited except it houses dc comic books instead of marvel

theres standard monthly standard annual and ultra monthly then ultra annual

standard monthly is $7.99

ultra monthly is $12.99

whats the difference?

ultra gives you access to the mature library of dc content from black label/vertigo and lets you read the newest comics 30 days after release date instead of 6 months which is what the service originally offered

you can also read the collected volumes of a series if youd prefer that to reading the single issues

@Pikazard1

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right now all the notable publishers are on there except boom studios who recently left for a deal with webtoons

Falgos posted...

Ohh

yeah

Falgos posted...

You have me intrest

I can gift you a week of it for free

it keeps telling me I have these trial codes

I would also like to mention the global comix service which mainly houses indie comics and even includes some of the current transformers content

Its no problem its just to me a lot of licensed comics arent all that special because they are tied up in rules they cannot break

such as the marvel Star Wars comics they have to awkwardly fit into the story somehow

Falgos posted...

The only "Marvel" stuff I enjoyed was when it ran Transformers. I read re releases though.

i wasnt even born when they started publishing transformersso you havent read anything from marvel since 1991(the last year they had anything to do with transformers)

thats wild

I have subscriptions to both the marvel unlimited app and dc universe infinite

used to get comics shipped to me but that quickly became too expensive

GreenKnight127 posted...

[shrugs]

I dont think law enforcement or the community gives two shits about stereotyping people when the crime statistics dont lie.

theres a lot of people who dont have access to regular activities because they work at night and I dont think its fair to expect them to adjust their entire life because of a few rowdy punks

do you honestly think at night theres nobody whose got a job to do?

theres always work to be done even at night

I think restricting activities to daylight hours for those reasons is problematic

since it only leads to more people being treated like they gotta be doing something sketchy if they are a night owl

what about the people whose work puts them in that position?

they cant just become daytime folks at the drop of a hat

keyblader1985 posted...

It sucks. So many places around here used to be 24 hours or open till midnight. Now it's practically a ghost town by 10, save for gas stations and Whattaburger.

it really sucks if you wake up hungry and realize practically nothing is open

feels weird seeing many businesses close by 8:00-9:30 PM

bachewychomp posted...

See, this is sort of what I was getting at about online orders and stuff. Not that I would say a store really qualifies as a third place, but there used to be a sense of shopping being a "trip" that's going away. Again I don't think it's some huge loss by itself, but it's one thing in a long list of interactions where the human element is being convenienced away. And malls are an oft-cited example of a third place, so I don't think I'm too far off, although the big difference with a mall is that it feels like less pressure to spend money since it has many stores and common areas.

I think Covid destroyed the night life in America and thats another problem

not everyone has the same schedule but post pandemic were expected to do our shopping at the same time or we dont go shopping at all

The thing with these services is you pick what you want theres no requirement to have all of them

Nobody needs all of them you pick what you want

I dont have to pay for tinfoil hat news casters accusing Ice cream of being evil if I wanna watch what I like

i can never imagine a day where you are forced to sign a Faustian contract to watch anything streaming that forces you to buy dozens of services you dont want just for the ones you do and then makes you pay an obscene every month for years in an agreement you cannon break

thats just too unrealistic to me

DeSantis2024 posted...

Happy birthday!

Thanks ^_^ Its silly but I was more focused on trying to help out my mom than anything else

I have been trying to help her out with money problems

i didnt feel like I deserved a birthday in that kind of situation

I cannot celebrate when shes struggling to pay taxes

Wasnt really able to do much and seeing as it was a Monday

the party vibe really wasnt there.

something about Monday just really destroys any birthday it comes into contact with

Chocolate chip cookies but these days Im probably more likely to just be eating Oreos like a basic person

Been watching YouTube videos detailing the demise of third places and I think it explains everything in the topic

when nobody has anywhere to really hang out after work/school

Youll start to feel really bored and depressed

especially if you are a night owl because most places close by around 8-9 pm now

so many places cease business hours after the sun goes down so you have to hang out before then and lets say you do

another problem arises if you arent somebody who drinks booze. There goes your most likely hang out spot

So many are missing and can only be viewed on YouTube

Damn_Underscore posted...

I used Gamefly years ago

always saw ads for that but never used it

one thing I dont know is why so many shows are missing seasons on paramount plus

theres too many missing episodes of the horror anthology are you afraid of the dark for me to ignore

I never used Netflix when it was just a mail-in service so not sure if I would have used it much back then

South Park delayed until next week.

