DuWayne Steurer

Might need to climb up on the roof & check the antenna? I wonder where the Netflix antenna is.......

Watching season 2 of the Witcher atm. One thing that isn't a spoiler. In the world of The Witcher, it is absolute, always, 100% of the time, always, always, lightly snowing. It is never snowing heavily, and it is never not snowing. It is always, always, ALWAYS, lightly snowing. Amazing.

Unfortunately, unlike in the comics, actors will eventually show the effects of aging. I liked Loki quite a bit, Hawkeye has been ok, and the villain reveal was interesting. I just don't think the new, young characters are going to be interesting enough to keep people interested enough to spend money by the billions the way they have been for the last decade plus

] There's a lot more competition in the streaming market than there is in cable, simply because if you have internet, you can get whatever streaming you want. If you live in an area, you have to get whatever cable option is available in that area. Where I live, it's Charter, AT&T, or nothing. I don't see at least a near future where there won't be enough streaming services competing with each other to keep rates at least somewhat competitive.

I wasn't going to switch to Hulu and give Disney my money. Hulu has the same price for the same content as yttv. this was a powerplay by Disney to try to switch people over to their steaming platform and I'm guessing (all my opinion) that it didn't work out. yttv is getting back all the Disney content at the same price point. I hope like me, most of the other yt subscribers held firm and didn't cancel.

Yeah this is bogus. I don't need Hulu, like at all. ESPN+ is just a bunch of soccer, D3 basketball, and ufc

Seems to be the general feeling. Hard to believe a company that big can have such poor customer service and survive. I haven't seen or heard anyone say differently though, so obviously it's a problem. about 10 years ago tds outsourced all of their tier 1 support and sales to an offshore company. not only that, they shipped a bunch of people there for several weeks to train their replacements. half my "I want to speak to a supervisor"; escalations were from people who couldn't understand the person they were talking to. tds doesn't care. cheap labor.

I went to the charter office in Janesville 4 or 5 years ago to change out a box and I was the only person in the office. they made me take a number from the kiosk, and 5 minutes later the dude at the counter looked around and called my name hesitantly. dude. I am. the only. person. here. I think it was about 2 or 3 months later I went through the painstaking hassle of cancelling with them. it's a neck and neck race between charter, tds, and DirecTV to see who can have the most abysmally bad customer service.

a smart tv and a laptop. or a fire stick or just the smart tv and 5 minutes to set it up. you're convinced there's all this crazy next gen gear required, and there just isn't. but hey.... everyone do what's best for them

I like that once I have started watching a show or movie, I can go back and lick it up from the point I left off, or start over from the beginning. at any time, from any device. also. the billing. it's 65 bucks plus tax. there's not 28 extra charges for fees, extra fees, fees for the envelope they sent you the bill in, extra fees for the library fund, fees for the time it took to figure out all the extra things they could charge you for, etc etc etc my us cellular bill had a line on it once with no attached fee, just ...... 98 cents. no fee or explanation, just 98 cents. I went to the us cellular store and asked what it was for. they had no clue. I asked them to take it off. they said they couldn't. lol. it took me 2 phone calls and 45 minutes to get rid of a 98 cent recurring charge for nothing at all I'm not paying a fee for literally nothing. telecom companies will literally charge you a fee for nothing if you don't watch your bill. (us cell is owned by TDS, btw...)

Seriously, once you have youtubetv set up, which takes about 5 minutes of creating an account, it's just like watching "regular" tv. As far as not having as many channels as cable tv.... how many channels on cable do you all actually watch? Like legitimately go down the list and take a hard look at all the 200 channels and legitimately say "I for sure spend an appreciable amount of time watching The Hallmark Channel, the Shopping Network, the Cooking Channel (Diners DRIVE INS, and DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!), and for sure VH1, VH2, VH3, all the way up to like VH8, lololol. You're paying a buttload for a butt load of channels you NEVER watch. You get a channel guide, all the Channels like ESPN, ESPN+ and the local channels FOX, CBS, NBC, etc, that are local to your market, SPIKE, all the turner and news channels, etc, etc. you lose some fluff that most people probably don't bother with. If it's THAT important, get Roku. Save some money. As far as "all the tech stuff" it takes to set up a VPN to watch MLB in market, it honestly takes a few minutes and it's super simple. My neighbor took a trip to China about 4 years ago, and needed access to some stuff on his computer, via the internet, and it took me literally 5 minutes to show him how to use a VPN, and this guy is pretty darn tech un-savvy. If someone just doesn't wanna do it ...... I get it. But it's *not hard*, and there's a lot of money to be saved. I used to pay for Spectrum and not only did I get raked over the coals with their billing, I got So, so, so, so tired of the bullcrap customer service, and frankly, the horrible up time. Youtube TV and AT&T internet and I pay 115 bucks a month instead of 250 bucks a month (and I find online streams for Brewer games) and there's simply no way it's not worth the, literally, few minutes I put into it.

