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[–] [email protected] 217 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Speaking as a Brit, the only way to get TLoU was to subscribe to Sky TV, which (as far as I’m aware) requires a 12 month contract. Fuck that, quite frankly.

So I took to the high seas because I could.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

There's also Now TV, or NOW as it's called...err... now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazon Prime is now charging to get rid of ads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that worldwide? I just assumed it was US only

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

/edit; Woops, meant to be a top-level comment, not a reply...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Monitoring torrents, especially public ones, is quite easy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the Brits commonly use fortnights and "next Tuesdays" the conversion to months isn't too complicated if you're used to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll see you next Tuesday, if you’d like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They say it so much they even have an acronym for it.

I was hanging around Chelsea in my new West Ham soccer jersey trying to blend in, and every other person on the street was saying they hoped to see me next Tuesday. Even yelling it from across the street! They must have known I was American because they kept trying to talk to me about football, but they didn't seem to know any NFL teams.

The Brits really are on of the most polite nations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now tv doesn't require a contract like that, in fact we just used a trial which they're very generous on giving out to people multiple times. So when a site like that comes out we use a trial if there's one available and then depending on the runtime we might only have to pay a month and it's pretty cheap if you just get TV shows and not movies.