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[Humor] Dunkey's Guide to Streaming Services (youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Videogamedunkey, a movie buff, game critic and jokester put out a humorous video guide on how to find your favourite shows across the healthy array of paid streaming subscription services.

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[-] nincodedo@kbin.social 109 points 5 months ago

I honestly thought the Pokemon part was fake. It is not.

[-] Nima@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

holy shit that's absolutely insane. easier to use an ad riddled pirate site instead. at least it will have a full catalog most times, and you can just block ads.

[-] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 29 points 5 months ago

The Pokemon part fucking killed me. No need to write your own jokes when reality writes them for you.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

The dunkey bit writes itself...

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Reality will always be stranger than fiction.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Holy shit. I just open up Plex and it’s all there, and if it’s not I just add it with a few clicks. I had no idea this was really how thing are these days

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

There's a reason why plex and the like are pupolar again. This is the reason.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I’m glad for it. This is utter insanity. I’ve been using Plex for 8 or so years and it’s always worked great.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

I had been pirate free for a couple years. I was content with what netflix had to offer. Than the others came with their greed and ruined it. Now I'm back on my old habits.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 5 months ago

And if you have Plex integrated with Overseerr, all you do is add something to your Plex watchlist, wait a little bit, then it's movie time

[-] CapitanStrider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 months ago

Thank god for torrents

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

The only place you can watch all of the above without restriction...

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Usenet is generally a better experience in my opinion, but of course it's one that costs

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 29 points 5 months ago

Now add different countries and vpn into the mix.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 28 points 5 months ago

I got a huge kick out of this. Superb.

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ahoy! The seas are calm, and the wind is ever at your back.

Away! The days are long, but the nights are sweet upon the wooden deck.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

I genuinely don't know what's real and what isn't.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

I would laugh if it wasn't so bad that it makes you wanna cry. At least I'm lucky since this is the american perspective where all those services exist. Here in europe opening 90% of those streaming services webpages just says that the service is not available in my region. Some of them with new branding or different branding are not even available like max which is still hbo max here which changed recently enough.

I only know a few of the services names because I spent a few hours today before on wiki pages searching for legal tv apps and came across all the insanity. I only knew common names like hulu and roku which are things that don't work here anyway. Ended up installing pluto tv again to experiment but then had to fight turning on vpn properly to counties where it actually is available. And all the countries have different channels and contents anyway.

It's all insanity and horrible and sailing the high seas is honestly the only true no pain experience.

Stopped using netflix when they went after the accounts sharing. Only have hbo max and prime apps installed because my ISP bundled the subscriptions. But I never open them to watch anything anyway. Totally useless services.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Yep it's hilarious that because all the streaming services trying to wall off their own content and region-lock it means that the illegal way is the only reasonable means to access the shows even if you would be willing to spend some money to see it.

Each one comes with predatory practices trying to lock you into long term costs, some have "ad-supported" plans, most have stupid space-wasting apps, and every single one has some onerous EULA they make you agree to.

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[-] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Thankfully I could use my Plex "streaming service" to have all the Pokémon seasons in one place

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

I love the subtle plex mention in the video too

[-] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 5 months ago

Just a firm reminder that pirates get better service than the people that pay all these garbage subscriptions

[-] marco@beehaw.org 7 points 5 months ago

I remember how happy I was when I got rid of cable, where I had to pay for fox news and sportsball and ahost of other channels I never watched ... which is now a very similar situation with every stupid streaming service.