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Devs moving the community space to Discord after r*ddit:

https://lemmy.ml/post/133578 / https://lemmy.ml/post/1227239

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Thanks!

I don't seem to be able to find the m3u8 in network tab with Firefox, so not sure if thats my fault or if youtube changed something. I'll think to search for the m3u8 in the network tab next time I encounter a blob elsewhere, though.

I often have trouble trying to get VLC to work with videos on youtube directly, and it didn't seem to like the blob link from youtube as described by this article, I assume youtube changed something and VLC hasn't been updated to keep pace.

(Article is from 2021)

So strictly speaking, blobs themselves still cannot be downloaded but it is often possible to find the stream link which will work when a blob is being used.

#Currently:

• Tencent's Three Body Problem, avail in 4k on their official yt page as I linked here https://lemmy.ml/comment/771119

• Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 2008, beginning with the Writers Strike episodes, all available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/late-night-with-conan-o-brien-2008/ (many jokes have not aged well so be prepared...)

• Silo

• American Born Chinese

• Prehistoric Planet

#Recently, but not currently:

Scifi

• Raised by Wolves (Ridley Scott + aliens+ robots)
• 3% (Brazilian; death games dystopia)
• Fringe (for those who love X Files)
• The 100 (CW quality at times, but great world-building)
• Gotham (ridiculous but always entertaining)
• The Expanse (epic space politics)
• The Man In the High Castle (incredible alternate-history with a scifi twist)
• Counterpart (Amazingly acted parallel world spy thriller)

Thriller:

• Yellowjackets
• Cult (CW quality but a really cool premise)
• The Terror (very suspenseful historical horror at sea)
• Bates Motel (a prequel to Psycho that's a bit camp and very well-acted)
• Marianne (French; supernatural and/or psychological thriller in a small town)

Drama:

• Babylon Berlin (German; suspenseful historical drama about pre-Nazi Berlin)
• Mindhunter (very suspenseful drama about the early days of forensic psychology)

Comedy:

• Philomena Cunk series (mockumentaries)
• The Orville (more Star Trek than most Star Trek, skews to drama more often than real comedy)
• Wellington Paranormal (spooky cops in New Zealand)

For anyone who doesn't know, there's a Chinese Tencent adaptation (wikipedia) which originally aired January 2023, is not the same as the Netflix adaptation which is not yet released.

The Tencent adaptation is 30 episodes and currently available in full ~~in 1080p~~ in 4K! with english subtitles from Tencent on their yt page:

• Youtube link as shared by misericordiae above https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0W4KKgjYtYBfv
• Invidious link https://y.com.sb/search?q=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0W4KKgjYtYBfv

I'm about halfway through the Tencent adaptation and I think its accurate to the source material and accurately capturing the mood well, however:

• The detective, Shi Qiang, is now a buddy cop guy used mainly for exposition which is lazy writing, in my opinion. Or was he always like this?
• The pacing is really slow which sometimes works really well and other times drags out scenes with no benefit. I'd say this could have been compressed into 22 episodes without losing any content or creating pacing issues while still leaving plenty of time for scenes that were meaningfully slow. Just needs an editor to cut it down a bit. Oh well!

I think I only recommend it if you're a fan of the book because its not disappointing from that perspective really, but maybe the Netflix version will be comparably faithful while being structured a bit differently or having better storytelling. I look forward to comparing them.

I think Chuck's attitude and perspective got better over time, seemed like he started to care more about things that mattered like democracy and media literacy, whereas before I always felt he was mostly interested in the horse race.