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UIApplication posted:What the heck was the name of that web app from like 4 years ago where you took turns playing songs dj style turntable.fm and it loving owned and i was really sad when it shut down
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Mar 25, 2016 07:22
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UIApplication posted:What the heck was the name of that web app from like 4 years ago where you took turns playing songs dj style Oh hey, remember Jake from The Romp.com's Booty Call series? And how a place making flash games thought moving over to making their flash games a premium subscription based service would work out for them in 2001???
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Mar 25, 2016 07:23
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Casimir Radon posted:I spent hours playing Newgrounds games in the early 2000s. Probably because I was a young, and didn't have a job that would afford me real games on a consistent basis. Also there was the fact that they were usually trying to be edgy and I liked that. I think I first found mu way there to see the Teletubby assassin game, which seemed leaps and bounds above any of the various Kill Barney games. The animations? Newgrounds developed a simple drag-and-drop tool a few years ago to convert Flash animations into video files.
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Mar 25, 2016 08:57
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Walked posted:What about Planetarion? Massive online text strategy game of crazy This and Hyperiums. So many hours spent sitting in the college computer lab waiting for the next tick. It's only a problem when you consider these games real-time strategy.
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Mar 25, 2016 09:35
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UIApplication posted:What the heck was the name of that web app from like 4 years ago where you took turns playing songs dj style
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Mar 25, 2016 10:00
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I used to download the swf files from Newgrounds with an app at net cafes and using the official Macromedia tool, to make them into stand-alone exes. I had so much "kill Bin Laden" games and similar crap.
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Mar 25, 2016 10:23
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There was a search engine that Cnet (?) introduced in the 90s called snap!. I remember it because of the neat little logo it used    I think there were TV Commercials for this for like a month and then they disappeared. Really took some digging to find these.
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Mar 25, 2016 11:22
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I never got into the pets games and what-not but I did enjoy watching Strong Bad read his email once a week. I did spend too much time on a silly site I think called foshata in which you wrote in dubbed text for crazy Japanese commercials. There was also a karate fighting website that was basically rocks-paper-scissors but it was fun.
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Mar 25, 2016 12:24
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evobatman posted:This and Hyperiums. So many hours spent sitting in the college computer lab waiting for the next tick. It's only a problem when you consider these games real-time strategy. Apparently Planetarion is still around  It' cant have a player base.. can it?
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Mar 25, 2016 13:11
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Walked posted:Apparently Planetarion is still around Sure does. I stopped playing many years ago when the user base couldn't have been more than a couple of thousand. People from my old alliances are still playing, mostly for old friendships I guess.
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Mar 25, 2016 13:39
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Efexeye posted:turntable.fm and it loving owned and i was really sad when it shut down Yeah I loved that. In my opinion it was a great concept executed very poorly and almost 0 marketing / appeal outside of silicon valley. Spotify or one of the other streamings services should make something lke that it would be awesome.
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Mar 25, 2016 13:49
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Mechanism Eight posted:
It's funny, because there are still sites now that pay you to use their ad-laden search engine, watch sponsored videos, etc... and are still easily exploitable with simple mouse clicking scripts. Places like Swagbucks, Earnhoney, Perk, etc... I net close to $75 a month in Amazon and/or Paypal GCs just from Swagbucks. I used to use the other ones, but they got kind of crappy, but I hear they're a little better now so might start using them again, too.
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Mar 25, 2016 15:19
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drunk asian neighbor posted:You can definitely still get hatchbacks in the US. Buddy of mine just bought a 2016 Subaru WRX hatchy, and I know the Civic at least still comes in a hatchback version. i guess i never understood what was so massively important and differentiating about how the trunk lid worked
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Mar 25, 2016 16:27
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:i guess i never understood what was so massively important and differentiating about how the trunk lid worked I agree completely, I was just responding to someone who said they don't make that body style anymore. I personally think hatchbacks are ugly.
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Mar 25, 2016 16:28
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What was with people who thought you actually had to type a question into AskJeeves?
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Mar 25, 2016 17:23
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Cojawfee posted:What was with people who thought you actually had to type a question into AskJeeves? IIRC they marketed it pretty hard as just that. This was back in the dawn of reliable search engines so I feel like there was probably a significant number of people who searched like that anyway.
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Mar 25, 2016 17:35
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And it's all come full circle because Google would rather you ask it a question as a human does these days to help the algorithm learn, than try to figure out what keywords the machine wants to be fed to spit out the right answer.
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Mar 25, 2016 17:58
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Does SA still have an island or whatever in second life, that poo poo was hilarious
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Mar 25, 2016 18:00
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Efexeye posted:And it's all come full circle because Google would rather you ask it a question as a human does these days to help the algorithm learn, than try to figure out what keywords the machine wants to be fed to spit out the right answer. This makes me realize how good we have it now. On my phone I'll put barely coherent queries where not a single word is spelled correctly and google will just know what I mean.
