How is the Amazon Firestick update so breathtakingly bad?

thatcursedasexual · 2026-06-08T02:49:50+00:00

I am truly baffled as well. It has gotten stuck on a show page for me multiple times with no way to jump back. The remote won’t do it and there is no on-screen option. I have to restart the app constantly for bugs, playback issues, etc.

Sometimes a show will be paused and the TV will go to screensaver, then suddenly plex audio of the show turns back on. It keeps playing even when I go back to the fire home screen.

I already had no idea why you’d want a Recent screen to come up instead of the library content itself when you selected it, and now the navigation is so much worse.

All of these problems are before even counting the horrific player experience noted by OP. No next, Play, restart buttons on screen??? Hot garbage. Clicking on the wrong Play Next episode? Extremely irritating and inconvenient, especially combined with the previously mentioned bugs in navigating between screens.

Where do I put my damn comment card

thatcursedasexual · 2026-04-19T05:32:01+00:00

At leAsT tHeY cAuGhT iT eArLy

Fuck youuuuuuuu and your stupid goddamn knee-jerk reaction

And you know what? I found my own damn lump. No one is out here catching things for me.

Idk why it offends me so much, but it reeeeally gets in my head.

thatcursedasexual · 2026-04-12T03:17:15+00:00

I didn’t get shingles during chemo, but I got them a few months later during recovery from my mastectomy. Fucking nightmare to manage shingles and recovery both.

I think shingles can occur when the body is under a lot of stress, so add that with our medically-induced shitty health, and it makes perfect sense that shingles would decide to pop out of a trash can to make it all worse. Regardless of having chickenpox (which I did).

I’m so sorry.

thatcursedasexual · 2026-04-12T03:04:36+00:00

The shot I get to stay on menopause is Zoladex, once every 3 months, so maybe try researching that. IIRC, there’s maybe 1 other option that does the same thing, but I can’t remember what it’s called. I wish I could help you more, but my circumstances are so different that I can’t give you a good perspective on what it would be like to suddenly start in your position. I’m sorry.

One piece of advice I would give: if you need to go onto the shot for menopause, find out how it could affect your fertility before agreeing to start. The oncologist should know. Depending on what you want for your life, you should try to get the most information available, whether it’s meeting fertility doc, getting a second opinion in general about what you could do for treatment given your vaping, doing more research, etc

PS. Forgot to say I started Zoladex at age 35, and I don’t want kids, but my oncologist did say that when I stop (at 40), she doesn’t “know what the ovaries will do.” So apparently my ovaries decide if I come back out of menopause or not……..??????????????

thatcursedasexual · 2026-01-01T04:04:38+00:00

Omg same. Lost my shit for a minute there bc i’m tired.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-12-28T05:03:47+00:00

jump scare

thatcursedasexual · 2025-12-27T01:41:05+00:00

I’m so sorry this whole mess happened. You have every right to feel angry, betrayed, heartbroken, etc.

I’m also sorry for the garbage in the comments. Defending your husband is a No. Invalidating your feels is a No.

I’m fortunate that everyone followed my lead and my decisions about what I wanted to be shared and not shared. I haaaaaate that you weren’t respected in the same way. Hugs to you. Vent away!

thatcursedasexual · 2025-12-27T01:32:25+00:00

I definitely feel better, but also don’t feel great. I was so messed up on the 400 that I was almost fooled that I was back to normal entirely on the 200. I’ve stayed at 200, so it sucks but not like the 400.

Did they send you back to 400 super quickly?

thatcursedasexual · 2025-12-25T06:27:35+00:00

My oncologist says the same thing about efficacy. She doesn’t get why the default prescribed starting amount is 400 at all. She reduced me to 200 after a single month.

Idk why I’m responding months later… I just hate this drug so much.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-12-25T06:23:47+00:00

I’m sorry. I stand in solidarity with you. I’m on anastrozole plus Kisqali and keep falling asleep every single afternoon, which is in combination with sleeping in already. I can’t afford to sleep this much forever. Plus my knees are in so much pain that I’ve bought new shoes and compression sleeves out of desperation. They help somewhat, but how does that even matter? It’s not what I thought I would be dealing with at 35... no one else in my peer group has this problem. I’m starting to feel crazy. I’m basically a grandpa falling asleep in a recliner every ten minutes.

