What does student loans have to do with anything? Student loans was taken over by the federal government in 2010 when President Obama signed it into law.
"This is likely to be a solvable problem." -- The last 40 years of truck history shows how wrong that comment is. It's always fun to read couch potato comments.
Cord cutting was never about saving vast amounts of money. Yes there is an element of that but it's more about getting what you want without the extra shit you do not want. There's always cheap-ass idiots that scream the loudest about the bill but that's not the core issue.
I pay for two services, get one for free and spot pay for a service every few months that I want to see a full season of something on::
DTVN = $40.00 - Grandfathered Go Big plan (starting next month it goes to $50, still well worth it for the channel selection). Netflix = $10.99 - Standard account. Hulu = $00.00 - Limited adds free from Sprint.
That's $50.99 (this month) compared to AT&T 430's $130 cable plan we used to have that didn't include HBO which was $15.00.
I also get HBO from DTVN for $5.00 a month only on the month they have something we want to watch a full season or Starz for $11 when the next American Gods season hits. I paid for a month of DCUniverse ($7.99) to watch the new Young Justice and Teen Titan seasons and then canceled it.
Now if DTVN raises HBO to $15.00 like everyone else then I'll change to a different service but even that wouldn't be as bad as 430 channels and only 5 or 6 actually watched.
No smart money is on these content providers constricting via corporate buy outs. DTVN (AT&T) plays a long game especially with the Fox merger. Not sure where Disney will end up:: content provider vs content creator but they will have a large part of both pie's.
The smaller non Neftlix/Hulu/Prime/Google providers will not exist in 2 to 5 years and then we will get something similar to one stop ala-carte model we want as the content contracts merge together like cable did in the 80's & 90's.
That won't happen as it would break the well established subscription model that Netflix created. The blow back would be above the level of MoviePass bad. Netflix can't screw with there own model much as it's about as profit streamlined as the McDonald's menu - anything more and you get outrage and less purchases.
As for the Disney Vault comment, only an idiot would sign up right away. Wait for everything to finally trickle in, probably takes a year and then sign up for a month or two.
I keep Directvnow and Netflix year round. I don't include Prime because it's 99% used for shopping only. Hulu is free from Sprint (wouldn't the merger be cool if we get Netflix & Hulu both free? yea won't happen).
I sub HBO and Starz for one month on Directvnow when we want to watch a full season of something (GOT/American God's/etc) only then turn it off. Even with the $10 increase DTVN is still cheaper for us original grandfathers for the amount of channels vs anything else.
I sub DC Universe for a month when they have a complete season of something new.
It's not bundling or true one stop ala-carte but it's not hard.
1.) I didn't disparage anyone that's your view not mine. It's just a fact of any sport/hobby 95% of participants are not serious competitors they do it for fun. I never said there was a problem with that.
2.) Your contradicting yourself if that 5% of players can justify R&D spending then how is it that the 95% is the lion's share?
On average most of that 95% spends $500 on there rig ever 5-6 years with maybe one upgrade in the cycle and they typically buy a pre-built computer and use it for everything not just gaming. While the 5% spends $2+ every 2-3 years with at least 1 upgrade in the cycle and these are usually dedicated hand built machines. If there a streamer (most are) they also have a $1k streaming computer to boot.
My gaming rig is only used for gaming I don't even browse the web on it unless I'm pulling a driver down. My streaming rig is my daily driver.
I've spent $2 the last two years due to a motherboard bug Gigabyte just couldn't fix but it's an odd cycle for me I'm typically in the 3 year plan.
You can throw all of the shit metrics you want at the screen as your obviously not a serious gamer and will never actually get the point.
Why yes 95% of gamer's are not serious they play for fun every once in a while so 1080p@60hz is fine in a $500 rig. There's no point on going above a 1660ti/1070 or the AMD equivalent it's just a waste of money if your not going to drop $500 to $1k into a monitor.
