Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "ColdFusion" channel.

  1. Well . . . If I was looking for a way to get away with a giant Bitcoin theft, I would probably seek out some not very bright couple who lack self awareness, make public fools of themselves by making talentless music videos in poor taste, and have given seminars that sound like they border on advocating criminal behaviour anyway. Then I would move all that money through their accounts, taking the sum I’d set out to keep for myself whilst letting the authorities recover 4 or 5 times that amount, so they would stop looking for me. Having said that, they could be brighter than they seem? Look at the types of people that get to run countries these days? Most of the world’s most powerful people are idiots . . . And nearly all of them are obvious crooks.
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  2. Imagine if they’d cancelled Breaking Bad half way through season 4 or 5 even? That became their inexplicable business model which unaccountably squandered all good will between them and the creative industry, and their audiences. Two years ago, parting with Netflix would have felt like a sacrifice. Now, everyone has another streaming service they’d rather keep and Netflix is way down on their list. Two things the public are sick of: when a movie flops and they know that means it will soon be on Netflix (thanks for nothing, Netflix) and hearing the word, “algorithm.” The dumbest robot in the world cancels all our favourite content and now they want us to pay more for adverts? Not happening.
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  3.  @gaius100bc  : There’s really no need. The truth is that you can get awesome content, with broader variety, on Amazon Prime, and it’s cheaper than Netflix is about to be, and still ad free. Every once in a blue moon I pay extra for a new movie, rather than wait a couple of months. But, if you can restrain that impulse, you should. It costs the industry billions and only drives down the quality and quantity of original, artistic, creative content. It’s not food you’re swiping from the mouths of Jonny Depp or Zack Snyder, but the sound technicians, producers, photographers, writers and assistants who all suffer, having to work for peanuts, because of pirating. Lose your Netflix subscription and switch to Amazon Prime. You’ll thank me. ✌️
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  4.  @DMSparky  : Yeah, it was a smart analysis. And the same thing has happened in the gaming industry. Notably, in the last two or three years, there has been this massive shift, where all the creative, clever and original story writers and ideas people who gave us classics like GTA 4 & 5, Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher, and many more, have all left their companies and retired. Equally notable has been the correlation between that and triple A games releases being consistently disastrous! Not ONE of the major titles has been uncontroversial and in that time, and most have been abortive. CyberPunk 2077 was only the first in a string of disappointing disasters. The movie and streaming services are all in the same situation, where they have been bought out by investment groups, lost their creative leadership and chased algorithms into disaster. I am predicting a reactionary movement to spring up soon. Creative, clever, original people, who will stream new video games, music, movies and TV shows, all from one service; made more cheaply, but with greater creativity and heart. The conglomerates will be hostile and try to crush them, which will result in them either winning, in which case piracy will become the new normal, or fighting continuously for the foreseeable future.
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  5. It was Breaking Bad that brought me into streaming TV for the first time. I was late to the party, which turned out to be a good thing, as I already knew the series had ended on a high and that it wasn’t cancelled at the end of season 3 or 4 (just imagine?). I am SO tired of the way they cancelled so many promising shows that I won’t even watch a Netflix show, especially if my favourite actors are in it and it’s about something that fascinates me! I can’t take the disappointment of them squandering all of their audience’s good will any longer, by just canning a perfectly good show for NO APPARENT REASON! That fact alone has cost them more than any other factor. The faith and good will of both the industry creators and their audiences have been recklessly squandered by them giving no explanation, but just canning their most popular content, to chase an algorithm which was destined to betray them. If there wasn’t a universal cry of, “Serves you right, Netflix,” I’d be surprised?
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  6.  @lorumipsum1129  : I feel like I get better value from Amazon Prime, which also translates into perks for free deliveries from their sales service, etc. Netflix is facing a crisis and is about to make it worse by pricing themselves out of the market and turning their cheaper alternative into YouTube, with unpredictable, variable quality products, zero guarantee that any series will reach a conclusion, and ADVERTS!? That’s like solving the problem of toenail growth with a scythe! They’ll be hopping to disaster if they don’t rethink that.
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  7. All that NFT and Block Chain talk has made the general public uneasy. Perhaps if he were to make some sort of statement to reassure the public, he might regain some trust? But Google and YouTube in particular don’t seem to care about what the public thinks of them at all, and it doesn’t sound like it would be his style to even discuss what he really thinks about anything? I had to abandon the Google search engine when I could no longer get quick, reliable information without having to trawl through the ad stuffing and discern fact from advert for myself. I have disliked the way they’ve been going for over a decade now. I went to Bing, as that ChatGPT is really useful for rolling several searches into one, once you get the hang of it. Even more so now that I can do so via pure conversation without having to touch a keyboard. It reminds me that the keyboard has long been viewed as the, “last obstacle,” between the user and their interface, by the tech giants. Never thought I would ever Bing things, or trust Microsoft’s aggressive monetisation models ever again, having switched all my tech to Apple years since. But their search engine works super efficiently, if you’re willing to teach yourself a little bit about it and know the value of cross referencing. So this new YouTube guy is a cypher, if we’re honest. But I didn’t invest in Nebula because I liked watching more and more ads on YouTube. My test for him would be: Can he seek that holy grail of, “growth, growth, growth,” that all these tech bros obsess about, in new and innovative ways that DON’T rely on more and more Ad interruptions? If he finds a way to create fresh revenue streams from new innovations, I’ll call that a success. As it is, YouTube’s quality has been downgrading for a long time now, mostly because of grasping ads, but also because of its obtuse policing system and apparent hatred of doing what it’s meant to do: promote comment and interaction with the videos. I honestly think they would get rid of comments altogether if they could. They certainly discourage them and make it harder to comment, edit comments and respond to comments, every year.
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  8. Toyota has been giving money in donations to American Nazi organisations and the fascists who plotted to end US democracy in the GOP. I wish them every failure.
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  9. If I was looking for a way to get away with a giant Bitcoin theft, I would probably seek out some not very bright couple who lack self awareness, make public fools of themselves by making talentless music videos in poor taste, whilst their neighbours starve, and have given seminars that sound like they border on advocating criminal behaviour anyway. Then I would move all that money through their account, taking the sum I’d targeted whilst letting the authorities recover 4 or 5 times that amount, so they would stop looking for me. Having said that, they could be brighter than they seem? Look at the types of people that get to run countries these days? Most of the world’s most powerful people are idiots . . .
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  10. Both. Obviously
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  11. I think we should all be willing to suffer some pain for the sake of world freedom. It’s easy to want a bit more comfort and money, but people are dying in Europe. And imagine the global economy if Putin gets to control all of the gas and oil prices, which is what he’s attempting? This is all about him trying to prevent Ukraine developing their MASSIVE gas and oil reserves. That was all easy enough while he could reach them in Crimea, Donetsk, Donbas, etc. But now they have confirmed even larger reserves in the west of Ukraine, where Putin can’t reach them. That’s why he’s made up these excuses to invade. And he’s looking to get forces into the Carpathian Mountains.
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