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doverhog posted:That sounds like laziness to me. Why would you trust the Al Gore Rhythm to decide what you watch? Because you are correct, I am incredibly lazy in all things. Admittedly it's not perfect, especially if you or someone you share your account with watches something you don't like and throws it off.
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The Rhytm is not a bad idea, you know as a thing that gives you recommendations, but I fundamentally disagree with the idea that Steam or Netflix should take on the kind of role you're talking about. Limiting what you have access to based on someones idea of what is "good".
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Aug 3, 2018 12:44
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I don't think it's translates as cleanly. It's not about what is good, but what is functioning and complete. It's less like if Netflix uploaded a bunch of bad movies and shows, but more like if they uploaded a bunch of trailers for movies that don't get released and pilots for shows that don't get picked up and left them in the movie and TV sections as if they were finished.
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Aug 3, 2018 12:58
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I remember years ago I tried to watch Newsradio on netflix and i think they just uploaded a bunch of crappy xvid encodes to the site. The audio kept losing sync with the video and the video quality was godawful.
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Aug 3, 2018 12:59
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I think amazon prime video would have been better for me to compare to, because they're what happens to a video service with absolutely no standards. On the surface it's good and if you never dig any deeper than the top recommendations you will never notice, but try going into a genre (especially horror) and sort by release date and watch a random one that you haven't heard of. If you're lucky you'll get something that looks like a film student's final project that probably got a C. They have so many bad movies, I couldn't believe it. Fortunately they hide them from you better than steam so you'll never stumble on to one of them unless you are trying to.
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Aug 3, 2018 13:08
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All the bad games on steam only reinforce my prejudice against indie products.
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Aug 3, 2018 13:31
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It's like no one here has heard of Sturgeon's Law.
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Blue Star posted:Video games are worthless and anyone who plays video games is worthless. This goes for the entire political spectrum. Anyone who complains about video games, the video game industry, video game journalism, etc. is a loving dipshit loser. holy gently caress, Hillary IS an SA poster edit: sorry, I mean "HRC", sorry if I offended anyone 
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doverhog posted:That sounds like laziness to me. Why would you trust the Al Gore Rhythm to decide what you watch? Because the man knows how to celebrate good times. 
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Aug 3, 2018 15:27
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Kebabs (the skewer kind) are very overrated and I'd never order one intentionally. They are annoying to get off the thing and they are almost always dried out because it's really hard to cook bite sized chunks of things properly. I don't get why places cook things that way beyond being able to sell meat for a higher price per ounce than they normally would have. If you're grilling in your back yard and want to be able to grill things like shrimps then fine, use them since it's practical, but the restaurant version sucks and is a ripoff.
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Aug 5, 2018 18:13
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They should've filmed the Harry Potter movies in the desert of the American west. But still have it be set in Britain. Just say that Britain has a big desert in it that wizards have hidden from the Muggles. That would've made the whole thing much more magical, and made the movies much more visually interesting.
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Guy Goodbody posted:They should've filmed the Harry Potter movies in the desert of the American west. But still have it be set in Britain. Just say that Britain has a big desert in it that wizards have hidden from the Muggles. That would've made the whole thing much more magical, and made the movies much more visually interesting. Or they could have gone with the traditional British technique of filming everything in a quarry.
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Aug 6, 2018 17:57
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I think music by Queen is massively overrated and songs like Bohemian Rhapsody with its opera-part are absolute annoying and shouldn't be part of any party playlist.
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Aug 6, 2018 18:58
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yep Queen is played out
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I really don't like the new generation of music, it's all just basic beats and some autotuned white boy singing about xanax. gently caress off. then again the complete opposite of what I described is Death Grips, and they are perfect spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 20:23 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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Aug 6, 2018 20:19
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There is literally more music in more styles than ever before
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Henchman of Santa posted:There is literally more music in more styles than ever before Well yeah if you actually go looking. A hell of a lot of people don't. Some scientists actually studied it and it turns out that the most popular music is getting simpler and louder. Has been for decades. There's a lot of things coming together that makes the top 40 stuff pretty uniformly garbage. Thanks to the internet it's also easier to find, you know, literally anything else.
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Aug 7, 2018 02:20
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The reason top 40 songs sound the same is that they're all written by the same five or six people and have been since the 90s. The most successful songwriter not associated with the Beatles is a Swedish guy named Max Martin.
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Aug 7, 2018 08:08
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None of those ~viral~ videos of nurses/cops/etc dancing or lip-syncing to popular music are funny or heart-warming or whatever feel-good thing people say they are, at least not to me. It's the kind of thing that is probably only funny if you know who all those people are, but for some reason the internet in general can't get enough of them. All I see is a bunch of employees probably forced by management to do free marketing for them. I hope they at least get a cut from the youtube ad money.
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Aug 7, 2018 11:02
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With cops especially they come off as extremely disingenuous attempts to make them seem cool when they’re not busy terrorizing marginalized people
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Aug 7, 2018 14:17
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a textbook case of too much internet, right there
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Aug 7, 2018 14:26
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Henchman of Santa posted:With cops especially they come off as extremely disingenuous attempts to make them seem cool when they’re not busy terrorizing marginalized people Yeah it probably wasn't fair for me to lump them in with everyone else since the intention is different (even if they pretend its the same on the surface). I just don't like viral videos im general, unless they are approved by dr mantis toboggan, MD.
