there is something really lonely about streaming and i cant figure out what it is.
i miss cable tv. am i the only one who misses when a station would hype up a movie they're going to air and just watch it even if it wasn't their favorite? i cant explain it. maybe i just liked when things to watch were picked for me.
And the next day at work/school somebody else saw it and you just made a new friend.
Even one episode a week streaming isn't the same,I may have watched but you put it off for a day.
Maybe pro wrestling is all that is left to capture that.
My uncle got me into 24 when it was still airing. We'd talk on the phone every Monday night after the new episode to guess what happens next week. It's over.
I remember in elementary school every family was watching the first season of American idol and the whole class would talk about it the day after. I remember my family waiting for new episodes of lost and watching them together. I remember her watching The Amazing Race and reading about the season in People magazine. Things were so different. There is a missing element with the end of broadcast schedules. Game of thrones was the last "everyone saw the episode Sunday and is talking about it Monday" phenomenon and even then it was slipping. The only thing close is when a season of something releases and everyone talks about it for a week. And we have even hit a soulless state now where streaming companies want you to think "everyone is talking about it!" (See Ahsoka marketing.) TV is more convenient than ever but somehow we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
Op here
i remember it was like this for me when survivor came out.
another thing i really miss is if you were watching a movie on a station, the people airing it would sometimes come on and talk about it in between commercials
DVD on TV
My friends in college ordered wings every Sunday night for the Game of Thrones/Mad Men double feature. It's like how smartphones sucked out the social aspect of life and now the phone itself is the centerpiece. You could always do the same thing with just watching an episode but the sense of urgency seeing it "live" was a big deal even with torrents.
>but the sense of urgency seeing it "live" was a big deal even with torrents.
the sense of urgency is another big factor
kinda like how if we were all able to live forever ife would lose meaning
now theres no urgency, so it's lost meaning. we're all just vampires, dead inside and nothing to live for.
>Game of Thrones/Mad Men double feature
Damn, peak of TV right there.
Yeah. American Idol, the series finale of Friends and many other shows. Game of Thrones was the last one. Now shows get hyped, but because the full season drops, no one is sure where anyone is at in the season. It's hyped up, but it feels like a movie rather than a show because the whole season is talked about rather than just one episode at a time. It's either you binge the whole thing quickly so you can talk to anyone about it, or no one is on the same page except for whoever you watched it with.
It creates very lonely and isolating scenarios. The classic pairing is husband and wife, parents and kids, or boyfriend and girlfriend. Friends will watch together, but if you are single and your friends aren't then you're left alone. I don't watch much because i'm single. Having a gf would cause me to watch more stuff, but oftentimes i'm out of the loop. It just reinforces the loneliness. Even when you do watch it, you usually talk to people who watched it with people rather than alone.
>new episodes of DBZ weeknights on Toonami
this timeline peaked here
Agree. It’s counterintuitive, but being older, and having lived thru it all, by far the most comfy was broadcast… then cable… then streaming.
Nothing was as fun as waking up Saturday mornings and watching cartoons. Same with TV shows after school.
There was magic in it somehow—the planning, scouring through TV Guide, the commercial breaks to get more cereal or snacks, the excitement about what was coming on next.
There’s no soul in instant TV. Plus the quality of the shows is mostly pure shit.
i'm watching urban legend right now
i have a specific memory of watching this on space station (canadian channel) when i was like 12 or 13. i remember being totally fucking stoked watching soemthing like this at like 1 am but right now in my 30s...putting anything on just feels fucking sad man.
Waking up on Saturdays was great. Also, staying up late to watch stuff felt cool and like you were watching something you weren't supposed to. There was a temporal element associated with it. Now because of streaming that feeling is gone. For kids i imagine it's more like staying up late to watch a mature movie your parents rented from Blockbuster. It's not even like that though because with devices now you can watch anywhere and since stuff is linked a kid could just watch on their phone, ipad, or laptop. The only thing they would have to worry about is their parents finding out. They probably wouldn't even notice.
The quality of entertainment plummeting doesn't help one bit.
The last time I got hyped about anything on regular TV was the world premiere of Ben 10: Alien Force.
This is the logical next phase of the “I miss blockbuster” thread. You miss being young. In another decade if this site is still up, newfags will be posting that they miss Netflix.
