‘Speed Running’ Apple TV movie suggestion seems like a delightful waste of time.

I love this. I never considered using the Netflix/Hulu/Apple TV/Amazon Prime* algorithms in a game like this, but it seems like the perfect way to kill half an hour if you’re bored on a Friday or Saturday night.

Actually, scratch the half an hour part of that, if this were a thing when I was in college, we EASILY could have wasted an entire Friday night doing this over and over again. This would be one of those games you’d crank up at 9pm when you started pregaming with an ice cold 30-rack of Natty Ice. 3 hours later you’d be getting in timer arguments and accusing the Apple TV remote of not responding quickly enough after you lost in the championship round of Speed Running. Before you know it it’s 2am and you ghosted your plans to go downtown and end up ordering a few triple-order of Topperstix and passing out for the night. Damn. I can almost feel the hangover and indigestion the next morning. Good (hypothetical) times.

*I want cable back. I want the gigantic box that doesn’t fit anywhere, I want the enormous remote that only really needs 3 buttons but has 45, I want the bill that goes up $5 every other month for no reason. I remember when my wife and I cut the cord about 5 years ago, it was bliss. We were paying $40 for internet service and $20 for Sling TV. Saving about $150 a month. Well you knew at some point the media companies would find a way to get their money back, and here we are. There are a million apps that we’re all paying $10-$20 a month for, and internet costs have doubled. I’m paying more now than I was for cable in 2017, and I get the added inconvenience of having to cycle through 5 different apps to find something to watch. All I want to do is click, ‘power on,’ and ‘guide,’ and just find something stupid to watch. You win, cable, you win.

PS: Random pregame drinking game that I miss but will probably never play again: Hockey. The card game, hockey. My senior year in Point we played that game RELIGIOUSLY as a pre-game activity to get a little buzz on before heading downtown. And there were plenty of times were we didn’t even make it outside because we just having fun playing that with the Brewer game on in the background. Simpler times.