so like, don’t get the streaming services? the only ones i respect are Dropout and maybe Crunchyroll
I use pirate sites over Crunchyroll not because I don’t want to watch ads/pay, but mostly because I like the pirate sites better. I just don’t really like Crunchyroll’s website. Aniwave. to was the greatest imo until it got shut down :(
And of course the pirate sites have much more variety, Crunchyroll doesn’t have everything, but you can bet money that pirate sites will have all 4 seasons of show X, plus the summary season where they recap, plus the chibi side show, plus the 2 anime movies.
Enshitification
Stremio/Kodi are your friends
The Last Of Us season 2 being on a different, new subscription service is very much the last straw.
Wait until you want to watch Pokemon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
DVDs are dirt cheap, plentiful as fuck, don’t have DRM bullshit to have to deal with, last for decades when stored properly, and still look pretty damn good with deinterlacing. Plus, they don’t run any of the risks associated with piracy. Am I allowed to copy my DVDs onto my hard drive? That may be a legal gray area. But can they see that I copied my DVDs to my hard drive? Of course not. And I’m not making my ISOs and MKVs available to the world for download.
Spend 4 bucks on a used DVD. Give her the ol’
dd if=sr0 of=~/Videos/Movies/Title.iso
And keep the disc for basically forever. Copy it again if something happens to your file. EZPZ. Plus, it’s cool to own a physical thing imo.
One last thing: DVDs come with subtitles. I have a hard time understanding spoken words. I like to read my movies as I watch them. Makes it easier to know what’s going on without cranking the volume to 11. Speaking of which, the menu for the Spinal Tap DVD is excellent.
You can rip just the part that’s the movie. Most DVDs have the ads before the menu, so on the disk it’s a separate file. There are probably better alternatives, but I use a program called MakeMKV that lets you open a disk and only save the videos you’re interested in. IIRC there’s a free version that lets you rip DVDs and a paid version that also does BluRays (assuming you have an optical drive that can read them,of course). I bought it probably about a decade ago and was still able to recently activate a new copy using my old activation code.
Plus they have extras which if you really like a movie could be a lot of fun
It would be awesome to have a service that releases those commentaries as podcasts you can sync up with the content. I’ll never forget the BSG director’s cut podcasts by Ronald D. Moore. They’d come out about a week after the show and he’d sip a whiskey and smoke some cigarettes and it felt like we were just chilling together.
