I feel like this can still happen if they are watching live streams. Like Twitch stuff.
Speaking as an elder millennial who has had both, I don’t miss flow tv at all. The only thing I ever watch live is sports, usually only Liverpool matches, which I mute and tab away from during half time commercials.
In fact, if I come across an unskippable ad, I stop using whatever app/site/radish subjected me to it immediately.
I do the same thing with some news sources. They want to show me a video of some news event, BUT I have to watch an ad first. BYE
Don’t worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans
Interstitial cheese and pickle.
Except Netflix has ads now, too.
Which is a fucking abomination!
Not in their top tier which is more expensive
Not in their top tier which is more expensive
Is it only their top tier (4k+more simultaneous streams) now? Last time I was subscribed it was only the lowest tier had ads. Middle tier was ad free.
and netflix ends thier series have 2-3 seasons as a way to get tax benefitis and subscription numbers.
Kids of today are doing alright, they’ll go to the shitter, look at their phone and smile when Discord pings them with
Radarr
The Last Unicorn (1982)
Movie Imported
Overview
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly’s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magicia…Links
TMDb / Trakt / IMDb / YouTubeMe, who never had a Netflix era but still never experienced this.
ONLY CHILDREN NEED NOT APPLY
The moral of the story is: no rusty banal or shitty memory is banal or shitty enough, for these postmodern kids nowadays to NOT commoditize it as “nostalgia”. EXACTLY like their boomer parents with their own rusty banal or shitty items in their memory bank.
“I look around me, and the horizon seems to be at the same distance everywhere I look, therefore it must be obvious: I am at the center of the Universe.”
Hmmm. Favourite show only on 2 times a year (Season), 2nd is replay of the same episode . Lots of unstoppable ads. No other way to watch it later. This went on for a couple decades.
Less TV’s and no one had a device. The battles for who got TV time were epic between my brothers and I.
Then VCR’s showed up. Recording show with commercials was the only way. You could fast forward but annoying.
Then Netflix and other streaming services would have no commercials and you could watch anytime. Golden age.
Now ads are back even if you pay. Guess we are back to cable era again. Regression sucks.
You don’t have to obey the law.
I was a pirate before there was even Pirate Bay. Was just talking about the state of things now.
In the 90s you had to be careful not to touch the Nintendo while playing or else the game might crash. It was still better than today because you didn’t need an internet connection to play your games.
Now the ads are 60sec? instead of 2.5min. Right now the time pressure to do your business is the hardest its ever been. Until they increase the ads again.
You could always keep an empty plastic bottle on hand. Start while in your chair and then finish up in the bathroom. Of course this would require some acrobatics if you are a female
And I hope they never will.
Now it’s going to the bathroom or grabbing a snack wile in matchmaking queue
Things boomers are nostalgic for:
❎️ the ways things actually were better.
✅️ inconvenience.
Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don’t need artificial limits on stuff today.
CDs can’t be erased on the cloud, to then either push other songs on you, or the “remasters” (cough-cough In Flames), and otherwise most digital albums still hold this “artificial” limit. Even worse is when they limit it to 2-3 minutes nowadays, because Tik-Tok.
songs have been 2-3 minutes for decades now
Artificial limits can be great though. They force you to think about what you’re doing. Only 80 minutes of space on the CD? 36 frames in my camera? Make them count.
Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
And remember paying $20 in 1996 for that 15 song CD, and remember your heartbreak when you listen through for the first time and find out there was only the one song you knew that you really liked and maybe two others that were just okay?
Dark days indeed.
what about when they started to make cd players that could read a data disc full of mp3s? what a time to be alive. no need for a changer in the trunk!
Ha ha yeah, around the time where 128MB mp3 players got accessible!
Well, that’s like your opinion, man.
Nah, it’s more thinking about a time where things like not missing your favorite TV show was very high on your list of priorities.
as an Xer i played video games for years before they invented “save game”
i’ve spent exactly 0.00 nanoseconds since then missing those pre-save-game days
And for retro games, emulators have left even that in the dustbin of time.
Sick of the last RPG save happening 20 minutes before a boss fight? Save at literally any moment with save states.
That too much work? You can rewind the entire game.
Remember the C64 cheat cartridge? Saved off your game / reloaded it whenever you wanted.
I wanted one so much, but I never got one 😔
Me either, but I would have wanted a Fast Load cartridge instead, but we couldn’t afford that either.
I sometimes wish manual save was a thing. Autosave is nice, but dont take away features please.
Like in expedition 33. I didnt realize you could only fight the last boss 1 time, so i went and did endgame after the story. Now i cant see the ending(s) without doing a full play through or watching someone else do it on youtube.
I started NG+ lol
"You found a ‘tape’, with it you can save once "
Yeah , what a bs thing.
That’s part of the horror in survival horror though. I liked that feature in Resident Evil, etc.
Or getting in trouble and missing an episode of your favourite show, which happened to be the most crucial episode to watch that season.
Or the one time you happen to be able to watch it, it’s an episode like “the great divide”
Yep, still mad I missed the final episode of Season 6 of Stargate SG-1
I’ll never know if Pepper Ann made it to school
Or always missing episode 1 and have to figure out everything yourself.
