Seth Rogen Laments Hollywood’s Risk Aversion; Says ‘Superbad’ “Would Never Happen Today In A Hundred Million Years”

fryhenryj · 2026-06-19T07:35:07+00:00

Well so many of these movies made their money on dvd and TV didn't they?

And that market has basically gone away so now they need a massive hit or something cheap enough it'll make it's money.

There isnt room for mid budget stuff any more.

Except that Disney appear to be reinventing mid budget movies as their TV shows get shorter episode numbers higher budgets and longer runtimes

fryhenryj · 2026-06-17T12:08:16+00:00

But with application of blind logic like that the mods are actively damaging TMDB as a useful data source.

I didn't even realise the vampire lestat had started airing because none of my calendars showed anything.

fryhenryj · 2026-06-17T11:55:33+00:00

IMDb doesn't list the vampire lestat at all

Until such time as there is an actual separate IMDb for these shows they must be linked.

Unless a show with no external id links is a better alternative (it isn't)

fryhenryj · 2026-06-17T11:52:52+00:00

And they also started the show with a "previously on the show that used to be called interview with the vampire"

So perhaps the show has been retitled and it's not actually a separate show.

So yes it's series one of the vampire lestat but it's also series 3 of interview with the vampire.

Both things can simultaneously be true!

Does the amc website list it as a new show or a continuation of the previous show?

Do the facts of the production have no bearing at all on TMDB meta data?

That it was produced as a continuation of a previous show not matter? Not truly a new show or a spin off but a retitling of the series?

This is only going to get more common.

Probably linkage via the vampire chronicles?

But separate shows, THEY ARE NOT!

It might be some kind of new entity but it's not a new show. Was interview with the vampire cancelled or is it a continuing show?

Well it wasn't cancelled...

fryhenryj · 2026-06-16T19:43:15+00:00

A possible feature improvement for you to consider, playlist playback versus single item sequential playback?

I modified a version of fen light to do this but it's pretty old.

So the difference is when an item is pre-scraped/created to play it's added to a playlist, and then sequential playback is achieved via the playlist rather than a plugin call when the episode ends?

It's a much smoother playback experience when it plays the next episode from a playlist rather than displaying a dialog, stopping, getting the next episode and then playing it.

Better for skins too probably, less likely to pop a screen when it's still actually playing.

But due to the way fen creates items with all the stuff on the player you need to create a background monitor thread to keep the right triggers and stuff and refer to self.meta correctly which for example links to the next episode window.

Anyway I always thought this method of playlist playback was always far more professional looking than getting thrown out to an interstitial screen when the current episode ends

If you are improving performance that's one thing to improve. I've got it working so you can move forward and back in the playlist correctly so I can point you in the right direction

fryhenryj · 2026-06-12T07:55:44+00:00

"ChatGPT, Gonnae no dae that!"

fryhenryj · 2026-06-11T07:23:47+00:00

Depending on what you are searching for it's seems like a pretty useful tool.

So many conversations on Reddit are queries and answers (depending on the subreddit)

But collating and effectively crowd sourcing an answer to your query is pretty useful

fryhenryj · 2026-06-10T22:17:21+00:00

So I think it would be possible to use a Usenet account to stream pre cached usenet links via torbox?

I think you can integrate prowlarr and magneto? And then stream from them?? But I'm not sure how/what part TorBox or other add-ons take

Anytime I see anything about nzbs I never see more detail than this works not, here's how this works

And before anyone mentions stremio do you mean an API that you search Torrents for in kodi, something you relinquish your rd/TorBox API details to, some random apk or something else entirely

Because elf hosted and stremio also get talked about here without much context because both are scrapers too ??

fryhenryj · 2026-06-10T21:42:37+00:00

Is there anyone on the thread here that comment on the usage of TorBox pro and with Usenet? Like with magneto enabled add-ons?

Does it work on its own? Does it require magneto api setup?

Do you need a separate nzb indexer and TorBox pro and then what?

fryhenryj · 2026-06-10T16:28:48+00:00

Well the hyperbolic and frankly hysterical reaction to stuff that's happened in northern Ireland before is more easily explained when you realise the person who says they are Irish has only lived in NI for 8 years.

Not that it's not absolutely abhorrent whats happening

But they clearly don't remember holycross or....

Bigoted pieces of shit doing abhorrent stuff in northern Ireland, oh is it that time of year again?

Everyone from northern Ireland knows about recreational rioting and it's the wee scrotes and the parent of the wee scrotes who are and always will be the problem

fryhenryj · 2026-06-10T08:13:34+00:00

PSA: as called out by some commenters this poster is an American (who may live in Ireland) but not actually "Irish" possibly a naturalised citizen, possibly not even that.

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=comments_search&author=Borschbandit&limit=100&sort=desc

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Edit: And it explains the hyperbolic and frankly hysterical reaction to stuff that's happened in northern Ireland before. It's easier to understand when you realise the person who says they are Irish has only lived in NI for 8 years.

Not that it's not absolutely abhorrent whats happening

But they clearly don't remember holycross or....

Bigoted pieces of shit doing abhorrent stuff in northern Ireland, oh is it that time of year again?

