Welcome to Coffee Talk! Let’s start off the day by discussing whatever is on your (nerd chic) mind. Every morning I’ll kick off a discussion and I’m counting on you to participate in it. If you’re not feelin’ my topic, feel free to start a chat with your fellow readers and see where it takes you. Whether you’re talking about videogames, Captain Kirk drunk driving in New Zealand, your favorite sandwich getting snubbed by this list of the best sandwiches in America, or NBA excitement building up as the playoffs approach, Coffee Talk is the place to do it.
As you know, we are living in a digital world (and I am a digital girl…err, scratch that). One of the byproducts of the digital age, particularly for people with nerdy hobbies, is that we’re spending more money on subscription services. For nerd subscriptions, Microsoft’s Xbox Live was the first monthly subscription for many geek chic. Since then, the nerd subscriptions have multiplied like Gremlins. For an endless supply of geeky media, people are dropping money every month on Xbox Live, PlayStation Plus, Netflix, Hulu, WWE Network, Marvel Unlimited, and more. I’d love to hear about your nerd subscriptions. It’ll be fun to see the services we all subscribe to.
As for me, I’m a current subscriber to Xbox Live, PlayStation Plus, Netflix (though to be fair, it’s a comped press account), and WWE Network. While I need those services for work purposes, I think they all provide good to great value and would happily pay for them even if they weren’t tax deductible expenses. The videogame service subscriptions are necessary; I don’t really have a choice there. I’m committed to WWE Network for six months, but that would be the first one to go; I love watching classic Ric Flair matches, but from a value standpoint I want to see how live pay-per-view events perform. Netflix has so much great content, with a growing library of exclusives (Pokemon, Star War: The Clone Wars) that makes it a must-have nerd subscription.
Now it’s your turn! Kindly list your current, cancelled, and prospective nerd subscriptions in the comments section.
Amazon Prime
Netflix
PS+
Live
WSJ
Sirius
iTunes Match
Xbox Live
I’m thinking about getting Netflix and Amazon Prime, though. If only they could get our local sports, then I could dump cable TV entirely.
-M
Netflix
WWE
PS+
Next Issue (e-magazine sub)
Oyster (e-book sub)
I was thinking about asking my wife to get me a nerd block sub but idk what I’d do with the toys I didn’t like
How’s Oyster? Never heard of it. Wonder how it compares to the Amazon Prime library.
It’s ok. Disappointed in the sci-if selection. I have it mostly for the wife but I look in to see it anything catches my eye. Not sure about what the Prime library has so I can’t really compare it