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notwithoutmyanus posted:It really has come full circle. It's basically just "If I'm so stupid, how come I'm rich and launch moon rockets?" A lot of people think that you can't possibly be dumb if you're rich, especially rich people, but you'd think we'd know better by now.
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The new "Max" captchas are insane, and they're forcing millions of people through them all at once because of the big dumb rebrand: https://twitter.com/wondermeg_/status/1662454909353033730?t=6ImenpIKn7BvA7Oba6rS5g We're rushing towards a future where only computers will have enough time to waste on getting through captchas.
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May 30, 2023 04:57
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unfeeling computers blaring insane and confusing sounds as part of an inscrutable test of humanity actually finally manages to be part of what dystopian literature promised us
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May 30, 2023 05:33
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oh i think we posted about crazy captchas for roblox and minecraft. why yes me an adult/parent would like to have to solve middle school math for my small child. (also I think one of the best jokes was the animal ball test with having to orient a tortoise right side up which is just has to be on purpose)
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May 30, 2023 05:38
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PhazonLink posted:(also I think one of the best jokes was the animal ball test with having to orient a tortoise right side up which is just has to be on purpose) That's a deep cut if it was deliberate.
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May 30, 2023 05:53
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My Max subscription is weird because I don’t get the messed up dice thingy, I get this instead: I must say tasting the pleasures of the Cenobites sure does beat having to watch the Discovery content.
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May 30, 2023 07:17
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Twerk from Home posted:The new "Max" captchas are insane, and they're forcing millions of people through them all at once because of the big dumb rebrand: The broken dice problem was funny, but once the cyber bagpipes start I just couldn't stop laughing.
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May 30, 2023 08:40
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Twerk from Home posted:The new "Max" captchas are insane, and they're forcing millions of people through them all at once because of the big dumb rebrand: Are regular captchas a solved problem now? Or are these just unnecessarily complicated? Maybe they're using the time this takes to pad their user-website engagement metrics
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May 30, 2023 16:25
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So wait is this Max example like real or is it a tik tok joke because I still can't tell, which is also part of the problem.
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May 30, 2023 16:28
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There Bias Two posted:Are regular captchas a solved problem now? Or are these just unnecessarily complicated? I got a captcha recently where I had to listen to a 30 second audio clip and then it would ask me to identify the sum of specific item totals they said. It was 30 seconds of someone saying, "I went to the store. I got 11 bananas, 14 apples, 7 peaches, 3 pears, 2 grapes, 4 boxes of cereal, 5 pork chops, 1 box of flour, 17 oranges, and 12 bottles of water." And the prompt was: "How many bottles of water, pears, and grapes did the speaker get?" It was mindboggling and infuriating that it took almost 45 seconds. I've also run into another one that just shows 12 pictures of 3 similar shapes in different sizes, angles, colors, and backgrounds and asked you to "pick the shapes that are similar" to another example. But, they are specifically asking for the shapes that are the same shape and size, but not color, angle, or background. Two things being the same color is a similarity!
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May 30, 2023 16:34
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Twerk from Home posted:The new "Max" captchas are insane, and they're forcing millions of people through them all at once because of the big dumb rebrand:
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May 30, 2023 16:46
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cat botherer posted:Every time the app is becoming somewhat usable, they burn it all down to make the purple slightly different or whatever. MBA brain is amazing.
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May 30, 2023 16:53
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The Dave posted:So wait is this Max example like real or is it a tik tok joke because I still can't tell, which is also part of the problem. They're real. They're Arkose MatchKey captchas: https://www.arkoselabs.com/arkose-matchkey/ Max hosed up by modifying the UI so that the buttons cover part of the puzzle, probably to make it fit into smaller area on screen, and also by choosing the "Max Threat" hardest version of the captchas. There's variable difficulty and Max just chose the most difficult for mysterious reasons. The audio challenges sure are something, they have someone making a fake bee buzzing noise with their mouth:  Max Threat Mode is the hell bagpipies as seen in that video.
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May 30, 2023 19:06
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Absolutely wild to see someone like Zaslav take what was by far the best, most well-curated streaming service available and put it somewhere below tubi or crunchy roll. Completely running the service into the ground and destroying HBO's reputation of quality in the process.
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May 30, 2023 21:22
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Professor Beetus posted:Absolutely wild to see someone like Zaslav take what was by far the best, most well-curated streaming service available and put it somewhere below tubi or crunchy roll. Completely running the service into the ground and destroying HBO's reputation of quality in the process.
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May 30, 2023 21:35
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wasnt he also going all in on reality tv show trash? surely he produced some new trash.
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May 30, 2023 21:35
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I've been having a sensible chuckle at the trashy reality tv stuff creeping in amongst the high-end HBO offerings.
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Professor Beetus posted:Absolutely wild to see someone like Zaslav take what was by far the best, most well-curated streaming service available and put it somewhere below tubi or crunchy roll. Completely running the service into the ground and destroying HBO's reputation of quality in the process. The Crunchyroll app, structure, and overall user experience on the PS5 is so loving bad. Why is every language its own season for some shows? Why are movies and mid-season(?) OVAs and specials posted as poo poo like "season 20" instead of their own classification or a #.whatever season so they sit in the right chronological spot? You watch something like Demon Slayer and after the most recent episode it queues up a movie because of the layout. Put language for subs/dubs in a dropdown when selecting a show, default to JP with EN subs (or put a default selector in the user profile), or any of the other things available in other streaming services. Even Funimation had some QoL stuff that Crunchyroll lacks and they're both owned by the same company now.
