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2020-08-08

by shaenon on August 8, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox
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  1. Alphaghoul
    August 8, 2020, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I don’t get the streaming channels adding up thing.

    On an unrelated note, remember when I pointed out the turtle putting on a serious face when Renard said they were gonna scour the library? How we should make “turtle game face” an actual meme! Well technically their tortoises but whatever.

    • Foradain
      August 8, 2020, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart may be referring to the cost of those that cost. Or maybe the cost of bandwidth.

    • casimir
      August 8, 2020, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      … just Sweetheart being budget conscious.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 8, 2020, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Each streaming channel has its own subscription price. Unless you get a package that includes several of them. So the more channels you want, the more it costs. In other words, “They add up!”

      • Daibhid C
        August 8, 2020, 6:01 am | # | Reply

        They also add up over time. Sweetheart strikes me as the kind of person who multiplies the monthly subscription by twelve to get the annual price, and then declares there’s no way she’s paying that.

      • BMunro
        August 8, 2020, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

        And of course every streaming service has less selection than you used to get at your local Blockbuster, so you have to subscribe to multiple services to see all the movies you want.

    • Jay
      August 8, 2020, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      Netflix + Hulu + Amazon + Disney + whatever else; it really does add up.

      Polyamorous friends keep bragging to me about how their polycule-family gets to share all the services without each of them having to pay for every channel…

      • Rob Nobody
        August 8, 2020, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

        I have more than once heard this cited as a top 5 reason to get into polyamory.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 8, 2020, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

          Of course, you can achieve the same result with any 4 people living in the same apartment. They don’t have to be dating.

          • Rob Nobody
            August 9, 2020, 12:08 am | #

            Well sure, but polyamory doesn’t mean you’re living together.

          • awgiedawgie
            August 9, 2020, 12:37 am | #

            True. But if you’re not living together, you can’t share the channels. Not without violating the Terms.

          • Rob Nobody
            August 9, 2020, 3:43 pm | #

            Romantic partners that you don’t live with are generally considered a kind of “gray area” in this regard, and most streaming companies have not been willing to crack down on sharing passwords in general. And of course, there’s a big difference between “can’t share” and “are not supposed to share.” I’m much more likely to share with a long-term romantic partner than I am with even a pretty close friend (not that I wouldn’t necessarily do so, it just would be less likely to even occur to either of us as a possibility.)

      • jdreyfuss
        August 10, 2020, 9:53 am | # | Reply

        I just do that with my family. We pay for Disney+, my sister pays for Hulu, my wife’s parents pay for Netflix, my parents have a streaming TV subscription, etc.

    • Ken
      August 8, 2020, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, as long as you’re going to be rogues, might as well be rogue pirates. Just don’t tell your goody-two-shoes-without-shoes leader. What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her. Probably.*

      *If it comes up in the story, it will hurt her.

  2. eddddd the mad genius
    August 8, 2020, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    black ops softball lmao

    • awgiedawgie
      August 8, 2020, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      Tell me that’s not the first time you’ve noticed someone wearing that shirt.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 8, 2020, 7:43 am | # | Reply

        Laundry at Annex One is probably problematic. Maybe the washer and dryer from the Great Machine Union Battle Royale are around, but even they would need a utility hookup…

        • mechageist
          August 8, 2020, 11:54 am | # | Reply

          The main issues for Annex One from a utilities perspective is fresh water and wastewater disposal. It’s possible the building was old enough to have a rooftop water tower for a reserve and they could have a wastewater tank like an RV or it could just dump as they go like trains and aircraft. So either Annex One has to periodically stop to take on water and possibly dump it or there’s some sort of madtech water supply set up.

          • mechageist
            August 8, 2020, 11:59 am | #

            Hmm, there are efficient real world water recyclers which could reclaim almost all of the wastewater and water condensers are easy to have when you’ve got your personal fusion reactors for power, both water systems would be trivial projects for Dr. Lee. So Annex One doesn’t really have a utilities issue unless it’s entertaining and it might be a bit incontinent.

          • =Tamar
            August 8, 2020, 2:42 pm | #

            They have weather control machines. They want water, they make it rain.

          • awgiedawgie
            August 8, 2020, 7:51 pm | #

            They don’t have weather machines. Virginia has designed two different ones, but they don’t possess either one of them.

    • davidbreslin101
      August 8, 2020, 7:04 am | # | Reply

      Are the rules similar to Evil Softball?

      • Shadowmehr
        August 8, 2020, 10:30 am | # | Reply

        How is that different from regular softball?

        • awgiedawgie
          August 8, 2020, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

          The only real difference is that in regular softball, beaning the batter with a pitch earns the batter a base. In Evil Softball, it earns the pitcher a point.

          At least that’s how it should be.

          • Robert Nowall
            August 8, 2020, 1:26 pm | #

            Maybe they use a smaller ball.

        • Andy4Hire
          August 8, 2020, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

          Depends on whether you’re in the … [pointedly dons sunglasses] mynah leagues.

      • BMunro
        August 8, 2020, 11:35 am | # | Reply

        ‘Welcome to Black Ops Softball! This is your announcer, Mr. X. I will be referring to our teams as “Team A” and “Team B”: I could give you their actual names, but then we’d have to kill you!”

  3. Doug Relyea
    August 8, 2020, 6:09 am | # | Reply

    Does Dr Lee even know what a Turing Machine is?

    • Steverino
      August 8, 2020, 7:29 am | # | Reply

      Does sh even care?

      • Doug Relyea
        August 8, 2020, 7:48 am | # | Reply

        No Streaming Soup for you.

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 8, 2020, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Do the tapes taste good?

    • Doug Relyea
      August 8, 2020, 7:47 am | # | Reply

      Probably, when they have the correct algorithm for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, and whatever else anyone in Annex One wants.

  5. Knuckles
    February 15, 2022, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Gee, if only you had someone with lots of disposable income, possibly someone connected to a major corporation.

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