haha your old stinky

grandpa stinky where did you get the old huh? the grandpa store?

imagine being born before the millenium

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      26 days ago

      Our music was better, yes, but or TV shows absolutely were just breaks between Pharma ads. As a kid in the 90s I remember despising having to wait through seemingly endless obnoxious fucking commercials (never understood why no one else around me really seemed to mind that much). And every single show would make like a mini cliff hanger for the very purpose of cutting to ads at that moment. God that pissed me off, totally destroyed any tension that they might have built. But now, since the advent of adblockers, I haven’t watched media interrupted by commercials (at least of the non-diagetic kind) in well over a decade. Maybe the commercials and time lengths are worse now, but I wouldn’t know because I can simply choose not see them. A godsend.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        26 days ago

        It did have the benefit of giving me breaks for my adhd ass brain to play gameboy for 5 minutes or do something else which generally led to me paying attention to the show itself better than I can sometimes without the breaks.

        • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          26 days ago

          It wasn’t totally without benefits, yeah. But something else now possible that (for the most part) couldn’t be done then is just hit pause when you want a break. That way you don’t have to worry about having to either set the gameboy back down to watch when the commercials end or miss some of the show because you’re about to beat the level and can’t just stop playing. Like, commercials were good for a piss break and grabbing some snacks too, but if you were too long in the other room and you came back you’d have no idea how that mini-cliff-hanger resolved.