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What a wonderful system we live under, where the thing that people actually want somehow also isn't worth producing, and the mind-stabbing ads that everybody fucking hates have to be injected into every possible nook in order for production to stay alive. Truly the only possible functional economy.
Pro sports in the US are really doing everything they can to cram ads in. They’ve maxed out on commercial breaks so they’re going in another direction: playing surfaces and uniforms are getting more ads on them. If you want to watch the game, you have to see the ads. If you don’t watch sports much I’d encourage you to just watch a game for a few minutes (the NHL especially) and see how bad it’s gotten.
Prior to going to an NFL game because my mom won tickets while renting a vhs back in the day, I'd never watched a football game on TV.
My cousin offered to take me to the game so we went. I was blown away that after every couple minutes the players just kinda stood around on the field while TV commercials were run. I couldn't believe that was how the game went. I always assumed they filmed the whole thing and then broke it up for commercials when it aired on TV. I had no idea it was live and that's just how it was. Even now it blows my mind when I think back to that.
I can appreciate NFL athletes wanting to just stand around and catch their breath, because of the intensity of the sport.
we ran a hell of a lot more than that in middle school and high school sports without any breaks... these guys are getting millions upon millions of dollars to basically stand around for several minutes after a couple of plays
Oh I know... I remember the last time I watched a pro football game with my dad, I told him I couldn't believe there was more ad than game.
It's so aggressive. When I was young I could watch the players on the court. Now they have the tracking technology (which... as someone into 3d graphics programming I have to admit, that kind of technology is cool) to project ads into the space dynamically. So the court just has more and more virtual real estate sold off for viewers at home. I'm sure it's all perfectly focus and user tested to ensure the exact right balance between unwatchable garbage and, "Ok, I can notice it and maybe I don't like it but I can barely ignore it."
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