Yeah it was a Q&A session and the topic of adding servers to play original World of Warcraft. The full thing was
"You don't want to do that. You think you do, but you don't."
To to tell you how correct they were about this, Blizzard later added "World of Warcraft: Classic", which was popular enough to add "Burning Crusade Classic" severs, and will be adding "Wrath of The Lich King Classic."
To me, this appears to be rose tinted glasses. We can pause 'TV' now, and do stuff in between like dishes or toilet. But we don't have to. No more forced commercials. Both are features I enjoyed in past with this technology called VHS. One thing I miss is certain jokes at school/work based on TV commercials. But that too is likely those glasses being rose-tinted. Cause nowadays we got memes. Many memes, handle it.
I thoroughly enjoy the ability to have a video on my smartphone on the toilet, in bed or music or a podcast with my smartphone while doing chores/errands or either during commute. And the quality and availability and price of the streaming services is good enough right now (if it isn't I go back to piracy). Same with ebooks (though I use a Kobo; not Amazon).
One commercial I remember was for shampoo for women. The girl who tries it gets a "hello Betty!" from the high school hunk, and she preens.
For a while every Betty in my high school got that treatment :-/
I suppose the commercial didn't actually work, because I have no recollection of what that shampoo was.
Things such as “Don’t mind the explosions, it’s not my city block”, etc.
Who is your comment directed to, anyway? You're saying "just so you know", as if of the two of us, you met with more UA refugees than I have -- you clearly haven't talked to a single one. You're wrong, prejudiced, and frankly a little disgusting.
Sorry, did I say a little? Hm.
The refugees I know (none from Ukraine, though they were all victims of Russia-supported regimes) all liked their homes before they became war zones.
They experienced starvation-related long-term health issues, having loved ones arrested, tortured and worse, being hunted for sport, etc...
Whatever beefs they had with their local neighborhood prior to that didn't really enter into their decisions to leave.
In the 90's, I had a Panasonic VCR that could detect superblack and use those markers to automatically skip commercials on playback.
After several months of using it, I found myself not understanding a lot of general cultural references that my coworkers would make around the office. It became increasingly hard to socialize with them between tasks because I was left out of a lot of what the rest of society knew about.
It's how I learned that commercials were a big part of our shared culture back then. i assume it's sort of like being the only kid in high school without Netflix today.
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Basically: "You think you don't like ads but we know you actually do like them deep-down."
> Jail is incomprehensibly horrible the first day. Eventually, it’s less awful.
> But if you let that prisoner out for a day…
> That’d be practically cruel. You’d stop the adaptation and retrigger those initial feelings about jail when they had to go back.
Yikes! "Don't mind being in jail for long, you'll get used to it."
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To me the only good point of this article is the last question by the interviewer:
> What are you doing next? Trying to prove we actually love the dentist?
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What was the meme'd phrase again from one of the press conferences years ago? Something like "you think you do but you don't"?