It’s not widely available and its only in Norwegian, sadly.

However, I will second @mkengine proposal for Letterboxd, I think it is the superior site to nerd out on. Discovery can be a challenge, depending on your own level of investment into the medium. I’m a big ol movie-nerd, and I’m currently grateful to have access to most streaming services through friends/family/partner so I get to browse them if desired.

Apart from that my twitter algorithm is quite skewed towards movies, and I have a “list” on there (curated users you can browse, kind of like a community on here. That’s been great.

Other than that, I listed to podcast, sometimes check out our national newspapers reviews (but most of those reviewers are already in the aforementioned twitter-list) etc.

As for reading on recommender systems and the algorithm for netflix. My work was based around bias and “trust” when it comes to the recommender systems and how much it recommended/pushed “its own agenda” to users despite having differential tastes.

Good keywords I enjoyed was: recommender system bias I also read some good articles on the spotify recommender systems. But those mostly centered around people growing attached to their algorhitms. It was a fun read.

My bachelors thesis was basically about recommender systems like this. Netflix truly is a sunken ship.

Ihsahn - The Observer https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RD1Ui76Zd-GXg&playnext=1&si=9HPc6Ax-Q1lTL66Q

Yeah, no I think you are spot on in that last sentence. We, as viewers, enthusiasts and consumers can only vote with our wallets. I have spent a lot more effort trying to bring people to independent showing and movies that aren’t the highest grossing/budget films.

But while that may be true, I definitely also went and saw Oppenheimer, Barbie and across the spider-verse.

But I think the whale, tar, Banshees of Inisherin, everything everywhere all at once, triangle of Sadness - all did fairly well at the movies, and despite being far from low budget indiemovies, I think that gives me a lot of confidence that cinema is alive and thriving!

While I don’t disagree on the main points of your post, I’d like to counter by saying I think we are back on the rise. We see eastern movies more frequently make it to our cinemas (at least where I live), and a decline in interest when it comes to superhero stuff. We had a Norwegian movie outsell Aquaman the past weekend and that’s wild. (I know, Aquaman isn’t at the top of people’s hype-list).

I myself also decided to make the choice to go and see more indepent films, attend screenings/festivals in my city and stop going to the marvel shows. It’s been a blast and I’m loving going to the movies more than ever as a result!

This is Wes Anderson in top for, it’s a really fun watch!

That is very reassuring, and thanks for the big writeup! I’ll definitely continue to the next one, so thank you!

It’s not so much the tone of Hobb books thst gets to me, it’s just the arduous pacing. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anything that goes this slow before.

Yeah, I quite enjoyed Stormfront. It feels weird with the absolute need to write about the breasts and looks of every woman in the book, and it makes it feel fairly shallow. But there’s something that feels like it will become a really good series in there too, so I’m inclined to try a few more.

It might not stay with the quaint forever.

However I had a lot of fun reading the “Mage Errant” books! It’s a progression Fantasy (comparable genre with shounen anime) that follows a group of students at a magic school as they grow into their powers as they attempt to become strong magic wielders.

I find the book to not only not be bigoted, but be delightfully inclusive in so many aspects, it also includes characters dealing with trauma in a positive way.

I blazed through this 7 book series like popcorn.

Other than that, there are many good suggestions here!

Just finished the first book in Dresden Files. Now I’m back into Robin Hobbs assassin’s apprentice book two. I forgot the name of it because this series is nothing but a slog so far.

I changed my reddit link to lemmy but kept the snoo symbol.

I don’t really visit too much, I will sweep by a few times a week or so. Reddit I only go to when Google takes me there, which is often enough thst I had to install the official turd of an app.

But I do t have a user over there anymore, so I am not logged in.

I guess how the streaming services promote and place shows in their own service matters.

Are your recommendations really “yours”? Or are they based on trends outside of your viewing habits. Despite having down voted every comedy show on a service, will it still recommend it to you if it’s widely popular?

I think a lot more people chose things from their “wheels” on the Frontpage than we give credit to.

Took a break midway through it myself to get some light reading in! Will move back to it next week

There’s a “spinoff” of the skyward series written by a female author! But having really both that trilogy and skyward I’d say chest GPT is off. But it definitely is closer to skyward flight (the spinoff)

There’s a whole bunch of fillers each time they remotely catch up to the Manga and several “guides” about which ones to skip etc. It’s not too hawrd to catch up if you make it a consistent low-time commitment like watching half an ep on the pooper

I ordered parts and built my own, super fun hobby! The custom keyboard scene is very fun

Purely based on population I’m an exceptional climbing instructor.

Jumped back into Mage Errant series by John Bierce. Currently on book 5 out of 7. Light reads, very fun and engaging magic systems! Top tier progression-fantasy. The perfect “popcorn fantasy” where the plot just goes very fast and you turn pages like a mad person

Just finished Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, it was a delight!

Absolutely loving ours like this. But we also still use a bunch of streaming services occationally