Games/Films/TV Chat

[Liftea 12]

the 2 goats

also holy firetruck horii looks still so young

[Daz_4th 7]

uhm aktuaIIy

[Daz_4th 7]

game budgets were Iower (I have no sources for this)

and programming their systems was aIso easier (I aIso have no sources for this)

[Noleen#7811 3]

FFXIV is 50% off until nov 1st, might interest the few people here enjoying the free trial

[Limen 10]

just make sure you've done everything you can in the free trial first before purchasing

[ElectriCole 5]

[Limen 10]

it locks you out of the trial once you have any version

[ElectriCole 5]

I'm pissed

I bought the game at full price like a month ago before 6.5 and I totally could have save money

[Limen 10]

rippo

[ElectriCole 5]

It's not the worst thing in the world cuz I don't have gil capped and I can have a friends page but still

a lot of money that could be saved

[hawk222_1550644792 16]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-metal-gear-rising-revengeance-senator-armstrong-revengeance-i-made-it-the-firetruck-up-gif-25029602

[Daz_4th 7]

LMAO

[MegaChamp 4]

Well that explains why videos have been taking like... 10 seconds or longer to load for me (I have AdBlock Plus)

[KH-Queen 13]

YouTube is such a freaking joke now

I turned mine off to test something and I literally got an ad in the beginning for a 25 second video 💀

Not even a 2 minute one

25 seconds

[hawk222_1550644792 16]

It might not be related to recent changes, but there's been a few times that I've started a video on my phone to listen to while I'm driving and I've gotten 10, 20, 45 minute "ads" and it's like, I'm driving! I can't take my eyes off the road to try and find the skip button! If you have to give me something, give me something short!

[Daz_4th 7]

👍

they Iegit just jumped from 5 seconds, to 15, to 30

if it was just hey ads at the start of a video and that’s it.. I’d accept that, that’s okay so Iong as they aren’t unskippabIe

but that’s not how it is, there’s the cursed midroIIs
unIike before, you can’t see midroIIs on the bar anymore

so, enjoying your food? doing some work? what’s the next step?
weII according to the cooking video you’re watching, it’s add thyme

[hawk222_1550644792 16]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-patrick-star-mr-krabs-thumbs-down-boo-gif-5292619

(I actually did chuckle tho)

[Daz_4th 7]

hehe

[Inçendyne 31]

I liked that pun.

Then you have the ad that starts partway through or several ads every minute or so, which seems to be the choice of the uploader.

They shouldn't profit from an ad that much on cover music.

Some people can circumvent some by watching an embedded video on Discord, but UMG is also a pain in the ass about that b/c they ensure that embedded videos here don't work, requiring us to go directly to the site that will subject us to ads if we aren't premium users.

Age-restricted videos, it makes sense on.

I remember last year (2022) when the music bots stopped working to fetch music from YT b/c of some restriction w/ the API (probably similar to the paywall that Twitter/X has for fetching tweets/posts).

They must've caught on that users could pull up audio for music videos w/o visiting the pages; thus, not having to see or hear ads unless they had a premium account.

[pablo5425 7]

so this is kingdom hearts without sora, and THE ORDER has been completely shattered

[Snakeskin94 13]

Yeah I was bummed to not see Sora but it was a nice short regardless

[pablo5425 7]

spain is airing it this weekend between movies
i think all characters have their original voices with no new actors
except maybe ralph

[Inçendyne 31]

So is Disney Dreamlight Valley.

[pablo5425 7]

wut

[Inçendyne 31]

Another videogame where Disney worlds crossover w/ each other