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abduleez1:
Hope say I no go lose my previous data and playlists.

Nope...na to just log in back.

Here we go!

SOZINN:
About to binge myself to fucksville with the entire collection.
I hope it lives up to the hype.

Part 1 and 2 Solid af... started to deep in the concluding part but still decent.

abduleez1:
Oyaskii that Spotify mod no work oo. I even downloaded two version from happymod. E no turn up.

Or I have to uninstall original Spotify app from my phone? And install the mod.

Which android version you dey use sef? Cos weyrey Google don over strict with this their recent versions. I dey android 11.

YES! @bolded

nani667:
This is NOT Amazon prime

Nobody said it was. He clearly said "Amazon Prime Modded".

Purpl3:
I knew I wasn't using my Android right

Do you by any chance have an Amazon prime modded app?

The Amazon Prime Modded i have is pretty decent. It combines shows and movies from other network as well, you can stream up to 1080P or download if you wish..

abduleez1:
That's the beauty of (Freedom) Android.

I got an issue tho, the Spotify mod APK didn't install. Google play protect somehow stops it from installing even tho I've turned it off.

Google Play protect they move mad these days.. Google "Happy Mod" and download it from there.

abduleez1:
Bruh, I no know o. I dey here of the mod before but I think say e no dey work for here.

Apple na very stingy lot. All their things na to pay through your @ss. That's why I no fit switch to that OS.

lol IOS is the most stable OS but it been "Closed source" is a big hindrance and thier services is made for "First class countries" where things actually work. Android though less stable but it been "open source" is a blessing, An Indian kid with a WIN 7 PC can build his own skin based on Android from scratch

VerifiedStalin:
Google 'Spotiflyer.'

I have a telegram bot that converts Spotify links to downloadable tracks so i had to let go of "Spotiflyer".

abduleez1:
Wow. You don't mean it.
Omo. Here we go.

lol Spotify mod has been common knowledge for years now na, even Deezer. It's only Apple Music that doesn't have a stable mod, thier DRM na die.

abduleez1:
Yea, I know it should be like this.
I want to know if you also subscribe like the original app. And how it processes payments.

No...The "mod app" is there so you don't have to pay.

abduleez1:
Aight.
Tell me something, how's the MOD like?

It's basically a "cracked" premium version of the app... unlimited skips, no adverts etc, i think the only premium function that is missing it's offline download and i basically don't need this because i prefer streaming.

Gmajor:
last week, I was typing a review of The Batman. when i had typed close to a thousand words, my browser come hang. na so everything take wipe.
I was like fu+k it, i cant do this again.

If i am typing a review or anything with many characters, i usually type first on my Note app, save and copy.. learnt the hard way.

abduleez1:
Not yet tried it. I'm just tired Bro.
Funny thing is I recommended that virtual card stuff for the guy that made a complaint back then. I'm finding it difficult to take my own preaching.

Thing is that that Barter by Flutterwave, those people fleece users real good with their very high dollar exchange rate. Using it for Spotify will mean I'll kinda pay slightly higher than initial price.

I'll begrudgingly try it out las las if I see no alternative.

Spotify charges in Naira so the dollar exchange rate won't affect the Barter by Flutterwave card in so far, you are using the Naira dominated virtual card, some other fintech virtual cards work too, i think Kuda was working a while back.

Anyways, these issues made me switch to mod, and i haven't looked back since.

abduleez1:
Disney's new animated movie for next year.

June 16.

The Animation style is doing my head in


And where you able to rectify the spotify issue?

abduleez1:
**Unrelated**

Pls do anyone here know how to work around Spotify premium sub renewal. I've been trying to renew for two days now all to no avail. It's getting on my nerves already.
I cancelled my sub late February/early March. I want to renew now I'm having issues with both the site and the app. It's same card I used for paying my premium membership since last year.


I remember someone else also made a complain about it here during the Ramadan. See

Use those virtual card of those Fintech or better still


Get SPOTIFY MOD!

Baddestguyp:
movies on YouTube

You are just knowing that Youtube host full length movies?? Small indie filmmakers distribute thier movies via YouTube and also big movies from yester years like "Terminator", " are distributed via YouTube for free. YouTube themselves also have original movies produced by them.

VerifiedStalin:
**The Northman**

The plot is similar to that of The Lion King, but with Vikings instead of lions. Artsy cinematography, emotionally compelling characters, and a lot of violence.

However, all of the howling and animal-like posturing made it hard to take seriously, almost as if it were a one-dimensional parody of aggressive masculinity. The plot was predictable, and the love interest felt like an afterthought.

Overall, it was visually appealing, and the fight scenes were good, but it was extremely mediocre.

