P/Z without any character.... maybe in 1st?
Good for you! I totally felt your pain of paying off student debt. I finally paid it off a few years ago and it feels so freeing to not have to put money toward that anymore.
For me, I already subscribe to Ice Network, so I'm not going to go out of my way to pay more -- rather just wait until IN has the streaming rights again and make do with free streams and YouTube videos.
That is fair enough too. I am not meaning to rag on you in particular. For what it's worth I also think Starbucks is evil haha but you are probably right and not everyone is like me. However I think there may be more people at least sort of like me than you think.
As to the casual viewer thing, if that is what you meant I totally agree. Those people do blow my mind too especially when they focus mostly only on one skater and seem not to have seen any others... and yet insist theirs is the only right opinion... it is too weird.
That is all very commendable but I highly doubt that there are a lot of people like you out there.
12$ is like two or three Starbucks coffees isn't it? And little 'pleasures' like this is something most people allow themselves every now and then (or every day ;P).
Where did you get that number, Ziggy? 68?
I know plenty of people who cannot afford Starbucks, especially not every day, and simply make their own coffee. There are plenty of people living paycheck to paycheck who watch just about every penny, regardless of country. And if they do have a chance to spend money for fun, it usually goes to their family or something like that, not an internet skating broadcast.
It's sad when diehard skating fans can't fully enjoy the sport they love just because you have to pay to watch it in most instances.
This is another thing that bugs me. Nothing is free. If you want something, you have to pay for it. That's simply the way things are.