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lavaca posted:The reason top 40 songs sound the same is that they're all written by the same five or six people and have been since the 90s. The most successful songwriter not associated with the Beatles is a Swedish guy named Max Martin. Yup. Plus there's a pretty specific formula that gets your attention the easiest. There's a few similar motifs that keep showing up over and over and, well, the brain likes patterns. Familiar patterns are safe and make you feel good so the brain looks for those. Doesn't help that the mainstream recording industry has a tight strangle hold on controlling who gets huge and who doesn't. The internet is helping with that last part but the major industry can't die fast enough.
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Aug 7, 2018 17:48
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Lost In Translation is terrible. and kinda racist.
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Aug 7, 2018 22:40
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I would look into that if it were literally anyone but you saying it
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Guy Goodbody posted:Lost In Translation is terrible. and kinda racist. It's really boring mostly
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Aug 7, 2018 23:21
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Henchman of Santa posted:It's really boring mostly Yeah it's loving tedious.
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Anyone can be racist. You can be racist towards whites. Racism is prejudice based on race, not "prejudice + power" or whatever bullshit people came up with on the internet. Nobody on the loving planet actually believes that. And it makes no loving sense. Power is relative. If the "prejudice + power" definition were true, then it would be impossible to be racist towards Chinese people in China, or soon anywhere in the world since China is gonna be the next dominant global superpower. And also, according to this definition, it WILL be possible to be racist to whites in a few decades when they become a minority. But somehow i dont think woke idiots really intended it that way. Now you can argue that its okay to be racist to white people or that white people deserve it for blah blah blah "centuries of white supremacy" or whatever the gently caress, but stop trying to redefine words that already had pretty clear definitions. Racism = prejudice based on race. Sexism = prejudice based on biological sex. Agism = prejudice based on age. Its not complicated.
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Tamales suck. The only difference between a good tamale and a bad tamale is how much meat is left over after I get rid of the lardy cornmeal turd surrounding it.
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Yakuza is an overrated game series they are alright games, but the fans won't loving shut up about them and its tedious
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Youtube implemented the option to speed up videos by 2x because they noticed about 100% of content was far too boring for a normal sane adult to watch at regular speed.
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CrRoMa posted:Yakuza is an overrated game series this article about yakuza, however, is not overrated at all https://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html
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Jerry Cotton posted:Youtube implemented the option to speed up videos by 2x because they noticed about 100% of content was far too boring for a normal sane adult to watch at regular speed. Actual TV is also better at 2x speed.
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Tiggum posted:Actual TV is also better at 2x speed. I don't think we're watching the same programmes. e: Now I'm imagining a BBC crime fiction show where every episode starts with John Nettles wearing a baseball cap shouting "HELLO EVERYONE TODAY I WILL BE SOLVING A MURDER! I HAVE NEVER SOLVED THIS KIND OF MURDER BEFORE SO I'M REALLY EXITED TO SEE HOW IT TURNS OUT! IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE PREVIOUS MURDERS I'VE SOLVED I'LL PUT THE LINKS DOWN BELOW! THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OR ANYTHING THIS IS A MURDER INVESTIGATION! THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY AUDIBLES DOT COM BE SURE TO CLICK THE LINK BELOW IF YOU LIKE AUDIBLE THINGS! OK SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO LET'S SEE WHAT KIND OF MURDER WE HAVE TODAY! THIS MURDER WAS KINDLY DONE ON THE VICTIM BY CHASTITYRAVEN420 FROM HOLLAND SO A BIG THANKS TO CHASTITYR--- WAIT AM I PRONOUNCING THIS CORRECTLY?! CHASTITYRAVEN420! OK I'M SURE I BUTCHERED THAT BUT I DON'T REALLY SPEAK HOLLANDAISE! SO WITHOUT FURDER ADO LET'S GET TO SOLVING THIS MURDER! OH IF MY VOICE SOUNDS FUNNY IT'S BECAUSE I HAD A COLD SEVEN YEARS AGO SO I HOPE IT'S OK! BE SURE TO LIKE THIS VIDEO AND SUBSCRIBE TO BBC IF YOU WANT TO SEE ME SOLVE SOME MORE MURDERS AND ALSO CONSIDER CONTRIBUTING BY PAYING YOUR LICENSE FEE!" into the camera and then before, during, and after every part of the investigation he slowly and tediously explains what is about to happen, what is happening, and what just happened, despite every viewer being able to loving see and understand it without explanation. Also half the running time consists solely of trying to get the camera to focus. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 09:48 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 09:37
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CrRoMa posted:Yakuza is an overrated game series "yare yare go take a nap" - kiryu kazuma, main character of the Yakuza series
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veni veni veni posted:Tamales suck. The only difference between a good tamale and a bad tamale is how much meat is left over after I get rid of the lardy cornmeal turd surrounding it. Out of the thousands of terrible opinions posted in this thread, this is the first one that made me want to punch somebody.
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CrRoMa posted:Yakuza is an overrated game series People who are obsessed with mafias, especially "the yakuza" (they tend to think it's just one organization), are insufferable. They are nothing but street gangs with more money and fancier clothes, but people seem to think they are all ~honorable samurai~ or some poo poo and race to quora after seeing tokyo drift to ask "how do I, a white american nerd, join the yakuza?".
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I see ten times more nerds saying that poo poo than worshipping the mafia so that's not really an unpopular opinion
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Jared Leto is starring in a movie where he joins the yakuza so it's still a thing
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Crime is bad. The State is good.
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