It still just can’t work as a baseline. How are you supposed to quantify “too entertaining”? It’s a ghost concept that the court is just deciding on the fly with no basis or precedent that can be set. Like, why YouTube and not Fortnite? Being too entertaining shouldn’t be a crime.
No. The feedback loops were much slower. Super Smash bros: get feedback and try to improve so people want new game even more. Super Smash bros Melee: get feed back and try to improve it so people want to play it even more. Super Smash Bros Brawl: get feedback and try to improve… You get the point.
Anyhow, are you saying that you’ve decided that there’s a limit on how well entertainment manages to entertain you? Gonna make sure porn is only allowed to use missionary position, next?
I hate meta and Google, but looking at this from a broader scale: “How the fuck are you supposed to punish anything that’s designed for entertainment, being too good at entertaining you?” Am I supposed to sue Nintendo because Super Smash Bros Melee was so good me and my friends probably spent like 2000 hours playing it? Or maybe sue the ITTF because table tennis is fun as hell and I want to play it every chance I get.
But for real. How are you supposed to impose a tangible limit on how fun or addictive something is allowed to be? Does every TV show have to end with a total resolution so you aren’t overly compelled to view the next episode? Did the first run of king of the hill need to be cancelled for being too great to not watch?
Sure it’s whatever works out cheapest for them :-\
Up at the firehouse it’s just streaming off the TV’s built in apk. Not worth it enough for me to like hook up a laptop and screen share for just a subtitle offset.
Yeah. I know vlc and a lot of video players have the option. But that’s not gonna be a thing when I’m up at work. Normally I don’t have subs on when I’m at home unless it’s a foreign language.
That’s a great idea. Is there an option to do that on Netflix?
I just can’t have it on for comedies. It ruins the timing of jokes and I can’t keep myself from not subconsciously reading them. Years of watching fan made anime subs back 20+ years ago coerced me into reading subs really damned quickly.
I disagree. You’re addicted to anything you like enough. I know people that go out fishing every single week it’s possible. I used to play table tennis in a weekly league and would never get sick of playing it. There was also a stretch of about three years where the only game I’d play if I had a chance to play videogames was league of legends. I had friends that played WoW every single day for years. Another friend will never shut up about hiking. It’s all the same. All these are things you genuinely like. All could be viewed as an addiction. They’re often one and the same.
I have around $500 worth of sharpening stones and strops for knives and straight razors. I sharpen people’s knives for free. I hate seeing a dull knife and have sharpened knives for over 30 years now.
Am I addicted, or is it a hobby?