[quote=Yoda]The lawn care equivalent of the expensive stereo/rims/whatever on the beater car, yes.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=Mr Minio]Sorry, I'm not into comedy shows.[/quote]
[i]Jet Lag[/i] isn't a comedy, for whatever it's worth. But I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to you.

[quote=Mr Minio]I think I just mostly don't find them funny or entertaining enough to warrant the enormous combined duration time needed to complete them. And I'm quite crazy about completing something ASAP because watching other things in between makes me feel like I'm constantly taking myself out of the mood of that long thing I'm watching.[/quote]
Here's a useful test case: what about standup specials? Comes in nice < 1 hour chunks.

Also, some forms of comedy have no ongoing narrative the way sitcoms do, so perhaps that would suppress the completionist impulse.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]I wasn't attempting to contradict anything, unless you were speaking universally. Just took it as an excuse to talk about how good YouTube has gotten in some respects.

I never thought I'd pay to hide YouTube ads but I did awhile back and it's actually been a total bargain given how often we use it (and because YouTube Music is a solid Spotify substitute).

For those wondering, I'd recommend [i]Taskmaster[/i], [i]Jet Lag[/i], and [i]Would I Lie To You?[/i], all on YouTube for free.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]I watch YouTube all the time now, there's several absolutely fantastic shows (like, among my favorites ever) on there.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]No worries. In case there was any doubt all my responses there were cheery and not at all contentious.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=Mr Minio]Anyway, these are just fun & flippant shoutbox 
shouts tantamount to Twitter hot takes, not some weird introduction to philosophical debates on art that you always take them for.[/quote]
Just as your flippant shouts can be ignored if someone wants to ignore them, my attempted philosophical debates can be likewise ignored if that's not what you're interested in. :)[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]The sample is just one side of things. The other side is the quality evaluation itself.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Have you considered the possibility that you just personally really prefer Japanese cinema?[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=Mr Minio]So I'm not looking through the prism of "a few films that were great" as Yoda often likes to point out in a supposed belief that I'm biased and only cherry-picking the good films. Some Japanese films were unearthed, I watched them, and they're sooo good, with at least one of them being better than 99% stuff they make today.[/quote]
I'm not sure this disproves the idea. There's a ridiculous number of films out there, and I have no idea how you picked the ones you ended up seeing, so it seems pretty unlikely it's a statistically significant sample [i]or[/i] that there weren't survivorship bias problems with the fact that they could be found easier than others.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Yeah sure I'll just rent my house out while I'm at work. Seems simple.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]:laugh: That show has a weird hold on people. And by people I mean me.[/quote]