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Hoodie Hair builds an above-ground fortress in dwarf fortress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE7H9hSgRQc&hd=1 things were going great until a dragon showed up. then it tried to cross the moat. B33rChiller posted:Ha! This is an entertaining listen. I don't play any of those games, or trade steam things, but can I get a donkey balloon for my sig? 
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Oct 29, 2023 21:56
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The Nerd finally does it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7iz7jzmmY&t=64s
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Oct 29, 2023 22:27
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Genthil posted:The Nerd finally does it. mike beat it years ago... james stays losing
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Oct 29, 2023 22:28
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Genthil posted:The Nerd finally does it. Isn't this the third time he's covering this game?
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Oct 29, 2023 22:30
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Yes. Fake edit: For reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M_4Yqk65f8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjXn5qiM8Zw
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Oct 29, 2023 23:11
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tinaun posted:Oh she’s a physicist? That explains everything lol. 
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Oct 30, 2023 00:24
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This video is a little circuitous but goes into more detail about the birth of a crackpot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI
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Oct 30, 2023 00:33
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Captain Invictus posted:I've been watching some TF2 videos lately and I just got recommended my own video lol(well, it's of my emails into Idle Thumbs, but collected by someone else into a single video) so I'm gonna post it for anyone who hasn't experienced it yet. I assume that a lot of it is the shift to Roblox scamming, I think it's the "new" version of the hat game. I swear someone other than IGN did a write-up on it, but it sounds like the Steam Hat days except with way more kids in on the action. https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-robloxs-criminal-underworld-where-kids-are-scamming-kids
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Oct 30, 2023 01:43
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you might be thinking of people make games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
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Oct 30, 2023 01:45
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My nephew played Roblox for the first time a week ago and the game he decided to play was the most thinly veiled skinnerbox I've ever seen. He's basically just controlling the speed of a rollercoaster car so it doesn't fly off the rails. There' no time limit or anything like that, you just can't fall off. It looked like mindless busywork, but he got some points or whatever at the end and that's all he did for like a few hours. When it came time to quit he almost had a mental breakdown because he wanted to continue to do his busywork and get points. You really don't think about how these things would really affect someone until they do and we're trying to keep him from playing so he moves on to something else so we can delete the stupid thing without him noticing. He likes to play Minecraft a lot and early last month he played through all of the first Spiderman game (and Miles Morales) on the PS5 and never had issues stop playing. Nor did he get that completionist mindset us broken brained older people get about open world games. It was just dopamine rush of getting that little reward of doing a menial task. So if you have kids or nephews, just be wary about Roblox and monitor what they play (and make sure it's an actual game) or not let them play it at all.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:56
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My brother used to play roblox and I thought it didn't really look like much. I don't know, I never saw enough of the game to entirely get what it was all about, so I was really shocked when I heard about all the predatory spending poo poo that's in it (among other things)
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Oct 30, 2023 04:09
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It's Gmod with an in-game economy to turn the people playing into unpaid workers for the company. It's astoundingly hosed up and honestly everyone involved should be in jail forever.
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Oct 30, 2023 04:22
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It is pretty depressing knowing that no one will ever be held accountable for this poo poo. I know the EU is trying to curb some of it, but it's not moving fast enough and by the time they catch up there will be new layers of shittiness to wade through
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Oct 30, 2023 05:14
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Happy Landfill posted:It is pretty depressing knowing that no one will ever be held accountable for this poo poo. I know the EU is trying to curb some of it, but it's not moving fast enough and by the time they catch up there will be new layers of shittiness to wade through habbo is still around and been doin this for two decades, like this is just more effective deployment of the same
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Oct 30, 2023 05:38
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Grassy Knowles posted:habbo is still around and been doin this for two decades, like this is just more effective deployment of the same Habbo hotel is still around are you kidding me  edit: holy poo poo it is Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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Oct 30, 2023 05:48
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Wait, is that the same game where people did swastikas and won't allow others in the pool e: i've also recently found out neopets still exist despite the pivot to NFTs during covid and now the moderators are deliberately loving with the userbase hoarding expensive items by doing giveaways of said expensive items on daily games
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Oct 30, 2023 05:51
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yes that one
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Oct 30, 2023 05:57
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This is basically people make games Roblox vid again https://youtu.be/hE6jxjKPNZQ?si=f4Y2k1PxOA00EndM
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Oct 30, 2023 06:00
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Horror-Comedy filmmaker/YouTuber Alex Bale uploaded the finale to his SpongeBob conspiracy theorist series Don’t Feed the Muse (It starts here if you haven’t seen it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJDLYSTfe4&t=0s
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Oct 30, 2023 06:26
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There Are Skeletons Within Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBn9CxpANA&hd=1 I loving love Rhystic Studies. also it's interesting to see the censorship of the chinese versions of the cards.
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Oct 30, 2023 11:48
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That first line is a direct mention to Freeman Dyson. I'm on a position where I can't criticize Sabine since technically we are on the same field, but I unfollowed her when she rted Singal.
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Oct 30, 2023 13:42
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Kunster posted:That first line is a direct mention to Freeman Dyson. I'm on a position where I can't criticize Sabine since technically we are on the same field, but I unfollowed her when she rted Singal.
