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Sometimes i miss cable tv?
(I mean I know it still exists but) there was something kinda fun about running into an FX movie marathon or a 90s cartoon rerun in the middle of the day on the weekend at, like, your grandma’s house and just locking in with your sibs. I know a lot of it was slop TV but streaming is as bad if not worse now and there’s TOO much choice. Maybe it’s silly to romanticize but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@abbyfrancesca
Jan 19, 2025
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@bee1000
I agree! The golden age of TV was having a DVR and a Netflix DVD subscription. It’s all been downhill from there!
Jan 20, 2025
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@gforce2001
I totally get what you mean!! Sometimes I miss just catching shows or movies because they happen to be on, cuz the pressure of deciding what I want to stream from my watchlists it gives me decision fatigue sometimes. My roomie and I were also saying the other day that people may have gotten worse at consuming things critically after cable declined, because now you don't really have to sit through anything you don't like. Being exposed to something just cuz it's on cable and watching it anyway while commenting on it with your friends & family doesn't happen as much anymore. Unless you turn on something you already know you'll hate, specifically to hate-watch it.
Jan 19, 2025

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what in the adult world equates to the feeling that one would get while sitting and playing at the toy section at blockbuster at those ikea tables with the bead toys and the knockoff superhero dolls while i waited for my parents to go rent dinosaurs????? plus— on demand media had taken away the excitement and the ritual of gathering together and choosing a source of entertainment for everyone involved, it is now just a tireless act where no one is satisfied with the choices suggested. plus, whatever choice made can then be easily argued and changed within seconds rather than being forced to just sit and watch the one movie that was rented, until one decision is made that will somewhat satisfy everyone—a vast juxtaposition to the careful curating it would have taken to rent the perfect movie for that evening. it really removed the art of critique and discussion. bring back the BlueRay era fr, those ads were goated anyways
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@jilly
Jan 19, 2025
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im from canada so when i watch american cable especially, the ads feel dystopic. but theres something so beautiful about the structure and information youre blasted with through cable tv. try it. but the news isnt for the faint of heart…
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