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What is the purpose of this article? Was it really some random person SO EXCITED about a video streaming company? I struggle to find a thesis here. Do people need an entire essay that just says "Netflix is making money and producing content"?

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The point is more that Netflix is producing the best content, better than all the studios and HBO right now by user rating. I'd be very interested though in viewership numbers between prime time TV shows like Big Bang versus new series releases of House of Cards.

User rating according to whom? Is it all standardized?

I believe those are the direct rottentomatoes.com "User" scores. So aggregated from a large population of users for rottentomatoes.com; I would consider that to be a pretty good representation of the average American population who uses the internet.

> who uses the internet

Which skews your sample.

Three-day holiday weekend.

There are currently two separate posts on the front-page about 1999's "Age of Empires 2" being a nice video game.

Yes, when people return from their holidays we'll go back to our regular schedule of marketing blog posts disguised as technical articles.

Except that one of them was about how a bunch of modders became a professional studio. Just slightly more than a "nice video game" article.

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