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#1  Edited By aurahack

It's been about two and a half years, and counting, that I haven't gotten cable on my TV. I almost did a year back when I got my 42" TV, as I was thinking of upgrading my digital service to some nice HD channels. I didn't and have yet to really find the incentive to do so, which is weird considering I watch a lot of TV shows. I keep up to shows like House, Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, Louie, 30 Rock and Futurama all through the power of torrenting, anyways. So everytime I go to my girlfriend's house, it's a fun experience of watching regular-ass cable on a regular-ass TV. Watching Teletoon (Canada's equivalent to the US' Cartoon Network) is fun, 'cause I get to watch re-runs of King of the Hill and all that junk. ... I should probably get to my point.  
 
I was watching the network's usual run of Futurama, King of the Hill, American Dad and Robot Chicken. During the shows, though, I noticed (hard not to) ads that started playing in the middle of the show. No joke. I wish I had a YouTube video to show how abusively intrusive it is. 

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The show will continue playing and shrink to about 75% size onto the left of the screen and the top, right and bottom of the screen becomes ad space that, in the case of last night, was ads for The Other Guys and Kick-Ass. Now, they are just static-animation ads, so it wasn't movie/audio over a show, but holy shit. The only form of advertising that's worse than that is those fucking flash ads that appear over the article you're trying to read on like, IGN or something. This'll last about 10 seconds before going back to it's original state. And that's not all! 
 
Ads for the same things would also flash during the show only for a split-second, basically resembling subliminal messaging. The worst, by far, however is literally stopping the show to advertise some more. Once again, to promote Kick-Ass, the show would literally be cut by a fake, Teletoon-made newscast saying "Breaking news! A superhero has been spotted!" and would go on to play a 5 second ad for Kick-Ass, plug it's Blu-Ray release date and resume the show where it left off. 
 
I only watch Teletoon and Discovery when I'm at my girlfriend's house so I have no fucking clue is happens on any other network, but has TV become so desperate for revenue that it's doing this now? Ultimately I don't really care because I don't watch TV to begin with but what causes them to even try this form of advertising in the first place?
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#2  Edited By aurahack

Personally, I think it's a really neat idea. It's not intrusive or bothersome and it's not like it's really forced on anyone. If this is what Whiskey has in mind for possible advertisement in the future, I'm kind of open to it. 
 
What do y'all think?

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#3  Edited By aurahack

Creationism! 
 
Also, looks pretty childish :(

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#4  Edited By aurahack

Well, I haven't eaten yet and it's been an hour since I've woken up... it's maybe not entirely comfort food but it's most certainly keeping me away from it.

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I run it pretty well. I've got an older MBP Aluminum, but I run most settings on max and have a pretty consistent framerate, even with iTunes, iRC/Vent and Safari open. I would assume you can run almost everything on full if you've got a newer model.

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#6  Edited By aurahack

Out of the two, ATB. 
 
Both are pretty frackin' terrible, though. I hate what mainstream electro has become. DJs like David Guetta are a blight on what used to be an unbeatable genre. :< Granted, Tiesto and ATB have been doing it for years, which is kind of worst. I'm surprised you can go that long without actually changing things up and still hold that much popularity. 
 
More Deadmau5, DANGER, Daft Punk, Capsule and she, less all of the crap mentioned above. :/ 
 
Also, not comparing Tiesto/ATB to Guetta. Trance and Electro are totally different. Both fail miserably right now, however.

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#7  Edited By aurahack
@guiseppe said:
" @Linkin10362 said:
    
"I'm a fan of Cash and NIN, but the NIN version of the song annoys me. Also, Cash's version was the one I heard first and seems to fit him better singing it. I really like the sad tone it has that the NIN version lacks. "
Wait, you think the original version lacks a sad tone? Are you insane? That song is one of the most gutwrenchingly sad songs I've ever heard. That said, I do like both versions and the first time I heard Cash's version of it I cried, and continue to do so sometimes. Much because of the accompanied video for it. "
This.  
 
I'm probably not the best place to go to for an "informed" opinion on this stuff but The Downward Spiral is one of the most painstakingly emotional albums you could ever listen to and Hurt closing out the entire experience is one of the few things that can fill my mind with an absolute void of emotions. I stared blankly into nothing the first time I listened to it and broke into tears. It's fucking frightening. 
  
Though this is not to say I dislike the Cash cover. It's definitely (arguably) the best cover ever made, but it's nothing to the original simply by the fact that they're so different. I couldn't really tell you why, but a good listen of both is enough for me to say so. 
 
... wow. I sound uptight when i re-read what I wrote. :(
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#8  Edited By aurahack

Dude, Code Geass is pretty awful. It's first season was super interesting with all the political fighting and stuff but the end was completely non-sensical and the second season was basically just sci-fi fantasy action. But whatever, an opinion's an opinion. 
 
MIne would be Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Samurai Champloo, Darker than BLACK, Lovely Complex and Nana. In that order.

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@eroticfishcake: It makes me giggle every time I look to the right. :D
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