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Mar 25, 2016 18:02
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Germstore posted:This makes me realize how good we have it now. On my phone I'll put barely coherent queries where not a single word is spelled correctly and google will just know what I mean. We have it worse now, unless you're searching for something really common. Google tries to hell of second-guess what you want which means it always fails for me. I switched to Bing more than a year ago I think because I like "LOL I DUNNO" a lot more than "hey that thing that was easy to find using our search five years ago? yeah nah not going to point you there since you obviously meant something completely different: here, have literally 40000000 links to poo poo you don't want".
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Mar 25, 2016 18:14
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Jerry Cotton posted:We have it worse now, unless you're searching for something really common. Google tries to hell of second-guess what you want which means it always fails for me. I switched to Bing more than a year ago I think because I like "LOL I DUNNO" a lot more than "hey that thing that was easy to find using our search five years ago? yeah nah not going to point you there since you obviously meant something completely different: here, have literally 40000000 links to poo poo you don't want". This is just..wrong? Google can even do follow up questions now with both typed and voiced queries. I had a buddy IM me last night that he needed something today so I said to my phone 'okay Google, set a reminder for tomorrow to bring my buddy his thing' and the Google lady said okay, would you like to save this reminder, and I glanced at the screen and said 'change the time to 8 am and save' and Google did it. All hands free, took about 5 seconds. It's gotten a lot better, RankBrain is improving things a lot. If you allow Google to train itself to understand you, well, that's helpful too
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Mar 25, 2016 18:45
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thathonkey posted:Yeah I loved that. In my opinion it was a great concept executed very poorly and almost 0 marketing / appeal outside of silicon valley. Spotify or one of the other streamings services should make something lke that it would be awesome. I'd love to see dj.music.google.com or something of the sort, they've already got the streaming rights for almost everything under the sun (except tool) so why not? Let users upload their own music as with tt.fm.
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Mar 25, 2016 18:51
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I think TT had real bad copyright issues, they had some weird stuff to get around it like "you can't play more than three songs from the same album in an hour". It was a decent business model, what with letting people buy whatever was playing right from the DJ console; but I think TT wanted to pivot into a live concert site and I know they had very expensive bandwidth bills from letting Users upload their own music. It was such a great way to discover new music! I loved the service so much that I even bought one of the memorial shirts when they closed down but I wore it to like 60 soccer games in a row and the wife threw it out  . We used to use TT at work for teambuilding (only build your playlists while you're at home, folks) and would put it on a speaker for the office to hear. We also had a game night ad a buddy's house where we'd play Street Fighter on a large projector screen and people would hop on and off the decks; even people who couldn't make the party. People got really into it. Plug.dj is okay but the music has to be on YouTube as a video in order to share it, I believe.
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Mar 25, 2016 18:56
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Efexeye posted:This is just..wrong? Google can even do follow up questions now with both typed and voiced queries. I had a buddy IM me last night that he needed something today so I said to my phone 'okay Google, set a reminder for tomorrow to bring my buddy his thing' and the Google lady said okay, would you like to save this reminder, and I glanced at the screen and said 'change the time to 8 am and save' and Google did it. All hands free, took about 5 seconds. It's gotten a lot better, RankBrain is improving things a lot. If you allow Google to train itself to understand you, well, that's helpful too Oh hey that's cool now if it only functioned as, you know, a search engine.
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Mar 25, 2016 19:53
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Efexeye posted:I think TT had real bad copyright issues, they had some weird stuff to get around it like "you can't play more than three songs from the same album in an hour". It was a decent business model, what with letting people buy whatever was playing right from the DJ console; but I think TT wanted to pivot into a live concert site and I know they had very expensive bandwidth bills from letting Users upload their own music. It was such a great way to discover new music! I loved the service so much that I even bought one of the memorial shirts when they closed down but I wore it to like 60 soccer games in a row and the wife threw it out Yeah, I think the turn to a "live dj sets by artists" was a mistake, sure artists could release new music, but the gimmick only goes so far. Going to check out plug.dj, but I'll 100% miss the people that filled the rooms with 100 giant gorillas blocking everyone else in the audience.
