How streaming changed the way you watch TV
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In the 90s you had to be careful not to touch the Nintendo while playing or else the game might crash.
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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.
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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
"You found a 'tape', with it you can save once "
Yeah , what a bs thing.
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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.
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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
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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 always missing episode 1 and have to figure out everything yourself.
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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.
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Or getting in trouble and missing an episode of your favourite show, which happened to be the most crucial episode to watch that season.
I'll never know if Pepper Ann made it to school
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Except Netflix has ads now, too.
Which is a fucking abomination!
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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
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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
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Except Netflix has ads now, too.
Not in their top tier which is more expensive
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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.
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.
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Don't worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans
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Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long.
Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
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Don't worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans
Interstitial cheese and pickle.
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They also won't know what its like to watch a movie on DVD and all the cool features they used to come with
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Or getting in trouble and missing an episode of your favourite show, which happened to be the most crucial episode to watch that season.
Yep, still mad I missed the final episode of Season 6 of Stargate SG-1
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Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long.
Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
Time for the next thing.What arrrr we looking forrrr?
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The joy of when that Big Screen movie that you never got to see finally comes to the TV. With ad breaks. You absolutely didn’t care about the ads because they were normal at the time. And you had to be there on time to watch it, and make sure nobody else in the house was going to try to watch something at the same time. While I appreciate the huge variety and the ability to binge some great series today, it’s still the same old shit even with all the streaming services: A lot of bad TV, lots of uninteresting TV, with a few bright spots and plenty of ads.