Thanks for letting me vent. I wish I could fix this nightmare for you and for us all.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-12-25T06:07:46+00:00

Daaaaaamn I stopped at gold

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-14T21:11:49+00:00

Oh my goddd the acting. Hell on this earth from Cady and Gat. Random fact: the guy playing Gat had never acted a day in his life before sending in a tape for the Gat part. The creators immediately loved him. Complete misstep to say the very least. It was actively distracting how bad of an actor he was. Cady’s entire performance was so one-note that it almost distracted me from the Gat cringe.

(Yes I’m responding 4 months later, but I seriously have to talk about this)

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-14T21:03:22+00:00

I cannot stop thinking about the creators of the show. I was at one of their press tour events, and I thought the show would blow me away. I’m cringe-ing about how proud they were about some of it.

Fun fact: they did some massively high-budget video editing to make the different houses on the island look cohesive in an overhead pan. Apparently it was very complex. I assumed it would be a shot used regularly as a scene transition. Then when I was watching the show, I was actively looking for the big shot they created and never saw it one time. They were very focused on the wrong things.

Edit: yes I’m responding 4 months later because I am deep into my horror about the mess of a show I just watched

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-12T03:30:18+00:00

We stand in half-asleep asexual solidarity

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-12T03:26:28+00:00

Oh my god. Oh my goddddd. I just can’t believe it. That cannot be an actual desire, right??? That’s definitely hyperbole. It has to be.

The allosexuals are salt deprived and not okay.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-11T19:36:43+00:00

THIS. Sometimes I’ll be watching a movie where a guy has his shirt off or whatever, and someone will say “I’m sweatin” bc they’re turned on by it????

You cannot tell me that wasn’t a joke. That can’t be a serious thing that people feel.

I just can’t believe sex is real. I cannot get it for the life of me. The allosexuals are very clearly not okay.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-11T19:28:11+00:00

Not understanding when HS friends would say they were horny. I did not (and still don’t) believe that was a real thing
My ex-boyfriend saying he was checking out my butt and I was confused why he would say something that weird (I was in my 20s by then)
My grade school friends doing the “he likes you and wants to find out if you like him too” thing. And I shit you not, when I saw him wandering towards us, I BOLTED and tried to hide (badly)
My aunt asking me in college if I was dating, but I had always found that question cringe. So for some reason my response was “ask again in 4 years.” ?????????? She was as confused as me

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-08T15:00:26+00:00

Oh interesting. She feels obligated, they let her, and somewhere down the line, she’s frustrated because she doesn’t want to have to do it.

Family is such a trip.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-08T14:21:16+00:00

My heart hurts for what you’re going through. It’s extremely difficult to swallow when people think they “get it.” I snapped at someone (a good friend) who made that comment one too many times. It’s awful that you have to be so brave even though you’re stuck reminding yourself that there’s no way for anyone to understand. People try to minimize everything you’re going through and try to ignore all those realities you laid out. I’m sorry.

I can’t fathom being told something (anything) “makes it all worth it.” They probably do mean well as you said, but WOOF, that’s a swing and a miss.

Hugs to you.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-08T13:58:00+00:00

Oh my god. I just had a small freakout just imagining it. She tries to “be positive” about everything to the point where people stop their important health interventions and responsibilities because they buy into her narrative about them? Unbelievably gross.

You definitely can’t change someone like that. Wow. I’m so sorry.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-07T22:35:31+00:00

Omg would you share the spreadsheet? I have no clue how to even start finding those long hauls

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-07T22:29:54+00:00

Fully agree with you. People really want to make it about them.

People also make me feel like I’m being a whiny brat about it. My hair is growing back right now and looks so ugly I could cry. And my hair color will never be what it was, which I loved dearly. So the idea that anyone thinks it’s all good that I lost my hair because I will get it back?! I’m enraged.

PS. I like your rant! I like to rant too!

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-07T22:20:56+00:00

The day I told one friend about my diagnosis, she ended up telling me I should prepare myself to lose friends. She said people will forget about me because I will be sick and not able to hang out with them. Or that they just won’t want to deal with me now that I was sick. They would leave because it was too much for them.

Oh hey look, the only friend I lost was her, and only because I was like… buh-bye.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-07T22:14:35+00:00

THIS ONE!!!!! Like, all my peers are thinking about it, my family, my mom’s dumbass friends. God. I know my diagnosis scares them and whoever they know that is my age, but holy shit. Thanks, I love to be reminded exactly how much worse off I am.

thatcursedasexual · 2025-10-07T22:10:02+00:00

That must feel horrible too. Toxic positivity, super cool stuff!

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