I miss netflix
> Running to the mailbox after you saw the truck pull away to get your movie after mom upgraded to the three at a time plan and gave you and your brother one of the spots and you spent an afternoon making a queue together
I miss that.
I miss my brother.
one of my best childhood memories was walking to the nearby blockbuster three avenues away with my mom the day after a massive blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow on the ground and some random kids started pelting us with snowballs while we were walking down the middle of the street
Did he died?
no he just moved 700 miles away and married an idiot who thinks I'm insane because I don't use social media so we never talk anymore. They outright said they wouldn't walk the two blocks to my parents house for christmas if I went. I have spoken to this woman exactly once, at their wedding, to say congratulations. I fucking hate not talking to my brother anymore. Love from kazakhstan etc etc
Your brother married the glownagger responsible for tracking you.
I literally think my ex gf was a fed.
Based on the rants she apparently vomited out to my parents (who she wants to stop talking to me as well), she genuinely thinks anyone who doesn't have a facebook is a terrorist, and that I'm planning to kill them to steal all their money. Utterly batshit insane, by all accounts.
I'm constantly amazed how despite being fucked up I'm somehow less deranged than many "normal" people. Something in the water, I'm sure of it.
Normalfags are sick, demented psychopaths. I can have an actual conversation with any given anon here with complete sentences and everything, just seems to me like more or less we’re just average guys, or what used to be average. Any given person on the street is a medicated whackjob.
Most zoomers' brain is fried by tiktok and porn since age 4
Did they ever tell your brother she's a psychopath who is herself going to kill at least one of you?
That's not really it. Here's another example. MTV and vh1 used to play music videos in big blocks throughout the day. You'd leave the TV on and watch music videos waiting for one that you saw the other day to play again. Now you don't have to wait, you can just look up any music video at any time and watch it. But despite the convenience, what's taken away from you is watching it at the same time as the world, and watching the other music videos that play around it. Oh, and you're not scrolling through slop on the phone as you watch them.
God, shut the fuck up. Every time someone mentions how things used were better there has to be at least one of you worms crawling out of your damp little hidey-hole to shit up the thread with your "hurrr acktchually it's nostalgia/you miss being young/I suck dick for a living"
Honest to God, the world would be a better place without you and your pathetic attempt at armchair psychology. Kill yourself.
This needed to be said, thanks. Nothing more reddit than mentioning the word “nostalgia.”
>God, shut the fuck up. Every time someone mentions how things used were better there has to be at least one of you worms crawling out of your damp little hidey-hole to shit up the thread with your "hurrr acktchually it's nostalgia/you miss being young/I suck dick for a living"
>Honest to God, the world would be a better place without you and your pathetic attempt at armchair psychology. Kill yourself.
The point is that things were never better you were literally too stupid to understand how bad things always were, that's all it is. Apparently you're still stupid though.
>The point is that things were never better
Things were 100% better. Life was focused on community and friends. Now it's just a loners paradise.
>Things were 100% better. Life was focused on community and friends. Now it's just a loners paradise.
>The actual point is that you're a halfwit who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is. This can be forgiven if you're still a teenager, otherwise the previous post still stands. Kill yourself.
Your anger because you cannot return to having no responsibility doesn't make you smart you know.
No they weren’t. You were a kid so you didn’t have the weight of the world on your shoulders that adults do. Those might have been the best years ever for you, I wager your parents would feel very much differently.
Most people grow up and understand this. You don’t seem to judging by you lashing out with butthurt when this is pointed out.
Based. Nothing was better in the past, things were only more backwards, inconvenient, racist, ableist and transphobic. Part of being a member of the global village is accepting progress. All this nostalgia for an imagined past is a telltale sign of fascism as outlined in Umberto Eco's essay "ur-fascism". As somebody with transgender children, this deeply sickens me. Hate is not a joke, it literally kills people.
Go back to redd*t israelite
Typical chuds. Just call me israelite without debunking anything. History only moves forward, it will prove me right while leaving incels like you in the dust.
t. sinking scorpion
The actual point is that you're a halfwit who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is. This can be forgiven if you're still a teenager, otherwise the previous post still stands. Kill yourself.
