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Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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  • Oh, I 100% agree.

    Steaming has gotten as bad as cable was. I'm about to switch back to using Kodi.

    • Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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  • Look, ads are how they pay the bills. We wouldn't have ads if they'd set their prices in a way that allowed them to make a profit, which is how businesses function. They are businesses, after all, not charities.

    They underpriced their services, and lost money for as long as they could, hoping they'd somehow "win" the Steaming Wars. I absolutely detest having commercials on something I already pay for, but it's how it's going to be because they lost money for so long.

    So a commercial is one thing, but a commercial that quizzes me to see if I paid attention is a completely different entity altogether. That's the part of the whole equation that would be too much.

    • Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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  • I'm, that's how over the air broadcasting is funded. You watch commercials. It's been this way since television started.

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  • Can you continue to watch your show without answering? Or are you forced to watch the commercial and answenthe question to continue?

    I mean, it's fine if they're doing research on the commercials themselves, and the answers show how much or little people actually pay attention. But if you can't continue your show without the right answer, that's a problem.

    • Me with the 1993 Mario Bros movie

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  • I've always enjoyed it for what it was; A campy, goofy movie based on a video game. It never took itself too seriously, and it just kind of accepted itself. Just watched Borderlands, for example, and it was horrible and flat. The characters were there, but they weren't the characters, just 2D imaginings of them. Anyway, looking up reviews, I found a great one that compared it to the '93 SMB. They said that we needed another SMB, and we didn't get it, Borderlands wasn't "interestingly stupid". That's a great term. Interestingly Stupid is definitely what SMB was, simultaneously a blast, while also being the dumbest thing you ever saw, and you can never quite put your finger on the reason it(kinda) worked.