Hulu quizzing about the ads played

As long as it's not a breast

America, Fuck Yeah

Its the second comercial

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Help teach other people to pirate

It was a pretty good few years, but unfortunately the enshitification was a slow and painful burn at the end there...

Okay, let's not go mad. This is a streaming service. They are greedy assholes but they aren't actively killing people.

Mainstream media and capitalism are part of the same bullshit

Lol.

EVERYTHING BAD IS CAPITALISM!

Aiight, Lemmy.

A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.

There were no quizzes though...

I was wondering how I should prepare for the tests

It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.

As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it's WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything

Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I've ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I'm ready to watch it, but I've rarely had to do that.

Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
Once it's on the disk it's fair game.

Insert verification dildo and yell McDonald's when you climax to end commercial.

same i was really buying a lot of pointless shit it turns out lol

I cancelled Prime over a year ago and for some reason I still get "Prime" delivery. I don't get the games, movies, or Twitch stuff but if I order something it shows up faster than when my partner does.

So, I don't hate that about Amazon... Everything else keeps me from ordering there unless there's no other options.

If all you want is F1, and you kniw someone who lives ina country where F1TV is available, try booking F1TV through them. It's 50€/year.

Das Capital.

Because right now they think he was a lone nut job. It couldn't possibly happen again. We need to prove them wrong.

I just think it's missing the real culprit twice. We are not being punished and harvested by other people, but by giant entities that are soulless, with global access to replacement humans when one of their crop dies. It will just regrow its pilot instantly. It's much more concerned about focusing efforts on its legal team to ensure it gets any profit and power the event might have left on the table.

Similarly, when a zealot notices the slaying of one of their own, they do not think it could be them, they think about the vacant spot and the entailing power vacuum in the ranks of this entity. Humanity is a weakness and disease to them because, unsurprisingly, it is how you rise in favour with any of these odious entities.

In society, the states have collectively chosen to worship and dedicate their life to the psychopathic entities, have elevated them first to being "legally human" whatever that means, and then beyond that, by giving them control over law and enforcement so they can punish anyone dissenting their overlords.

Instead of resorting to clandestine conspiracies or infiltration that you might expect, people in these states are out in the open proudly celebrating the progression of the insane dark entities elevation to absolute power and esteem. "They are more human than us", they proclaim, "they should have more rights than us. We owe it to them to collectively increase our efficiency and meet the demands so they can lead us to salvation."

Viciously the weak are considered insufficient, and it hurts me to the bones. Whenever any societal issue appears that clearly asks "is humanity more important, or the overlords that provides for it?" the choice is not even a question for the followers any longer, but straight up considered an insult. "Why should it not be allowed to use indiscriminately any resource that are not part of the church? It is able to, and it has all its legal rights in order. It provides for us. Look what the entity has given us. Repent, bow and work, or you will not be a sacrifice, but a casualty."

Some time ago, the knowledge that the entities are summoning some demonic ice age and that the last chance to survive as a species is nearing, most people chose to deny the research, for the chance to climb socially in the ranks of their respective churches by proving their loyalty. The current human leader destroying the research openly, poised to imprison any dissenters. No significant amount of people seemed upset in the states that the entities have now claimed as their sovereign.

Every country on earth cowers before the dark entities and the fervent zealousry of their worshippers. They wear masks of defeated ideologies. The world's most powerful military force continually wage excessive one-sided wars in the name of democracy, the face of its sword arm an obscene twist of the idea that people should vote and choose laws via representation, not by force or persuasion. It wears the skin of anything it has eaten and impersonate it not as a disguise but as a means to rally its zealots for battle.

Luckily, if you have concerns about the irreversible damage these things are doing, a dismissive jeer the most common response, but the collective immune system of the entities is now very close to making it punishable to speak out on concerns of humanity and our species survival.