>REEE STOP RUINING MY NOSTALGIA BAIT THREAD YOU FUCKING REDDITOR REEE
Congratulations, you just proved him completely right.
No he didn’t? Old == bad or vice versa. Dumb reddit retard.
Yes, he did. It’s not old == bad, it’s new == bad because you miss being a kid.
No being a kid was a nightmare I definitely peaked in my mid 20s. Dumb reddit groomer.
okay so you miss the commercials or some shit? I don't really have found memories about TV at all its just a thing.
You are completely correct. In reality streaming is much, much better than trying to organize your schedule around watching a particular movie or show and it’s evident by the posts here talking about how lonely it is that anons don’t miss it because it was somehow “better” but because they miss their younger days of having friends. People with normal social lives don’t act like this.
TV was often unifying, you'd watch it with friends or family. Even when watching alone, somebody would join you, many times my neighbor friends would just come in, you could leave your doors unlocked in those days
tv is like another person providing you with a stream of content while streaming makes you choose your own content, removing the hallucinated presenting party from the equation
exactly, it's like a friend lol
edit:
it's literally just like a friend saying hey check this out:"
or a friend sending you youtube stuff that you can both watch at the same time
I don’t think it helps that good stuff is so hard to find through most streaming services UI. They put all the really popular stuff up front usually and a lot of it lowest common denominator shit.
Plus another thing that isn't often discussed: channel branding which is obviously a thing of the past. Bumpers and indents between shows that would give a channel it's identity.
There's more to it than "old good new bad" and anyone who believes otherwise is a braindead zoomer.
I was obsessed with channel branding as a kid. I loved the graphics, the bumpers, when the credits would roll and they would show what's coming up next. Channels had an identity. Certain shows were on certain channels, but it wasn't as massive as a streaming service. They would also get syndication for shows that fit. Programming blocks for specific shows.
Examples:
Spike TV: The mens' channel. Had WWE Raw, MXC, some shows that were like youtube video compilations of police chases, amazing videos of crazy shit happening. The Ultimate Fighter, tons of other shows. On Sunday mornings they would air The Three Stooges. It was awesome.
Cartoon Network: Had their shows and Toonami and Adult Swim blocks.
Toon Disney (now Disney XD): Had Disney cartoons, but really late at night they would air old disney shows like the Mask of Zorro and they even aired old Mickey Mouse/Steamboat Willie cartoons at like 2-3 AM. I'm talking cartoons with no color except the vaguely yellow paper background. From the 1930s. It was awesome.
I can't remember if it was Sci-Fi/SyFY or not, but they started airing The Twilight Zone on weekend mornings as well.
We lost that with streaming.
TONIGHT ON THE WORLDS MOST AMAZING VIDEOS
hahaha. Real TV, Maximum Exposure, and World's Wildest Police Videos. Kino.
>there’s more to it
No there isn’t. You’re just trying to pass off your nostalgia as objective fact.
>when a station would hype up a movie they're going to air and just watch it even if it wasn't their favorite?
Based. I liked the network premieres when the films was multiple years old
and then that random ass movie they air turns out to be pretty fucking good unlike 90% of the stuff on netflix, especially in canada.
I was channel hopping one time and ended up on the old movie channel during the board room scene from Great Race, looked interesting then Lemmon rips his beard off and jumps out the window, I watched the whole thing then walked down the street to the video store and just bought it. I miss finding new stuff by accident like that.
that's amazing. did you rewatch from the beginning to see what you missed?
Yes. I love that movie.
It was also weird to finally see the source of the I AM PROFESSOR FATE clip from the "New Talent on 60 Minutes" ytmnd
That's something that only happened on tv. Coming into a movie halfway through. It was interesting because if it wasn't near the end then you had enough time to try to piece things together and get invested, but if it was too close to the end then you just watched what happened and were detached because you were not invested in it.
You could catch random movies that weren't even premiering on the channel like that all the time. Tons of movies i saw just randomly on TV. Also, HBO as well. I caught American Psycho on HBO one time. I thought the movie was hilarious. I had know idea it would become a meme later.
Fuckin' every random Saturday or Sunday i turned on my PBS affiliate channel, Dances With Wolves was always on. (Early 00s)
I love it when women are rating other women. They always overrate the ugly ones so they can seem prettier themselves.
