@medz I’m just not interested in watching, but I do appreciate the highly skilled athletes. I feel kinda guilty not watching.
I will watch just about anything with Kristen Bell though.
I’m not generally one to get all hoity-toity activist douche about things, but the olympics? I want no fucking part of that. The sleazy, corrupt, borderline dystopian manner in which they somehow continue to operate is fucking sickening.
@nogoodwithnames It is sad, it should not be hosted there.
But these athletes worked likely the majority of their life to make it there, it’s not their fault where it was hosted. I support them all, from every country, it’s admirable to be the best at your chosen sport. Let’s just respect the humans. Idk, I’m tired, survived a wasp attack, and likely rambling. But I just think we should support the hard work put in by the competitors
@Glucose It’s not just these particular games. The olympics have been some sorta overly convoluted ponzi scheme for decades, and I place blame as much on the athletes for supporting it as everyone else involved. At least countries are starting to wise up to it. Have they found a location with snow for those next winter games that were being bid on yet?
@nogoodwithnames
Yeah the IOC sux and is completely corrupt/liars/forsale and it’s a huge fake promo thing and the host country prob abuses its people to get it done and many of the athletes are on the edge of the rules or over the edge and it’s all hype hype hype and some billionaires make more $.
I wish I were following the Olympics, but it’s pretty hard when I work at a camp over the summer. No television, very slow internet, and of course no time; we live there six days a week.
I haven’t gotten to watch the Olympics in save years.
@f00l Internet?
I can only scroll so far through reddit before getting bored. Meanwhile, DW can refresh her Facebook feed for hours. Gaming?
I’m partway through tearing down hideous tile and drywalling the ceiling in the room my gaming computer is in so the whole desk is covered in a drop cloth. It’ll be a couple weeks before that project is done. Books?
Nah. Outdoors?
Ok, now you’re just being silly. But no, the heat and humidity lately just make being outside no fun at all.
I did spend a couple hours assembling a Weber grill yesterday since Target finally put them on clearance the other day. That only occupied the time between getting home from work and when prime time TV should have started though.
The Olympics are so much better than what is on screen 99.9% of the time. I am enjoying watching all the men and women that have dedicated their lives to the sport of their choice. It takes great discipline, talent, energy, and pure courage and bravery. It is a test of their true mettle.
I have a gripe. I don’t subscribe to cable service. I don’t enjoy paying to watch a nonstop barrage of advertisements and product placement. I normally stream everything through either Hulu, Netflix or other sources. My gripe is that NBC has made it so you can’t stream the Olympics anywhere but their site, and you have to subscribe to a cable service to do so.
I suppose this is what I get for not getting my rooftop TV antenna installed before the Olympics started. Oh well.
If NBC would sell their non-OTA Olympic content for streaming, many people might buy. I sure wont sign up for dish, cable, or fiber-tv just for the Olympics tho.
@f00l yes. Even if they had an option to pay $10 just to stream the Olympics through their site/app – I would gladly do that. I can’t, however, justify spending $60 for a month of TV just so I can watch one channel a few hours a day for a couple of weeks.
@capguncowboy@f00l Keep in mind NBC is now owned by Comcast, as in the cable company, as in the company most threatened by people cutting the cord and jumping to over-the-top streaming services like Netflix and Hulu (though they do or did have a stake in Hulu that came with their purchase of NBC). You better believe they’re going to try to leverage their corporate synergies to coerce Olympics fans into buying a cable subscription, not provide a means to skip out on it. Even still, I expect by the next Olympics, certainly by the next summer games, a paid streaming option will be available. They’ll be missing out on too much of a market to pass.
@jqubed
Comcast may intend whatever it wishes. I won’t be purchasing their Olympic television content unless it’s offered apart from a cable package.
Does NBC want viewers and ad revenue, a proven profit center and growth engine even today? Or does Comcast want to try and fail to coerce Olympic fans into cable subscriptions?
Fuck them if they don’t get it.
(see: Television Is The New Television, Michael Wolff)
@tinamarie1974 While I love the Winter Olympics, many of the summer events are more ‘pure’ athletic activities: (especially) track & field, wrestling, gymnastics, swimming, diving; I could do without basketball, golf, tennis, sailing, soccer.
Winter Games: skiing & skating events only
@compunaut You don’t count the sliding sports for the winter? And what’s wrong with the team sports like soccer, rugby, basketball, or handball? They have a pretty minimal equipment requirement and rely a great deal on athletic ability and strategy. The end of a lot of those events comes down to athletes’ conditioning.