Same Movie that was the champion of "Let "original" movies have thier pay day at the cinemas?, I was really surprised when it was available on VOD just a month after the theatrical release, seems that's the only way they were going to make money off it, and i was also uncomfortable with the term "original movie" cuz if you are describing the plot as "The Lion King" esque , then the term "original movie" is clearly been use out of context. I saw the Trailer and i knew the direction they were going and i was thinking they will throw in a surprise somewhere.

Man, Movies these days is simply the draw of the luck, and filmmakers these days just throw in a lot of artsy rubbish and see which one sticks.

It is so bad that i have to sieve through alot of absolute garbage flick to find a remotely good one that i can manage, so much so that the best movie i have seen this year that was truly flawless was in January and the movie came out in 2021!. I have been visiting my old list from the early 2000 to around 2015 for my cinematic pleasure now cuz this was the ERA! The good music and movies made within these period were not far between.

But the movies from 2016 downwards have been on a steady decline, and you see this "2022", it's the bottom barrel of them all, absolute rock bottom!

And in a weekend where "Firestarter" and "Senior Year" was released with a combine RT ratings of 42%!, I am afraid...Good movies are indeed a "dying breed"

The scene where Batman rides through Gotham with Nirvana's "Something in the way" playing might possibly be the greatest blend of motion picture and music ever.

YoungDaNaval:
Greetings my boss them. There's this old nollywood movie I'm looking for staring Sam Loco. He was a lawyer in the movie. He uses big big grammar to finish his village people. Can someone please help me with the title of the movie and possibly a link to where I can watch or download it? grin

"The Village Judge"....check YT or Dailymotion.

DieRich5:
Dr strange 2 clear for the app?

Ngl....Disney needs to jail you my man.

The "Ultra censorship" in China is actually ridiculous.

abduleez1:
Great insight and analysis.
Yea, I know that PPV can't work in Africa. Presently.

So PAYG our lawmakers were shouting then na sakamanje??


Anyways, I'm off that service till maybe when I'm raising a family.

lol na carry talk our law makers dey, they know it won't work but they just want to say it so that people can calm down. Most of these lawmakers enjoy from the monopoly of DSTV sef, they will most collect kickbacks from Dstv to kill the "PAYG" talk.

Chibudollar:
The French dispatch, is it any good? I have bookmarked it since

it is good if you are familiar with Wes Anderson's style.

abduleez1:
While these are salient points for DSTV's pricing system, I believe they need to do more especially in terms of pay-as-you-go they employ in SA and some other parts of Africa. It should be a fair billing system for most countries most especially when we're their biggest market. There's almost no advantage we enjoy despite being their most important market. And that's where the resentment with the company starts from.

The pillars of DSTV is sports content, Africa Magic (Nollywood content) and BB Naija. I don't see why Nigeria shouldn't have some preferential benefits given how important we're to its business development.

I'm out of the DSTV/GOTV ecosystem so I don't care much for their content these days. The only entertainment I gained from that vendor was it's music Channels. I was already leaning away from its Nature and Wildlife programs. Their sports programs, I could only access through viewing centres cos my siblings no go let person rest with Zee World, Africa Magic and Disney.
Still those yeye people messed up the music programming.

The only benefit I see now is the TNT movies I could be forced to watch to catch up on old movies I missed over the years.
I just missed when I was up to date with new music videos back then. Now I could only depend on regular broadcast TV and YouTube.

Bro, Dstv doesn't offer "Pay as you go" anywhere in Africa because as of now, the infrastructure they have wouldn't be able to sustain the tech, they will need a total revamp of thier existing structure and require the end uses to have steady internet for this to be even technically and commercially possible. Let me break it down.

"Pay as you go" billing means you pay when your tv or device is connected to the DSTV system and you don't pay when your tv or device isn't connected to the DSTV system, this is typically a two way system requiring DSTV to be able to monitor your usage to know how to bill you, and they can only do this if the TV or Device is connected to the internet, how many people in this poverty capital of the world, have steady uninterrupted steady internet to stream DSTV content? So Dstv uses a "one way bill" cable system, where they charged a fixed amount per month not minding if you use the services or not, that's the only way they remain commercially viable and make profits. "Pay as you go" billing works on telecommunications because that's how the system it's built and the network can monitor your usage as you go but this isn't feasible for cable tv in this clime as of now.

There's also talk of "Per pay view". This is also DOA because both DSTV and the costumers will lose money. There was a Manny Pacquiao fight one time that cost approximately 40k to see on per pay view and meanwhile the highest dstv package was 18k at that time, imagine paying for one boxing match for 40k or 18k for DSTV sub for a month where the same boxing match will be available.

Me has completely ruled out Dstv for my music and movie needs, but rely on them for sports and Docu.

abduleez1:
Interesting list.