All this nostalgia, while understandable, is also alarming if you know about the mass programming they were up to back then, the more complete control of the narrative they had, and the occult underpinnings of each of the major media corporations. You’re literally all pining for the companies that enslaved your minds because you associate with childhood
I think it's the tangible spontaneity of that era in general that people miss.
What they miss is curation
Wrong, it's community through shared culture
When something came on broadcast or cable you knew you were one of perhaps millions watching it all at that some time, in a way experiencing it 'together.' The form of streaming media mirrors the broader desocialization modern human beings have undergone in recent decades.
I lived through that era so I know what you're talking about.
However, I disagree with cable tv being intrinsically better. Streaming on the internet has the potential to be less lonely. The reason it's currently lonely in it's current state is because of copyright laws that strike down any unlicensed 'illegal' joe schmoe streams. There could be a case made for social fragmentation etc where everyone is in their own cultural bubble or walled garden, but I think these things would have less of an effect if there weren't artificial constraints in place to destroy it.
Remember public access tv? That is essentially what the internet is currently. It was boring for the most part being content was shit, but the raw unfiltered crowd interaction made it good. There were some early podcasts that took callers like Mysterious Universe (crap after season 2 ish) that was like the old Coast to Coast AM.
I remember the days when channels would have dedicated presenters or programme announcers, like there would be bumpers weekly in the weeks leading up to a movie that was to be aired. Like the host would say "next week, Deep Rising" followed by a short summary of what the movie was. Yes it was comfy but if we had a return of that, we would frankly find it rather spare and quaint, not as satisfying as we imagine it to be.
Society has changed, culture has changed, we and our demands have changed.
Corporatization and amalgamation/coagulation/consolidation of the web is also to blame. Pic kinda related. Most of the internet and movie/tv producers are now owned by a handful of companies. So it's a lot more soulless now.
But nothing is intrinsically wrong with digital internet streaming in general.
Kids do the same but with twitch. They all talk about the latest streams of his favourite content creators.
My girlfriend has a 7 year old kid and it's wholesome as fuck to see him doing this kind of stuff
>gf already has a kid
It's over
Maybe the dads dead. It’s okay then.
>My girlfriend has a 7 year old kid
vaughn.live
twitch.tv the house channels and Artifact directory
https://hyperbeam.com/ online sandbox to watch online kino with ur friends in has chatroom and can post images
your welcome
>tfw you'll never be back in high school in the 2000s eager to discuss the show the next day with your friends. The whole world obsessed with this weird show about a plane crash on an Island with a smoke monster, polar bears and a funny racist redneck who gave everyone nicknames
That was comfy as fuck, hell. talking to your classmates in highschool about either Lost, heroes, prison break, playing gamecube on the evenings...
>huge candle right in front of the television
I hate women so much it's unreal
The worst part is: There is no way to emulate this old feeling. There is no way to "go back". You can play old games or watch old movies/shows and maybe feel a sense of comforting nostalgia, but that feeling of being young and flipping through the channels at 2am, coming across an interesting movie in the middle of airing and thinking "What is this?" and watching the rest of it with no context of how it started felt mysterious. Trying to do that now with cable would be a fucking slog because we're old and life has no mystery left.
We all agree that the modern convenience of instant access is technically better, but it has no sense of discovery. I miss being young and finding new things. Sometimes it still happens and I briefly have that same sense of wonder at finding something cool, but it's rare. I'm fucking depressed, man.
And if your thing wasn’t on you just did something else.
You can still discover new things friend. Are you actually doing anything new? Or do most of your activities involve some kind of screen?
unironically the solution is to just get off the internet and do things in real life
>i miss cable tv. am i the only one who misses when a station would hype up a movie they're going to air and just watch it even if it wasn't their favorite? i cant explain it. maybe i just liked when things to watch were picked for me.
So you're basically admitting you're a sub 80iq dipshit that loves to manipulated by advertising and social proof.
>that loves to manipulated by advertising
>loves to
nice broken grammar retard
shows how much you know. having too many choices is actually bad for us.
oh can't attack the point, so point at some missed grammar, pathetic. Having choices is great because it means we don't have to watch the same stupid garbage your dumbasss watches.
netflix literally has nothing on it
> there is something really lonely about streaming and i cant figure out what it is.
