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Reaction videos are the dumbest thing the internet has ever spit out. I’m so god drat tired of looking up some video and there’s some dumbass in split screen just watching it eating some food or drinking something and laughing or acting surprised or whatever at the video. It literally adds nothing and just makes me want to not watch said video. I’m usually pretty non-caring when it comes to whatever the new trend is but whenever I see a reaction video it sends me into a white hot rage.
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It gets worse, I've seen reaction to reaction videos, so the video you want to watch is reduced to a tiny part of the screen. I don't give a poo poo about your ugly mug I'm just trying to watch the funny video ffs.
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Jan 12, 2023 19:18
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I remember the first time I realized "reaction videos" were not just a weird trend but an incredibly popular and lucrative career direction. I just don't get you kids these days  Reaction videos, video game streams with someone's face taking up a quarter of the screen, that YouTube editing that cuts out any and all pauses and moment someone is not talking or doing something, videos of one person talking to another person that is just themselves... it's all baffling to me. I don't get it. This must be what my grandparents felt when I tried to show them how cool Cartman's song about Kyle's mom is.
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Jan 12, 2023 19:45
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credburn posted:I remember the first time I realized "reaction videos" were not just a weird trend but an incredibly popular and lucrative career direction. I just don't get you kids these days it's ersatz watching poo poo with a friend. like how some people put on mukbang videos when they're eating to feel less alone
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Jan 12, 2023 19:51
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credburn posted:I remember the first time I realized "reaction videos" were not just a weird trend but an incredibly popular and lucrative career direction. I just don't get you kids these days Happens to all of us eventually Kids have been the dumbest, most boring motherfuckers on earth since the dawn of time. The dumb, boring kids watching two videos at once of people talking about different videos will eventually age and be completely floored at whatever inexplicable stupid poo poo the next generation chooses to do
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Jan 12, 2023 19:53
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credburn posted:I remember the first time I realized "reaction videos" were not just a weird trend but an incredibly popular and lucrative career direction. I just don't get you kids these days The video game streams are the ones I don't get. I'll watch some 10 or so minute gameplay videos to see if it's a game I want to play. If you've watched someone play a video game for over an hour, just go play the game yourself I figure this is how my grandparents felt when I was telling them about Transformers.
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Jan 12, 2023 20:08
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Iron Crowned posted:The video game streams are the ones I don't get. I'll watch some 10 or so minute gameplay videos to see if it's a game I want to play. If you've watched someone play a video game for over an hour, just go play the game yourself I get game streams somewhat. Maybe you can’t afford the game or maybe it’s something like a horror game where you’re too much of a baby for the immersion of playing it yourself but can handle it better in this format.
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Jan 12, 2023 20:51
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Game streams have grown on me more, but recorded ones on YouTube edited down to the meat, not meandering live streams. Handy to throw on a spare monitor at work and half watch/listen to gauge whether I want to get a game, pick up tips, etc.
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Jan 12, 2023 20:59
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Even worse are the people fawning over them in the comments, and voluntarily throwing considerable amounts of money at them. That genuinely baffles and appalls me.
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Jan 12, 2023 21:15
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I get why people watch video game streams where the person's face is there and they're talking the whole time. I personally just find it extremely unappealing. I do watch video game longplays, though, with no commentary. Sometimes it's an old familiar game I just like having in the background (FFVII, say) but other times it's like fuckin Prey, a game I like and want to experience but find it frustrating and annoying and obnoxious to play myself.
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Jan 12, 2023 23:32
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Iron Crowned posted:The video game streams are the ones I don't get. I'll watch some 10 or so minute gameplay videos to see if it's a game I want to play. If you've watched someone play a video game for over an hour, just go play the game yourself You might as well ask why people watch sports instead of going outside to play football themselves.
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Jan 13, 2023 00:11
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Also if I’m trying to answer the question “will I enjoy this video game if I purchase it?” a 30-minute YouTube video helps a lot more than dozens of text reviews.
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Jan 13, 2023 01:14
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Henchman of Santa posted:I get game streams somewhat. Maybe you can’t afford the game or maybe it’s something like a horror game where you’re too much of a baby for the immersion of playing it yourself but can handle it better in this format. The secret is it's not about the game. It's fun to listen to music and poo poo out chat with your friends. Some people make fun emojis. Some people are just funny. Some people aren't, and you simply ban them from your chat.
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Jan 13, 2023 01:56
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credburn posted:videos of one person talking to another person that is just themselves The Perfect Element posted:Even worse are the people fawning over them in the comments, and voluntarily throwing considerable amounts of money at them. That genuinely baffles and appalls me.
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Jan 13, 2023 02:57
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Tiggum posted:You mean like this? It's just a way to film a skit without needing a second person to act in it. I think the confusion is about how this is a source of entertainment worth paying for. Ultimately it’s just different strokes, of course.
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Jan 13, 2023 03:07
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Tiggum posted:You mean like this? It's just a way to film a skit without needing a second person to act in it. I guess because when I see something like that, what my brain is telling me is that the joke is that it's obviously the same person. But that isn't the joke; it's just a format. In a weird way, it's kind of like when I see memes that are really low-quality MS paint jobs. My brain is telling me the joke is that it's an obviously extremely low-effort MS paint thing, but again that's not the joke, or at least no longer is; it's just another format to convey something. I mean, so I get it, mechanically. I just find it bland and I would say unoriginal except gently caress everything today feels like it's all just slightly improved variations of someone else's popular idea.
