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I see the point you're trying to make, and it'd be terribly expensive to pay for every instance of viewing television episodes. But if you consider the way films are, that's essentially what we already do. I find subscription services to work quite well for TV, and I could see these services being both independent and centralized, with the centralized distribution costing a little more. That's how it's processing in my head anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
You'd like him. He's plump downstairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I remember when TV was "free" and now I pay $110 dollars a month to watch what largely amounts to a huge, steaming pile of shite.Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmackyI see the point you're trying to make, and it'd be terribly expensive to pay for every instance of viewing television episodes. But if you consider the way films are, that's essentially what we already do. I find subscription services to work quite well for TV, and I could see these services being both independent and centralized, with the centralized distribution costing a little more. That's how it's processing in my head anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
If there is a way to get people to pay for something someone will find a way to make them do so and if suddenly "forced" to pay people are amazingly adaptable in that regard.
Like I said earlier it's nice that someone like Louis is not out to ring every dollar out of us and is also very forthright in where the money goes.
If you can't at least in principle ,support that then you are either very selfish or very stupid.
I'm such an incredibly nice person I can't believe that you would say something like that to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Funkin'You'd like him. He's plump downstairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Actually you're right. I take that back. I don't know if it's the alcohol swimming around my head or what but I honestly feel bad for that comment.
I showed your apology to the 4 year old next door and even he didn't buy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Funkin'
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787Strange I read that and the question I see is "When someone isn't ripping you off,only trying to be nice while in the process making a reasonable living ,why the fuck would you want to steal from him?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Hole69
I've never heard of this Lewis guy before but he seems like a decent spud.
I'd definitely pay $5 if someone good decided to sell their material in this way.
Then you should definitely buy his special, and watch the first two seasons of Louie, and the 3rd season starts airing on FX on Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by mankerThis.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I've never heard of this Lewis guy before but he seems like a decent spud.
I'd definitely pay $5 if someone good decided to sell their material in this way.
This idea is subject to the good feelings of the consumer. If it worked on a large scale, the grocery store would not have prices on their products, they would just ask people to pay what they felt the merchandise was worth. This idea is new enough that people are behind it. Once that warm fuzziness gets to be commonplace, people won't do it anymore.
Personally, I find the value of most media to be $0.00. If I can't have it for free, I probably won't seek it out. If media companies want to use product placement to support their shows (and they do), I'm fine with that. I really don't care about the economics of programming, but if a media company wants my attention, they better produce something interesting.
I'm just going to hang fire on that since I let Idol make all of my primary tv watching decisions. I am, as yet, unclear on his views.Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmackyThen you should definitely buy his special, and watch the first two seasons of Louie, and the 3rd season starts airing on FX on Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
He actually has pretty good taste which is to expected when you consider that he's dedicated his life to this kind of thing, forgoing interaction with humans without a modem interface since approximately 1997.
That's true btw but the really disturbing part is that I didn't get an actual computer until 2005.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Anyway since you asked and since I have never actually seen Louie I'm an going to give you my opinion based purely on wild speculation, conjuncture,flawed logic and outright fallacy.
Which is how I basically do everything so am incredible good at.
To simplify, I'm breaking it down into pros,like Funkin's mom and cons like ziggy's dad.
Pros: You seem to like Mary and as people tend to try and emulate their heroes ,Louie could then well be an approximation of Mary only funny. Btw hero emulation is why I spend much of my spare time bedding unbelievably hawt womins and trying to stop madmen seeking World domination.
Louie is apparently a well regarded show and Louie C.K. one of the best current stand-up comics but then again so was Ray Romano(note to self: remember to change to "cons" before posting)
No matter how bad it turns out to be it still can't possibly be as boring as soccer.
Cons: Has Mary ever demonstrated good judgment about anything before?