Yegolev
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I could never watch that many movies.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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shiznitz
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I could never watch that many movies.
I find it easier to burn through TV series. This is strange since a DVD of TV eps is usually longer in total than a single movie. We just tend to get caught up in the flow more. Watching four eps of 24 back to back is not uncommon. That's 160 minutes of content. |
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Bunk
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I use zip.ca up here and have had decent service from them. A bit slow on the turnaround times, but I've never had any major fuck ups from them.
I use it mainly for TV series I have missed, or don't get up here. Farscape ftw.
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Yegolev
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I think I put 100 hours into Radiata Stories.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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I think I put 100 hours into Radiata Stories.
Did you buy that on my recommendation? I should really finish games, I put 15 hours into it (a heavy 15 hours I might add) and then put it down. Forgot about it until you said that. |
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Big Gulp
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I could never watch that many movies.
Watch? I don't know about that, but I know I can burn that many movies. I've been using Netflix for about 3 years now, and haven't had any delays in shipping. The only thing I have noticed is that I won't necessarily get the movie at the top my queue next, but that's no big deal. Just keep your queue ungodly long and they'll send you stuff in the list at random. |
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Morfiend
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Kingdom of Heaven is the worst piece of shit movie ever. The only reason you should watch it, is if you just arnt quite convinced that Orlando Bloom cant carry a movie by himself. Other than that, the acting is horrible, the cinamatography is criminal, and the story is utter crap. Not to mention the editing makes a horrible story even harder to care about. Im usually pretty soft on bad movies if they entertain, but this one was simply horrible.
If you really want some thing funny, make Haemcow do a review on this.
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HaemishM
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I actually liked Kingdom of Heaven, despite its flaws.
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Yegolev
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I think I put 100 hours into Radiata Stories.
Did you buy that on my recommendation? Of course. Your recommendations are a large part of why I hang out here. I leech your free time for game-research points. 100 hours is a guess. The game clock is more than that, but there is some idle time in there. Did you know the game clock of Paper Mario: TTYD stops at 99:59? |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Morfiend
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I actually liked Kingdom of Heaven, despite its flaws.
A little piece of me just died. |
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shiznitz
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I actually liked Kingdom of Heaven, despite its flaws.
A little piece of me just died. Well, kill another piece of yourself because I had the same reaction as Haem. I pick your left nipple. |
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HaemishM
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I actually liked Kingdom of Heaven, despite its flaws.
A little piece of me just died. Go download Bloodrayne if you want to take the rest out. |
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Trippy
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Nebu
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Good article. It's very interesting to see how market research can have such a direct effect on service delivery. Few customers have complained about this "fairness algorithm," according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
"We have unbelievably high customer satisfaction ratings," Hastings said during a recent interview. "Most of our customers feel like Netflix is an incredible value." I'd be interested in knowing how many is a "Few" to these guys. |
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Signe
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Well, I had search high and low for an email address to complain about my "throttling" because they don't list that sort of info on their site... no telephone number either. I suppose a lot of people give up in frustration. They make it very difficult for people to contact them. I still felt I was getting a good deal and that's not why I cancelled. It was a "principle" thing. They don't have the right to call it an unlimited service if they do something to actively limit it. It's lying and it's fraudulent advertising and they've already been brought to court at least once for it (though they settled). Sometimes I care when companies lie to me, and sometimes I don't. That day I was in a caring mood. My moods are as fickle as my gaming.  |
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Righ
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What was funny about this thread was that it primarily consisted of people telling Signe and I that it wasn't happening, it was the mail, our particular distribution center, etc. But that's F13 fannishness for you.
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shiznitz
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I don't understand why Netflix doesn't just own up to this and charge the heavy users more. If the heavy users quit, then so what? They are money-losing customers anyway. I have a strong feeling that these movie addicts that watch/copy 6 movies a week will suck it up and pay more since even at $25/month they are getting a bargain.
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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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"A September 2004 lawsuit cast a spotlight on the throttling issue. The complaint, filed by Frank Chavez on behalf of all Netflix subscribers before Jan. 15, 2005
Netflix denied the allegations, but eventually revised its terms of use to acknowledge its different treatment of frequent renters.
Without acknowledging wrongdoing, the company agreed to provide a one-month rental upgrade and pay Chavez's attorneys $2.5 million."
I guess this is why things are so screwed up, good to be a attorney though, it must be like winning the lotto for them.
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Signe
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The throttling story has been making national news. I guess, contrary to what they claim, people have been complaining. I've just been reading a bunch of them on various sites that are more recent than when I first started this thread. There are more than I care to browse through. On the plus side, they now have a link to their TOS on their site and list a phone number for customer service. The fact that they omitted that information before seemed to be included in nearly every complaint I read.
