MammyWhammy
@MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
I’ve had one for years, use it often and honestly didn’t know it had an app until today.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
I honestly didn’t know there was an app and use mine a few times a month.
- Comment on What are some good YouTube channels about the Nintendo 64? 4 months ago:
In the same vein as MetalGamer Jesus, Game Sack has some N64 episodes as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
99% Invisible did an episode on this.
It’s a great listen. Basically it makes audiences think the show is funnier, or rather it gives audiences permission to laugh out loud alone.
- Comment on Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes 9 months ago:
And is what they should do rather than trying to delete it.
Provide context so that future generations can enjoy what’s good about the media and acknowledge how parts of the content/media are problematic and not appropriate.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 9 months ago:
He offered Twitter more money than the company was worth with no due diligence.
The leadership of the board could have been sued by shareholders if they didn’t push Elon to actually pay over market value.
The end goal of any for profit leadership is to make as much money as possible and exit.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 9 months ago:
Any recommendations for PoE cameras?
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 9 months ago:
They’re just going to order whatever they like anyways.
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 9 months ago:
It requires personally identifying information to login. That’s a hard pass for menu people.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
They’re also like three times the cost of standard windows, which is why most buildings don’t have them.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
I much prefer the trickle of releases to a lump season dump.
It allows time to digest, discuss and catch up throughout the release schedule if you’re invested in the story. You can convince your friends to watch a few episodes to catch up and then watch the end of the season together. You can read fan theories online, formulate your own, and overall each weekly episode can result in a lot of engaging fun interactions.
With a series dump you have to binge it and wait for others to do the same in order to talk about it. The whole time you’re actively avoiding spoilers from friends/coworkers and avoiding reading about it online. The end result is you disengage from the fandoms/communities while you are getting through the show, which to me takes a lot of the fun out of a big show.
I compare the difference between Stranger Things and GoT. To me these are probably two of the most significant pop-culture releases in the last decade or so.
Game of Thrones resulted in hundreds of thousands of theories every week online and in public. T-Shirts were made based on popular online theories that never panned out in season. You would rag on friends who guessed the plot twist wrong and deify those who got their predictions spot on. Especially in my demographic the two months GoT was on was all about GoT.
Stranger Things on the other hand, while still wildly popular hits differently. It’s much more of a build up to release, a week or two of “man that was awesome” followed by “I hope they make the next season soon.” Retroactive discussions happen for a while, but the discussions and the hype fizzles much more quickly.
If I want to watch a trickle release show in one dump, I still can, I just wait until the whole season out, reactivate the subscription. Then I binge it.
For me it’s much more fun to have an episode or two a week and build momentum through a season than it is to set off a one time firework.