Stop right there criminal scum!

Didn’t think of that, thank you! But nope, that doesn’t make a difference. In Firefox, I get a stream like this and the drop in resolution and bitrate is definitely noticeable.

I took that screenshot on my 4K monitor.

Some people just don’t notice low resolution, don’t take this as a personal offence. :D

He can certainly try. But I will never give up my 30 hour work week. Not for this rich POS who’s just constantly stepping on people below him, doesn’t give a flying fuck about women’s rights and throws a temper tantrum when his lectern for a TV show is a centimetre too low.

Fotzenfritz represents bringing Germany back into the mindset of the 80’s…or maybe even farther back than that.

He also denied getting the process in motion of banning the far-right AfD, so that’s just nice…

I didn’t even know they had a Smart TV app. What TV are you using?

I always get so hyped up when the intro music plays, it’s amazing!

The content is worth getting paid for. The app just isn’t. :D

It probably works fine if you use an Apple device, although people have run into the aged-restricted content not playing on MacOS, too.

Maybe you’re not noticing the drop in resolution? They’re definitely not delivering their content in UHD, but they might be streaming proper 1080p if you have an HDCP-capable monitor, I don’t know.

For me, it’s a really bad experience. They’re just giving me 480p in Firefox, regardless of the operating system used.

I hated Elon Musk from pretty much the moment he showed up as the “darling awkward little geek bro”.

When they hyped him up in the first Iron Man movie as some super-intelligent philanthropist I really started to hate that guy.

Wow, I watched that on opening night and there were like three people in the whole room. I don’t remember much about it, but what really bugged me was the whole start of the film. A spaceship that is designed to travel fully automatically and immediately fails when there’s a small asteroid field in its path? Absolute BS.

Great, I’ve been looking for someone to tear my soul apart.

I watched Star Trek, Pokemon, Gargoyles and Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper - all of those ran on TV here, which was awesome.
Apart from that, I probably read four to five books every week and I even won a reading contest at the local library one time. They loved me so much there, they just gave me books sometimes to keep for myself. (That’s how I discovered “The Day of the Triffids”, and it’s glorious.)

I was extremely into that whole “Native American” thing and read all kinds of fiction about it. I loved the Winnetou movies to death and I must’ve read the whole works of Karl May. That was definitely cringe and a lot of people made fun of me because of that. I still think they’re pretty well written books, but not unproblematic, of course.

Apart from that, I tinkered a lot with electronics and got pretty good at soldering and semi-good at fixing circuits. When I was seven years old, my dad bought a computer and I learned how to work with DOS, Win95 and Linux. I definitely was a weird kid and I didn’t have many friends (still don’t), but I enjoyed my childhood regardless of that, because my parents supported all of my endeavours.

I listened to rave and techno music, which was very unusual here in North Germany. None of the radio stations played it, but we had cable radio so I was able to listen to it and fall in love with it. Needless to say, a young teenager listening to Scooter screaming “HOW MUCH IS THE FISH?” just increased the level of teasing from my classmates. But fuck them, it was great music to dance to!

Nowadays I work as a coder in a small advertising agency, so I guess my childhood prepared me pretty well for my adulthood. Overcoming social anxiety was hard, though. I only achieved that in my late 20s. Turns out that growing up as an only child in a small village messes with your head a little bit.

Edit: Oh, and I was hardcore against alcohol, for some stupid reason. I never drank anything and when my friends went to a party and had a good time, I was an ass about it afterwards. For some reason I wanted everyone to be as abstinent as me, lol. Nowadays I drink occasionally and I enjoy it, I don’t know what was up with me back then.

This guy probably starred in the same movie a lot more:

I run a forum where the first post was started 23 years ago. Although the activity has drastically gone down during recent years, people still occasionally come by. I’m very happy I kept it up, even though a lot of people switched over to a Discord server.

Recently we had an incident where the sole admin of the Discord server was banned and the whole Discord had to be abandoned and created from scratch. People still keep using this trash! I’m not arguing with them, I’ll just keep an alternative up. One day, when Discord really enshittifies itself to a point where it becomes unuseable, people will be happy for my stubborness. I hope.

(It’s a forum for an obscure space pirate game for the PC - I-War 2. Its first post is here.)