I'm thinking the same thing. For example, the part about "catching a train" sounds like it's a reference to alt.suicide.holiday, the notorious pro-suicide Usenet group. A writer who's familiar enough with the internet to drop an ASH reference is a writer who's familiar enough with the internet to realize how stupid this shit sounds.

these people despise their audience completely

Pause the video at around 32 seconds in and look at what's on that computer screen.

Follow-up comments weren't about disliking their audience. It was more because their directors/producers were idiots who still thought computers were full of magic and fairy dust, and (in theory) they'd be the ones to catch the blame for letting it through, seeing how they change everything else to fit their whims.

Also, they can't just do what a lot of people do when they want to make a URL about something where all the names are taken and just stick "fuckyeah" on the front of the domain name. Which is a pity, since it could make it more amusing.

That thread is probably the only goo thing that's ever come out of Reddit.

The autopilot has an Amazon affiliation. No maintenance required.

Yeah, but it started out as a strange link, and then sometime much later, it became bolded and the same font (albeit not the same colour). Almost as if someone who doesn't know HTML is screwing around with poeTV. Now, who do we know that can't design a website and has the ability to screw around with poeTV, hmm?

If I were guessing, the joke ads (for Wolf Urine and so forth) were the "default" ads. Until the site reached a certain traffic level or Amazon gleaned enough info from your/our browsers (dunno if the ads are personalized or not) to be worth targeting, they'd remain as joke ads.

I've been using the Ghostery plugin for Opera for a while now, and the only thing on here it lists is Google Analytics, which is less than most sites I visit have.

Oh wait, an Amazon tracing script showed up just seconds after I posted, haha.

And now it's gone again.

Reminds me how much I love it when TV shows misuse "viral."

Craigslist?

Fredslist

What? No mention of the times when the characters have to wear fetish gear to nab a perp?

By the by, I long ago got sick of the whole cop procedural not just because they were stupid, but because time and time again, the cops basically violated suspects' rights without consequence. I'm sure that makes for great drama, but it also seems likely to make people not think real-life violations are anything to worry about or 'just a technicality."

Apologies for the serious rant. Carry on.

Noam Chomsky must have ulcers the size of coconuts by now.

The E in PoE stands for ermine.