• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      lol, no doubt. i have a friend my age (early 40s), that is too lazy to "figure out computers" so he straight up has cable TV. no streaming device. has a smart TV but won't figure out how to use the streaming apps. we live states away, but when i visit, it's like a time machine to the extremely shitty future past.

      "Wanna see what's on TV? I have some stuff on the DVR."
      "I don't--- what?"
      "Have you seen this episode of Rick and Morty? <gestures to a date of recording> It's great."
      <presses buttons on remote, begins fast forwarding through recorded commercials, staring at a screen with flickering images of burgers, boobs, beers, cars waiting for some unknown visual cue>
      "This is the most aggressively dystopian way to watch media I have ever seen up close."
      "Whatever, dude."

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        “This is the most aggressively dystopian way to watch media I have ever seen up close.”

        :doomer:

        “Whatever, dude.”

        :grillman:

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            :grillman: "Why are you so upset about ELO~N? He's doing more to Save Humanity(tm) than you ever will."

            :doomer: "Doing absolutely nothing at all would be less damaging than what he's doing."

            :grillman: "Joke's on you. My new Tesla(tm) is only a few months late."

      • Weedian [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        lol this is how my 72 year old dad watches tv except replace rick and morty with bill maher

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          2 years ago

          Delete his Maher recordings and tell him it was some kind of glitch

          • Weedian [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            when I was in high school I had a keychain universal TV remote and would just turn off the tv or change the channel when he was watching something dumb, I had it for months before he knew exactly what was going on

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          it is so brutal to watch. like, my 70+ year old mom knows how to netflix. she watches / falls asleep in front of total junk, but at least it's not like watching some monkey with electrodes in his brain getting his Clockwork Orange on. and, eerily, my DVR friend also thinks bill maher is hilarious.

          👁️

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            my DVR friend also thinks bill maher is hilarious.

            It's almost entirely clapter. It isn't about being funny, it's about them liking the message and how it punches down on people they hate. :smurf-cursed:

    • boog [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I don't even understand how people can use that dogshit site otherwise.

      Open video

      ad

      second ad

      video finally starts playing

      have to skip the NordVPN/Raid: Shadow Legends/World of Tanks/Audible/Squarespace sponsorshit

      ad interrupts your video after a while

      • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        don't forget the "creative" and "seamless" segues into a 3-minute ad

        "these oven fries are really good... but not as good as being protected by NordVPN! (the best choice for gay pirate assassins)"

        • Weebus [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          lmfao adam ragusea at least his recipes are no fluff, straight to the point other than the ad.

      • AlyxMS [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        If you leave the video playing in the background, a "video will pause in 5 minutes" popup will appear, if you don't see it because it's in the damn background, then the video will just pause.

    • Weedian [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      flashbacks to me watching microsoft employed tech bros insist that watching youtube through the xbox using the controller to type stuff and watching ads every video was more convenient even though they also had a small "media center pc" also hooked up to the same tv