The most I’ve managed is 4 times in one year due to husband declaring it’s “too much”. So we settled back into a routine of twice (one in summer, one at Christmas).
Moral of the story, getting married isn’t worth it.
He’s holding you back from your true potential
Yeah but he’s also a great cook so you win some you lose some.
So you married a hobbit. Sounds fair.
We only do once a year. I could do more often, but it would become less special.
I want it to still feel epic each time.
Are we still talking about LOTR?
Yes 😐
I respect your restraint
I ask but the wife says no
This is be best marriage PSA I’ve ever seen. I’ve got a new box to check in the pre marriage checklist now for sure.
Why would anyone watch it that many times on Netflix, they don’t even have the extended version!!
They probably put it on to fall asleep to.
Almost definitely. They’re putting it on 6 days a week, and the familiarity of the music and voices would lend itself to be relaxing.
My only question is are they doing this for themselves, or is it a child that they’re lulling to sleep?
Considering they are getting through the whole trilogy I’m guessing it’s probably more background noise during work or something.
We had an Xbox hooked up to a wall mounted TV in our company break room. I used to show up first in the morning and play movies and streams on it for people to breeze by and see throughout the day. I could easily see someone doing this in a game store or gaming cafe.
This is probably the real explanation. I’ve been in several local small businesses where they’re constantly streaming the same TV shows/movies every time I go in there.
Yeah LOTR is great because you’d only need to change the movie twice in a full 8 hour shift (for Netflix standard editions)
My wife puts Harry Potter movies on for background noise. We probably play some of them 100 times per year if not more. We only watch maybe 2% of the time though.
ive put it on for background in the house.
“somebody” is probably a break room somewhere and they just leave it on repeat.
I’m left to wonder if it’s a business that leaves it in in the background or a part of a daily playlist? 300 times seems like a bit much…
Like could you even fit that many viewings back to back in a year?? (I kid…)
Maybe someone’s pet likes it so they leave it playing while they’re at work.
I mean, they should just have a digital download of that movie by that point instead of streaming the same stuff over and over…
What a novel concept!
Or it was their favourite movie to fall asleep to…
But this is for the TRILOGY maybe they just keep going every night, wouldn’t be the oddest thing.
I used to be a Futurama sleeper, back in the day, before I even know what a Thing it was
Futurama and parks and rec have the best sleep vibes
Netflix is concerned about [people]
That’s a laugh.
Hey, my dogs need something to watch while I’m at work. Why not LotR?
They leave it on when they go to bed.
I know many people like this, these movies becam comfort movies to many 20 years ago.
~3300h total if we don’t include the credits
I wonder if people would do that if they realised the true global cost of electricity production…
Probably. We need something to get through the day to day of being a person even before we get into all the horrible things all around the world. If we avoided everything we do that has unacceptable ramifications we’d pretty much have to crawl into a cave and die.
Use the modern tools you have access to to improve lives, not try and make others feel guilty for not having done enough.
I wish I had the free time to crawl into a cave and die
But some things use way less power than others… TVs use a lot of electricity compared to listening to a podcast for example
There’s a lot of deeper calculation to consider there. Is it a full production show, or someone’s YouTube project? Is the podcast a single person, or many? If it’s many are they in the same location? How much electricity is used to deliver your chosen medium to you?
Ultimately though none of that matters. If a podcast is what entertains you and makes your human condition livable that doesn’t mean it does the same for Jack.
If electricity is such an issue than you using whatever electronic device to relay data to a server where my electronic device retrieved it from another server with who knows how many hops in between each for both of us is not a good use of your time.
If instead, as I suspect, you see value in harm reduction you need to realize that not everyone can reduce harm in the same way.
Right now, somewhere, someone is getting by because they can’t wait for the next part of their favorite TV show or movie. Chances are you may even know one such person and not realize it. If that’s gone their tenuous grasp on life may slip away. Even if you are ok with that, and I hope you’re not, what positive impacts might that person have had that they will be unable to because they just can’t take it anymore.
Life is hard. Stop trying to make people feel guilty for not living it the same way as you.
It’s silly to gripe about someone watching a movie for so long, but not because the person watching needs something to fill their life. If that was the only justification needed you could justify owning a yacht because it’s the only place you could get away.
The real argument is that running a television is not very energy intensive, and being on the grid means the energy it does use is produced at a scale where the environmental impact is drastically reduced.
I’ve had to reread your second to last paragraph multiple times because it just feels bonkers to go from saying that people enjoy television to saying people might kill themselves without it. What basis does that have in reality? I tried looking into it a little and the only search results regarding suicide and lack of tv discussed suicide coverage on tv and whether it increased suicides. Searching for whether people are happier without tv had a lot of anecdotal “yes” articles and articles relating to a study about teens being happier with less screen time. That seems fairly inconclusive and may just mean there’s a gap in the research that could be filled, but I think you’re really underestimating the average person’s ability to live without television.
It’s not necessarily about the average person. Depression is a bitch and different people have varying reasons for hanging on while under its weight. Just because there aren’t readily available studies about what reasons people didn’t commit suicide because of doesn’t mean these aren’t reasons. I can assure you they are. Someone’s favorite show has been their only light on more than one occasion I’ve known personally.
Well, if I’m paying the electric bill, then yeah, I would do what I damn well please.
There’s more cost to our energy production than a bill that comes at the end of the month.
A modern 55" LCD TV uses about as much electricity as an old incandescent porch flood light, the kind that would be left on pretty much all night, ~75 watts. So, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not much.
I’m pretty sure my brother reached numbers like this for Ghostbusters (TV edit) when he was a little kid.
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