I just want to afford to see a movie goddammit

I used to love going to the movies, but theaters are just a shit experience these days. People on their phones, people talking. Nobody has any fucking manners anymore.

I got myself some good speakers, fairly good benq projector and 200inch screen. Best choice I made
If the projector survives for 4-5 years, then I might even make the money back by skipping on cinema visits
Post pandemic, I only go if it's a movie worth seeing in IMAX or Dolby. And movies like those are like once a year.
- Ditto. Cinema for me these days are sacred and for special occasions. Some movies are only worth watching in theatres if the visual spectacles are great.
Honestly I've seen little to none of that. I don't go that often, but at least like 4x/year
Dine in theaters. It's expensive but that isn't an issue any time I've gone the past few years
As long as they stay offa mah lawn!

Yo ho, me hearties! 🤘🏼

Just bought a house after years of hunting. I'm /absolutely/ building a home theater in the basement to enjoy my home media server from once I can afford it in...17 years or so, assuming society hasn't collapsed by then.
- What type of hunting did you do? Like deer or rabbits?
- And, if it has, then you can just dedicate your former neighbors' homes to whatever projects you like! So much room for activities!

Two ways you can afford to see a movie with $0:

Sneak in
Piracy

1 is harder than 2, but more thrilling and you can even get free snacks if the theatre offers refills and you dig through the trash.

3 Libraries

First time?

Theaters haven't been worth going to for 2 decades now. I don't understand people's obsession with it. My giant screen at home looks and sounds better, I'm more comfortable, more relaxed, and can go at my pace.

Screw theaters. I haven't been to one in like 15 years. Super not worth it and everyone I know IRL who goes mostly complains.

I haven't been to my local IMAX theater in nearly a decade because the sound system went to absolute shit and they still haven't updated it.
Even before I went down the audio rabbit hole I felt it was a huge upgrade just having a cheap pair of bookshelf speakers and decent looking TV. Now with OLED becoming ubiquitous it's too easy to make an amazing setup that doesn't break the bank. Theaters need to do some drastic changes to bring back their value, but honestly it might just be better leaving them in the history books.
I was shocked to learn that most projectors are only 2k.
- The downgrade to digital projectors is what killed cinemas for me. It's just a stuttering blurry mess with a poorly calibrated speaker setup to match.
  I'd like to like the cinema but they removed the magic and left the 8$ small popcorn in It's place.
I think I've been in this boat without necessarily realising. Last film i saw at the cinema was the hobbit. I had no idea they'd decided to split the story from that short children's book up into multiple films, so I was very confused and disappointed by the end.

I'm in the same boat. I have savings for six months, but if I don't find something in that time, I guess, I'll just die.

With AI doing what it's doing, and with Republicans in the states forcing things like they are (the latest being 10 years of not making any Ai legislation in the shitty new big Trump bill), we're all pretty fucked.

Like... The panic is real. How are we supposed to compete in a few years if and when AI is fixed enough to be viable?

It's worth noting that the most intelligent and well educated people will be the most impacted. And the only ones who profit will be the ones running the companies profiting off AI.
Even the workers for those companies will be replaced. Some may maintain hardware, but robotics isn't far behind the needs we will see. A Boston dynamics robot can do a faster and cheaper job replacing hard drives than a person can.
with Republicans in the states forcing things like they are (the latest being 10 years of not making any Ai legislation in the shitty new big Trump bill), we’re all pretty fucked.
To be honest the answer is obvious, straight forward and impossible. Society just needs to reject entirely any company that embraces shitty "AI".
I mean it's not as though "AI" is in any way intelligence, it's just utilising large data sets to make it look that way, think about it, you meet a person at a party who is entirely oblivious to social norms, incapable of understanding tone, not able to improvise and adapt to conversation, but is really good at stating and restating and respinning facts that they picked up in previous conversations, is that the smartest one in the room?
In every one of my interactions with AI it has reminded me of talking to my ex's autistic son, he was astounding with the things he could remember and repeat (and would do so with absolute conviction) but would crash out when given too many explicitly contradictory tidbits of information.
So assume that any company that replaces workers with it is happy to embrace slop and ask yourself if that is a company worth your business?
Unfortunately the world is far too influenced by America and has spent too long buying into the narratives that have been used to strip Americans of all the characteristics that they like to believe define them.
So the general public is dumb, reactionary, intolerant and beligerent in far too many places around the world.
The tiniest trace of class solidarity and any company that opted to embrace the shit slop as anything other than a tool to enhance the existing workforce would be shunned and reduced to irrelevancy and the world could move on.
For what it's worth I fully 100% believe that AI is attainable, but when we get there we will see LLMs as equivalent to alchemy and shake our heads about the amount of resources we spent trying to turn virtual lead into digital gold. I also wonder if our descendants will curse our wholesale destruction of the planet following these modern day charlatans down the path of environmental collapse just to explore a dead end that was never going to yield a positive result.

Find an independently owned theater near you. While it may not be an IMAX screen it's still the theater experience and likely way cheaper. I haven't paid more than $5 per ticket to see a movie in years.

I suffered through this awful film so that the memes could live.

I just wanna survive to play gta6 not actually live gta6.

They have $5 Tuesdays at Fat cats if you live near one in the US. But yeah, normal movies are insanity.

Everyone with an internet connection can "afford to see a movie". Or are you asking to be able to afford to pay for a movie ticket at an overpriced cinema?

Needlessly judgemental, wow.
- I'm talking about sailing the high seas. I guess that didn't come across.
- As an autistic person who sees information sharing as more valid and respectable than affirming possible ignorant perspectives for the sake of obtuse social saliency, all I see is a fact and a valid question.
  Also valid advice for those with money. If you can save money from a theater ticket to another Disney slop live action remake, and donate that money to independent artists trying to survive and simultaneously have a voice despite the Disney/warner types stranglehold over sellable cinema for most public spaces.
  People get so upset when anything questions their current trajectory, rather than saying "oh yeah, that's a valid perspective to avoid the issue in context."
  And gets a lot of autistic people yelled at for doing their job or trying to help, IMO.
  Is there a reason the advice and question aren't valid? To me the only rudeness here is in the framing of the rebuke.
  This isn't trying to one up anyone, this is an attempt to communicate, and improve people's ability to communicate.
  I've even seen doctors excuse bullying of autistic children because the child joined discussion of test scores without pandering to the ego of people that were socially affirming how terrible the test must be, due to their performance.
  At this point people need to start trying to understand the double empathy problem, because it's valid for more cases of communication differences than just autism.
  Thank you for reading!
Or are you asking to be able to afford to pay for a movie ticket at an overpriced cinema?
Yes.

https://tribler.org/

Assuming that's a site for free streaming of movies but sometimes I just want to go to a theater and relax. I mean, granted, I probably should have made the title "I just want to afford rent" considering I'm going to be homeless tomorrow but I didn't think that'd be as funny.
- Also there’s a ceetain point where the movie thing hits harder. Rent is really expensive and people are needing to get more roommates or live with their parents to afford the super high prices but a movie is once a month is cheap and shouldn’t have a big enough impact to hurt to bad, yet it does. It’s absolutely absurd that we live in a world where people need to count their pennies.
  Also, good luck, I hope “homeless” doesn’t mean “on the street”. Keep safe my guy.
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Why the fuck are you recommending this shit?!
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