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Mar 25, 2016 19:54
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UIApplication posted:Wasnt there some ancient sa vs habbo hotel thread? Yeah, its where  comes from.We'd make all grey characters and form lines blocking people in rooms, talking about how "the path is grey". People thought we were some sort of suicide cult and they started banning us.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:08
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh hey that's cool now if it only functioned as, you know, a search engine. It does exactly the same thing, for search. But go ahead, you zany misanthrope, you! Use the search engine that just copies everything Google does and is so desperate to gain market share that they will literally pay you to use it. That's your prerogative. edit but if not: https://www.google.com/search/about/ boar guy has a new favorite as of 20:23 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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Mar 25, 2016 20:14
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Efexeye posted:It does exactly the same thing, for search. But go ahead, you zany misanthrope, you! Use the search engine that just copies everything Google does and is so desperate to gain market share that they will literally pay you to use it. That's your prerogative. I'm currently using Bing for the points. After I get a $5 Amazon card, I'm going to drop it, though. For the technical searches I do, Google really beats the pants off of Bing. Bing really isn't worth the effort unless you're looking up simple things like weather, IMDb, and Wikipedia articles.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:39
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UIApplication posted:Does SA still have an island or whatever in second life, that poo poo was hilarious Oh god yes it was, I couldn't stop laughing at the poo poo people were doing.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:47
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azurite posted:I'm currently using Bing for the points. After I get a $5 Amazon card, I'm going to drop it, though. For the technical searches I do, Google really beats the pants off of Bing. Bing really isn't worth the effort unless you're looking up simple things like weather, IMDb, and Wikipedia articles.
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Mar 25, 2016 20:56
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:i guess i never understood what was so massively important and differentiating about how the trunk lid worked It's not just the lid, it's the fact that there's a ton of room above where the lid would be if it were a trunk. They are popular because they allow small, light, fuel efficient cars with small engines to be more practical.
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Mar 25, 2016 21:47
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theultimo posted:It's sad, hatchbacks are still viable but no one makes them anymore uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Mar 26, 2016 00:06
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We've already had this discussion and established he was wrong
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Mar 26, 2016 00:28
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The Gasmask posted:My friend's dad is pretty much the top 5.1 mixing engineer for music (he's got a bunch of Grammys for his work), but I guarantee practically no one has heard his work, because who's going to buy an SACD player or seek out audio DVDs? From a few pages back, but I just wanted to point out that pretty much everyone has heard his work. While the 5.1 audio stuff may be a niche market, your friend's dad is one of the most highly regarded and well respected engineers in the business and has been since the mid to late 70s. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard something he's done, be it in stereo or 5.1.
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Mar 26, 2016 08:21
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The Mentalizer posted:From a few pages back, but I just wanted to point out that pretty much everyone has heard his work. While the 5.1 audio stuff may be a niche market, your friend's dad is one of the most highly regarded and well respected engineers in the business and has been since the mid to late 70s. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard something he's done, be it in stereo or 5.1. If he hasn't worked on any of the Touhou or Evangelion musics... 
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Mar 26, 2016 15:25
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GutBomb posted:It's not just the lid, it's the fact that there's a ton of room above where the lid would be if it were a trunk. They are popular because they allow small, light, fuel efficient cars with small engines to be more practical. then why do they only seem popular with white guys who wear baseball caps and vape as they weave between traffic and cut you off, fart can rattling away the whole time
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Mar 26, 2016 16:26
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There's a poo poo-ton of unnoticed small hatchbacks running around un-riced; Fits, Yarises, Versa Notes, Sparks, Ford C-Max's, Golfs, Kia Forte's, Mazda3, etc. It's just that in the US, larger hatchbacks come with a factory lift kit and are called "CUV's".
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Mar 26, 2016 17:18
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 Unctuous Cretin posted:I also get a lot of emails mistakenly sent for people using initial/firstname.mysurname. Though as far as I can tell you can no longer find any proof that this is the case, GMail originally did differentiate e-mail addresses like Your.Name and YourName, even though now it just casually says "any number of periods in an e-mail address will reach the same person, obviously!" I forgot when exactly this happened, I think it was either mid-2005 or early 2006, but I went from zero Spam and misdirected messages to literally hundreds a day overnight. From what I have gathered, there were at least two, and possibly up to four, other Myfirstname.Mylastname@GMail.coms out there with differing numbers or placements of periods in their names, and suddenly I got all of their e-mail. It took months of politely responding to people who had no idea who I was before the casual mail stopped, and I never even really much tried fighting the battle against the hundreds of mailing lists (well until Unroll.Me came along and let me destroy all of them at once). All because somebody at Google apparently arbitrarily decided that periods should be ignored. And I am still not entirely sure I know why. On the plus side, I found out that one of them is a Tennessee-located dude who spends a lot of money at gyms and on hot twinks and supports Planned Parenthood, and another is in Texas and in the market for both real estate and hairy women. Data Graham posted:Hence the BMW 3-series is the size the 5-series used to be, so here comes the 1-series, and every year they all shuffle up the ladder again 
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This game was pretty awesome, not that I ever made too much progress with it.
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