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The distraction of notifications, or "sign up for our email news letter" distractions I'm certainly against. But, the fact of having my time wasted (getting a n
by gfxgirl 5y ago
The distraction of notifications, or "sign up for our email news letter" distractions I'm certainly against. But, the fact of having my time wasted (getting a notification I don't care about) has highlighted other things that waste my time such as
Movies that start with 1-3 minutes of company logos. An animation of "A Scott Free Production", followed by an animated logo of "Bad Robot", followed by yet another animated logo of "20th Century Fox" and all that is then followed by card that says "Scott Free Production of a Bad Robot movie published by 20th Century Fox". I want to reach and and shake the people silly "QUIT WASTING MY TIME!"
The same with both movie trailers and game trailers. I go to see the game trailer and there's 30 seconds to 2 minutes of logos. For games, I want to click the video and see gameplay IMMEDIATELY. I don't want some 5 minute CG movie nor do I want to see the publisher or developer's names. Those are solely
there to stroke their own ego. The user/player/viewer as absolutely no need for it. They aren't respecting my time.
Of course those things have been around forever but the fact that my devices and apps waste my time in so many ways as highlighted other ways my time is also wasted.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI think those things nowadays serve the role of easing you into the film, allow everyone to settle down, finish what they're doing, etc - a lot of films start with something important right away. And it's better than it used to be, older films used to have a long reel of credits before the film started. Anyway, services like Netflix should be able to add a skip button for those.
- eru 5y agoNetflix already has a 'skip credits' and 'skip intro' button.
- dredmorbius 5y agoIf you want real old school, films began with shorts and newsreels.
- abtom 5y agoReminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7JDTlixb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7JDTlixb8
- Talanes 5y agoI'm a little surprised you didn't mention the production cards that pop up when you start a game. Those are the worst offender; especially the ones that are unskippable or require a separate button press to skip each of the multiple title cards. Anything other than a single button press to reach the start screen is excessive.
- majewsky 5y agoI don't know any ones that require a button press, but usually those are unskippable because the game is loading in the meantime.
- Talanes 5y agoDigging for a specific memory, I realized I might just be angry that my favorite childhood game made me click past a PSA about vandalism between the production logo and start screen.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> The same with both movie trailers and game trailers. I go to see the game trailer and there's 30 seconds to 2 minutes of logos. > They aren't respecting my time. Imagine going to a movie theather, paying to watch a film, only to be subjected to over 15 minutes of trailers for other movies and advertising for local businesses before what I want to watch finally starts. I don't go there anymore.
- dalmo3 5y agoWe pay to watch ads for 15 min and we can't leave, yet somehow YouTube's 5 seconds ads are unacceptable.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoBoth are unacceptable.