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I dunno that I'd call that brilliant, it was practically forced on them by Covid. I think it was smarter than the alternative of delaying everything until people are willing to go back to theaters. But it's not like it was some brilliant original concept they came up with.

I just saw that this isn't even a new season or a single new episode. They paid half-a-billion for a group interview? So strange.

...Why though? All they really had to do was change the name of the HBO go app and add the non-HBO content. How does that cost billions? Maybe they're including the cost of all the shows that have come out on HBO Max since, but it's not like HBO wasn't going to keep producing shows anyway so those really shouldn't count.

This is amazing.

You ever get a "recommend for you:" thing that makes you wonder what you watched to give the streaming service such a low opinion of you? I mean sure I watch some stupid shit but The Big Bang Theory? That hurts, HBO Max.

I find it hilarious that this was a condition of the deal. Your idea was terrible guys, let it go.

I don't think they could really tell, as the deal to allow the app on amazon devices happened around the same time they announced wonder woman.

This might not be a deal breaker for them if they think he's the best person for the role. They've re-used actors in minor roles a few times (Quill's mother is in Captain America getting an autograph) and Gemma Chan had a decent role in Captain Marvel and is now playing one of the Eternals.

Roku and Amazon Fire TV don't have an app for it yet because apparently the companies can't come to an agreement. Before you subscribe make sure your cable provider isn't already giving it to you free. I posted a list above. It's not something I'd pay extra for at the moment, but since they're giving it to me with the HBO subscription it's nice to have the extra movies.

So today is the last day to get a "pre-order" deal on HBO Max. They have no new content right now though, just all the HBO stuff and Warner's library of TV and movies. I didn't realize a lot of HBO subscribers get it for free though their cable company. If you subscribe to HBO with any of these companies you get it free: Comcast is the biggest one missing.

HBO Max will launch May 27th at the same price as HBO Now. They plan to do an ad-supported version next year. I hope they don't get rid of HBOGo anytime soon. It is ridiculous to have three seperate streaming apps though.

Quibi catches up with the rest of the world, realizes watching TV on your phone is awful Ouch. But it's kinda hilarious that it didn't launch with this.

HBO is apparently putting some stuff up to stream on HBOGo and HBONow without the need for a subscription. So if you haven't seen The Wire or The Sopranos yet now you have no excuse!

So NBC's streaming service will have a free tier with ads, which is cool and probably makes good business sense. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/nbc-peacock-price-launch-date-and-shows.html

Yeah, but having everything in one app with one "continue watching" page and all that would be much cleaner.

Has anyone made an app where you open it, put in a movie or tv show and it searches all the streaming services (or maybe just the ones the user subscribes to) and finds it and plays it? That would be great. I'm not sure if it would be possible without a lot of cooperation between the services (do any of them have APIs outside developers can use?) but it would be great.

I'm having a weird problem with the search feature. It works if I don't use any of the options and just type in the box and hit enter. But if I try to select "topics" (as opposed to articles) and "titles only" and select a specific forum to search I get a "Please wait X seconds before attempting another search" message regardless of how long it's been since my last search attempt.

So in light of this huge Cloudflare security flaw and the fact that I've seen Cloudflare error messages when this site is down I'm gonna go ahead and change my password. Is this something everyone should be doing? Maybe an announcement post should be pinned?

This made my day even before I realized "Cassie" was Gilly.

As much as I personally prefer reading at my own pace to listening to people read things to me, I think this is a neat idea. But how hard is it for you to correct a mistake on a video like that? Despite our best efforts false info and assumptions do sometimes make it onto the wiki. While it's easy to edit the text I'd imagine correcting something like that in a video would be harder, and we'd be totally reliant on you personally to do so.

I've found another questionable alias. Jaime's list includes "Cripple." Which again like a few of the others I've objected to in the past is an insult, not an alias. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but I don't think anyone would argue that if a character said "cripple" everyone would know he meant Jaime. "The Dwarf" works for Tyrion, as he's commonly called that and is essentially the dwarf as far as noble families go. But "Cripple" shouldn't qualify as a Jaime alias in my opinion any more than it should be Willas Tyrell's. Edit: or Bran's! so weird that I thought of Willas before Bran.

Even though the reveal in question is a surprise to just about no one, I'm pretty sure we're supposed to keep it off the wiki at least for now. People reading the wiki may not want show spoilers. I notice the other two major show reveals that we know came from Martin are not on the wiki pages for those characters.

Generally speaking Targaryens are not fireproof. Martin once said that Daenery's experience with the funeral pyre was "a one time magical event." There's still some debate as to the extent of Daenerys's resistance to heat and fire, Martin may even have changed his mind since he claimed it was a one time thing years ago, we don't know. But we do know for sure that Targaryens have burned. Aerion Brightflame from the Dunk & Egg stories burnt to death after drinking wildfire. Rhaenys "The Queen who never was" Targaryen was burnt to death in the Dance of Dragons, while Aegon II received horrible burns in the same battle.

I'm reasonably sure that it was in the app at one time. I didn't see it myself but I got confirmation from two separate posters. Sadly the search function is disabled and finding older threads from the old forum is iffy anyway. Here's one thread I found through google that mentions it: Maybe it was removed because it was wrong or Martin changed his mind about it? Edit: I also found this post: But have not yet found the exchange where Ran told me to eat cheese doodles. Edit again: Here it is. Last edit I swear: I found a post of mine earlier in that thread stating that the information was on the page for Qarth. Check there.