Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-07 (Friday)

On Mar 12, 2025 at 1:25:02 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

 On 3/8/25 9:20 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
 

 anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

 Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

 On Friday, I had to give exams to 3 classes, so that took most of the day.
 
 What did you watch?

 
 I watched the first two episodes of daredevil born again. I don’t get the
 glowing praise for this.

 
 To elaborate, this had a truly staggering number of commercials in it, all
 of which were inserted randomly and awkwardly.

 
 Did you watch this on Disney+? Or Hulu?
 
 I've heard nothing but bad things about Hulu with ads, which is why if I
 have either Disney+ or Hulu, it will always be the ad-free version.
 

 
Hulu (with ads).
 
Ads not with standing it’s an amazingly incompetently programmed streamer.
 
It will routinely auto play a different show rather than the next episode
of the show you were watching. And if it does show you another episode of
the same show it will just as often go backwards as forward.
 
If you leave it on pause for more than five minutes (in fairness, the five
minute limitation is built into the 4K Firestick max, and you can’t get
around it) it goes to screensaver and here’s what you have to do to resume
playing:

I'm enraged by the streamers that have discovered that using Pause is yet
another opportunity to throw ads in my face. When I was back in Texas for
Christmas, Dad's DirecTV service did this and now I've noticed the Paramounts
are doing it, too. Within about five seconds of hitting pause, an ad starts
running on the DirecTV. With the Paramounts, it's only static images, like
movie posters for other films on the Paramounts.

When I hit pause, about 50% of the time it's because I want to stop and read
something on screen. Like a character holding a letter or the screen on the
president's super-secret iPad on PARADISE. These ads make that impossible and
since I'm paying for the ad-fucking-free tier, I'd say they're also some type
of fraud.