A competitive player looking to hit at least the top 3% to 2% of the leader boards consistently will drop roughly $3k into a rig and $1k is just the monitor. You have to get to a 1440p@144hz platform just to level the playing field and that's before you actually learn how to aim and land your shots in any game. 1080p@60hz is just a crap fest your reduced to hip firing spam and pray you hit something.
FPS and HZ is everything in most shooter games it's how you spot the bad guy faster or from longer away as there mostly cheap easy client side hitscan based damage resolution (pubg/fortnight/apex) verses something harder like server side projectile object (Tarkov). Projectile is better as every bullet fired gets run through a physic's engine but that just means you *have* to have a better rig just to play the game.
Now if your a Minecraft or MTG:Arena player then you can run them on any old potato without wasting money on a GPU/monitor. Warcraft is in the potato area as well but for the opposite reason as they have probably the tightest netcode our there.
No serious gamer ran 1080p@60hz in 2018 let alone 2019.
All of the competitive shooters require 1440p@144hz just to get you into a level playing field there all designed to run better at faster speeds. The reason you die without seeing the opponent is because your rig is running 2001 level components.
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Technically the DOJ can't block or allow anything they can only go to court to try and stop it.
What does student loans have to do with anything? Student loans was taken over by the federal government in 2010 when President Obama signed it into law.
"This is likely to be a solvable problem." -- The last 40 years of truck history shows how wrong that comment is. It's always fun to read couch potato comments.
To bad the Boomer's replaced trains for trucks in the 70's to give themselves jobs.
1.) You can't live on a cruise ship.
2.) You can't be taxed on a cruise ship.
A AC & a damn lair, what a combo.
Well to be fair Alaska only has 700,000 people and is much, much bigger than Norway.
The funny thing is New Jersey has 9 million people and not even half of Norway's size:
New Jersey = 7,787 sq mi
Norway = 125,020.651 sq mi
Not that this isn't a good accomplishment but when your as small as it is (or it's Baltic state neighbors) it's not gold star worthy.
To bad the "game" Fortnite has already been eclipsed by Apex Legends ... so I guess he's hoping it can morph into something else that can make money.
Only a AC would site vox like it's some sort of real information site.
You forgot to shout "You kids get off my lawn" !
Dammit, I just used all of my mod points ... and a AC to boot.
Fortnite is already dead gramps, you just haven't caught up it's all Apex Legends now.
Jesus you people must be old.
Cord cutting was never about saving vast amounts of money. Yes there is an element of that but it's more about getting what you want without the extra shit you do not want. There's always cheap-ass idiots that scream the loudest about the bill but that's not the core issue.
I pay for two services, get one for free and spot pay for a service every few months that I want to see a full season of something on ::
DTVN = $40.00 - Grandfathered Go Big plan (starting next month it goes to $50, still well worth it for the channel selection).
Netflix = $10.99 - Standard account.
Hulu = $00.00 - Limited adds free from Sprint.
That's $50.99 (this month) compared to AT&T 430's $130 cable plan we used to have that didn't include HBO which was $15.00.
I also get HBO from DTVN for $5.00 a month only on the month they have something we want to watch a full season or Starz for $11 when the next American Gods season hits. I paid for a month of DCUniverse ($7.99) to watch the new Young Justice and Teen Titan seasons and then canceled it.
Now if DTVN raises HBO to $15.00 like everyone else then I'll change to a different service but even that wouldn't be as bad as 430 channels and only 5 or 6 actually watched.
Sweet Baby Jesus and I thought I was old ... spinning disks in 2019!
No smart money is on these content providers constricting via corporate buy outs. DTVN (AT&T) plays a long game especially with the Fox merger. Not sure where Disney will end up :: content provider vs content creator but they will have a large part of both pie's.
The smaller non Neftlix/Hulu/Prime/Google providers will not exist in 2 to 5 years and then we will get something similar to one stop ala-carte model we want as the content contracts merge together like cable did in the 80's & 90's.