Netflix wasnt gonna be the only game in town forever

a monopoly on streaming didnt work for anyone except Netflix

Mostly using it for South Park right now

People didnt love the idea of having to track down a pay phone if they wanted to call somebody while away from home

its something you had to accept because there wasnt any other choice

choice is the word because when there is none you will tolerate a lot of stuff you really hate

I dont think many people realize before the internet the simplest things were frustrating and fondly looking back on them because you think those were happier days Is bizarre

Roachmeat posted...

No. No they wouldn't.

That is like saying the world would be happier with only cable subscriptions. Obivously that can't be true since there are cartoons and animated series that wouldn't have been revived had streaming not been a thing. (Futurama, Gumball, King of the Hill, American Dad?)

Also, coming from someone that is impressed with Wednesday Addams getting her own show and that Christina Ricci guest starred in it (full circle), the internet did at least one thing right since we would probably would have never seen the offshoot if cable execs had something to say about it.

Another thing is that being forced to watch what the networks want you to watch at certain times isnt something I miss

you had to work around the schedule they had set up and if you missed your favorite show. Reruns werent guaranteed

dont even get me started on how anime fans had to settle for whatever scraps they could find

you are correct though that something like Wednesday never would have happened on cable television

if it did. Theyd probably give it a crappy time slot and no commercials to even tell people it exists

This is always an argument people bring up online that if the internet never existed people would be a million times happier and the world would be better without it

but do you really agree with it?

get rid of smartphones and just have landlines they also said

The biggest problem Ive noticed online is many people just disregard the problems of others and think laziness is the cause for them being in trouble

bandeku posted...

The American shows they had were good- I do remember a lot of Star Trek and X-Files, but it was disappointing not having good British fiction on a channel named the British Broadcasting Company.

I think BBC America is experiencing what a lot of cable networks are now

which is that they spam the same content over and over again

even if it doesnt fit the channels original purpose

another is ifc which stands for independent film channel

however youll rarely see indie movies or anything truly overlooked on that network these days

heres today current schedule for ifc to illustrate how crappy things are

the Steve Martin movie the jerk is on now

then it switches to weekend at Bernies followed by Beetlejuice followed by Robin Hood men in tights followed by trading places

finally from 7:00 pm until 12:00 am its a marathon of everyday loves Raymond

Ludwig is a modern Britbox series I had been watching

I also know about acorn tv but I dont think that ones mentioned much compared to Britbox

I tried watching Britbox but most of the shows on there are mystery/cop shows

like its really just solving a case here and solving a case there with few exceptions

Has anyone here Watched much British television?(either on Britbox or just in general)

if so whats your thoughts on it

bachewychomp posted...

Sure that makes sense for Amazon, but if you're online ordering for a retail pickup, then presumably they have that item in stock, so you could've just gone in for it. Then again, by the point where you've confirmed an item is in stock it makes sense to just order it ahead, and even if you didn't, heading straight for it within the store isn't the same as browsing the store.

I still try to just "wing it" with shopping a lot of the time, but I do find what you say is unfortunately true a lot of the time. And it's not like unusual stuff, but stuff that 20 years ago you would've expected to easily find inside the store. Now that they have online ordering as a crutch (whether it's for home delivery or just to deliver to your local store for pickup), they don't have to carry things as reliably. Unfortunately instead of driving customers away it just drives them to order online, since any similar competitor is going to be doing the same thing anyway.

unless youll be out of the house anyways its dumb to go shopping for something you could order online easily

I think a lot of people will agree that you save a lot of time by doing that instead of going to the store and proceeding to waste time simply browsing the different sections

bachewychomp posted...

I still see teenagers at the mall pretty often, granted when I go to the mall I'm not there to "hang out", so I don't know if they're there all day. It can get pretty busy but I feel like it never gets crazy busy, like it was built with way more parking than it seems to need anymore.

I actually think about this pretty often when I go to any kind of store (mall or not). I feel like you never see places just packed anymore, and it's kind of sad. Amazon is lot of the reason to blame for it, but even physical retail sees a lot of online pickup orders now. That is one area I wish people would make the choice not to engage in, though I get it that some people might not find it fun to walk the aisles if they already know exactly what they want. It's even worse with fast food restaurants because they incentivize the apps with deals, and places like McDonald's (not that it was ever the peak of dining experiences) are making their dining rooms feel actively hostile.

All this removing and optimizing away the human experience of commerce is just contributes more to the feelings of dread and that you're only valued for how you can fill someone else's wallet. I could go on and on about the physical design of these spaces too, but I won't. I'm guilty of loving self-checkout though

I mean lets be honest the idea of driving to get what you want only to find out they dont have what you need isnt great

angeleyes94 posted...

It feels like bad youth novel fan fiction took over merrican comix, it stinks, too much garbage to sift through.

depends on what you are reading

that was weird