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To the bold: I hate you To the rest of that second paragraph, absolutely. I spend a lot of Saturday or Sunday mornings that way.

Hulu - - Has a lot of shows from Fox and NBC that are currently running, along with shows that used to run on those networks, and shows from other networks. New episodes of currently running shows will show up either the next day, or sometime within the following week. - It has a few original TV shows, none of which I've watched yet, but A Handmaids Tale has gotten some play with the critics, and my wife likes it. Some original movies as well, but I haven't watched any of those, either, and haven't heard about them. - Hulu has commercials, unless you pay for their big package. There are generally less of them than watching cable, but they are the same 3-5 commercials every break, every episode, which can be annoying. - Hulu has quite a bit of content, and its growing. They even have some pretty good movies and such on there. Netflix - - No new episodes of TV as the season is running; they usually get new seasons around when the DVDs would have come up; well after the season ends, often shortly before the new season. - Lots of great Original shows. Of all the networks, I think the only shows I watch regularly are on AMC, HBO, and Netflix. They have a wide variety of different styles and types of show. Bojack Horseman (weird/depressing/darkly funny animated show), Ozark (Breaking Bad in the Ozarks but with money laundering instead of meth and starring Michael Bluth), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Tina Fey produced sitcom with her quick paced, joke-a-second style and oddly upbeat), Stranger Things (Goonies, but Sci-fi/horror), and a bunch of others. Its all very, very good. They also have in-house movies, and I've tried a few and they were good, but they're not up to the level of the big movies houses yet, IMO. They have a sort of indie feel to them, if that's your thing. - No commercials on Netflix - Netflix has a lot of content, though as their in-house stuff grows they're losing a lot of their external content. More and more networks are making their own streaming services and pulling stuff off of Netflix (mostly NBC and FOX, who have invested heavily in Hulu). Honestly, as long as they keep up the quality of the Netflix produced shows I don't think they'll start really hurting. And they still have a LOT of other content anyways. They do also have their DVD service which can get you even more, but I don't know anyone who still uses that. Amazon Video - I have this, but I rarely use it, so I can't comment very well. I only have it because we have prime (which my wife makes uses of every week buying stuff off of amazon). - I don't think they have any currently running shows from the networks. They do have a lot of older HBO shows (Deadwood, the Wire), but we got HBO-GO last year so I haven't used it for that. But if you don't want to pay for HBO (honestly, you should, its worth it) you can still check out some of those if you missed them. - They have some original stuff now, though not much very acclaimed. However, they just invested A LOT of money into pilots from every fantasy and sci-fi writer you've ever heard of, including a new series set in Middle Earth (but before the time of Lord of the Rings). So this could be something they really get into in the future. - No commercials - They have a fair bit of content, but I've yet to look for something I've really wanted to watch and find it on Prime when it wasn't somewhere else. YMMV of course. Honestly, Prime is probably worth it for the free 2-day shipping alone if you buy a lot online, so this is a bonus. HBO-GO- - You can get this now without having the cable subscription for a slightly lower price. We did the free trial just to watch the last month of Game of Thrones last year and planned on cancelling it, but there's so much good stuff on there that we kept it. I think I've watched this more than any of the others since. You had HBO, you know what they had. Its worth it. I didn't go into "easy to use" to on this because, unfortunately, every device you play it on has a slightly different app and their ease of use changes accordingly. Hulu is the exception; they came out with a single app across all platforms recently. Let me rank the different companies apps, generally, as I see them from best to worst, Deadspin style: Netflix HBO Amazon Video Being slowly eaten by a million red fire ants as I lay in the desert sun Hulu

me too, thanks

hot-damn is that a gorgeous house

In ROR's defense: I, too, lost my interest in the game this year.

Yeah, its pretty clear to me that ROR isn't a Captain in this league. He talks like this all the time, whether its about himself or the team. You can't have that sort of negativity when you're supposed to be a leader. I think he's a very skilled defensive center and I'd like him on the team going forward, but give Jack the C next year and be done with it.

I mostly don't want Lehner because I don't want to hear people complain about Lehner anymore. I think he'd be fine in tandem with Ullmark. He might also not want to play that role.

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Mediocrity would be great.

I agree with this generally, and I even agree that it doesn't really need to be "fixed" per se. This place is worth working for. I just think I'll try a little harder to respond to folks who are newer, or at least, like, read their posts. Its not that big an ask.

I'd agree that I prefer the passive ignorance that I sometimes got here as opposed to the open animosity I've gotten when people disagreed with me on other forums I've visited in the past.

I mean, I did, but its not like this is coming out of no where. We had a whole thread on it. If the answer is just "hey, regular posters, make a bit more effort with the newbies" I don't think thats too much to ask.

I think they get those token posts a lot early on, but they don't really get engaged with, if that makes sense.

Gramps, I think you may have cut to the root of a problem we've been discussing on here for quite a while. I know I'm guilty of it, too.

I think he's actually got a point here. Sometimes as a newer poster it felt like you're being ignored because people are responding to known posters. At least, it lines up with what I remember when I first started here.

I'm only 33,500 behind you. Better watch your back!

Cheers is easy too jump into without knowing what's happening, though. Entering Sabrespace is like if your first episode of Game of Thrones was halfway through season 4.

hnng

MOM'S SPAGHETTI!

I've talked before on here about how it felt hard to get into the flow of this forum, feeling like an outsider and all that. Its a real thing, never (or at least rarely) intentional by members of the board, it just can be hard to break through. JWs thing isn't that. He just shows up twice a year, searches for his name, calls people stuff, then disappears into the ether again. It should actually be EASIER for JW, because we know who he is. He doesn't have to come in and prove himself and his opinions, he can be like "hey, I'm John Warrow, I work for the AP, you've read my stuff, any questions?". He's chosen to use his little soapbox of fame to be a jerk to people instead.

No insult intended; you, and many other posters here, made the effort. I just mean that people like me and my ilk grew up side-by-side with the internet as a part of our daily lives since before we hit middle school. Its a culture you have to understand, just like moving to another country or something. If I move to France and am pissed that they speak French and don't have Bud Light on tap at every bar, I'm the a**hole; that's all I'm saying.

Also, members of older generations who have not made a concerted effort still don't really understand the internet. People being anonymous?!? Online?!?!!!?! Insanity.

It sucks that J-dubs spent his time on here being annoyed at us for no reason. I like when media interacts with fans on a personal level. His first handful of posts here were interesting and had some insight that we don't normally get through the paper or even twitter. He could have popped up a couple times a year on a whim and answered some questions, instead he started popping up a couple times a year and yelled at people. Cest la vie. Just the fact that he admitted to just coming in to search for his name tells me something.

Ah yes, those damned finesse captains are ruining this team. I pine for the days of Steve Ott and Craig Rivet.