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Shockeye
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Netflix contact info
1-888-638-3549
1-800-290-4518
M-F 6AM-7PM, Sa-Su 6AM-2:30PM
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Signe
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Yes, I have all that and their email now but thanks. I had to dig for it when I wanted to bitch at them, though. They didn't make it easy!
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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I just signed up for Blockbuster Online for $18 a month. Right now they are offering 1 free in-store rental a week, which translates to a savings of ~$16 a month so Blockbuster Online is costing me $2 a month. They are certainly leveraging their stores to make this Online thing a success. I'm sure it'll all end in bankruptcy and pissing on graves and what-not but until then I'll gladly pay $2 a month.
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SnakeCharmer
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Was trolling this thread, since a buddy swears by it...But I have to ask...How can you people watch so many movies when 90 percent of it is CRAP?
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SurfD
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Becasuse even crap can be entertianing for a bit if you get the chance to filing it in someone else's face when you are done with it :P
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Righ
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Was trolling this thread, since a buddy swears by it...But I have to ask...How can you people watch so many movies when 90 percent of it is CRAP?
The 90% crap is 100% better than the 99% crap on the TV channels, and its a waste of a frigging huge TV to have it turned off all the time. Three movies every couple of days is not a lot of TV by American standards. Schild watches more teen girlie shows than that in a week. |
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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Was trolling this thread, since a buddy swears by it...But I have to ask...How can you people watch so many movies when 90 percent of it is CRAP?
You'd be amazed how fast children burn through Oswald, Dora and Transformers DVDs. |
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Strazos
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No more Doodlebops.  Actually, speaking of them....since I'm home and up in the early hours of the day now, I happened across the Doodlebops. I was officially creeped out; I feel your pain, Shockeye.  |
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schild
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Was trolling this thread, since a buddy swears by it...But I have to ask...How can you people watch so many movies when 90 percent of it is CRAP?
The 90% crap is 100% better than the 99% crap on the TV channels, and its a waste of a frigging huge TV to have it turned off all the time. Three movies every couple of days is not a lot of TV by American standards. Schild watches more teen girlie shows than that in a week. Wrong. I download all of my tv and watch it in a chunk. Today was the first day I've "surfed" live TV in the last 5 or so years, and you know what we stopped on? House of the Living Dead 3. It's gotten to the point where the only things I watch or go out of my way to watch when it's downloaded is House, Supernatural and Love Monkey. |
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SnakeCharmer
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Was trolling this thread, since a buddy swears by it...But I have to ask...How can you people watch so many movies when 90 percent of it is CRAP?
The 90% crap is 100% better than the 99% crap on the TV channels, and its a waste of a frigging huge TV to have it turned off all the time. Three movies every couple of days is not a lot of TV by American standards. Schild watches more teen girlie shows than that in a week. Guess you got a point. |
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Margalis
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Wrong. I download all of my tv and watch it in a chunk. Today was the first day I've "surfed" live TV in the last 5 or so years, and you know what we stopped on? House of the Living Dead 3. I can only assume that the creators of Return of the Living Dead 3 and House of the Dead 2 had some sort of awful love child. |
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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schild
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Whoops. Return of the Living Dead 3. It was actually the first time I actually watched content as it was broadcast on the Sci-Fi channel. I might never do that again.
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Margalis
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Return of the Living Dead 3 was awful. There are 5 now. The first one is really good though.
"Hit it in the brain! Hit it in the brain!"
"I DID HIT IT IN THE FUCKING BRAIN!"
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Signe
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Was trolling this thread, since a buddy swears by it...But I have to ask...How can you people watch so many movies when 90 percent of it is CRAP?
The 90% crap is 100% better than the 99% crap on the TV channels, and its a waste of a frigging huge TV to have it turned off all the time. Three movies every couple of days is not a lot of TV by American standards. Schild watches more teen girlie shows than that in a week. Wrong. I download all of my tv and watch it in a chunk. Today was the first day I've "surfed" live TV in the last 5 or so years, and you know what we stopped on? House of the Living Dead 3. It's gotten to the point where the only things I watch or go out of my way to watch when it's downloaded is House, Supernatural and Love Monkey. He was teasing you. Teasing you is one of our family pasttimes, you know. You need some of my chill pills. |
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Sky
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Without acknowledging wrongdoing, the company agreed to provide a one-month rental upgrade and pay Chavez's attorneys $2.5 million. That's disgusting. There ought to be a law. |
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Miasma
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I'm hoping that 2.5 million is for the class-action lawsuit, not just that one guy. It should work out to under a dollar for each subscriber after legal fees.
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