The context “Rotten Tomatoes” primed my brain to interpret the (75%) as a score, and I was like “There’s no way Comcast is even in double digits.”
And IMDB is owned by Amazon
Along with good reads
And many bad reads
I remember when IMDb was fully free and it was normal to download the entire database to run locally on one’s own computer.
Im another 10 or 15 years we’re going to be trying to explain how it was possible to create things just for enjoyment to be part of something, and people will think we’re conspiracy wack jobs for suggesting anything was functional before Googazon made everything we interact with.
We’re practically there already. 10-15yr is optimistic imo.
Gah you people are awful.
There has never been more indepentent art in the world than today.
No wonder I find their scores so unreliable
Edit: I also now kind of want to do a web scraping project and see if there’s any correlation between scores and whether the media in question is owned by Comcast or Warner Bros
Does anyone actually like Comcast? I feel like absolutely 0 consumers, no matter the political background, enjoy the Comcast experience.
My most recent Comcast crashout™️ was how their router does port forwarding.
First, you have to pay an extra fee per month to get more than 1TB monthly data usage (crazy)
Next, you can’t change the default DNS server (annoying)
Third, I had this random issue where the gateway would randomly force clients to be ipv6 only, and sometimes ipv4 only. (Diabolical)
But their port forwarding was the worst.
I, as an advanced user, go to the admin panel. EVERYBODY who knows what tf port forwarding is and why they’d want to do it would use this admin panel.
I go to advanced. Wait 5 seconds for their god awful panel to load. I click “port forwarding”. while I wait, I reflect on the fact that this panel has a 6mb JavaScript bundle for absolutely no reason. And then, the page loads.
“Port forwarding has been moved to the My xFi page – some link – manage your router easier than ever!” - I DONT WANT EASIER THAN EVER!!! I AM PORT FORWARDING. I AM NOT A 79 YEAR OLD GRANDPA WHO NEEDS AN APP TO RESTART THE WIFI.
Whatever. I go to the page. Log in to the mandatory account that I shouldn’t need, because a router is independent of external services (or at least should be). After I log in and download the 8 gigabyte JavaScript bundle, a new page appears. “Download the xFi app for easier access”. I HAVE TO PULL OUT MY PHONE AND DOWNLOAD SOME RANDOM APP FOR “EASY ACCESS” TO A FEATURE THAT ONLY PEOPLE WHO DONT CARE ABOUT EASE OF ACCESS WOULD USE!
I download the app. I log in. Get redirected to a WebView. I log in twice. Finally.
My god, this is the most atrocious app I’ve ever seen. No dark theme, probably not native kotlin or java or anything. The backstack makes no sense, some pages will exit out of two simultaneously.
I finally find the port forwarding page. I click “Add a port forward”.
Instead of forwarding to an IP address, you have to select from a list of NAMED devices. The router isn’t detecting the hostname of my home server, and the router won’t let me assign a new IP address.
I desperately try and fix that, but it turns out the list updates on a fixed timer of 2 minutes, where it suddenly appears.
I click Add port forward again, and select my home server. I added port 443. Suddenly, the router seems to reboot completely, which was strange. After it finally reboots, I add port 222. IT REBOOTS AGAIN! THIS APP MANUALLY REBOOTS THE ROUTER FOR EVERY SINGLE CHANGE MADE TO PORT FORWARDS!
Luckily those were the only ports I planned to port forward.
Later while debugging this terrible router, it turns out FOR SOME REASON OTHER LESS ADVANCED OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE HERE! I CAN MANAGE UPNP, DMZ ZONES, WHAT IS HAPPENING
Thank you for reading my rant. I needed to scream into the void about this.
What’s funny is later on injust gave up and started to use cloudflare tunnels, nullifying the need for port forwarding. Maybe I should just go completely ipv6 too.
Your first mistake was using a Comcast router. I just use a Surfboard to connect and got my own router that I have 100% control over.
What’s a Surfboard? I currently run my own router connected to Google Fiber’s required router and am wondering if there’s a benefit of some sort using the Surfboard.
My first IT adjacent job was remote support for Support Dot Com who contracted me out to Comcast. This was just as they were trying to get away from the maligned ‘comcast’ brand by calling everything ‘Xfinity’ like they think their customers are idiots. Well, turns out they mostly are. I don’t even think I lasted six months. Despite having the best metrics in the company, I just couldn’t take the abuse, or the lack of downtime between calls.
Anyway the point is you can call up Comcast and have them put your router into ‘bridge mode’ making it essentially an expensive modem, then connect your own router.
So you baited everyone with a Rotten Tomatoes title just to bitch about your Comcast Router?
This guy is not the OP.
I believe the CEO is a former Disney exec as well. I remember reading up about this when they were messing with all the review scores for the Star Wars sequels.
Why doesn’t this surprise me? A media conglomerate buying a media rating website so it can control the stats.
Okay? As someone who gives less than half a shit about any review sites why does this matter? Honestly. Wouldnt people look at the normal people score over critic scores?
Why would anyone even post this since you don’t care about it.
