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I don't like videos either tbh, but I would be ok with posts that are properly identified, so like [video] [news] [opinion] etc lol

yea and when that happens I just cancel, then I can worry about all the ad blocking and stuff, but currently it's worth it for me

I agree that it's a great investment, and it will definitely get people on board for if the platform really takes off. I think they're definitely assuming that the majority of their people who pay the $400 aren't going to remain on the platform which is probably a safe bet, once they get somewhat established and have content that's more for the everyday person, I would probably recommend converting the lifetime license over to an extended long-term subscription.

So like a subscription that lasts five six years at like the price of 3 years of the monthly subscription price, I know if YouTube offered something like that I 1,000% would buy it in a heartbeat because I know that YouTube will still be around in that time frame and it's a no-brainer cuz I use it daily,

That being said if they did end up having a significant amount of people that are still using the lifetime subscription, they may revert to adding features to the monthly subscriptions like how Discord does that entice you to switch to a new plan with a retroactive sub and then you just can't switch back again.

The lifetime access option shouldn't exist for an app like that, not unless they have another primary form of income (usually ads). That type of service costs a lot of money to host and if you have a user base that does a one off purchase you stop having a good chunk of that income relatively fast

That's just the main red flag I see from that, I would be super hesient starting on a platform that isn't self sustaining and doesn't have a parent company willing to chuck money at it "till it works" like Google did

not gonna lie, a little envious that your family knows how to install from apk, that would be my first bottleneck. They would hit the first scare screen and raise the white flag

it's improved for me, as someone who easily watches 20ish hours of video a week It's worth it for me to not have to deal with all the hassle of ad block on it. I run a pihole for everything else but the cat and mouse game got old. I currently get my money's worth, but if it raises much further I'll cancel.

ah yes, so you can get a card that will die before you manage to use all of it

That's been a thing for years now like back before I got premium which was at least 4 years ago the skip button would skip the first ad and then bring you into a timed ad afterward that you couldn't skip, was obnoxious as hell

Honestly starting with the re-overturning of "money is people" also known as Citizens United would be a good start. This act more or less made it so money is considered free speech which allowed any type of Corporation to spend as much as they want on political groups, it was spearheaded as a thing that the country needed to avoid blocking things such as smear campaigning your opponent. But what it actually did was more or less remove the $5,000 limit that packs and super packs had on financing campaigns and and political donations, because all the Super PAC has to do now is say they aren't politically aligned with a party and they can just funnel as much money into that party as they like, which obviously puts any party that remotely goes against profit(in most cases the democratic party because they generally want more social styled programs) at a significant disadvantage

Not to mention the federal committees that were intentionally implemented to stop corruption that happened within the government because we knew that we couldn't be trusted to deal with important things such as communication and Airline Administration are being gutted by the same system that was supposed to protect them. While everyone's using the excuse of well they're not doing anything so why have them. They're not doing anything because they can't, hell the FCC has tried and the court system is saying they don't have the right to rule over the department that they're a committee over. It's ridiculous

I haven't really noticed much of a difference load time personally, but yeah if the game required massive load times it was shortened as well

Personally I think it's only worth it if you have the standard ps4, if you have a PS4 Pro you're not really getting all that much from the ps5. Graphics are a slight upgrade, still not actual 4K and the ram is nice but performance wise it's somewhat similar, usually your biggest reason to jump from one generation to the next is exclusives and game availability, but the PS5 has been absolutely atrocious at trying to obtain games that work only for the Ps5, every big name developer out there is still making releases that work for both consoles due to the fact that there's still so many people that are running the PS4. This is a very different outcome then when the PS2 and the PS3 was released where yes they still offered it for both consoles but two or three years after launch they had more or less left the console in the dust, and here we are almost 5 years later and they're still making games for both platforms

I think they've lost touch with their user base, but I also think they know that there's some people that are just going to buy the console because they don't have a better option available.

Like don't get me wrong yes it's now the same price as a low end gaming computer and it doesn't have upgrade capability, and doesn't have a physical media drive, but you can put it right where your TV is, so no seperate setup so it takes up less space (PC games on a tv instead of a monitor looks weird and can be a pain to fix). Plus it's easier to use/more user friendly and everything is in one place.

I personally will not be upgrading past my current, as I find this generation to be super lack luster and not cost effective, but I can see why some might, I disagree with it but I see it.