It is of no concern of the zealots of course, that can enjoy up to 3 free hours a day that the churches generally allows for sleep. Vying for relative power in the ranks of the church is occupying their thoughts day in and day out as they climb over each other like crabs in a bucket. It's more fun right now and they might get a better death when the doom comes. It's ironic that the gluttony and greed are parts of humanity it did not take from us. It causes a deadlock. It's hard not to believe it is pure malice engineering the end of our species, but that's what most people believe. That we are killing ourselves. That we are inherently incapable of greatness due to our egoism. That degrading defeatism is hard to believe when we spend our entire day doing altruism for the entities. We have food money and resources enough for every human several times over. We have chosen to give it for safekeeping in the belly of the beast. But I love you anyway good night

It's just a historical fact

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

JFK

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Yeah, there's a history here. That being said, newspapers have included ads and purchase fees for a long time AFAIK.

you're right. at least, depending on the person, there's a chance rimming could be enjoyable. not so with ads that quiz you.

It's pretty close tbh

To prevent this from happening, you should always check RTINGS first before buying a TV (or any electronics, for that matter). Scroll down to the "Ad-Free" section for the review of the TV you're considering.

Am I behind the times? I don't use a television. I use a desktop computer with monitors. The television itself will show ads.?

It's €16 for 6 months of all the content you could ever care to stream, delivered straight to your living room. So yeah, about $2.75/mo USD for 1000x more content than any other streaming platform. Deal of the century.

I should also mention that the addon support for Stremio is huge, allowing you to customize your feed exactly how you like it. A good addon for example is Trakt.tv, which recommendeds content based on your viewing habits. Perfect for people who are too dependent on Netflix/Disney/Max/YouTube/etc. and their algorithms (me).

As the icing on the cake, Stremio also has HDR & Dolby Atmos support. Great for home theater geeks like me.

Seeing some of those idiots even in the comments on fucking Lemmy of all places is crazy.

LOL, I know, right. It's just downright dyatopian

Oh I suffer from that daily. Yeah it's very annoying.

Not if you have control over the hardware and firmware. But I suppose open sourced versions will happen one way or another.

Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.

Perhaps you're a bogon emitter like my wife?

Learn more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics

Charles Stross put it succinctly in The Atrocity Archives:

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

This explains why computers suddenly start to work when help arrives. Becoming a bogon sink takes much suffering and practice. You're already on the path.

Instead of a wireless remote

Check out Unified Remote app on Play Store or Apple. It's rock steady . Never have issues. It's one of the few apps I've ever paid for.

Basically control Your desktop from your phone. including text-to-speech for typing. It simply hands down a must have.

Literally anyone who's played an ad supported gatcha game

Seriously? Dystopian shit.

Jesus fuck.

I mean, it was inevitable, but it's still grating that it's here, right?

Imagine not living on a super mega gatorade plantation

People say stuff like that and I'm like, what's the actual law? "It feels bad so it's probably illegal."

This particular brand of bullshit is so new I doubt there's any legislation out there. Maybe an existing consumer protection law could be bent to fit?

Not what OP said over on the (now deleted) Reddit post:

So the ad was supposed to play in that black box and this is a bug?

I had Bob's Burgers on in the background but was playing a game with my kid. The silence caught my attention, but not at first. At first I assumed it was a, "choose your commercial" thing.

After some more time I thought maybe it was asking if I was still watching, that's when I looked up to see this

I waited, nothing. I made a verbal comment and the whole family started looking. We waited, nothing.

I grabbed my phone, snapped the pic, made the post (but didn't actually post it), and it was still sitting there.

I guessed an answer, got it right, and the show came back

Then I hit "post" to actually make the post.

Some people say it went away on its own. Others say, like me, they had to answer, and others said even after answering it didn't go away

I've had Bob's Burgers on all morning and I've yet to see this again

Man, I've been to these meetings.

Shitty MBAs have a shitty idea, and when you go "that's impossible to do / directly against any sane set of values / clearly and plainly very, very illegal", they just go "don't worry about it" and have you do the stupid shit. When it comes crashing down, responsibility is usually distributed like when you take a turd and throw it in a high speed industrial fan, everyone gets a little.

Then you have a choice between either becoming so jaded and cynical that it's not even funny anymore, or switch jobs. I've had too many jobs.

Seen from abroad, US companies have always kind of been anti-consumer, but lately they've been super turbo pedal to the metal implementing that shit.

I guess they want to quickly make as much money as possible in the few years left before everything goes to hell.