I know what it is anon
What is it?
'member TGIF?
I don't understand why there are a dozen streaming services and none of them thought of introducing channels where they play predetermined stuff.
If they had channels playing random stuff, with a chat for viewers to discuss I would have that shit open all day on my second monitor.
The common thread in most of these posts is that with streaming content and season dumps we lost the shared culture of mass participation in scheduled events, i.e. communal ritual. Unfortunately this complete breakdown of social bonds has been going on for over 60 years now in nearly quantifiable aspect of modern first world life. Read Bowling Alone for 1000 pages of depressing proof- and it was written 20 years ago, just imagine how much worse the data is today.
Netflix needs a live chat option so people can watch kino and talk to each other
>Netflix
>kino
otherwise yes
Turns out, technology dehumanises you
machines control our lives
machines dehumanize
Fuck yes brother. I was thinking Kaczynski, but Styx rule
Also, nice black metal trips. Checked.
Life in general was a social pageant, now it’s just some creepy tranny hellscape of pedo creepiness and tech/product worship.
Its the social aspect. Society is getting more fragmented every day with israelites trying to cram every ethnic group they can find into America, growing them to be equal percentages and mixing them together so that when you go outside or to work nobody has anything in common with you aside from proximity. Its pretty grotesque but thats what we get for "saving" israelites from the "holocaust"
Also, it used to be somewhat fun to have something to talk to normies about but ever since the covid/BLM/vaccine/insurrectioncaust hysteria I find the average person so disgusting that I'm embarrassed to relate to them on any level. The only joy I get from interacting with normies is when I find someone who is equally disgusted by the state of things. Hence why I'm here
>when I find someone who is equally disgusted by the state of things.
are you me
>ever since the covid/BLM/vaccine/insurrectioncaust hysteria I find the average person so disgusting that I'm embarrassed to relate to them on any level
fucking this, holy shit. it’s fucking creepy how anyone can talk about going to Disney world when they’re screaming about trooning out kids or football when the NFL does nothing but spread ugly, hateful racial propaganda. all of you are fucking pussies and make me sick
The more you have the less you actually have. It’s scarcity.
I don't think it helps that we no longer have a monoculture in most western countries, there's too many different groups to cater to now that no one feels served well.
Last year when I went to Uzbekistan with my little brother we met and befriended this retired american economics professor and the man said something along the lines of ‘When people become wealthier they will use their wealth to automatically isolate themselves from others’. It’s the same with streaming services. Through that you take out the inconvenience of watching whatever is limitedly available on TV and instead watch what you exactly want and that is often different from what other people like so again you isolate yourself further from others.
>retire
>move to Uzbekistan
He must have been loaded.
I like premade playlists, more so for music than TV, but I don't miss the syncronized watching of the latest hype show at all. Mainly because the latest thing everyone's talking about tended to be reality TV trash or sports most of the time.
>there is something really lonely about streaming and i cant figure out what it is.
>i miss cable tv.
spontenously discovering something by channel scrolilng, its already playing, you are immedietly immersed, you dont need to choose to press play and watch the intro and have it on your algorithm of a random streaming title that odds are if you hadnt heard of it it will be crap (unless its obscure genre like sports documentary)
I miss a movie or special would be on and there would be at least one kid also watching so you can talk about it in school the next day.
It's time to ditch the streaming israelite
Dumping seasons in one go and the overall dwindling quality of TV doesn't help all that much.
Don't want to be that guy but anime is still aired weekly and it's fun to talk to friends about the latest episode of the week literally the next day after they air. (I remember doing that with a lot of them old examples are K and Space Dandy. Newer ones are Bleach: TYBW, Chainsaw Man, Sonny Boy, Tengoku Daimakyou etc)
Pretty much the same thing with stuff that's released on HBO MAX. Talking to friends and acquaintances about Barry was really fun.
What we really need is one episode a week to come back or for that to be the norm. The problem with Netflix series' is that once you dump the entire season in one go, you lose the possiblity of being a mainstay in public perception for a couple of months in favour of being extremely popular for a couple of weeks and then fading into the ether.
This is one of the reasons I don't like Netflix originals. Dumping the entire season in one go is just not how it should be done imo. I watch TV series' slowly. One episode every three days if I'm really Into them. But there is something romantic about watching one episode a week and letting that piece of episodic storytelling occupy your mind for longer. You really get to appreciate the material that way.