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Oct 30, 2023 15:46
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Not quite sure we need to know you lack the agency in your career as a Physicist to call out transphobic rhetoric from someone, seems like a weird thing to share unprompted especially with trans folks present. Like no one has said they can’t criticize JP in here because they are a clinical psychologist
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Oct 30, 2023 16:12
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Wait, is that the same game where people did swastikas and won't allow others in the pool There's been some updates since then, like Jump Start (who bought Neopets from Viacom) is dissolving and the NFTs were scrapped. Izzzyzzz had an update video on a lot of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE0XX3Rg08o Netdragon, who are taking more direct control of Neopets, were partially behind the NFT push, so I'm not going to rule out that they're not going to pull more poo poo in the future. Still, they're doing some updates to the site, apparently, bringing back a lot of the games killed by Flash being discontinued and such. The item release thing is funny, because it sounds like it's happening with the annual trick or treat event, and it's impacting completely pointless poo poo for the most part. Like moreso than usual with Neopets. People are upset that retired coins and stamps are being randomly awarded to people. All you can do with those is add them to collection albums, and if you complete an album you get a tiny little animated gif avatar that shows up on your profile and on the Neopet discussion forums. Neopets is entirely a game about flexing aesthetics on an increasingly small collective of people who know how rare something is, and this isn't even a race for cool things on the virtual pets themselves.
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Oct 30, 2023 16:36
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Kunster posted:That first line is a direct mention to Freeman Dyson. I'm on a position where I can't criticize Sabine since technically we are on the same field, but I unfollowed her when she rted Singal. loser behavior
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Oct 30, 2023 17:13
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Captain Invictus posted:There Are Skeletons Within Us I like Rhystic Studies generally but I found this video to be pretentious and boring.
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Oct 30, 2023 19:13
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I sense bias
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Oct 30, 2023 19:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn_UGiEcWIE Warlockracy covers Fallout: Dayglow, DLC for the Fallout: Sonora mod.
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Oct 30, 2023 21:34
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New Copaganda video by Skip Intro on Veronica Mars, a show I missed and really need to check out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTD23jaeVo&t=26s
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Oct 30, 2023 22:05
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Mother's Basement's latest actually went up last night, but there was some copyright nonsense, back up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVPPaWQ-l4s
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Oct 31, 2023 00:14
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BizarroAzrael posted:Mother's Basement's latest actually went up last night, but there was some copyright nonsense, back up now: never heard of this show, but that's a.. helluva premise. and the voice acting/dialogue is like the Scary Stories dub, but done unironically
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Oct 31, 2023 09:07
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Sabine's work in physics is notable and at least the german scene in Physics sees her as an admirable equal and not just someone who goes on youtube to say nonsense. Her ORCHID listing is chunky for a very good reason.fun hater posted:loser behavior Heeeh I already had people try to call my job when I criticized John Cheese's views on ""free speech"" in Portugal once. Professonially facing she doesn't have much going on in terms of negative impressions. That being said, the only video I saw of hers about transpeople was over the "should transgender people be in sports" debacle. I wasn't aware that otherwise she did other videos where she was worse about transgender people issues and I apologize for coming across as if I was being dismissive of them.
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Oct 31, 2023 12:32
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Kunster posted:Sabine's work in physics is notable and at least the german scene in Physics sees her as an admirable equal and not just someone who goes on youtube to say nonsense. Her ORCHID listing is chunky for a very good reason. I can't really remember her making any other video on the subject matter, and I remember it being fairly positive on transgender people. Goons just like making accusations without proof, or worse, taking random twitter people as their gospel. At least that's my guess at what's going on here.
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Oct 31, 2023 12:45
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Libluini posted:I can't really remember her making any other video on the subject matter, and I remember it being fairly positive on transgender people. Goons just like making accusations without proof, or worse, taking random twitter people as their gospel. At least that's my guess at what's going on here. Physicists who aren’t trans lack any form of expertise on the matter and we don’t have to accept a ‘fairly positive’ take from those folks on our existence in the public sphere, thanks for assuming I don’t know what I’m talking about in terms of my identity while talking out your rear end yourself about my motivations.
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Oct 31, 2023 14:53
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fun hater posted:loser behavior
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Oct 31, 2023 15:10
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And I’m sure that like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Michiu Kaku that Sabine Hassenfelder is a great physicist and knows a lot of deep physics knowledge. But her videos give off a bad vibe. (Similar to but distinct from the questionable bad vibes given off by the aforementioned other physicists.)
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Oct 31, 2023 15:25
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BizarroAzrael posted:Mother's Basement's latest actually went up last night, but there was some copyright nonsense, back up now: I've got two questions: 1. Why was "A large cast of (Usually high school aged) characters are forced to participate in a death game" such a popular plot set up in the early 2010s? 2. Why do so many pieces of Japanese horror media end up falling back on nonsense technobabble about viruses and genetics? I don't know how widespread this is, but I know Ringu and the original Parasite Eve both pulled the same stunt.
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Oct 31, 2023 16:50
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KingKalamari posted:I've got two questions: Because Battle Royale is very influential and everyone wants to do their own spin on it.
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Oct 31, 2023 16:55
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Arc Hammer posted:Because Battle Royale is very influential and everyone wants to do their own spin on it. See, Battle Royale is what I thought would have been the patient 0 for all these, but the original movie and subsequent sequels and spin-offs were all coming out between 1999-2003, a decade before the big glut of death game media I'm talking about. From 2008-2011, just in Japanese media we got the cell phone novel version of King's Game, Sword Art Online and Daganronpa, among a bunch of others. And this seemed to happen concurrently with the same genre becoming popular in the west around the same time with the release of The Hunger Games and subsequent works that tried to piggy-back off its success. So while Battle Royale was definitely an inspiration for all of these I'm just curious why this existing type of plot seemed to suddenly gain a massive surge in popularity around 2008-2010?
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KingKalamari posted:I've got two questions: 1) Because it sold very well thanks to Battle Royale. 2) This is actually not the case at all. As a matter of fact Japanese horror is perfectly happy with supernatural stuff or just not explaining anything (to the utter confusion of western audiences, who tend to expect *something*). Ancient deities (in the shinto sense) are a very popular explanation for all sorts of BS And come on, the mitochondrial BS was the core of PE. trucutru fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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