I am finding the Irish punk on the jukebox oddly comforting.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 1:50:06 pm PDT #1858 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 1:50:48 pm PDT #1859 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Suddenly there were kids that were cooler than Blockbuster. At the same time as Netflix (and Redbox?) was driving them out of business, they'd just closed up most of the mom and pop shops. So you hate them because they're big box shopping, and then when time passes and you forget that, you hate them because they can't resist the onslaught of the next wave.
Did anyone bother to hate Hollywood Video? Poor sods.
Jesse - Apr 05, 2011 1:53:51 pm PDT #1860 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sadly, I don't have a Costco membership anymore. Possibly not that sadly, since I am just now eating the last of the mac and cheese I bought there literally years ago.
meara - Apr 05, 2011 1:54:55 pm PDT #1861 of 30001
At least when people bag on my industry it's not te part I work for...and I usually agree with them. Though it does drive me batty when people get it wrong.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 1:55:28 pm PDT #1862 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Being locked up in studio contrcts didn't help. Also not recognizing the had radically different customer bases. It's angry making to those of us on the online side. Management set us up for infighting.
-t - Apr 05, 2011 1:55:46 pm PDT #1863 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay, Irish punk!
I think that's all I have to contribute right now. But I mean it!
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 1:57:37 pm PDT #1864 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Is it strange that I'd rather talk to you guys than my table of friends out back?
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 1:58:57 pm PDT #1865 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's all Netflix's fault. They made slavering fanboys (I'm one of them), and suddenly the world was a very different place.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 2:02:21 pm PDT #1866 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I don't think it's their fault at all. I eat up all kinds of media. I think we did all the things I said above, and I think there's a place for everyone. Competition good!
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 2:04:10 pm PDT #1867 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the kind of people that are going to flock to Netflix are more likely to get territorial about the market space. You're going to get people who think it's important you like Blade Runner more than Serenity.
She says, entirely uncharitably. I don't think the average consumer cares where their movie came from, not passionately. The people who bother to hate Blockbuster or Redbox are probably some sort of avid side-chooser from way back.