That's called Cable grampa, your welcome to it.
That's a dumb comment (yea I know AC).
That won't happen as it would break the well established subscription model that Netflix created. The blow back would be above the level of MoviePass bad. Netflix can't screw with there own model much as it's about as profit streamlined as the McDonald's menu - anything more and you get outrage and less purchases.
As for the Disney Vault comment, only an idiot would sign up right away. Wait for everything to finally trickle in, probably takes a year and then sign up for a month or two.
+1 this.
I keep Directvnow and Netflix year round. I don't include Prime because it's 99% used for shopping only.
Hulu is free from Sprint (wouldn't the merger be cool if we get Netflix & Hulu both free? yea won't happen).
I sub HBO and Starz for one month on Directvnow when we want to watch a full season of something (GOT/American God's/etc) only then turn it off. Even with the $10 increase DTVN is still cheaper for us original grandfathers for the amount of channels vs anything else.
I sub DC Universe for a month when they have a complete season of something new.
It's not bundling or true one stop ala-carte but it's not hard.
"I don't have to subscribe to a video game service if I want to play the newest video game. I can just buy whatever game interests me."
Heh, not much of a gamer are you ? Look up "Battle Pass" and get back to us on the similarities.
I'll agree on the other two.
A /. commenter telling others to go do something real? Pot met Kettle ...
Thanks for the rabid competing product sales pitch. We didn't even need to start a count down.
1.) I didn't disparage anyone that's your view not mine. It's just a fact of any sport/hobby 95% of participants are not serious competitors they do it for fun. I never said there was a problem with that.
2.) Your contradicting yourself if that 5% of players can justify R&D spending then how is it that the 95% is the lion's share?
On average most of that 95% spends $500 on there rig ever 5-6 years with maybe one upgrade in the cycle and they typically buy a pre-built computer and use it for everything not just gaming. While the 5% spends $2+ every 2-3 years with at least 1 upgrade in the cycle and these are usually dedicated hand built machines. If there a streamer (most are) they also have a $1k streaming computer to boot.
My gaming rig is only used for gaming I don't even browse the web on it unless I'm pulling a driver down. My streaming rig is my daily driver.
I've spent $2 the last two years due to a motherboard bug Gigabyte just couldn't fix but it's an odd cycle for me I'm typically in the 3 year plan.
You can throw all of the shit metrics you want at the screen as your obviously not a serious gamer and will never actually get the point.
Why yes 95% of gamer's are not serious they play for fun every once in a while so 1080p@60hz is fine in a $500 rig. There's no point on going above a 1660ti/1070 or the AMD equivalent it's just a waste of money if your not going to drop $500 to $1k into a monitor.
A competitive player looking to hit at least the top 3% to 2% of the leader boards consistently will drop roughly $3k into a rig and $1k is just the monitor. You have to get to a 1440p@144hz platform just to level the playing field and that's before you actually learn how to aim and land your shots in any game. 1080p@60hz is just a crap fest your reduced to hip firing spam and pray you hit something.
FPS and HZ is everything in most shooter games it's how you spot the bad guy faster or from longer away as there mostly cheap easy client side hitscan based damage resolution (pubg/fortnight/apex) verses something harder like server side projectile object (Tarkov). Projectile is better as every bullet fired gets run through a physic's engine but that just means you *have* to have a better rig just to play the game.
Now if your a Minecraft or MTG:Arena player then you can run them on any old potato without wasting money on a GPU/monitor. Warcraft is in the potato area as well but for the opposite reason as they have probably the tightest netcode our there.
No serious gamer ran 1080p@60hz in 2018 let alone 2019.
All of the competitive shooters require 1440p@144hz just to get you into a level playing field there all designed to run better at faster speeds.
The reason you die without seeing the opponent is because your rig is running 2001 level components.