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> What was the meme'd phrase again from one of the press conferences years ago? Something like "you think you do but you don't"?

Yeah it was a Q&A session and the topic of adding servers to play original World of Warcraft. The full thing was

"You don't want to do that. You think you do, but you don't."

To to tell you how correct they were about this, Blizzard later added "World of Warcraft: Classic", which was popular enough to add "Burning Crusade Classic" severs, and will be adding "Wrath of The Lich King Classic."

Can't wait for WoW Classic 2: ReClassed once WoW Classic gets old

> > Just because we end up enjoying something more when it has commercials doesn’t mean we expect to enjoy it more that way. DVRs appeal to us because prior to our viewing experience, we think we want no ads. It’s only after we have the experience that we realize it’s more enjoyable when it’s interrupted.

To me, this appears to be rose tinted glasses. We can pause 'TV' now, and do stuff in between like dishes or toilet. But we don't have to. No more forced commercials. Both are features I enjoyed in past with this technology called VHS. One thing I miss is certain jokes at school/work based on TV commercials. But that too is likely those glasses being rose-tinted. Cause nowadays we got memes. Many memes, handle it.

I thoroughly enjoy the ability to have a video on my smartphone on the toilet, in bed or music or a podcast with my smartphone while doing chores/errands or either during commute. And the quality and availability and price of the streaming services is good enough right now (if it isn't I go back to piracy). Same with ebooks (though I use a Kobo; not Amazon).

> One thing I miss is certain jokes at school/work based on TV commercials.

One commercial I remember was for shampoo for women. The girl who tries it gets a "hello Betty!" from the high school hunk, and she preens.

For a while every Betty in my high school got that treatment :-/

I suppose the commercial didn't actually work, because I have no recollection of what that shampoo was.

We (in NL) had a similar one with a girl on bicycle. "Pam, your hair is dancing" I guess it was Andrelon. Regardless the commercial does not give me a positive connotation to the brand, since commercials don't appear to influence me like that. Perhaps because I am on the spectrum?

Early 90's "Zack the Lego Maniac" ads were fun when you shared a name...

You weren't the target audience.

I have met a lot of Ukrainian war refugees the past few months. What they all have in common is the adaptation to how bad things are in Ukraine, and when coming to safer countries, their mind readjusts and they realise what kind of fucked up shit they got used to and how unnatural it all was.

Things such as “Don’t mind the explosions, it’s not my city block”, etc.

we think we want no ads. It’s only after we have the experience that we realize it’s more enjoyable when it’s interrupted.

In the 90's, I had a Panasonic VCR that could detect superblack and use those markers to automatically skip commercials on playback.

After several months of using it, I found myself not understanding a lot of general cultural references that my coworkers would make around the office. It became increasingly hard to socialize with them between tasks because I was left out of a lot of what the rest of society knew about.

It's how I learned that commercials were a big part of our shared culture back then. i assume it's sort of like being the only kid in high school without Netflix today.

*without Netflix or knowing how to pirate things