@jqubed I see enough team sports without using up precious Olympic broadcast time. Less team strategy, more ‘faster, higher, stronger’
/giphy faster, higher, stronger
I had to watch Michael Phelps take his 22nd gold, by two seconds over the nearest competitor. Usually they’re decided by tenths of a second. His 4th gold in a row, the first time a swimmer ever did that. Wow.
Michael Phelps is insane. I don’t think we will ever see another of his likeness in our lifetimes. He just won his 13th individual gold medal. It has never been done before in the history of the ancient or modern Olympic Games.
The guy whose record he broke? Yeah, he won 12. In 152 BC!! Yes, you read that right. One hundred and fifty two years BEFORE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.
/giphy finger wag taunt
@medz I’m just not interested in watching, but I do appreciate the highly skilled athletes. I feel kinda guilty not watching.
I will watch just about anything with Kristen Bell though.
/youtube filipino divers
If these guys had made it, you’d be damn sure I’d be watching!
@liz LOL!
@liz tears rolling down my face!
Yes, because my wife’s a gymnastics nerd.
It’s a lot of fun to watch this stuff with kids who are so earnestly excited and cheering for the USA.
I’m not generally one to get all hoity-toity activist douche about things, but the olympics? I want no fucking part of that. The sleazy, corrupt, borderline dystopian manner in which they somehow continue to operate is fucking sickening.
@nogoodwithnames It is sad, it should not be hosted there.
But these athletes worked likely the majority of their life to make it there, it’s not their fault where it was hosted. I support them all, from every country, it’s admirable to be the best at your chosen sport. Let’s just respect the humans. Idk, I’m tired, survived a wasp attack, and likely rambling. But I just think we should support the hard work put in by the competitors
@nogoodwithnames Olympic games is a political theater these days, unfortunately…
@Glucose It’s not just these particular games. The olympics have been some sorta overly convoluted ponzi scheme for decades, and I place blame as much on the athletes for supporting it as everyone else involved. At least countries are starting to wise up to it. Have they found a location with snow for those next winter games that were being bid on yet?
@nogoodwithnames Uhhh… what’s your problem with it? How is it a “ponzi scheme”? Do you just not like competition or sports or something?
@nogoodwithnames
Yeah the IOC sux and is completely corrupt/liars/forsale and it’s a huge fake promo thing and the host country prob abuses its people to get it done and many of the athletes are on the edge of the rules or over the edge and it’s all hype hype hype and some billionaires make more $.
Still fun to watch tho
@nogoodwithnames I think they stuck with Beijing, as in previous home to the summer Olympics and not located near mountains Beijing.
How can’t you watch this guy work?
@jbartus Michael Phelps is AMAZING.
@TheCO2 yes, yes he is.
@jbartus He’s an Ahole…
@jml326 that’s too funny
@jml326 that’s so plainly edited I hope you were joking.
@jbartus
/giphy captain obvious
I wish I were following the Olympics, but it’s pretty hard when I work at a camp over the summer. No television, very slow internet, and of course no time; we live there six days a week.
I haven’t gotten to watch the Olympics in save years.
I have been switching back and forth between NBC, MSNBC and NBCSP. I think I need to figure out how to run a picture-in-picture.
@TheCO2 That functionality seems to have gone away from newer TVs.
@jqubed I noticed that. I’m kind of surprised they don’t have something similar.
@Kyser_Soze this!
In case you haven’t seen it.
You’re welcome.
@TheCO2 oh, i saw this the other night. i watched it like 10 times in slow-mo… it seems like he’s laying there forever and no one is offering any help
Aaaaand for anyone who watched that I give you …Eyebleach.
@capguncowboy If you thought it seemed like forever, it probably felt like an eternity for him.
@thismyusername LOL. I didn’t think you could give someone the finger with your leg.
Not a fan of summer Olympics. My choice is winter Olympics. Winter, cold, awesome. Summer sucks.
these olympic’s news everywhere, it’s annoying
@SebastianSoul Creepiest event in the history of Olympic events.
I’d like to not watch “the games” but all the other networks have given up and trotted out their cheapest re-runs to fill these two weeks.
@plastrd
Internet?
Gaming?
Books?
Outdoors?
@f00l
Internet?
I can only scroll so far through reddit before getting bored. Meanwhile, DW can refresh her Facebook feed for hours.
Gaming?
I’m partway through tearing down hideous tile and drywalling the ceiling in the room my gaming computer is in so the whole desk is covered in a drop cloth. It’ll be a couple weeks before that project is done.
Books?
Nah.
Outdoors?
Ok, now you’re just being silly. But no, the heat and humidity lately just make being outside no fun at all.