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May 30, 2023 22:16
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Vegetable posted:Max is fine. We watched the Succession finale on it without issue. It’s still the best streaming service. And in four years you won't be able to watch succession if Discovery decides it's not worth keeping around anymore. They've already pulled HBO content off their premium HBO streaming service.
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May 30, 2023 22:17
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Obviously Max would use Max Threat Mode, the Threat Mode for Max
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Professor Beetus posted:And in four years you won't be able to watch succession if Discovery decides it's not worth keeping around anymore. They've already pulled HBO content off their premium HBO streaming service. thank goodness most usenet servers have 3000 days archives
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Evil Fluffy posted:The Crunchyroll app, structure, and overall user experience on the PS5 is so loving bad. Why is every language its own season for some shows? Why are movies and mid-season(?) OVAs and specials posted as poo poo like "season 20" instead of their own classification or a #.whatever season so they sit in the right chronological spot? You watch something like Demon Slayer and after the most recent episode it queues up a movie because of the layout. It's almost as if both companies hired the cheapest interns on Fiver they could find for their app dev teams... 🤔 My experience with CR and Funi: CR - The PS4 app would desynch the audio if you went to the dashboard and came back, even if you closed the app first. You had to RESTART YOUR CONSOLE to fix it  - Chromecast would time out during the episode - Switch only plays at 720p even when docked - updates may cause your default language choice to switch back to English (post-Sony acquisition - xbox 360 version only one to ever have the option to skip the intro, and it was patched out Funi - Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, remembers your language choice. Ever. - used to randomly display 4:3 content in 16:9 format Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 23:59 on May 30, 2023 |
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cat botherer posted:How many times has HBO Max/Go whatever done a rebrand in the last few years? Every time the app is becoming somewhat usable, they burn it all down to make the purple slightly different or whatever. MBA brain is amazing. Just twice, when ATT bought them and wanted to rebrand their streaming service to trick people into thinking it was all HBO quality content. And now, after Discovery bought them and wanted to rebrand their streaming service to trick people into thinking it was all HBO quality content. Evil Fluffy posted:The Crunchyroll app, structure, and overall user experience on the PS5 is so loving bad. Why is every language its own season for some shows? Why are movies and mid-season(?) OVAs and specials posted as poo poo like "season 20" instead of their own classification or a #.whatever season so they sit in the right chronological spot? You watch something like Demon Slayer and after the most recent episode it queues up a movie because of the layout. I don't know if the PS5 app is behind on updates but that's more or less fixed now on the latest version of the FireTV app at least. They sorted out the issues on their backend and episodes are listed how a sane person would do it. duz fucked around with this message at 00:01 on May 31, 2023 |
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duz posted:And now, after Discovery bought them and wanted to rebrand their streaming service to trick people into thinking it was all HBO quality content. But then.... why remove the HBO from the name? 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:But then.... why remove the HBO from the name? Because the quality is gone 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:But then.... why remove the HBO from the name? Studies found that the HBO brand was unappealing to women.
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If they can consolidate it all to one brand agnostic app then they can also lay off a shitload of people they inherited from the acquisition.
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Twerk from Home posted:Studies found that the HBO brand was unappealing to women. So they switched to a brand that was unappealing to everyone?
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drat Max , you ruined the name Max. lol
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OddObserver posted:So they switched to a brand that was unappealing to everyone? Isn't Discovery the channel that has all those "Hitler's nazi gold!" and "aliens built the pyramids?"  "documentaries"?
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Mister Facetious posted:Isn't Discovery the channel that has all those "Hitler's nazi gold!" and "aliens built the pyramids?" Yes, and the History channel too now. Cable is garbage.
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Impressive to get that Fat Joe endorsement of Discovery+.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:But then.... why remove the HBO from the name? There was at least one report that HBO wanted the name removed so that they wouldn't be associated with 90 Day Fiance. I'm ambivalent to the change. The name is stupid but there's still a ridiculous amount of content, particularly the HBO catalog and the TCM catalog, and now I can marathon house hunters and how it's made. The content loss is bad but so far it seems pretty limited with the only really notable loss being Westworld. Sure it could go bad later but that's when I'll cancel.
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I don;t get why HBO keeps loving with this poo poo because of the 3 streaming platforms I have it's definitely my favorite. The gently caress was wrong with it in the first place? MAX still remembers me (to a point) but is making me jump through hoops to re-enter my poo poo and download a new app and none of it makes any sense.
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i dont know what a genredom is, but i can sort context clue it because im a metroidvania fan, but it seems like an invented word by PR because they saw/laerned of "fandom." but nerds just say BLANK COMMUNITY also dont know what the hell they mean by lean in, lean back. or appointment vs comfort? does HBO have live content or a weekly release as oppose to season bombs? thats the only way "appointment" means anything PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 00:56 on May 31, 2023 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I don;t get why HBO keeps loving with this poo poo because of the 3 streaming platforms I have it's definitely my favorite. The gently caress was wrong with it in the first place?
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cat botherer posted:Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re just a loving moron who’s uneducated and doesn’t understand Business and Marketing. These executives are operating on a level you could never comprehend. "You may not like it, but this is what late stage capitalism looks like."
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