Time Warner sucks balls

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Well I am about to cancel this fucking contract and save a little over a hundred a month. I guess I'll just go through someone else for internet. The prices are outrageous and I barely watch TV. It seems more like a brainwashing comfort device than anything else.
 
Well to defend Time Warner they were actually looking at for the consumer by taking those channels away. Viacom isn't making enough money from ads so now they're complaining that they don't get a good enough rate from the cable company. Time Warner told them to GTFO if they wanted more so badly, because it would put too much of a strain on their customers, and sparta kicked them into a deep pit. Viacom may come back eventually because I'm assuming they're losing a fair amount of money by not having Time Warner carry them.
 
Alphadrop said:
Surely if T.V was governed by bleeding heart left wing freedom loving beatniks it would have less censorship and political corectness.
Or am I getting confused by the American use of the word left-wing again.
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The American definition would be a democrat, as in a socialist swindler who blatantly ignores the ideals of capitalism and freedom of speech in an attempt to aid those less desirable people in life as well as talk repeatedly about issues such as abortion instead of something that's actually prevalent in the news.

Alphadrop said:
For example Animaniacs was famed for managing to slip past the censors and had some very adult jokes for a kids cartoon.
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I miss that show...STAR TRUCK! :D Lots of 90s shows slipped in adult jokes. Rocko's Modern Life was also full of them. The kids would find the cartoons funny for their outer appearance, and older viewers would get chuckles out of the little innuendos pertaining to society as a whole and more adult topics.

I'm not saying shows have stopped doing that, but many newer ones are much less likely to do so. The reason The Fairly Oddparents does it is because it's been around since 2001 or so (1999 if you want to talk about the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons! shorts). It is probably one of the only Nick shows I still watch, and its forthcoming cancellation will just leave me less reason to watch TV.

Kyuu - Everything EXCEPT Adult Swim. ;)
 
StoneFrog said:
The American definition would be a democrat, as in a socialist swindler who blatantly ignores the ideals of capitalism and freedom of speech in an attempt to aid those less desirable people in life as well as talk repeatedly about issues such as abortion instead of something that's actually prevalent in the news.
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And strike one for trolling. Go stir up political bullshit in a thread that's meant for it.

StoneFrog said:
I miss that show...STAR TRUCK! :D Lots of 90s shows slipped in adult jokes. Rocko's Modern Life was also full of them. The kids would find the cartoons funny for their outer appearance, and older viewers would get chuckles out of the little innuendos pertaining to society as a whole and more adult topics.

I'm not saying shows have stopped doing that, but many newer ones are much less likely to do so. The reason The Fairly Oddparents does it is because it's been around since 2001 or so (1999 if you want to talk about the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons! shorts). It is probably one of the only Nick shows I still watch, and its forthcoming cancellation will just leave me less reason to watch TV.

Kyuu - Everything EXCEPT Adult Swim. ;)
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And for every '90s intelligent cartoon with social commentary, there were a dozen other cartoons that were unadulterated nonsense. It's just that you only remember the good ones.

Also, do shows like The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad and the like not exist suddenly?
 
Sander said:
Strike for Snackpack for encouraging warezing, if you want to watch something that isn't actually free, pay for it.
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Ummm, there are plenty of perfectly legal ways to watch t.v. online for free. Hulu comes to mind. All the major networks allow you to watch episodes on their websites. Hulu is HD quality and I know NBC will give you high quality if you try their beta viewer. I certainly prefer to watch t.v. on my own time, not when networks choose.
 
M-26-7 said:
Ummm, there are plenty of perfectly legal ways to watch t.v. online for free. Hulu comes to mind. All the major networks allow you to watch episodes on their websites. Hulu is HD quality and I know NBC will give you high quality if you try their beta viewer. I certainly prefer to watch t.v. on my own time, not when networks choose.
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Ugh, it was quite obvious from the wording that he was not talking about a few exceptions regarding TV shows, specifically because he was talking about pretty much any popular show.
 
Yeh, thanks for sticking up for me, but I've never heard of those legit ways to watch TV via the interwebs :)

I just assumed "warez talk" referred to games / apps and my vitriol towards the monopolizing bastards that are the big 3 US cable companies knows no bounds. Apologies.
 
Might as well spam colbertnation.com and dailyshow.com, two quality written satire shows. Timewarner was going to pull those sites as well, but they haven't for some reason and thanks to that I have no reason to be attached to television.

OH yeah and the Soup. Other than that, I don't see why people don't use netflix. Last time I watched TV it was saturated with cheap reality shows. Once producers start investing more money into their "entertainment" I might consider getting re-addicted to the electronic heroin.
 
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