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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My kids an I make farting noises over them.

Also fuck liberty mutual for their vast ad campaign

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Living Spaces is the one that drives me nuts with the woman singing at the end. Plenty others are horrible, but that one in particular just hits a nerve for me.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I see, you must not have heard the Kars 4 Kids commercials before. 10x more annoying than the little Living Spaces jingle. :)

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I love doing this.

[–] Alienmonkey@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I mute live sports, mainly American football.

I'll pay the extra football package price, but you couldn't pay me to listen to the play by play.

And I might pay a bit more to hear the crowd noises isolated, with ref announcements, if it was offered.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I distinctly remember that the NFL tried that out once, where they broadcast a game with no announcers. My Dad and I thought it was amazing, but evidently we were far and few between as I recall they only did it the one time.

What I really don't understand is how they end a football game and then have to sit around for 20 mins rehashing the game they JUST SAW...
"Remember that time the guy caught the ball and then ran?"
"Oh yeah, that was like 10 whole mins ago."
"That was so good."
"Yeah."

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now, imagine that last bit but in attention-span-segments of random "highlights" during the game ...with several different instances of this bullshit grouped every 10ft or so within a ~500sq ft area, along with several TVs pointed inward at largely arbitrary angles and each set to combative volumes...

I fucking hate "sports" bars. 🤬🤮🤬

[–] zuckey78@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

My wife and I have recently started muting the tv and streaming local radio announcers for the team. SOOO much more enjoyable.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I’ve been saying this forever! I HATE the pointless idiotic commentary. I would gladly pay a premium to nuke that shit.

I investigated writing a plugin (maybe for plex or jelly fin?) that would filter out the commentary audio, did a little proof of concept on a recorded clip that worked, but then realized that fleshing it out and doing it for a live stream would be a ton of work. Which means I wouldn’t have time to watch football on mute.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

this just takes more active attention though...why not just watch stuff without ads?

Y’all are seeing commercials? 🏴‍☠️