How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by cmeacham98 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:08PM (#26297083)

I was going to say surely this has extremely diminishing or even negative return past 30-60 seconds, but then I remembered lots of people are willing to sit through 10 minutes of commercials to watch 20-30 minutes of TV. So I guess for the right type of customer it works?

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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by crazygringo on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:55PM (#26298643)

But on network TV, 8 minutes of commercials are interspersed among 22 minutes of content.

Virtually nobody's willing to sit through 10 minutes of commercials straight.

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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by thaumasiotes on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:06AM (#26301946)

The GTA thing is even worse than that; television doesn't air commercials before the beginning of the show!

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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by SilasX on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:46AM (#26302684)

Especially if you have to watch the full ten minutes first.

Then again, that's what they do at movie theaters...

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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by Taylor_OD on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:30PM (#26306188)

I remember realizing I was 10-20 minutes into an infomercial instead of regular commercials late at night when I was young. I was probably distracted at the time but man did I feel stupid when I realized that it wasnt just a really long P90X commercial.

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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by thitcanh on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:33PM (#26299433)

It depends on the channel, really. I remember once I was sitting at an eatery in the Philippines (basically a cafeteria with immediately-available food) and the TV just played commercials from the time I sat down until I left.

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