When you need to rant...

[MikaelaMuppet]

Because they . . . own the show.

Okay. That makes sense.

Thank you.

 

[D'Snowth]

I'm going to have to quote Drtooth from another thread, because this needs to be brought back up:

Ads have to be more obnoxious to bypass blocking software, but at the same time the more annoying ads are the reason why everyone uses them. Some sites don't even allow you to use them until you disable ad block...then the Trojan viruses start up again the second you do on that site. I even loved how Hulu gets passive aggressive about it and gives you a 60 second message that whines about how you have ad block on (even if you don't and one of the dumb ads refuses to load). My personal favorite was when the ad block didn't block the ad on Hulu, but blocked the completely useless side frames..and..and the video actually crashed and wouldn't play as a result. And it was specifically a problem with a particularly awful series of Geico commercials (the poorly animated painting gallery ones that sucked). Meaning if you want the rest of the video you'd have to keep refreshing the page and praying that none of those terrible Geico ads popped up again. And they DID! I don't mind banners, I don't even mind short form ads before a video if the video is at least 10 minutes in length (multiple ones between the video, not so much). But if the ads are either dangerous to the computer or loud and obnoxious and can't be silence (and in some cases are literally buried all the way down at the end of a page, causing you to have to fish for whatever loud, obnoxious piece of crap that you can't shut off all the way anyway) the problem lies in the jerks that provide those ads, not the browsers that choose to use Ad Block to prevent their computers from being either paperweights (costing the user in that case) or loud noise machines that air the same lame commercials most ignore on television anyway.

Welol, Dailymotion finally did it. They figured out a way to somehow bypass multiple adblockers, because for the past two days they've forced me to sit through commercials to watch videos despite the fact that I have multiple adblockers installed on my browser. You know, I know people have said DM was the best alternative to YouTube, but I swear, ever since DM has caught on to this, they've become just as bad, if not worse than YT in regards to its users. I mean . . . what's the deal with shrinking down the video player half size on the video page for no reason? But I digress . . . if DM figured this out, then I have the worst sickening feeling that YT will soon follow suit and now no amount of adblocking will be able to get rid of those commercials. And if that's the case, I may just do a mass download of all of my favorites from YT to watch on my personal computer - as I said, this is the internet, not cable TV, we shouldn't have to sit through commercials to watch videos.

 

[mr3urious]

I'm going to have to quote Drtooth from another thread, because this needs to be brought back up:

Welol, Dailymotion finally did it. They figured out a way to somehow bypass multiple adblockers, because for the past two days they've forced me to sit through commercials to watch videos despite the fact that I have multiple adblockers installed on my browser. You know, I know people have said DM was the best alternative to YouTube, but I swear, ever since DM has caught on to this, they've become just as bad, if not worse than YT in regards to its users. I mean . . . what's the deal with shrinking down the video player half size on the video page for no reason? But I digress . . . if DM figured this out, then I have the worst sickening feeling that YT will soon follow suit and now no amount of adblocking will be able to get rid of those commercials. And if that's the case, I may just do a mass download of all of my favorites from YT to watch on my personal computer - as I said, this is the internet, not cable TV, we shouldn't have to sit through commercials to watch videos.

Does DM still interrupt the video with an ad every few minutes? That's the biggest drawback to that site and the reason why I block their ads.

 

[D'Snowth]

I don't know about that, as I've said, I had these adblockers for the express purposes to block them, however, for the past cpuple of days, they wouldn't let me watch a video without having to sit through a acommercial first, much like YT does.

 

[D'Snowth]

I've figured out another reason why widescreen sucks: when movies and shows are formatted for widescreen on DVD, there's obvious some distortion in the picture quality that isn't present in fullscreen/4:3 formats. THE PEANUTS MOVIE is so far the worst example I've seen yet: there's a lot of pixelization and little black dots around everything - especially Woodstock.

 

[Oscarfan]

Widescreen and high definition aren't necessarily the same thing. The issue you have seems to be the compression of a high quality image to a lower quality format. That could happen with literally anything, regardless of aspect ratio.

 

[D'Snowth]

These passive aggressive measures the internet keeps stooping to do get people to turn off their adblockers has reached absolutely idiotic proportions. I just spent nearly two hours trying to help my mom upload a pic to Facebook, but nothing was happening, until I finally figured out that Facebook has somehow decided that adblockers interfere with trying to upload media.

 

[Flaky Pudding]

Why did Sakurai have to stop making Smash Bros. 4 DLC? I love Smash Bros. and have played it since I was in 3rd Grade. As soon as I heard they were adding Mewtwo and Lucas, I jumped for joy. I since bought all the DLC in the known universe and now they're DONE!? It makes me both angry and sad at the same time.

 

[Drtooth]

I really really try very hard not to go to the well of "Trump is going to be a terrible leader and his followers are frightening" rants that everyone does and is incredibly easy. My opinion on the guy is that he just knows how to market what was essentially there the whole time in the party, and he's just getting easy prey from Talk Radio loudmouths.

But there is one thing that really got under my skin and is genuinely alarming. His followers are calling for Fox to cancel Family Guy.

Now before you do the obvious "Hyuk Hyuk! I'll vote for him 'cuz I hate that show" thing, the reason behind it is so darn obvious, but none the less kinda creepy.

Family Guy dared to make fun of a public figure!

Now, I have to admit, that's the most clever and funny thing the show's done in a decade. And Family Guy was never one to treat public figures with kid gloves. They even made fun of Reagan's dementia well before Will Ferrel was goaded into not doing a movie about it. They even got in trouble for mocking the fact Sarah Palin had a handicapped child, even though it was by a handicapped actress. However, this brings me down to why I'm starting to be creeped out by all this.

Donald Trump is insanely thin skinned. And frankly, he's like every school bully I ever met. The kind that can dish it out, but oh don't you dare stick up for yourself or they'll become the biggest babies ever and you'll get in trouble. Think of it this way. Someone who's liable lawsuit happy is going to be a political figure. This...cannot...end...well. He even said something once about how when he's elected, he's going to make it easier to sue for liable. Which sounds a lot like "I'm going to silence anyone who talks against me." Wait...that must mean...

Yep. Silencing free speech.

That's chilling and dangerous. Now, yeah, I heard the various stories of supposed left wing suppression of the right's speech on varying levels of "if this is true you're only hurting yourself, left," to "Glenn Beck also has a bridge in Brooklyn he wants to sell you." so yeah, naturally there is hypocrisy on both sides. I'm not going to go into that. What I am going into is thus.

Trump's supposed appeal is he "tells it like it is," though in reality he's like any politician that will say anything to get elected. He just says it nasty and simple enough to give that illusion. But he's a bully who will say anything nasty and horrible, take it back, take the taking it back back, and flip flopping on any issue top get the right amount of support. he's the master of attacking people and races, but gets his golden shorts in a bunch when someone says something derogatory towards him. We certainly do not need that kind of person as a figure that gets mocked non-stop and criticized for coughing out of turn by one party or the other.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

That is so disturbing, that is like something Hitler or Kim Jong Un would do, silencing anyone who dares speak out against their "Dear leader". Trump also says he wants to expel Whoopi Goldberg and several other celebrities just because they don't like him. Seriously, this guy wants to be a freaking DICTATOR, plain and simple.