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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 12:22:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2023 8:56:03 GMT -5
Born on this day in 1928...Alex Toth   -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2023 9:05:44 GMT -5
A proper collection of Jeff Smith's proto-Bone comic strips from his time at OSU is in the works...
-M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 25, 2023 20:12:34 GMT -5
A proper collection of Jeff Smith's proto-Bone comic strips from his time at OSU is in the works... -M Proto-Bone strips sound like the feature little round single-cell creatures, in funny situations and fantasy adventure. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2023 23:50:44 GMT -5
Just saw that the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection is free to watch on Amazon Prime.
Won't get a chance to watch it until tomorrow, but I know some here might be interested in it as well.
Here's the trailer...
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 12:09:09 GMT -5
On the left is me, on the right, YouTube’s incessant ads that interrupt every video I watch (this panel sums up my mood perfectly):  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 12:31:41 GMT -5
On the left is me, on the right, YouTube’s incessant ads that interrupt every video I watch (this panel sums up my mood perfectly): If I paid for youtube, I'd be upset abut the number of ads, but then if I paid for youtube there would be no ads. As it is, the ads are the price I pay to get their service for free. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 13:02:13 GMT -5
On the left is me, on the right, YouTube’s incessant ads that interrupt every video I watch (this panel sums up my mood perfectly): If I paid for youtube, I'd be upset abut the number of ads, but then if I paid for youtube there would be no ads. As it is, the ads are the price I pay to get their service for free. -M Wouldn’t be so bad if they were good ads, but they seem to be 90% gambling - and the rest are about investment opportunities. At least some ads for food or holidays would be nice! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 13:47:54 GMT -5
If I paid for youtube, I'd be upset abut the number of ads, but then if I paid for youtube there would be no ads. As it is, the ads are the price I pay to get their service for free. -M Wouldn’t be so bad if they were good ads, but they seem to be 90% gambling - and the rest are about investment opportunities. At least some ads for food or holidays would be nice! If those companies were paying to advertise, that's what would be advertised, but it's the gambling sites and investment companies who have money to burn on marketing right now, so that's what we see. youtube doesn't choose who pays them to advertise, and you can't run ads that aren't from clients who are paying you. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 13:54:05 GMT -5
I just want to see an ad for Marvel, DC or Coca-Cola. That’d make me happy, mrp! (Or a Range Rover ad, I mean, is there a better car out there?!)
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Post by MDG on Jun 26, 2023 15:29:03 GMT -5
I just want to see an ad for Marvel, DC or Coca-Cola. That’d make me happy, mrp! (Or a Range Rover ad, I mean, is there a better car out there?!) I want to say I see a lot of car ads, but since I'm not in the market, it's just white noise. If I'm paying attention to the screen, it's just to count down until "Skip Ad" becomes active. I don't think I've ever seen an ad for gambling or investments--I wonder if the ads shown are based on user data or the video? |
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Post by Chris on Jun 26, 2023 15:32:39 GMT -5
If I paid for youtube, I'd be upset abut the number of ads, but then if I paid for youtube there would be no ads. As it is, the ads are the price I pay to get their service for free. -M If I'm listening to music on youtube, them ads between songs are one thing. But ads that pop up in the middle of a song isn't much of a service, free or not. Thankfully that doesn't happen often, but when it does it's aggravating. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 15:42:58 GMT -5
You know, with the state of the word we live in today, if I have energy left to worry and complain about the presence of ads in a free video service I have access to, then I have a fairly blessed life. I however, have much more pressing things to spend my energy on than the minor inconvenience of the presence of ads on a free service I use. Especially if I have the ability to get rid of those ads by spending a few dollars per month.
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Post by Chris on Jun 26, 2023 15:51:55 GMT -5
You know, with the state of the word we live in today, if I have energy left to worry and complain about the presence of ads in a free video service I have access to, then I have a fairly blessed life -M Oh, I totally agree. But sometimes we have to vent about the small aggravations in life because we can't do anything about the big ones. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2023 16:06:01 GMT -5
You know, with the state of the word we live in today, if I have energy left to worry and complain about the presence of ads in a free video service I have access to, then I have a fairly blessed life. I however, have much more pressing things to spend my energy on than the minor inconvenience of the presence of ads on a free service I use. Especially if I have the ability to get rid of those ads by spending a few dollars per month. -M Oh, for goodness’ sake, lighten up. Please. Just once, just play along with the humour. It was a minor complaint WITH HUMOUR. I say again, humour. The Superman/Doctor Manhattan image was a part of that humour. Superman was meant to represent me, Doctor Manhattan was meant to represent the YouTube ads. As usual, though, you couldn’t see the humour, and instead chose to take it seriously. If a Superman/Doctor Manhattan ad really can’t be interpreted as humour, so be it. Maybe I do have a blessed life. The leak in my apartment, which took weeks to get sorted, is certainly a blessing. As is an upcoming increase in my rent. And being self-employed is surely a blessing. (I don’t know how much a YouTube subscription costs, I’ll see what my money is like when I do my next tax return) By your logic, given your statement about the state of the world, NO-ONE should ever complain about ANYTHING. If Burger King gets your order wrong, or your debit card is left at home, why complain? I even tried to reply with humour by asking if there was a better car than the Range Rover. As usual, it didn’t work. A nice reply might have been to humorously argue for another car brand. I’ll be sure never to complain again about a “first world problem” such as YouTube ads. Funnily enough, a friend of mine found the Superman/Manhattan representation of my YouTube ad frustration to be amusing, but I guess my humour didn’t work here. I just hope people who disapprove of it NEVER complain about a minor issue again, we should all take our own advice, right? |
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