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Amazon Player?
The Amazon app is working fine on my Firestick, FireCube, and Roku. On the PC, the website plays fine on Vivaldi with Ublock Origins successfully blocking all ads.
Secret Level
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
The Amazon app is working fine on my Firestick, FireCube, and Roku. On the PC, the website plays fine on Vivaldi with Ublock Origins successfully blocking all ads.
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Apparently it's already been renewed for a second season based on its popularity.
‘Secret Level’ Renewed For Season 2 At Prime Video
‘Secret Level’ Renewed For Season 2 At Prime Video
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Cybsled
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The concept explored in that short is the Clockwork Universe / Predetermination view of reality (kind of a precursor to the 'we live in a simulation' idea): Effectively the concept is that there is no such thing as the future or past and free will is an illusion. "Past" and "Future" all exist at the same time, but we perceive things as past and future because of our limited perspective from our role in the "program". All events and decisions are already predetermined. Effectively reality as we perceive it is a giant machine with a set program. We can't change anything outside of what is already determined, even if we think we made a change.
The AI that ran the city understood the "clockwork universe" and could perceive the whole of it. The kid who challenged the AI thought the AI was full of shit and that he was beating the system and thinks his victory proves he was correct, but the end reveals the AI was correct all along. The kid is blissfully unaware of this at the end
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They added them in the slimiest way possible too. They added them then said if you don't want ads you need to pay us $3 more a month on top of what you already pay. I am like 'how about no' and I get all my Prime Video content off the high seas. Fuck them!
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You gotta pay a bit more now to get rid of them. Pretty gay, but still better than cable.
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A browser with UblockO works on Amazon ads, so if you are watching a lot of Amazon/YouTube on TV, there are various solutions to getting a desktop screen onto the TV. From using a long HDMI cable (or duel CAT6 w/ HDMI converters) through the attic to buying a miniPC as a dedicated home entertainment PC.
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Fadaar
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Same, stuff on Amazon I just download to my NAS now. Fuck outta here with that ad bullshit.
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Shouldn't be surprising. Everyone I know with Amazon used it for the shipping. The streaming was just a free bonus
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Wait, so am I the weird one who doesn't mind ads? Not that I yearn for them, but for whatever reason I don't like pausing things or letting them play while I run to get a drink. When watching shows I don't mind them so much. Even ahead of movies they don't put me out.
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Yes, youre the weird one.
Commercials on broadcast TV back in the day werent so bad. There was tons of variety - you never saw the same commercial twice in a show. And they actually tried to make them entertaining. We can all remember dozens of commercials from our childhood.
Commercials on modern streaming services on the other hand are pure AIDS. Its the same fucking commercial every break. Literally sometimes twice during the same break. Never entertaining. Just woke and gay and interracial.
Don't get me started on fucking calling them ads. I'm watching a TV show and theres a break and now theyre selling a product? Thats called a fucking commercial. You don't get to just change all the words cause some zoomer doesnt know the old ones. Fuck
Commercials on broadcast TV back in the day werent so bad. There was tons of variety - you never saw the same commercial twice in a show. And they actually tried to make them entertaining. We can all remember dozens of commercials from our childhood.
Commercials on modern streaming services on the other hand are pure AIDS. Its the same fucking commercial every break. Literally sometimes twice during the same break. Never entertaining. Just woke and gay and interracial.
Don't get me started on fucking calling them ads. I'm watching a TV show and theres a break and now theyre selling a product? Thats called a fucking commercial. You don't get to just change all the words cause some zoomer doesnt know the old ones. Fuck
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Bloodrocuted
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Remember old bud light and little Caesars commercials were always pretty funny. I want to say Little Caesars with one of the first companies to actually start doing just slapstick style humor in their commercials.
Nowadays the few times that I have to watch them, that's always a bunch of black people living like they're white, mixed race couples, or pharma ads. Anytime a white guy is in it he's portrayed as the retard or just completely incompetent, I'm typically a woman shows him how it's done.
Fuck commercials for shit I don't want or need. I also don't have to be reminded that Coca-Cola exists, not that I drink that poison anyways.
They only useful commercial is if a business is running a sale, and then it might be if value if you're in the market for that specific thing.
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