Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by satisfice on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:58PM (#41892318)

On the other hand, the smartphone has enhanced the culture of watching TV and movies at home. It is acceptable etiquette in my house for any viewer to pause the show and read out the results of a web search about the writer, director, plot, history, concepts, etc. related to the flick at hand.

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Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by kelnos on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:44AM (#41893156)

Oof, you consider that an enhancement? If anyone paused something we were watching to read something off a web page, I'd lose my patience real fast.

My partner is often on her phone intermittently while we're watching something together, and even that bothers me. It seems quite sad to me that people can't put their phones down for even a half hour to watch an episode of a sitcom.

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Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by auggierose on Sunday October 20, 2024 @04:51AM (#41893996)

Lol. The argument used to be that it is quite sad that people waste half an hour of their lives watching a sitcom.

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Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by nunodonato on Saturday November 02, 2024 @05:40AM (#42025183)

I'm with you on that one. Totally bothers me when watching a movie and my wife replies to Whatsapp messages

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Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by gcanyon on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:40AM (#41894971)

Are you sure that's acceptable? I do that all the time, but I think the right word for how my wife feels about it is "tolerable," not "acceptable" :-)

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