What TV shows are people watching?

BassoonPlatoon · 08-08-2018, 08:25 PM

Oh yeah, any rational person would feel sympathetic.

Not me haha, no way I could stick to just 2 shows. I have probably seen the first episode of almost everything that exists. But since it got so bad I have decided I have reached my limit. It's probably about 20 at once.

Key · 08-08-2018, 08:27 PM

I can be that way with video games. Strangely similar actually. Some days I'll just spend hours on one game. Sometimes I'll flip through 5 or 6 games and put an hour or two into each. Either way I play what I wanna play so I guess that's better than the alternative.

BassoonPlatoon · 08-08-2018, 08:31 PM

I haven't been that way with video games in a long time. I hope when I pick a job up again I can start investing back into the video game scene, been considering building a PC too.

Key · 08-08-2018, 08:36 PM

I have a pretty nice PC now and I bought it as a whole. It's actually cheaper and you actually get more for your buck if you buy a prebuild. I got mine from Costco. It's a lenovo legion with a gtx 1080 and 1tb hard drive with a 500gb SSD, and 16gb of RAM among other things. I can play games at the highest qualities with no lag. So I highly recommend buying prebuild if you want a really nice and reliable PC. I won't disclose the cost as that's not necessarily indicative of the quality though I guess you could argue that it is a big part. I guess it does have some say in it. I saved quite a bit tho because I was also planning to build, but it ended up costing more than I wanted to spend.

Trollheart · 08-08-2018, 08:47 PM

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Oh, I hear you. At that point I would just give up on myself and by a whole new box simply for more space.

Can't do that sadly. SKY package comes with your dish and your box, and the one will only pick up from the other. Your box is hardwired to a specific card and no other card will work in it, so yeah, you're basically ****ed. Mind you, there's 1 tb space on the box, so I really should use the space better. But it's hard not to see something and say "oh that looks good". Weeks later you've got ten episodes and you don't even know if you're going to like it, but you're afraid to delete it in case you do like it. Ah first world problems huh?

The Batlord · 08-08-2018, 09:13 PM

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I'll have that issue sometimes too. Sometimes I'll get to attached as well that it's hard to stop watching. I'm still going through I Am A Killer on Netflix. As someone who loves understanding the mind of a killer, this show is perfect. It goes through everything about the killers life and they interview them as well. None of them are innocent obv but it's still interesting to see.

Some are even interviewed while on death row and it's just amazing to see how they react or lack thereof when prompted to discuss experiences in death row.

That show does look interesting. Just one more thing to chuck on the never-diminishing pile.

Key · 08-08-2018, 09:14 PM

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That show does look interesting. Just one more thing to chuck on the never-diminishing pile.

I'm on episode 3 right now and it continues to deliver. It's very detailed as well. They don't miss anything.

Chula Vista · 08-08-2018, 10:49 PM

We just finished season one of Netflix's 'Lost in Space'. Loved it. They damn well better sign off on a second season.

BassoonPlatoon · 08-09-2018, 02:03 AM

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I have a pretty nice PC now and I bought it as a whole. It's actually cheaper and you actually get more for your buck if you buy a prebuild. I got mine from Costco. It's a lenovo legion with a gtx 1080 and 1tb hard drive with a 500gb SSD, and 16gb of RAM among other things. I can play games at the highest qualities with no lag. So I highly recommend buying prebuild if you want a really nice and reliable PC. I won't disclose the cost as that's not necessarily indicative of the quality though I guess you could argue that it is a big part. I guess it does have some say in it. I saved quite a bit tho because I was also planning to build, but it ended up costing more than I wanted to spend.

Really? You think the satisfaction and personal choice of putting together your very own PC to what ever specification you want still loses out to a prebuilt machine? This assumes you have some idea of what you are doing of course.

Price is of no consequence. There are any number of factors that go in to determining how an individual vendor will sell a product. The majority of which are not the quality of the item because that is only one part of it. Though as you said it can certainly be argued either way.

Key · 08-09-2018, 11:21 AM

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Really? You think the satisfaction and personal choice of putting together your very own PC to what ever specification you want still loses out to a prebuilt machine? This assumes you have some idea of what you are doing of course.

Price is of no consequence. There are any number of factors that go in to determining how an individual vendor will sell a product. The majority of which are not the quality of the item because that is only one part of it. Though as you said it can certainly be argued either way.

That's a valid point and one I actually didn't consider. There is a certain amount of pride you get when you build so I guess it can go both ways depending on what you want.

And that's also a good point. I do think I got quite lucky with my purchase so evidently I am very biased.

08-08-2018, 10:49 PM	#6358 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	We just finished season one of Netflix's 'Lost in Space'. Loved it. They damn well better sign off on a second season. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

08-08-2018, 08:27 PM	#6352 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	I can be that way with video games. Strangely similar actually. Some days I'll just spend hours on one game. Sometimes I'll flip through 5 or 6 games and put an hour or two into each. Either way I play what I wanna play so I guess that's better than the alternative.

08-08-2018, 08:36 PM	#6354 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	I have a pretty nice PC now and I bought it as a whole. It's actually cheaper and you actually get more for your buck if you buy a prebuild. I got mine from Costco. It's a lenovo legion with a gtx 1080 and 1tb hard drive with a 500gb SSD, and 16gb of RAM among other things. I can play games at the highest qualities with no lag. So I highly recommend buying prebuild if you want a really nice and reliable PC. I won't disclose the cost as that's not necessarily indicative of the quality though I guess you could argue that it is a big part. I guess it does have some say in it. I saved quite a bit tho because I was also planning to build, but it ended up costing more than I wanted to spend.