Reddit spacing and midrange IQ, like clockwork.
We either go back to scheduled TV or stick with streaming. Why the fuck would you want some hideous in between bullshit where we have unscheduled steaming and ALSO we STILL only get 1 ep a week? Are you stupid? At least we can get the kino all at once unlike back then. Jesus. I HATE watching only 1 ep of something.
>reddit spacing
>I hate watching only 1 ep of something
>I am a ADHD ridden worthless homosexual who must binge like a typical brain dead Redditor in order to feel something
Lol
Lmao even
Simultaneous Scheduled streaming is the way homosexual. Go back to binging RuPaul's Drag Race or One Piece on your stepfather's TV you worthless smoothbrain cum stained retard.
It's called delayed gratification m8
It’s called you can delay your gratification on your own without israelites siphoning your gratification for you. Why would you want less options? I’m fine with going back to cable and scheduled TV but I’m not willing to not have a whole season of a thing drop at once—the ONLY good thing about ~~*streaming*~~.
Had this same thought the other day. Cable TV used to be an event, felt like me and the world were watching these programs side by side and it made everything seem more important. Every stream service needs a cable clone option that people can tune into.
>Cable TV used to be an event, felt like me and the world were watching these programs side by side and it made everything seem more important.
Life is very simple to understand
We like what we liked when we were kids or young. We miss the old TV, the old videogames, the old internet with forums and blogs.
But deep down, the real problem is that we don't really miss those things. We miss how we felt when we were younger, healthier (both physically and mentally). The world corrupts our brain, internet rots our dopamine. We miss feeling things.
That is the real black pill - you become old, neuroplasticity is gone. Awe and wonder from cool stuff is over. You aren't amazed by any of the new shows not only because they're garbage (and they probably are, technically) but because you've seen it all, you thought it all, your brain is no longer growing. It's all decay after you hit 30
Happy sunday
>reddit
>spacing
do not read this, pointless ~~*athiest*~~ babble
Those are called paragraph retarded fuck. I never used reddit you dumb fag. That's how people write when they want stuff to be readable. I'm sorry you grew up with phones and internet 3.0
Have a nice day zoomer, enjoy never having a functional brain as you were born into decay
>ur just useless cells bro
ok reddit
And you aren't? You read my post as some atheist gay shit, it's not. It's just how the brain behaves, I'm giving you my life experience and you are deciding to ignore it because deep down it's scary to you.
Research neuroplasticity if you wish. And I don't give a shit about atheism, or god, or any of that, truth is, brain just works differently the older you get.
You can read that as demoralizing, which probably is, but take it as you want, maybe take the absurdist approach. no need to disregard ideas because of paragraphs
you're missing the point of what op is saying
I'm explaining why Netflix doesn't feel the same to cable TV and it has nothing to do with the medium as you people suggest.
There's a small element of how streaming services overcharge your brain with options while cable tv was just like "this is what you can watch, enjoy". Same happens with games and Steam.
But there's a real root cause for all this and it's called growign up
its reddit spacing bro. this was decided over a decade ago.
>Those are called paragraph retarded fuck. I never used reddit you dumb fag. That's how people write when they want stuff to be readable. I'm sorry you grew up with phones and internet 3.0
>
>Have a nice day zoomer, enjoy never having a functional brain as you were born into decay
We don't do that here, it's a faux pas.
I don't know if I preferred commercial television because it had ads and panel shows that made me feel less lonely or if I preferred it because I'd watch it with my dad.
I just crave that feeling of discovery and oneness you got from live broadcast TV yet current live TV is unwatchable due to so many ads and woke shit.
Now you know how radio fans felt when tv became big
When I was a kid, we would get hype when Charlie Brown Christmas came on tv, even though we owned it on vhs. It hits different when its live.
Come get a hug
itt: boomers missing their youth
ITT reddit doing political damage control pretending everything was always a miserable dystopia but back then it was racist and now it’s a good thing
take your pills grandpa
This is why I have the radio on 24/7. It's the knowledge that those people are sitting somewhere in a studio in a different part of the planet, whilst I'm listening to them. It's a semblance of connection.