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Jan 13, 2023 04:39
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Iron Crowned posted:The video game streams are the ones I don't get. I'll watch some 10 or so minute gameplay videos to see if it's a game I want to play. If you've watched someone play a video game for over an hour, just go play the game yourself Sometimes games are bad to actually play but they're so bad it's funny, or maybe they have terrible controls so they're no actual fun to play but they have merit in some other area, or they're so old they don't run on a modern operating system so you'd have to jump through a ton of hoops to get them to run. I've got something like Realms of the Haunting in mind here. I do agree though, I don't think I'd ever watch videos of a game I could just play for myself, except for something like Sekiro where I'm stuck on a boss and want to see how other people do it.
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Jan 13, 2023 12:20
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Tiggum posted:You mean like this? It's just a way to film a skit without needing a second person to act in it. Yes, but unless you're paying for exclusive paid-only content, you're just needlessly throwing money at someone who's already making bank through ad revenue anyway. I guess it just doesn't compute, for me, that someone would happily pay like £5 a month to some obnoxious douchebag to make YouTube videos rather than just fuckin giving it to WaterAid or whatever.
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Jan 13, 2023 13:05
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The Perfect Element posted:Yes, but unless you're paying for exclusive paid-only content, you're just needlessly throwing money at someone who's already making bank through ad revenue anyway.
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Jan 13, 2023 13:58
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The Perfect Element posted:I guess it just doesn't compute, for me, that someone would happily pay like £5 a month to some obnoxious douchebag to make YouTube videos rather than just fuckin giving it to WaterAid or whatever. I think the people who give money to content creators don't think of them as obnoxious douchebags. Errrr well, actually that is why a lot of people donate to certain influencers, I guess.
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Jan 13, 2023 14:06
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credburn posted:gently caress everything today feels like it's all just slightly improved variations of someone else's popular idea. It's because it is, very few people are coming up with anything original & it's way easier to copy someone else, then modify it slightly. Look at all the gaming YT channels, then look at the unnerving rabbit hole of people doing reaction videos, then people doing reactions of reactions of reactions until it's like Inception with mentally handicapped hyenas fake laughing or acting smug.
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Jan 13, 2023 14:07
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This Discord update notification: Lucky day? Who the gently caress thinks that having to install an update is a good thing? No one likes updates!
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every day is miserable if you are running linux instead of the far superior windows operating system by microsoft
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Iron Crowned posted:The video game streams are the ones I don't get. I'll watch some 10 or so minute gameplay videos to see if it's a game I want to play. If you've watched someone play a video game for over an hour, just go play the game yourself
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credburn posted:I guess because when I see something like that, what my brain is telling me is that the joke is that it's obviously the same person. But that isn't the joke; it's just a format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SN8oYGMIGw
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Jan 14, 2023 14:42
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Tiggum posted:This Discord update notification: I love running updates, but only if they have progress bars
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Like, that's kind of funny but you know what else just annoys the hell out of me is this style of absolutely no dead air whatsoever. I know that's part of the gimmick, but it sounds awful to me. It sounds unnatural and makes me feel uncomfortable in a way that I think like vocal fry irritates some people.
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It’s made for an app that can only be less than a minute long.
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Everyone knows about Google searches being garbage but the real crime is what they did to Gmail search. I can search for any word or phrase and the results inevitably include every synonym, every alternate spelling, every synonym of those alternate spellings, and, gently caress it, let's just assume I misspelled my search term and really wanted to write any other word that shares 51% of the letters you used. A lot of this could actually be helpful if the results were weighted by usefulness, but they are instead provided in the same reverse chronological order as my inbox. Either I have to spend a bunch of time clicking past useless results or a bunch of time fiddling with the advanced options and redoing the search with the words in quotation marks. Web search is bad at least partly because of SEO but Gmail search being lovely is entirely Google's fault. (Outlook actually does the "these messages seem like the most likely results" thing but the Outlook algorithm seems to be "pick two of the five most recent emails plus something at random from the archives" so it's not really any better.)
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Yeah I am constantly amazed by how much gmail search sucks. I went to all the work of remembering a relatively unique keyword in the email I want to find, why are you showing me every other possible variation of that word or things that mean basically the same thing?? Weirdly my personal gmail on my phone seems to be ok at only bringing up emails with the exact word, but my work email is hopeless.
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I would simply not use the ineffective email
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Shibawanko posted:every day is miserable if you are running linux instead of the far superior windows operating system by microsoft Windows is real bad
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Windows ARE real bad.
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Bargearse posted:Windows is real , and strong, and it's my friend
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Brawnfire posted:Windows ARE real bad. 
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Windows am okay.
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Brawnfire posted:Windows ARE real bad. confirmed 
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I don't like it when people think the sauce jus is called au jus. "Sandwich with au jus". Sandwich with with juice?! Dumb.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I don't like it when people think the sauce jus is called au jus. "Sandwich with au jus". Sandwich with with juice?! Dumb.
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lavaca posted:Everyone knows about Google searches being garbage but the real crime is what they did to Gmail search. I can search for any word or phrase and the results inevitably include every synonym, every alternate spelling, every synonym of those alternate spellings, and, gently caress it, let's just assume I misspelled my search term and really wanted to write any other word that shares 51% of the letters you used. Gmail search has the same rules as google search. If you want something specific, put it in quotes. If you’re getting a lot of results that have something in it you don’t want, use -(word) to force a removal of that word or phrase. Here’s a list of the different operators to make your search easier: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
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