Good plan, except you can't watch Brewers games on mlbtv, in market that is. Or use a VPN.

jungle cruise was exactly what I expected out of a Rock/Disney event movie. lots of action scenes, not a deep plot, etc. it wasn't bad, it wasn't great. just a popcorn flick designed to entertain and not make you think too much.

Saw Dune on Friday. Completely blown away, which I haven't been by a movie in a long long time. The visuals are everything we've been told they would be, and the soundtrack is outstanding.

I'll say this. if you're a residential customer and you have multiple cable/fiber issues, you will eventually get told "there's nothing we can do about it" and the reasoning will vary from " you're at the end of a trunk line" or "it's simply too expensive for us to replace that much cable for one customer". I worked for Time Warner, and the service sucked. but they NEVER dumped on a customer and just flat out told them " yeah lol sorry, you're too far out we don't care since you're just a residential anyways"

I worked for them for 9 years. if we could swear on this forum, I'd give you a colorful rundown of the way the customers were treated. but I'll just say this. in a word. don't.

I watched the Sound of Metal -- the story they tried to tell here felt super rushed. He goes from being fine to being almost entirely deaf in a few days, and the story just rushes along from there. I get it, it's a movie/fiction and they have to tell a story, but it just dropped me out of any sense of believability, and the music sucked. There's other things I didn't like in here, but that's a conversation for another place, I think. This film won awards, so it obviously worked for a lot of people, just not for me, I guess.

While I don't necessarily disagree with the premise that both of our new acquisitions were being put into situations that they weren't expected to be used in, they are also professional relievers and whatever the number You see before the inning they are pitching in is, they should be expected to be able to get outs. It's not like either of them was being asked to close. I will say that Curtiss for sure had a heavy workload placed on him his first week here, although I don't know if that had anything to do with his injury, perhaps just his performance. I know there's a human element to it. I know there's more to performance than just going out there and doing the same thing night after night, but whether you're pitching in the 6th inning or the 7th planning, you got to be able to get outs. Giving these guys a bit of a free pass because we are putting artificial limitations on when they should be expected to perform such as, what inning it is, I think is just being a little generous. I mean, Jake Cousins is being used as a setup man on days when Williams can't, and he's getting it done.

Was a villain in El Dorado, a really entertaining John Wayne western and I think I recently saw him in Cobra Kai. RIP Yup. He was Johnny's step dad. Played a big time jerk. I'll remember Ed Asner as one of the best ever big screen Santa clauses from Elf. A silly, kinda goofy movie, but Asner played his role with panache and gruff and sincerity.

I am curious as to how many shows weve been at together and not known it. Ha! I was also going to go to this one. I was at the static-x/dope show at the rave. I saw static x live about 8 times. Definitely going to see Deftones/gojira in August. The new Gojira album is sublime.

WandaVision hasn't been "great" but the easter eggs and tie ins have been really well done. I think the show has been good and the pacing is fine. I think the show is really weird and it's still trying to find it's footing with some fans, but for long time comic book readers and big time nerdy fan boys, it's been a treat waiting for it to drop every week.

while a lot of people bring up losing Brantley in the CC trade, he wasn't even the centerpiece of that trade and wasn't a highly valued prospect at the time. That is just the cost of doing business. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. As it stands right now we got a potential future Hall of famer and an already one times MVP for four guys who look like negative value WAR players. trading, just like everything in baseball that has to do with player acquisition, is an inexact science. You win, you lose, sometimes both parties are happy. Through the lens of time the CC trade looks all right to me. We went to the playoffs, that season was fun. a lot of people think that revitalized the franchise. I don't know about that. There's no way to put a value on that. I don't know if that's true or not. But the memories are fun to look back on.

Oh man, the Hu are really great. Been listening to them for a while since they've become popular over here. Was going to go see them at the rave before this pandemic put live concerts on the back burner. I really hope they come back around when shows are safe to go to again.

The new Static-x album is pretty amazing. I pre-ordered it and got my name in the liner notes. And yeah, it is a really good album

WHoever listens to metal, Avatar dropped a new album on youtube this week, Gojira dropped an AMAZING, JAWDROPPING video (Another World) and Mastadon released new music. To hell with 2020, but this was a good couple weeks for metal.