The Outfit and The Drop Out don't get hyped on here. Heard they're frontrunners for Emmys glory.
I have them on my watchlist but mehn imma really struggle reaching my goals this month. Too many good content coming up this month.

The Dropout was really good and i personally like stories about tech startups. Amanda Seyfried finished work as "Elizabeth Holmes" .. crazy method acting so the emmy shouts is fair.

abduleez1:
Africa looks like the afterthought in the streaming business. But wait till when they oversaturate Europe and SE Asia, you'll see how they scramble for Africa's high growth rate market. Of course, the focus being Nigeria, SA, Kenya and North Africa.

Once internet and broadband penetration deepens and becomes widespread in Africa, you'll see the full-scale move to streaming. Especially when data prices drops down. Netflix is already taking Nollywood seriously.

I anxiously await the days when that DSTV's chokehold of the continent is broken. That network increasingly fleece Africans off hard-earned money. The battle will be intense in the coming years leading to 2025.

If HBOMax or Disney+ were to be available in Nigeria, I'll easily switch full-scale to streaming. I don't see cable in my plans anyways as I ain't raising family yet.

While DSTV totally needs a revamp of thier programme outside of sports, they are actually doing Africans and in this context Nigeria a huge favour with the kind of pay tv they operate. In the uk for example, Virgin that owns The Sky brand are actually doing a bigger fleecing per say, you can pay as much as £41 for the sports package and mind you they share EPL "blockbuster matches" slot with BT sports, so BT sports owns the 12:30 EPL spot on Saturdays so imagine Man city and Liverpool have a game on Saturday by 12:30pm , you can't see it after paying £41! and mind you Sky doesn't have rights to the UCL, la liga and seria A. To get the full Sky package could cost up to £115! and this is huge money if you understand how earnings and taxation works in the UK. Even big boxing fights and UFC aren't even added to the sports package so you have to see them on per pay view, But DSTv shows you virtually all the games from EPL, La liga, Seria A, UCL, UEL, UCF, UYL, world cup, Euros, formula one, UFC, WBO etc on ONE SUB!

To DSTV content outside of sports, though i think they need improvement but still i think they are trying. Most movies are owned by the "Big 7" movie cooperation and these companies have move thier movie titles to thier respective streaming platform and to get rights to air them on a pay tv, you have to acquire these rights. and DSTV regularly have MCU or DCEU channels, during the height of GOT, Dstv was doing same day release as HBO!. and aside of movies they have other interesting content too like crime and investigation, Discovery, food channel, Nat Geo and Nat geo wild.

To thier pricing, this is i squarely place on the government and the unfair business clime here, imagine there was a Diesel shortage for a about two months this year, how did you think DSTV will break even at the end of the year in this situation?.

The prices for rights are not cheap. Dstv paid close to $650m for thier last EPL rights! coupled with the formula one, WBO, UFC rights, you tell me how can they afford all these with the business conditions here without reviewing thier prices frequently? HITV got full EPL rights and was offering full EPL package on a 4k sub per month, they were out of business in 3 years and was neck deep in debts.

I focused mainly on shows in April...started some... finish some while seeing some movies in between.


My top 3 from April were
The Batman
Severance/ "The Dropout (A tie )
Ambulance

AnfieldFan:
Hell or High water...
Two brothers go on a spree of bank robberies...
They reasons, to honor the memory of their mom, stick it to the thieving bank(s), and leave something worthwhile for the kids of one of they brothers...
Some people complain that simple plots are often too simplistic and aren't worthy of our time, but I beg to disagree, the best movies make a simple plot something worth being invested in emotionally, while having enough self awareness to be profound...
Case in point in regard to Hell or High water, casual racism(directed towards a native American by someone in position of power), he does this as a means of showing his endearment but at the end, it is what it is, exploitative nature of American banks, their mother was doomed to fail from the start, and an overbearing need to own guns and make use of those guns most especially in the South

Check it out....

The scenes with these two were my fave

abduleez1:
I'm telling you.


Lord help me with funds sharpaly cos e go pain me if I no see this movie in theaters. The hype is real.

Records wey this film go break ehn, it's definitely looking like the biggest movie of the year alongside Jurassic World.

The hype strong wella...e go too make sense for big screen.

VerifiedStalin:
Definitely. The only drawback is the cinema ITKs' inability to shut up and let one enjoy what they paid for.

My method is take an excuse in a week day from work and go to the cinema on a 10am slot..i saw a movie like that one time and we where two inside the hall...works everytime.

abduleez1:
One "Isolo Elon Musk" as chief Oyaskii said.

lmaoo i they think the price, i dey vex all over. ..but this site need major upgrade no cap