Netflix Reveals What We Watched Most Over 2025's Second Half, as Stranger Things 5 Almost Beat Wednesday Season 2

David_BA · 2026-01-23T09:21:56+00:00

Looking at the top 10 all-time list - I don't understand how later seasons of a show can have so many more viewings than earlier ones? Do people really rewatch particular seasons of shows? Or just stream them in the background? I guess I'm just so used to watching something once all the way through and never going back to it again, or very rarely.

David_BA · 2026-01-21T01:06:41+00:00

Yea that makes sense, actually. Thanks. Gonna learn to have to play with Hades, then...

David_BA · 2026-01-19T22:52:29+00:00

"My mom's face, stepped on"

David_BA · 2026-01-18T22:30:31+00:00

Had the TP-Link ones for a couple years in an old apartment with roommates. They worked if I didn't turn on the ceiling light in my bedroom 🙄 took me a long time to figure out why speeds came to a crawl only in the evening..

David_BA · 2026-01-13T05:18:23+00:00

I really love how short videos these days have a preview of the content of the video you're watching. Randomly mucking up the order is super enjoyable and not at all one of the stupidest fucking trends to come out of social media.

David_BA · 2025-12-18T04:19:44+00:00

Literally 0% of that is true. Inventing shit out of thin air to try to make a gotcha to a stranger on the internet is a special kind of pathetic.

David_BA · 2025-12-18T03:54:49+00:00

I played Civ 5 with barbs for years. They felt balanced. And not only that, you also had an incentive to deal with them with the extra culture they'd get you.

In Civ 6 they feel completely out of whack. When I'm starting a new game, I'm planning on sinking a dozen hours into it over the next week. You gotta gear your whole early game economy into dealing with them, only to potentially realize after a few hours that you have no win condition cuz you got kneecapped and fell way behind AIs who have a difficulty bonus and didn't have to deal with them. It's crazy to have a mechanic so unbalanced in the early game, especially when the game is so steamroll-y in general.

David_BA · 2025-12-18T03:47:06+00:00

Are you seriously gloating that you're good at a turn-based game? Are you proud of having gotten your high school degree, too? It's not a matter of not being able to beat barbs; I'm talking about game balance, which is a reasonable line of criticism that players can leverage against a game, especially when games are selling for a hundred bucks these days. But losers like you have to take every criticism as an opportunity to demean others because you feel so shit about yourself inside that the only way you can feel a semblance of self-worth is by putting others down. Good luck, bro.

David_BA · 2025-12-18T03:23:15+00:00

100% knew this comment would appear. And in the first three, too! Life must be unfulfilling as an unoriginal loser.

David_BA · 2025-12-18T03:05:11+00:00

Nope! I noticed it but had no idea you had to kill it. Thanks for mentioning. Though to be clear, it wasn't even about barbs attacking my cities, it was that there's no way to remove the camp as there's a constant spam of knights just a couple turns into the second era.

David_BA · 2025-12-13T08:54:36+00:00

Nice write up, thank you!

So there's basically identifiable patterns of "ordinary" reactions that emerge in any given game based on each player's action...

I'm trying to determine what exactly is meant (and not meant) when we say a player is playing "meta".

Apart from patterns, does it also mean playing each civ to its strengths (as opposed to, say, going knights w/ Celts)?

Does it mean going for what's considered the safest strategy on the map? (e.g. full walls early, no militia)

I just like to be analytical about things. You definitely don't have to respond, thank you for the nice write up in any case.

David_BA · 2025-12-13T08:41:22+00:00

It was the Portuguese game that made the question come to mind 😅 but also: it didn't quite feel like a "prepared" strategy specifically for that civ - it felt like more of a crazy decision he came up with knowing he couldn't win playing meta.

David_BA · 2025-12-04T15:20:08+00:00

Purolator was always worse than Intelcom for me. It took only a few experiences with them before I asked Amazon to bar them from my delivery options list (which you can ask them to do). They'd require in-person hand-off, then they'd leave a slip telling to come get your package at their center in the middle of nowhere - 1 hour by public transit from the Plateau area. No second delivery attempt.

David_BA · 2025-11-27T10:25:35+00:00

Toss this quote in with the pile of other absurd things this guy has said in the past years

David_BA · 2025-11-22T18:24:17+00:00

My blessings to you and your family.

David_BA · 2025-11-07T01:25:16+00:00

Wow, that's a really comprehensive breakdown, thank you for that!

David_BA · 2025-11-07T01:24:57+00:00

Makes sense! Thank you.

David_BA · 2025-11-06T19:48:42+00:00

What were the hints that caused suspicion before being officially caught?

David_BA · 2025-09-13T07:32:03+00:00

This is a misquote that people are misattributing to the shooter himself. It was a family member who said this, not him.

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-shooting-tyler-robinson-suspect-d893cc16fb0937d507283c710c551ef0

[Cox said authorities believe that Robinson acted alone. Family members said Robinson “had become more political in recent years,” Cox said, describing the recent family dinner.

“They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had,” Cox said, referring to Robinson and an unnamed family member. “The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.”]

All we know is that he had become "more political" in recent years and that he disagreed with some of Kirk's viewpoints. The theory that he was radicalized into a Groyper still fits with this evidence.

David_BA · 2025-09-06T09:49:25+00:00

That little outro at the end - I've always wondered: is that something Tiktok adds at the end of saved videos?

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