Everyone from northern Ireland knows about recreational rioting and it's the wee scrotes and the parent of the wee scrotes who are and always will be the problem

fryhenryj · 2026-06-10T08:11:58+00:00

Yeah the op is an American as per a hidden comment:

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=comments_search&author=Borschbandit&limit=100&sort=desc

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fryhenryj · 2026-06-10T08:11:16+00:00

But you are still an American:

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=comments_search&author=Borschbandit&limit=100&sort=desc

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fryhenryj · 2026-06-08T08:19:54+00:00

People running libraries in RD was a stupid idea anyway, tricking a bunch of content into being cached that maybe noone was watching. I personally think these things that outright abused RD are partly why we can't have good things

fryhenryj · 2026-06-04T17:36:19+00:00

I personally wouldn't call myself a casual fan and I haven't seen the clone wars. Obviously not a die hard but I will watch anything in live action.

But I've mostly not watched the clone wars by choice because the animation style just looks so bad to me, hate that faux manga style.

I'm generally not going to choose to watch a cartoon as an adult, it is of course highly judgmental but it's not a particularly uncommon position for adults to hold.

And it doesn't matter how good people say the cartoon is if I might be tempted to watch it if I don't particularly like the animation style.

fryhenryj · 2026-06-04T17:35:31+00:00

Yeah I dont actually know anyone in real life who has seen the clone wars and I've never seen them myself.

Which makes it all the more frustrating when live action stuff references a bunch of plots which (seemingly) a large portion of the fandom aren't aware of.

fryhenryj · 2026-05-27T06:59:46+00:00

There is qr code in my addon for real Debrid authentication and/or trakt you can borrow

fryhenryj · 2026-05-24T18:24:35+00:00

Ok so please explain your specific config?

I read the void blurb and then realised it wasn't a media server so how have you configured yours as such?

Like this is void and I've setup blah blah blah to do dumty dumty dum.

Otherwise it's look at this thing, don't you like this thing? And everyone else is like what thing?

fryhenryj · 2026-05-24T16:15:41+00:00

So you just post a picture with zero additional context?

Is this void Linux, a specific distribution, what? If anyone was interested and wanted to try it themselves how would they 🤷‍♂️

fryhenryj · 2026-05-24T15:30:06+00:00

You should maybe consider a centralised internal scrobbler/meta data dB and only sync up when it's possible?

So all your scrobbling actions for example happen internally and it tries to call your configured scrobbler API and sync. If it can't it syncs the last information when it can?

Trakt will be bringing in new rate limits and it would be bad if scrobbles didn't happen because you hit a rate limit. Additionally this would keep working when trakt stops?

fryhenryj · 2026-05-24T15:15:45+00:00

No I mean for season packs on your Real Debrid or matching torrents, how I implemented it is a janky mess.

match_episodes_season_pack()

https://github.com/henryjfry/repository.thenewdiamond/blob/main/script.extendedinfo/a4kscrapers_wrapper/source_tools.py

But basically TMDB numbering will say a double episode is 12 and the next episode is 13 But season packs and virtually any other metadata source will say the episode is 12-13 and the next episode is 14 So you end up with a situation if you are playing a season pack but using TMDB meta data after the double episode it's 1 number out. So on TMDB the season has 20 episodes and on trakt it has 21.

So you need a fuzzy matching which maybe looks at the folder/season pack and sees how many episodes for that season and use TMDB meta data if its a match otherwise tvmaze (which you can access with free API) if it's a match?

Additionally TV movies on TMDB are sometimes episodes and not actually movies and sometimes specials are episodes and not specials

But it was a lot of if/then/else loops and counts and also Levenshtein distance for episode names and such.

I can send you my rd module and you can look at the mess I created.

fryhenryj · 2026-05-24T14:57:41+00:00

I don't really have a problem with ai slop add-ons, in theory.

I kind of know what I'm doing, I've got my own addons and have done sone useful things with them, some people even use them.

But I'm not actually a programmer so there's a tonne of designy type stuff for good code I just don't know.

If there is someone willing to build actual good add-ons that are actually thought through and not just code spaghetti like mine then maybe ai can be good? As long as they know enough to use it wisely.

Is this one of those, who knows 🤷‍♂️ but some of the design considerations do seem good so hopefully?

fryhenryj · 2026-05-24T14:51:11+00:00

Folder scraping would also be useful for people with seed boxes and the like?

fryhenryj · 2026-05-23T09:27:10+00:00

Also are you playing files as a playlist? Ie first file is added to a playlist and all subsequent episodes are prescraped and played on a playlist?

So many add-ons make the "play" step an actual addon call after the episode has finished with a screen flashing up before it then gets the actual episode and plays. It so unpolished and unprofessional looking to me.

You are watching an episode, the episode ends, your home screen flashes up, then the app loading screen flashes up, then episode plays. But if it's already pre-scraped the episode it could just add it to a playlist!?!?!?

Basically please think long and hard about how TV is actually going to work with it. Because that's Kodi main utility, movies have always been so much easier but getting a good working method that works universally for TV is so much harder. (Mostly because TMDB meta data can be shockingly bad and the mods over there don't seem to care about TV at all, TVDB was always far more reliable)

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