I did spend a couple hours assembling a Weber grill yesterday since Target finally put them on clearance the other day. That only occupied the time between getting home from work and when prime time TV should have started though.
@plastrd
Think up questions to ask Irk?
Take a nap?
Listen to an audiobook?
Engaging in conversation with an actual other person?
@plastrd
Uh… once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, where there was no internet and it wasn’t an Olympic year, I did stuff.
What was it? Can no longer remember.
How about Blu-Ray’s?
@plastrd
I know it’s hot, and you’re irritable and helpless about it, like any sane person in the lower 48 in August. But let me suggest:
There are more things in heaven and earth and the internet, Horatio, than are dreamt of in Reddit…
Love Reddit. Just sayin’.
Olympics are worthless. The real test of a countries merit is the World Cup.
@DrunkCat
World Cup of what? Poker? Beer? Nuclear weapons? Lots of ways to evaluate a country’s merit
@compunaut Nope just one.
I do stream from my desktop - but only when it’s an event I want to watch.
Fencing? meh.
@smyle Hope your events involve swimming.
Streaming desktop:
The Olympics are so much better than what is on screen 99.9% of the time. I am enjoying watching all the men and women that have dedicated their lives to the sport of their choice. It takes great discipline, talent, energy, and pure courage and bravery. It is a test of their true mettle.
I’d follow the Olympics more if I had cable TV.
I have a gripe. I don’t subscribe to cable service. I don’t enjoy paying to watch a nonstop barrage of advertisements and product placement. I normally stream everything through either Hulu, Netflix or other sources. My gripe is that NBC has made it so you can’t stream the Olympics anywhere but their site, and you have to subscribe to a cable service to do so.
I suppose this is what I get for not getting my rooftop TV antenna installed before the Olympics started. Oh well.
@capguncowboy
This.
If NBC would sell their non-OTA Olympic content for streaming, many people might buy. I sure wont sign up for dish, cable, or fiber-tv just for the Olympics tho.
@f00l yes. Even if they had an option to pay $10 just to stream the Olympics through their site/app – I would gladly do that. I can’t, however, justify spending $60 for a month of TV just so I can watch one channel a few hours a day for a couple of weeks.
@capguncowboy @f00l Keep in mind NBC is now owned by Comcast, as in the cable company, as in the company most threatened by people cutting the cord and jumping to over-the-top streaming services like Netflix and Hulu (though they do or did have a stake in Hulu that came with their purchase of NBC). You better believe they’re going to try to leverage their corporate synergies to coerce Olympics fans into buying a cable subscription, not provide a means to skip out on it. Even still, I expect by the next Olympics, certainly by the next summer games, a paid streaming option will be available. They’ll be missing out on too much of a market to pass.
@jqubed
Comcast may intend whatever it wishes. I won’t be purchasing their Olympic television content unless it’s offered apart from a cable package.
Does NBC want viewers and ad revenue, a proven profit center and growth engine even today? Or does Comcast want to try and fail to coerce Olympic fans into cable subscriptions?
Fuck them if they don’t get it.
(see: Television Is The New Television, Michael Wolff)
Winter Olympics are so much better. I think they invent sports for summer…
@tinamarie1974 While I love the Winter Olympics, many of the summer events are more ‘pure’ athletic activities: (especially) track & field, wrestling, gymnastics, swimming, diving; I could do without basketball, golf, tennis, sailing, soccer.
Winter Games: skiing & skating events only
@compunaut
Sucker for whatever. Love the excessive hype and overblown drama.
That said, I half-watch.
@compunaut You don’t count the sliding sports for the winter? And what’s wrong with the team sports like soccer, rugby, basketball, or handball? They have a pretty minimal equipment requirement and rely a great deal on athletic ability and strategy. The end of a lot of those events comes down to athletes’ conditioning.
@jqubed I see enough team sports without using up precious Olympic broadcast time. Less team strategy, more ‘faster, higher, stronger’
/giphy faster, higher, stronger
I had the Polish Women’s Beach Volleyball team in the McDonald’s game
I had to watch Michael Phelps take his 22nd gold, by two seconds over the nearest competitor. Usually they’re decided by tenths of a second. His 4th gold in a row, the first time a swimmer ever did that. Wow.
@OldCatLady
Yeah he has a serious game-face.
Michael Phelps is insane. I don’t think we will ever see another of his likeness in our lifetimes. He just won his 13th individual gold medal. It has never been done before in the history of the ancient or modern Olympic Games.
The guy whose record he broke? Yeah, he won 12. In 152 BC!! Yes, you read that right. One hundred and fifty two years BEFORE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.