The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by Natsu on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:05PM (#31129833)

All this makes me realize that we have Netflix and haven't really watched or enjoyed it since, I think, the Expanse. I guess we watched the Squid Game, too, but I thought that was terrible. Like a low grade ripoff of an old (and much more intelligent) manga called The Liar Game.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by stone-monkey on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:40PM (#31130555)

Ironic that you complain about Squid Game being a rip off of Liar Game, when it's also derivative of another series, Kaiji.

Reminds me of that classic Steve Jobs line where he complains about Bill Gates ripping off his idea of creating a GUI for OSes, with Bill pointing out that they were both really just ripping off Xerox.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by Natsu on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:02AM (#31131277)

I've never heard of Kaiji before now.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by oblio on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:06AM (#31132792)

Now you know.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by throwaway6734 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:51AM (#31133825)

There's a fantastic anime version with a very unique art style

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by Natsu on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:11PM (#31136105)

The art looks a lot like Akagi.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by esyir on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:16PM (#31136796)

Same mangaka.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by buildbot on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:18PM (#31129932)

The expanse was sci-fi then Prime Video though?

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by vmception on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:31PM (#31130039)

When it was on scifi the funding was done by splitting syndication rights with scifi, amazon and netflix

Scifi dropped out because they didn’t think enough people watched it, their inferior cable model has no way of collecting data on what actual humans do, and when they would do it especially by being limited in airings things at a set time

This effectively cancelled the show since it didn’t have funding

And then amazon/jeff bezos picked it up completely after a major fan campaign

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by remram on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:12PM (#31131017)

SyFy?

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by vmception on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:14AM (#31131329)

Yes them

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by zerocrates on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:32PM (#31130840)

I think maybe it was on Netflix outside the US?

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by Natsu on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:00AM (#31131811)

It's also possible that I'm simply confused and forgot which service I watched it on because it was a while ago.

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